New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in September 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

September 2018

(Last Updated 24-9-18)

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 - Architecture

Houses in Malaysia: Fusion of the East and the West - Wan Hashimah Wan Ismail  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Arts & Crafts

• @home abroad: 21 feb - 26 jul 2009 - Sarah Lee (ed)  RM120

• Embun Menitek - Ja'afar Hasny  RM150

• Reactions - New Critical Strategies: Narratives in Malaysian Art Vol. 2 RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography & Memoirs

• Growing up with Ghosts - Bernice Chauly  RM50

• Nation Before Self and Values that Do Not Die - Yuen Yuet Leng   RM100

• Return to Malaya - RH Bruce Lockhart  RM50

• The Sarong and the Kris - HLH Harrison  RM120

• Tropic Temper: A Memoir of Malaya - James Kirkup  RM50

Borneo

• Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak - Tom Harrisson RM250

• Early Picture Postcards of North Borneo and Labuan - ChaI Foh Chin  RM70

• Folk Songs of Sarawak: Songs from the Kenyah Community - Chong Pek Lin  RM200

• Iban Language ABC - Sim Cheng Siew & Michael Buma   RM100

• Kuching in 1990 - Ho Ah Chon   RM80

• Natives of Sarawak: Survival in Borneo's Vanishing Forests - Evelyn Hong  RM120

• Sibu of Yesterday - Sarawak Chinese Cultural Association  RM80

• Some Thoughts on the Dayak Bidayuhs - Dayak Bidayuh National Association  RM100

• The Power Behind the State: A History of the Sarawak Electricity Corporation  RM140

• Views of British North Borneo with a Brief History of the Colony - The British North Borneo Company  RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Fiction

• A Nocturne and Other Malayan Stories and Sketches - Frank Swettenham  RM160

• Admetus - N D Orr RM150

• In a Corner of Asia - Hugh Clifford  RM160

Malaysia & Singapore - Chinese Community & Culture

• A Social History of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911   RM290

• Phoenix Rising, Pioneering Chinese Women of Malaysia - Ho Tak Ming  RM90

Malaysia & Singapore - Cooking & Food

• 100 Useful Herbs of Malaysia and Singapore - Joseph Samy, M Sugumaran, Kate Lee  RM70

• Eat Well, Live Well: Your Healthy Lifestyle Guide - Chia Joo Suan  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Guide Books & Travel

Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore - Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

A Critical Survey of Studies on Malay and Bahasa Indonesia - A Teeuw  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Literature

• Written Country: The History of Singapore through Literature - Gwee Li Sui  RM70

• Yang Empunya Cerita: The Mind of the Malay Author  RM170

Malaysia & Singapore - Malay Community & Culture

• Kajian Kebudaya'an Melayu - Nik Safiah Hj. Ab. Karim, Karimah Zain & Wan Zahari Ahmad  RM150

• The Malays: A Cultural History - Richard Winstedt  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Maritime

• Malayan Fisheres - GL Kesteven (ed)  RM100

• The Straits Steamship Fleets - WA Laxon  RM220

Malaysia & Singapore - Miscellaneous

Index Malaysiana: Vol XXXVI Part 4 (No 204) - Lim Huck Tee & DK Wijasuriya  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature & Wildlife

• Field Guide to the Plants of East Sabah - RPJ de Kok & TMA Utteridge  RM180

• Flora of Malaya Vol II - Ferns of Malaya - RE Holttum  RM280

• In Malay Forests - Sir George Maxwell   RM50

Pahang

Communication, Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia: a Study of Kampung Kuala Bera - William D. Wilder  RM80

Penang

• Pollution: Kuala Juru's Battle for Survival - Consumers' Association of Penang  RM70

• The Penang Treasury - Rebecca Lee & Andreas Augustin  RM50

Perak

• Ipoh, My Home Town - Ian Anderson (ed)  RM120

• Ipoh: When Tin Was King Volumes I & II - Ho Tak Ming  RM170

Malaysia & Singapore - Politics

• Chinese Politics in Sarawak: A Study of The Sarawak United People's Party - Chin Ung-Ho  RM200

• Conflict and Violence in Singapore and Malaysia, 1945-1983 - Richard Clutterbuck  RM170

• The Red Rings: Struggle of the SUPP, the Chinese Dominated Political Party Established in Sarawak on the Island of Borneo - KC Jong  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Postal History

Notes on the Administration of the Singapore Post Office, 1819-67 - CA Gibson-Hill  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Colonial History

Malay Annals: Sejarah Melayu - Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society   RM500

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Independence History

• A History of Modern Malaya - KG Tregonning  RM100

• Rulers and Residents: Influence and Power in the Malay States 1870-1920 - JM Gullick RM400

• Rulers and Residents: Influence and Power in the Malay States 1870-1920 - JM Gullick  RM500

• They Came to Malaya: A Travellers' Anthology - J. M. Gullick (ed)  RM130

• Visit to Malaya 1932 - Samuel Wilson  RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Religion

Beliefs and Practices Among Malaysian Chinese Buddhists - Tan Teik Beng   RM100

Selangor

• A Journal in the Federal Capital - George L Peet  RM100

• Bygone Selangor: A Souvenir - Rimba  RM400

• Glimpses of Selangor, 1860-1898 - J.M. Gullick  RM400

• The Story of Kuala Lumpur, 1857-1939 - J. M Gullick  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - The 'Emergency'

Menace in Malaya - Harry Miller  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - World War II

• Battlefield Guide: The Japanese Conquest of Malaya  RM120

• Faces of Courage - Sybil Kathigasu, Chin Peng, Norma Miraflor & Ian Ward  RM70

• Media Masters' Battlefield Guide: The Japanese Conquest of Malaya and Singapore December 1941- February 1942 (Japanese edition) - R Modder & Ian Ward  RM120

• Sarawak Under the Throes of War: Reflection of a 'Z' Special Force Operative  RM120

• The Happiness Box - David Griffin & Leslie Greener  RM50

Asia

• Doing Good Great: Thirteen Asian Heroes and Their Causes - Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed & Cheryl Tang  RM130

• Water Governance Dynamics in the Mekong Region - David JH Blake & Lisa Robins (eds)  RM60

China

• Book of Chinese Beliefs - Frena Bloomfield  RM50

• China in Our Time - Ross Terrill  RM50

• Chinese Astrology - Bettina Luxon   RM50

India

The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott  RM50

Indonesia

The Malay Law Text - Mohamad Jajuli A. Rahman  RM150

Thailand

Thailand Journey - WT Blake  RM50

Xtras

Auatralia

Outcasts in White Australia : Aboriginal Policy and Practice - CD Rowley  RM100

Orchids

Slipper Orchids Of The Tropical Americas - Phillip Cribb and Christopher Purver  RM530