the Share Love 9781590309391 TRUE LOVE: A PRACTICE FOR AWAKENING THE HEART By THICH NHAT HANH Trade Paperback 9781601426567 LOVE WITHOUT LIMITS By NICK VUJICIC Trade Paperback
9780340897003 Us By DAVID NICHOLLS Trade Paperback 9781447272793 My True Love Gave to Me By PERKINS ET AL. Hardback
9781409121015 THE BODY LANGUAGE OF LOVE By ALLAN & BARBARA PEASE Paperback
9789742891992 Kamala Sukosol's Floral Standards: Decorating with Flowers By Kamala Sukosol Hardback
9781452133188 PARIS IN LOVE By NICHOLE ROBERTSON Hardback
9786163487766 500 ล้านปีของความรัก เล่ม 2 โดย นพ.ชัชพล เกียรติขจรธาดา ปกอ่อน
So nice to see you dear readers! 2015 promises to be exciting, one highlight being the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) launch. We thus celebrate this occasion in our new Insight AEC with a list of great title suggestions to keep you AEC savvy In honor of the Oscars, we’ve reviewed many fiction and non-fiction stories, in line with this particular SHARE issue, that have thrilled so many both on book pages and in theaters. And while you sift through our books and our novel products including fragrant stationery items and totes, do keep Valentine’s Day in mind and don’t forget our Read All Year Round promotion!
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9781409134251 THE GREAT ZOO OF CHINA By MATTHEW REILLY Hardback
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9780241004302 A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION By PAUL FISCHER Trade Paperback
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9781602204096 The GOVERNANCE OF CHINA By XI JINPING Trade Paperback
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9781907794834 THE PRODUCTIVITY HABITS: A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK TO BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE By BEN ELIJAH Hardback
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9780857085856 THE LITTLE BOOK OF THINKING BIG By RICHARD NEWTON Paperback
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9789810924393 21TH APIDA LIVING SPACE Hardback
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9781743214732 LONELY PLANET: HONG KONG (16TH ED.) By CHEN & MATCHAR Paperback
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9786167841021 AMAZING THAILAND: The farang's guide for good living in the land of smiles By BRAD WALKER Paperback
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9780230748262 MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD By JEFFREY ARCHER Hardback
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9781783411030 WIPE CLEAN LET'S LEARN ACTIVITIES: STARTING SCHOOL Hardback
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AEC Welcome to our all new column “Insight AEC”! It’s 2015 which means the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will soon begin.
9780230212145 A NEW HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
9780470824818 A SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (5th ed.)
ASEAN (the acronym for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is a regional grouping of 10 nations including Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and of course Thailand. The ASEAN Community (AC) consists of 3 main pillars: the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC), the ASEAN PoliticalSecurity Community (APSC) and the AEC. In the spotlight is the AEC as a catalyst for the region to become a single market and single production base. With the expected free flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labor, ASEAN consumers will be able to choose from an abundance of goods and services and travel more conveniently and more freely. Today ASEAN’s population is over-500-million strong making it a formidable economic region and the AEC formation will inevitably strengthen its prowess in various regards. Sure to achieve its goals of boosting the region’s bargaining power with its trade partners and enhancing global economic competitiveness, ASEAN will flourish, achieve greater stability and see its people thrive!
9781743312674 SOUTHEAST ASIA: AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY (11th ED.)
To help you see the big picture, here’s our quick list of fast, yet comprehensive, engaging reads on everything AEC from countries, cultures and politics to history and more! • A NEW HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA • A SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (5th ED.) • SOUTHEAST ASIA: AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY (11th ED.) • A HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
We hope you enjoy these titles! See you in the next “Insight AEC”! 9789814361026 A HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
books that ke e p you up a ll night # Unputdownable Pageturners 9781780892887 14TH DEADLY SIN By JAMES PATTERSON Trade Paperback
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back after previous events that pushed them to the edge. But now a gang dressed as cops are ransacking San Francisco, leaving a string of dead bodies in their wake. Lindsay is on the case, determined to discover whether these killers could actually be police officers.
9781405919302 TOM CLANCY'S SUPPORT AND DEFEND By MARK GREANEY Paperback
9781444736625 WHITE LIES By STEPHEN LEATHER Paperback
9781780890203 PRIVATE VEGAS By JAMES PATTERSON Trade Paperback
Jack Morgan, head of the rich and famous’s Private Investigations, is pushed to the limit. Morgan must help the LAPD catch two diplomatically immune scumbags and deal with a client who has confessed to murdering his wife. And with Jack's best friend facing long-term imprisonment over a trumped-up charge, all bets are off.
9780099594536 INVISIBLE By JAMES PATTERSON Paperback
After taking a leave of absence over an obsession concerning hundreds of unsolved cases, all Emma Dockery has now are walls full of newspaper clippings and recurring nightmares. Everyone thinks Emma’s crazy, even her ex-boyfriend, until she finds unignorable evidence. More inexplicable murders are reported daily. Could one person be responsible for them all?
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9780007552290 THE HEIST By DANIEL SILVA Paperback
9780099582151 THE SON By JO NESBO Paperback
9781784750824 THE MURDER BAG By TONY PARSONS Paperback
9781471139499 THE FARM By TOM ROB SMITH Paperback
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books that you're h ead ove r h e e ls in love w i th # Hot and totally Addictive 9781784750251 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (FILM TIE-IN) By E L JAMES Paperback
# Perfect for Sweet Valentine’s Day 9780552165877 POWER PLAY By DANIELLE STEEL Paperback 9780755377602 A PERFECT HERITAGE By PENNY VINCENZI Paperback
9781405919982 THE ROSIE EFFECT By GRAEME SIMSION Paperback
Don Tillman and Rosie, "the world's most incompatible woman," have survived ten months and days of marriage. Yet life is still not plain sailing for Don. With the sudden arrival of his best friend and serial philanderer Gene and Rosie dropping the mother of all bombshells, Don must face Rosie’s hormonally induced irrational behaviour as he prepares for the biggest challenge of his life - at the same time as dodging deportation, prosecution and professional disgrace. Is Don ready to become the man he always dreamed of being? Or will he revert to his old ways and risk losing Rosie forever?
9781447274902 THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO STRUCK LUCKY AGAIN! By Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg Paperback
9780751558852 SUMMER AT LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY By JENNY COLGAN Paperback
9781447284697 SAVING GRACE By JANE GREEN Paperback
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9780099539247 THE PERFECT MATCH By KATIE FFORDE Paperback
The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends - the League of Pensioners - have left behind their Stockholm care home to enjoy Las Vegas. They plan to make the most of their new lease on life, but, before long, they are up to their old tricks and plot to outwit a casino’s security system. Martha’s gang heads back to Sweden full of ideas for more money making schemes but soon find themselves pitted against a gang of dangerous criminals. Can they work together to outsmart the younger robbers and get away with their biggest heist yet?
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books to make sense of our compl ex wor l d 9780552170192 THE IMPROBABILITY PRINCIPLE: WHY COINCIDENCES, MIRACLES AND RARE EVENTS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME By DAVID HAND Paperback
# Insight into World Affairs 9780385539722 FLASHPOINTS: THE EMERGING CRISIS IN EUROPE By GEORGE FRIEDMAN Trade Paperback
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman, this provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints—particularly in Europe— in which imminent future conflicts are brewing. Zeroing in on half a dozen locations, borderlands, and cultural dynamics, George Friedman does what few historians can—he explains precisely how certain trends are unstoppable and what the future holds in terms of conflict and opportunity. He also explains how events in Europe will affect the rest of the world. In his bestselling tradition, he reveals a scintillating history lesson and a forecast for the coming years.
9780374535124 GENESIS: TRUMAN, AMERICAN JEWS, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB/ISRAELI CONFLICT By JOHN B. JUDIS Trade Paperback
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and Israel. There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In Genesis, John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal power outside the region since the end of World War II and as such must account for its repeated failed diplomacy efforts to resolve this enduring strife.
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9780141977812 QUANTUM MECHANICS: THE THEORETICAL MINIMUM By LEONARD SUSSKIND Paperback
# Science Matters 9781408851241 THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY By ELIZABETH KOLBERT Paperback
9780143126331 SOCIAL PHYSICS: HOW SOCIAL NETWORKS CAN MAKE US SMARTER By ALEX PENTLAND Paperback
9780062374349 THIS IDEA MUST DIE: SCIENTIFIC THEORIES THAT ARE BLOCKING PROGRESS By JOHN BROCKMAN Trade Paperback
9780307473349 The FUTURE OF THE MIND: THE SCIENTIFIC QUEST TO UNDERSTAND, ENHANCE, AND EMPOWER THE MIND By MICHIO KAKU Trade Paperback
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books to make sense of ourse l ves a nd oth e rs # To Become Extraordinary 9780552171069 THE GOOD PSYCHOPATH'S GUIDE TO SUCCESS: HOW TO USE YOUR INNER PSYCHOPATH TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE By DUTTON & MCNAB Paperback
9780434022915 HOW TO FLY A HORSE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CREATION, INVENTION, AND DISCOVERY By KEVIN ASHTON Trade Paperback
# To Live Happily Ever After 9781780974521 CRYSTALS FOR LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS By CASSANDRA EASON Hardback
# Human Mind Demystified 9780307743565 MINDWISE: WHY WE MISUNDERSTAND WHAT OTHERS THINK, BELIEVE, FEEL, AND WANT By NICHOLAS EPLEY Trade Paperback
Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that can hear us? Why do we so routinely believe that others think, feel, and want what we do when, in fact, they do not? And why do we think we understand our spouses, family, and friends so much better than we actually do? In this illuminating book, leading social psychologist Nicholas Epley introduces us to what scientists have learned about our ability to understand the most complicated puzzle on the planet—other people—and the surprising mistakes we so routinely make. Mindwise will not turn others into open books, but it will give you the wisdom to revolutionize how you think about them—and yourself.
9780141978239 WE ARE OUR BRAINS: FROM THE WOMB TO ALZHEIMER'S By DICK F. SWAAB Paperback
9781419713842 40 DAYS OF DATING: AN EXPERIMENT By GOODMAN & WALSH Paperback
Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don't just have brains: we are our brains.
9781449456146 LOVE AND MISADVENTURE By LANG LEAV Paperback 9781447929505 THE RULES OF LOVE By RICHARD TEMPLAR Paperback
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9781908843913 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION By GUINNESS Paperback
For 60 years Guinness World Records has celebrated the world's most remarkable human and animal achievements, natural wonders and feats of innovation. In this special diamond anniversary book, we share 60 of the most iconic, heartwarming and world-changing records, year by year from 1955 to today.
9781579655730 THE NEW HEALTH RULES By FRANK LIPMAN Hardback
Leading expert in functional medicine Dr. Frank Lipman and coauthor Danielle Claro offer, through their stylishly illustrated book, cutting-edge secrets to optimal health - a spoonful of beauty to help the wellness tips go down. The book wades through often contradictory information bombarding us daily and delivers tips to improve our body, mind, and soul. Readers will learn simple rules for a good night’s sleep, why a daily sunlight dose is crucial, which toxic cosmetics and kitchen products should be tossed, which foods prevent Alzheimer’s, why sugar is so destructive and how to bring “good bacteria” into the digestive system.
9781608874187 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BATMAN By JOHN HARKNESS Hardback
9780770435967 BEYOND IQ By GARTH SUNDEM Paperback
9780241184813 HOW TO STYLE YOUR PERFECT WEDDING By DORLING KINDERSLEY Hardback
9781604694895 AIR PLANTS: THE CURIOUS WORLD OF TILLANDSIAS By ZENAIDA SENGO Paperback
9784805313275 SEWING FOR YOUR GIRLS By YOSHIO TSUKIORI Paperback
8880000025652 CEREAL VOL.8 By CEREAL Paperback
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The geographical environment is one of the most important conditions for a resort hotel, therefore resort hotels are usually situated in the scenic spot area such as clear water sandy beaches, well-known mountains or hot spring areas. As a holidays center, resort hotels offers lots of entertainments and leisure facilities. The top resort hotels in this book are designed in different style and feature the local culture and ecological environment. It is an invaluable source of inspiration for all architects and designers!
9788415492818 BAMBOO ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN: DESIGN GUIDE 59 CASE STUDY By EDUARD BROTO Hardback
9789814523561 PERSPECTIVE SKETCHING: FREEHAND AND DIGITAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES FOR ARTIST & DESIGNERS By JORGE PARICIO M.ID, PH.D., Paperback
9780749576547 LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: COLLECTION 8 Paperback
9788997079803 CAFÉ I: DMP'S INTERIOR SERIES Paperback
Providing the highest-quality interior designs of the newest and unique living spaces in the world!
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9789810920319 TROPICAL RESORTS Hardback
9789881222855 ILLUSTRATIVE BRANDING: SMASHING ILLUSTRATIONS FOR BRANDS Hardback
9781780671802 LOGO: THE REFERENCE GUIDE TO SYMBOLS AND LOGOTYPES By MICHAEL EVAMY Paperback
9783836553827 THE PACKAGE DESIGN BOOK 3 By JULIUS WIEDEMANN PENTAWARDS Hardback
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9780545746182 GERONIMO STILTON SPECIAL EDITION: THE JOURNEY THROUGH TIME #2: BACK IN TIME By GERONIMO STILTON Hardback
Return to the past with Geronimo Stilton in this fabumouse special edition! Imagine my surprise when I, Geronimo Stilton, was offered the chance to travel back in time again! This voyage took us to ancient Rome, to the great Maya Empire, and to the Palace of Versailles during the age of the Sun King! Along the way I competed in a scary chariot race, saved some mouselings from a hungry jaguar, and was forced to organize a huge party for the king who had everything. What a wild trip through history!
9780241006924 THE CAREER HANDBOOK Paperback
This practical careers handbook helps you get to grips with the job market - packed with job inspiration and advice for career development. Answering all the difficult questions you don't want to ask careers advisers or recruiters, The Careers Handbook is your ultimate guide for a successful job search and career development. Browse 17 different industries, from Law and Science to Engineering and Media, finding new, exciting jobs and inspiration in the current job market. Choose from 400 exciting careers and find out what qualifications you need, how much you could earn and how to get ahead in your chosen career!
9781631402036 MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #6 By JEREMY WHITLEY Paperback
9781471124396 I WAS HERE By GAYLE FOREMAN Paperback
9781409582502 NOISY CASTLE By TAPLIN & CASTELLANI Hardback
9781484713273 5-MINUTE Disney Junior STORIES By DISNEY STORYBOOK ART TEAM Hardback
9781409563990 LIFT-THE-FLAP GENERAL KNOWLEDGE By FRITH & MACLAINE Hardback
9780241185131 101 GREAT SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS By NEIL ARDLEY Hardback
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It's your turn to learn how to construct a portfolio sure to outperform the market averages, as well as almost every professional money manager in the world. Warren Buffett's method of predictability can determine a future target price, which in turn determines his all-important purchase price. However, Buffett doesn't draw conclusions of his predictability method relative to the future total returns of portfolios. That's where Buffett and Beyond takes Buffett's method one giant step beyond, proving that if you select a stock portfolio using his predictability method, you will outperform 96% of professional money managers over the long term.
9780749472641 FIELD VISUAL MERCHANDISING STRATEGY By PAUL J. RUSSELL Paperback
The retail sales floor has become a battlefield with each brand fighting for customers and ensuring their merchandise is on the sales floor, sized, folded, hung and presented properly. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing and executing a national field merchandising strategy, covering key areas such as strategy development, merchandising service organization selection, team training, merchandising standards, planograms and launching the strategy. Ideal for retail marketers, visual merchandisers, merchandising managers and brand managers, it uses examples and case studies from fashion emporia to small outlets, to provide real-world insight on how strategic visual merchandising works.
9781118956977 GAMECHANGERS: CREATING INNOVATIve STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS AND BRANDS By PETER FISK Paperback
9781455588923 MARISSA MAYER AND The FIGHT TO SAVE YAHOO! By NICHOLAS CARLSON Trade Paperback
9780143126164 SMALL MOVE, BIG CHANGE: USING MICRORESOLUTIONS TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE PERMANENTLY By CAROLINE L. ARNOLD PAPERBACK
9781455561124 JUMPSTART YOUR LEADERSHIP: A 90-DAY IMPROVEMENT PLAN By JOHN C. MAXWELL Hardback
9781422122990 WISER: GETTING BEYOND GROUPTHINK TO MAKE GROUPS SMARTER By SUNSTEIN & HASTIE Hardback
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9781118955772 BUFFETT AND BEYOND: UNCOVERING THE SECRET RATIO FOR SUPERIOR STOCK SELECTION +Website By JOSEPH BELMONTE Hardback
9781476773490 The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future By Levi Tillemann Hardback
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9789747841008 THE COMPLETE THAI COOKBOOK Paperback
Explore the diversity of Thai cuisine from every region of the kingdom, with more than 100 recipes from Srisamorn Kongpun, The great master chef of Thailand. In The Complete Thai Cookbook, you will discover the history, food culture, techniques, tips, ingredients and Thai Herbs & Spices. Moreover, you will also find the most popular Thai snacks, desserts, and herbal drinks that are healthy and refreshing which you can easily make at home.
9786167339511 SIAM: THROUGH THE LENS OF JOHN THOMSON 1865-66 INCLUDING ANGKOR AND COASTAL CHINA By PAISARN PIEMMETTAWAT Hardback
Thomson arrived in Siam in the autumn of 1865 to discover a land more glamorous and colourful than any he had previously seen. With the help of the British Consul in Bangkok, Thomson was able to gain an audience with King Mongkut who granted him permission to take some formal portraits of the King, his royal family and chief ministers. Whilst in Bangkok he was invited to attend and document an important ceremony for the heir apparent Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, as well as photographing the royal barge and a major funeral. Thomson stayed on in Bangkok for several months and photographed many aspects of the city, river scenes, its surrounding countryside and people.
9781909612228 THE CORAL TRIANGLE By KEN KASSEM Hardback
9786163611185 FOCUSING ON THE ANGKOR TEMPLES: THE GUIDEBOOK (3RD ED.) By MICHEL PETROTCHENKO Paperback
9786169223900 DOYLE'S PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THAILAND BUSINESS LAW (10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION) By MICHAEL DOYLE Paperback
9781419713927 KATE SPADE NEW YORK: PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEE Hardback
9789814342797 THE BIG IDEAS OF LEE KUAN YEW Hardback
9781743603604 LONELY PLANET: AN INNOCENT ABROAD By DON GEORGE Paperback
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หนังสือ “ทำ�ทีละอย่าง” นำ�เสนอ How-to อ่านง่าย สบาย ๆ แนะ 52 วิธีการที่ช่วยพัฒนาสมองและจิตใจโดยปฏิบัติวันละวิธี หรือสัปดาห์ ละวิธี จนครบ 52 สัปดาห์ เพียงเท่านี้ คุณก็ไปสู่สมองแห่งพุทธะได้ แม้หนังสือเล่มนี้จะเป็นภาคต่อจาก “สมองแห่งพุทธะ : Buddha's Brain” แต่ทกุ คนสามารถหยิบมาอ่านก่อ่ นได้โดยไม่ตอ้ งมีพนื้ ฐานใด ๆ เมื่ออ่าน “ทำ�ทีละอย่าง” เล่มนี้จบ ก็ย่อมจะต้องอยากอ่านเนื้อหา อันน่าตื่นตาตื่นใจของ “สมองแห่งพุทธะ” อย่างแน่นอน
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หนังสือเล่มนี้เล่าเรื่องราวความรักของผู้ชายคนหนึ่งที่มีต่อผู้หญิง สามคน คนแรกเขารักด้วยสมอง เพราะเธอสมบูรณ์แบบในสายตา ของสังคม คนที่สองเขารักด้วยสัญชาตญาณแห่งการสืบเลือดเนื้อ เชื้อไข คนที่สามเขารักด้วยความปรารถนาของกายา แม้ว่าหัวใจ จะหยามหมิ่น
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9786161801717 ทำ�ทีละอย่าง โดย ดร.ริค แฮนสัน ปกอ่อน
หนังสือภาษาไทยมีจำ�หน่ายที่: • สาขาเซ็นทรัลเวิลด์ • สาขาเซ็นทรัลแจ้งวัฒนะ • สาขาสยามดิสคัฟเวอรี่ • สาขาอารีย์ ลาวิลล่า • สาขาเซ็นทรัลปิ่นเกล้า • สาขาแฟชั่นไอร์แลนด์ • สาขาฟิวเจอร์ปาร์ครังสิต • สาขาซีคอนสแควร์ • สาขาเซ็นทรัลอุดรฯ • สาขาเชียงราย แอร์พอร์ต • สาขาสนามบินดอนเมือง • สาขาสยามพารากอน • สาขาเอ็มไพร์ทาวเวอร์
9786162870149 เห็นในสิ่งที่คนอื่นไม่เห็น โดย มัลคอล์ม แกลดเวลล์ ปกอ่อน
9786162870897 แค่ใช้คำ�ให้ฉลาด ก็เพิ่มโอกาส จาก 0 เป็น 100 โดย ซาซากิ เคอิจิ ปกอ่อน
9786163740151 TIY THINK IT YOURSELF: A CREATIVE TOOLBOOK โดย อภิสิทธิ์ ไล่ศัตรูไกล ปกอ่อน
9786163270917 สวนสนุก โดย POLKADOT LOVER ปกอ่อน
9786169087847 โลกใหม่มีจริง โดย ประเสริฐ เอี่ยมรุ่งโรจน์ ปกอ่อน
9789746990257 ฝันยิ่งใหญ่ หัวใจไม่ยอมแพ้ โดย นิค วูยิซิช ปกอ่อน
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From Page to Screen best books that made the best films
It’s Oscar month so let’s look at some amazing book titles, lots of which were released as movie blockbusters late last year! Like films based on true stories? Then one “must have” is American Sniper. This astonishing memoir of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, US military history’s recordholding sniper, was a 37-week New York Times best seller. No wonder its film adaptation by Clint Eastwood received an AFI “One of the Year’s Best Movies” Award! We also have Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction Unbroken, Time Magazine’s Top Nonfiction Book of the Year. Protagonist Louis Zamerini’s defiant delinquency, Olympic running debut, and WWII camp survival inspired the film adaptation directed by Angelina Jolie. Filmmakers also snatched up Travelling to Infinity. This compelling memoir reveals Jane Hawking’s struggle to balance family, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s 24-hour care and Stephen’s rise to fame. Read the book to decide if the movie The Theory of Everything does Jane’s story justice! 16
We’ve also got fictitious novels like highly acclaimed Gone Girl. Author Gillian Flynn adapted this story, full of plot twists that keep us questioning Nick and missing Amy’s “perfect” love life and Nick’s innocence, into the screenplay that has gotten rave reviews. Imagine how gripping the psychological thriller must be as a page-by-page read!
Many more noteworthy books with unforgettable recent films include The Fault in Our Stars about terminally ill Hazel experiencing life and love. In The Hunger Games series, Katniss emerges victorious in the Capitol’s fatal game, faces the Capitol’s wrath and finally becomes the Mockingjay. Don’t forget the film version’s last installment of The Hobbit! whose book pages help you rejoin J.R.R. Tolkien’s Bilbo Baggins on his adventure!
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES CHRONICLES: ART DESIGN STAR WARS: THE JEDI PATH AND BOOK OF SITH DELUXE BOX SET By DANIEL WALLACE
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There’s also must-see fiction flick Interstellar which portrays Earth devastated and humanity facing extinction unless a group of explorers find a life-sustaining planet. The book Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization makes the film even more enjoyable as it points out so many things you’ll have missed while watching the movie!
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THE ART OF THE DISNEY GOLDEN BOOKS By CHARLES SOLOMON
THE ART Frozen By CHARLES SOLOMON
Other titles whose movies were well received a while back comprise The Perks of Being a Wallflower about socially awkward Charlie being mentored by two charismatic students. And in loveable Life of Pi, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel explores spirituality and practicality while stranded with a Bengal tiger. Here’s hoping your favorite stories get nominated for an Oscar! And, remember, if you love books just as much as, if not more than, their films, then Asia Books is the place to be!
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The Hobbit Trilogy By J.R.R. Tolkien
ones to watch… Life of Pi By Yann Martel
Gone Girl
INTERSTELLAR: BEYOND TIME AND SPACE
American Sniper
The Perks of Being a Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky
The Fault In Our Stars By JOHN GREEN
The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Travelling to Infinity
Unbroken
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Smencils First, we have the Smencils 5 Pack with 5 pencils made with #2 graphite cores, environmentally safe scents (Cola, Cupcake, Sour Apple, Jelly Bean and Rainbow Sherbet to be exact!) and biodegradable erasers. Each adorable Smencil pencil is packed in an individual biodegradable plastic tube for scent freshness, guaranteed to last 2 years, with a collectible character top cap!
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Smencil Buddies Always on the go and worried you might lose your pencils? Then be sure to also purchase a Smencil Buddies pencil case that comes with a scented silicone character on its zipper. Each fun-colored case can hold a set of Smencils and is available in 4 different styles: Watermelon, Rainbow Sherbet, Cupcake and Jelly Donut!
Metallic Smens If pens are your thing then you’ll love the Metallic Gel Smens 5 Pack. Take your pick from 5 clickable pens, each with its own freshness plastic tube and collectible fun character top cap. These come in the yummy 2-year-long-lasting scents of Gum-E Bear, Rock Candy, Rootbeer, Cola and Snow Cone that waft through the Smens’ unique scent vent design. Let your imagination run wild as your handiwork appears on paper in coloured metallic gel ink with each stroke!
Glitter Smens For a ‘bling-bling’ writing touch, we have the Glitter Gel Smens 5 Pack which includes 5 separately scented coloured glitter gel ink pens. You’ll be inspired by these Smens’ Cupcake, Lemon Lime Fizz, Bubble Gum, Watermelon and Cotton Candy aromas, each released through the unique scent vent design and sealed in to last for 2 years by the recyclable plastic freshness tube topped off by a silly collectible character cap!
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