New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in March 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

March 2018

(Last Updated 31-3-18)

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

• Cultural Identity in Northern Peninsula Malaysia - Sharon Carstens (ed)  RM150

• Ethnicity and Fertility in Singapore - Eddie C. Y.Kuo & Chiew Seen-Kong  RM150

• Housing Policy and High-Rise Living: A Study of Singapore's Public Housing   RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Architecture

• Chinese Temple Architecture in Singapore - Evelyn Lip  RM150

• Coleman's Singapore - THH Hancock  RM70

Malaysia & Singapore - Arts & Culture

• 100 Years of Malaysian Pewter - Muzium Negara  RM150

• Oriental Silverwork Malay and Chinese - H. Ling Roth    RM250

• Postmodern Singapore - William Siew Wai Lim (ed)   RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography and Memoirs

• Doctor on the Move: Life's Journey - Jagjit Singh Sambhi   RM100

• The White Crocodile's Tale: My Memoirs - JMB Hughes  RM60

Borneo

• British North Borneo - Owen Rutter   RM300

• Sabah Story: A Guide About North Borneo - Rotary Club of Jessleton    RM150

• Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters - Philip Eade  RM70

• Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters - Philip Eade   RM50

• The Sarawak Museum Journal Vol VI No. 4 (New Series)(December 1954)   RM100

• The Sarawak Museum Journal Vol. VII No. 7 (New Series)(June 1956)  RM100

• The Sarawak Museum Journal Vol. VIII No. 12 (New Series) (December, 1958)   RM120

• The Sarawak Museum Journal Vo. XXXVI NO. 57 (New series) (December 1986)  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Business, Economics & Labour

The Economy (The Encyclopedia of Malaysia) - Hassan Osman Rani (ed)   RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Children

Paddylands: A Story of Malaya - Grace P Garnier    RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Education

Josephine Foss and the Pudu English School: A Pursuit of Excellence - JM Gullick   RM400

Malaysia & Singapore - Health & Medicine

Illustrated Keys: Some Mosquitoes in Peninsula Malaysia - J Jeffery et al   RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Journalism

Made in Malaysia: Stories of Hometown Heroes and Hidden Gems - Alexandra Wong   RM50

Kelantan

Housekeeping among Malay Peasants - Rosemary Firth   RM90

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

• The Malay Peoples of Malaysia and Their Languages - Asmah Haji Omar   RM300

• Traveller's Malay Pronouncing Hand-Book - Fraser & Neave  RM190  SOLD

Malaysia & Singapore - Magic, Popular Religion & The Supernatural

Curse of the Pontianak - Ralph Modder   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Literature

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World - Mohamad Rashidi Pakri & Arndt Graf (eds)  RM180

The Malayan 'Emergency'

• A Bibliography of Military and Political Aspects of the Malayan Emergency, the Confrontation With Indonesia, and the Brunei Revolt    RM350

• In Pursuit of Mountain Rats: The Communist Insurrection in Malaya Anthony Short   RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature & Wildlife

• Plant Life in Malaya - RE Holttum   RM80

• Plant Life in Malaya - RE Holttum   RM60

• The Birds of Peninsular Malaysia - Derek Holmes   RM120

Penang

• In Celebration of 100 Years: Chinese Recreation Club, Victoria Green, Penang   RM150

• Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge - Peter Zabielskis & Others (eds)   RM70

Malaysia & Singapore - Peranakan/Straits Chinese

A Noble Nyonya - Esther Low  RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Photography

Rustic Malaysia: A Pictorial Journey - Arthur Teng   RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Poetry

The Last of Four: A Poem of the Federated Malay States and the War, August, 1915    RM650

Malaysia & Singapore - Politics

• Communism in Malaysia and Singapore: A Contemporary Survey - J M Van der Kroef  RM260

• The Singapore Parliament: The House We Built - Sumiko Tan   RM300

• Tunku Prince of Peace: Words and Pictures of the Tunku - Robert Lim Fung Wang  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Colonial History

• Early Singapore: 1300s-1819: Evidence in Maps, Text and Artefacts   RM100

• Singapore & The Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800 - John N Miksic   RM120

• The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al-Nafis) - Raja Ali Haji     RM250

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Independence History

Merdeka Outlook Vol 1 No 1 - Joanna Moore (ed)  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Post Independence History

Encyclopedia Of Singapore - Justin & Robin Corfield  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Sports

Badminton 1952-1964 - Ho Ah Chon  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Terengganu

Chinese Minority in A Malay State: The Case of Terengganu - Tan Chee-Beng   RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - World War II

• Odd Man Out: The Story of the Singapore Traitor - Michael Elphick & Peter Smith  RM50

• The Men Who Lost Singapore - Robert McCrum   RM100

• The War in Malaya - AE Percival   RM300

Asia

• Adventurous Women in South-East Asia Six Lives - J. M. Gullick (ed)   RM150

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

• Medicinal Plants of Southeast Asia - Christophe Wiart    RM250

Burma/Myanmar

Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster under Burma's Military Regime  RM50

China

Chinese Plant Symbolisms: The Symbolic Value of Plants in Chinese Culure  RM90

Indonesia

Correspondence Relative to the Relations between Great Britain and Acheen  RM150

Sri Lanka

The Muslim Heritage of Eastern Sri Lanka - SHM Jameel & Asiff Hussein (eds)   RM300

Orchids

Tropical Orchids of Malaysia & Singapore - David P. Banks  RM200