New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in January 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

January 2018

(Last Updated 31- 1-18)

This is a list of new arrivals advertised at The Penang Bookshelf for this month. Please note: -

• If you want any more information on any book, please click on the relevant link in blue. 
• If you click on a link after the current month and find nothing, the book's been sold.  
• Of course, if you want to buy anything you see here, you can either do so from the site or contact me at penangbookshelf@gmail.com. 
• This page will be updated constantly until the end of the month.
• The prices shown here hold good for at least this month, but for out of print books, the prices may change in subsequent months.
• All prices include free postage to anywhere in Malaysia.

Malaysia & Singapore - Anthropology & Sociology

The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia - Mason C Hoadley and Christer Gunnarsson (eds)   RM220

Malaysia & Singapore - Arts & Culture

• Makyung: Perspectives on Malaysia's Traditional Theatre - AS Hardy Shafi & Ors   RM60

• Shopping for Antiques and Collectibles Singapore and Malaysia 2003/4 - P Tatham    RM100

Borneo

• Blood on Borneo - Jack Wong Sue   RM130

• Rajah Charles Brooke, Monarch of All he Surveyed - Colin N Crisswell   RM250

• The Banana Tree at The Gate: Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo   RM60

• The Malays of South-West Sarawak Before Malaysia - Tom Harrisson   RM260

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography & Memoirs

• A Life in Words: My Writing Journey - You Jin    RM60

• Our Man in Malaya - Margaret Shennan   RM50

• Prince and Premier - Harry Miller   RM220

• Tun Razak His Life and Times - William Shaw   RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Business, Economics & Labour

• Business, Government, and the End of Empire Malaya, 1942-1957   RM200

• Readings on Malaysian Economic Development - David Lim (ed)   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Chinese Community & Culture

The Sociology of Secret Societies: A Study of Chinese Secret Societies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia - Mak Lau Fong    RM360

Malaysia & Singapore - Cooking & Food

The End of Char Kway Teow and Other Hawker Mysteries - Leslie Tay     RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Fiction

• A Prince of Malaya - Hugh Charles Clifford   RM300

• A River Grown Deep - Michael Pereira   RM80

• A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute  RM60

• A Yellow Sleuth - "Nor Nalla" aka Ronald Allan   RM70

• Death of a Perm Sec - Wong Sook Yee   RM60

• In the Hands of the Malays & Other Stories - GA Henty    RM160

• In the Shadows of the Palm: An Anthology of Malaysian Short Stories   RM70

• Mamasan - Khoo Kheng-Hor   RM80

• Tales of Ogonshoto - Anwar Ridhwan    RM60

• The Soul of Malaya - Henri Fauconnier   RM50

• The Soul of Malaya - Henri Fauconnier   RM70

• The Widower - Mohamed Latif Mohamed   RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Gender Issues

• Contrary Visions: Women and Work in Malay Novels Written by Women - C Campbell  RM60

• Women and Party Politics in Peninsular Malaysia - Virginia H Dancz   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Guide Books

Papineau's Guide to Singapore and Spotlight on Malaysia - Aristide Papineau    RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Health & Medicine

Reunion at The Graveyard - Noraeni Mohamed & Tan Ean Nee  RM60

Johor

Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs - Carl A Trocki     RM90

Malaysia & Singapore - Journalism

Seeing Malaysia My Way - Musa M Bakri    RM160

Kedah

• Enchanting Langkawi - David Bowden   RM50

• Peasants in the Making: Malaysia's Green Revolution - Diana Wong   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

• Journal Volume XXXV Part 1 - 1962 - Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society   RM200

• Learn to Speak Penang Hokkien Dialect - Tan Choon Hoe   RM50

• Word Class in Malay: A Corpus-Based Approach - Gerald Knowles & Zuraidah Mhd Don   RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Literature

• Critical Views on Works by Shahnon Ahmad - Mohd Yusof Hasan (ed)  RM70

• Critical Views on Works by Usman Awang - Sohaimi Abdul Aziz (ed)   RM50

• Critical Views on Works of A Samad Said - Sohaimi Abdul Aziz (ed)  RM50

• Key Concepts in Usman Awang's Short Stories: Developing a Critical Tradition   RM60

• Local Color in Malayan Chinese Fiction: A New Approach (1920-1937) - Mo Yimei  RM160

• Tanya Jawab Sejarah Kesusasteraan Melayu - Saidi Arham    RM150

Malaysia - Malay Community & Culture

• Malay Peasants Coping with the World - Rodolphe de Koninck    RM120

• Songket: Malaysia's Woven Treasure - Grace Inpam Selvanayagam  RM350

• The MBRAS book of Over 1600 Malay Proverbs with Explanations in English   RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature and Wildlife

• Malaysian Flowers - Ruth Kiew   RM60      SOLD

• Islam & Ekologi - Fazlun M.Khalid (ed)   RM50

• Orders And Families Of Malayan Seed Plants - Hsuan Keng   RM60

• Palms of Malaya - T.C. Whitmore    RM150

• The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu (2 vols) - Jeffrey J. Wood & Others   RM620

Malaysia & Singapore - Numismatics

Malaysia, Brunei & Singapore Banknotes & Coins, 1786-2016 - KN Boon (ed)    RM140

Penang

Streets of George Town Penang - Khoo Su Nin   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Poetry

Sunshine and Shadow - James Cairns   RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Post Independence History

Ending 'East of Suez': The British Decision to Withdraw from Malaysia and Singapore 1964-1968 - PL Pham    RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Precolonial History

India and Ancient Malaya - D Devahuti   RM350  SOLD

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Independence History

• British Policy in the Malay Peninsula 1880-1910 - Eunice Thio  RM120

• Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor, 1594-c.1625 - Peter Borschberg (ed)   RM50

• Local Government in Malaya - WC Taylor    RM300

• Political Questions of Malaya - GL Peet   RM250  SOLD

• The Making of the Malayan Constitution - Joseph M Fernando    RM60

• The Protected Malay States 1874-1895 - Emily Sadka   RM350

Selangor

• A History of Kuala Lumpur, 1857-1939 - J.M Gullick  RM60

• A Journal in the Federal Capital - George L Peet  RM50

• Kuala Lumpur 1880-1895 - JM Gullick   RM120

• Records and Recollections 1889-1934 - J.H.M. Robson (Edited by JM Gullick)  RM70

Asia

• Cyber Communities in Rural Asia A Study of Seven Asian Countries - Kavita Karan   RM80

• King Cobra: Natural History and Captive Management - Tom Charlton   RM130

• The Mandarin-capitalists from Nanyang - Michael R Godley   RM120

• The Trouble With Tigers:The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia - Victor Mallet  RM50

China

• China: Two Decades of Reform and Change - Wang Gungwu & John Wong (eds)  RM60

• The Chinese Martial Code: Sun Tzu, Sima Rangju & Wu Zi - A. L Sadler   RM50

Indonesia

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• Economically Important Sharks and Rays Indonesia - W.T. White, P.R.Last & Others  RM100

• Market Fishes of Indonesia - William T. White, Peter R. Last, Dharmadi & Others   RM100

• Mysticism & Poetry: A Hermeneutical Reading of the Poems of Amir Hamzah - Md Salleh Yaapar   RM60

• The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra - Anthony Reid  RM60

• To Live As Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Barbara Watson Andaya   RM130

Thailand

Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand - Patrick Jory (ed)   RM60

Xtras - Language & Lingistics

Pronunciation Models - Adam Brown  RM130