This is the last of the excerpts from Moon Thailand.  Here we look at Thailand's role in World War II and how they managed to come out, ...

Nascent Nationalism Vajiravudh succeeded his father as Rama VI.  He, like many of his brothers, was educated in Europe.  It is not sur...

Mark Peterson's thesis: Galileo's scientific and more importantly mathematic genius was inspired not by contemporary Renaissance sci...

Every country has its own mysteries.  One of the questions that still lingers for Thailand is what happened to the man who ruled right b...

Last summer, Erin Cawood and I started talking about violence in our fiction, and particularly domestic violence in women's fiction, ch...

My sister hired me to write the history section of her travel book . There, I said it.  Now, without any shame, I can share some of it....

Erin Cawood's book Tainted Love was the best fiction I read in 2012.  As I mentioned in my review , she did an excellent job of sho...