New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in April 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

April 2018

(Last Updated 30-19-4-18)

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 - Arts & Culture

Malaysian Cinema in a Bottle: A Century (and a Bit More) of Wayang - Hassan Abd Muthalib  RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography & Memoirs

• Alex Yoong: The Driver's Line - Steve Dawson  RM60

• Elephants,Tigers and Tappers:Recollections of a British Rubber Planter in Malaya  RM50

• The Duke of Puddle Dock - In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles - Nigel Barley  RM50

• Tunku: An Odyssey of a Life Well-Lived and Well-Loved - Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian   RM60

• 我方的歷史 - Wǒ fāng de lìshǐ - 陈平 - Chin Peng   RM150

Borneo

• Chinese Pioneers On The Sarawak Frontier, 1841-1941 - Daniel Chew  RM200

• Commemorative History of Sabah, 1881 - 1981 - Anwar Sullivan Cecilia Leong (eds)  RM140

• Enchanting Borneo - David Bowden  RM50

• Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia - Janet Hoskins (ed)   RM80

• Japanese Occupation Sarawak, 1941-1945 - Gabriel Tan  RM100

• Plaited Arts From The Borneo Rainforest - Bernard Sellato (ed)   RM200

• The Banana Tree at The Gate: Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo   RM70

• The Making of Sabah 1865-1941: The Dynamics of Indigenous Society - Ranjit Singh  RM140

• The Sama Horsemen - Irenena Obon   RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Business, Economics & Labour

• A Study of Alienation in Malaysia - Oo Yu Hock  RM50

• Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance - Terence E Gomez   RM120

• Eccentric Views on Money and Banking - Quah Chee Hong  RM50

• Home and Away: Indonesian Women and Their Unique Transnational Migration Experiences in Malaysia  RM60

• Social and Environmental Accounting: Education Issues in Malaysia  RM60

• Stock Market Integration and the Pricing for Regionalism - Hooy Chee Wooi  RM50

• The Chettiar Role in Malaysia's Economic History - Ummavedi Suppiah & S Raja  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Children

• Great-Grandma's Hair Loss Remedy - Rebecca Loke  RM50

• The Amazing Sarong - Quek Hong Shin   RM60

Malaysia - Chinese Community & Culture

• Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia Studies on the Chinese Religion  RM120

• Community and nation: Essays on Southeast Asia and the Chinese - Wang Gungwu  RM120

• The Chinese Language Movement in Malaysia,1952-1967: Tan Yao Sua & Teoh Hooi See  RM50

• The Chinese Overseas in Malaysia in an Era of Change - Danny Wong Tze-Ken etc  RM60

• The Impact of Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya - Wilfred Blythe  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Education

• Education In Singapore, A Book of Readings   RM100

• Educational Management in Malaysia - Muhammad Faizal A Ghani & Others (eds)   RM50

• History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science: Essays in Honour of Ungku Aziz   RM50

• Teacher Learning in Malaysia: Problems and Possibilities of Reform    RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Fiction

• Bunga bunga di Lembah Gunung Tahan - Muhammad bin Kidin  RM80

• City of Small Blessings: A Novel - Simon Tay   RM50

• Kisah Tiga Pelayaran - Arena Wati   RM200

• Korban Selat Teberau - Abdul Ghani bin Ali    RM70

• Menyamar - Ismail   RM70

• Ministry of Moral Panic - Amanda Lee Koe   RM60

• Panah Beracun - Ahmad Bakhtiar    RM80

• Pemuda Zaman Sekarang - Ahmad Bakhtiar   RM80

• Twenty-Two Malaysian Stories - Lloyd Fernando (ed)  RM130

Malaysia & Singapore - Folklore

The Mousedeer and the Crocodiles: A Malaysian Folktale in 111 Languages   RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Food

Shocking Ingredients in Your Food and Other Products  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Gender

Positioning Women in Malaysia: Class and Gender in an Industrializing State  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Health & Medicine

• Drug Abuse and Human Rights: Cases and Commentaries - Sarina Mohamed   RM50

• Protecting the Elderly Against Abuse and Neglect: Legal and Social Strategies   RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

• A Pocket Guide to Practical Military Malay - RC Whipps   RM150

• Code - Switching as a Discourse Mode: A Study of a Kadazandusun Family  RM70

• Dictionary of Colloquial Malay: Malay-English & English Malay - RO Winstedt RM120

• Haraban Kadazandusun 1050 Idioms - Benedict Topin   RM100

• Kamus Asas Bajau Sama - Malay - English  RM150

• Malay (Colloquial): Bill dan John Di-Tanah Melayu - CR Barron  RM250

• Motivations for Language Choice on Malaysian Courtrooms - Richard Powell  RM50

• The Sabah Malay Dialect - Phonological Structures and Social Functions   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Law

• The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957-1977 - Mohamed Suffian (ed)  RM220

• The Malaysian Legal System - Ahmad Ibrahim & Ahilemah Joned  RM170

Malaysia & Singapore - Literature

• Hiboran No 162 - The Royal Press, Singapore  RM70

• Malay Literature: Part I : Romance. History. Poetry (Papers on Malay Subjects) - RJ Wilkinson (ed)  RM330

Malaysia & Singapore - Minorities

Blurring Boundaries: The Chindian Identity Quest - Rona Chandran   RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Miscellaneous

• Chopsticks & Bananas: One Man's Reflections on Society, Economy and Life - P Suppiah  RM50

• Land Development on Highland Areas: Malaysia and Hong Kong - Anuar Alias & Ors  RM60

• Life - The Malaysian Style! - Peggy Tan Pek Tao  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature & Wildlife

• Common Malaysian Fruits - Betty Molesworth Allen   RM50

• Taman Negara: A Guide to the Park - Dylan Ong  RM50

• The Company of Animals - Ronald McKie  RM60

• The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo  RM100

• Wood Species of Sabah - An Illustrated Guide  RM180

Perak

Perak Postcards 1890s-1940s - Malcolm Wade, Khoo Salma Nasution & Abdur-Razzaq Lubis  RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Poetry

• 250 Pantouns:250 Pantouns: Le Trésoir Malais/Khazanah Melayu   RM50

• Pantun: The Poetry of Passion - Muhammad Haji Salleh    RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Politics

• Case Studies on Government Programs and Policies - Sharifah Mariam Alhabshi  RM50

• Chinese Village Politics in the Malaysian State - Judith Strauch   RM160

• Comet in Our Sky - Poh Soo Kai (ed)  RM60

• Coming of Age. A Decade of Essays 2001-2011 - Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad  RM70

• Electoral Dynamics in Malaysia - Meredith L. Weiss (ed)  RM50

• Kataks' Kadazan-Dusun Nationalism and Development: The 1999 Sabah State Election   RM150

• Sabah - A Triumph for Democracy - Tan Chee Khoon   RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Colonial History

India and Ancient Malaya - D Devahuti  RM350

Selangor

City Innovation Systems: Case Studies on Urban Innovations in Kuala Lumpur   RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - World War II

• Cyril Wild: The Tall Man Who Never Slept - James Bradley  RM100

• Gentle Heroes - Frank van Hennekeler   RM100

• New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore 1941-1945  RM90

Asia

• A Common Thread: Ikat of the Islamic World - Adline Abdul Ghani   RM120

• Asian Shadow and Puppet Theatre - Jayadeva Tilaksiri    RM120

• Civilizing the Margins: Southeast Asian Government Policies for Development of Minorities - Christopher R Duncan (ed)   RM70

• Far Eastern Trade, 1860 - 1914 - Francis E Hyde    RM60

• Islam and Confucianism: A Civilizational Dialogue - Osman Bakar & Cheng Gek Nai  RM60

• Islam and Confucianism: A Civilizational Dialogue: Osman Bakar & Cheng Gek Nai  RM80

• Paths to Regionalisation - Comparing Experiences in East Asia and Europe   RM180

• Regional Integration in Southeast Asia - Kim Hyung Jong  RM50

• Rethinking Political Development in Southeast Asia - Norma Mahmood (ed)   RM50

• Southeast Asian Paper Tigers? - From Miracle to Debacle and Beyond   RM130

• The Clash of Fundmentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity - Tariq Ali   RM50

• The Economic Development of Southeast Asia - CD Cowan (ed)   RM200

Brunei

Wild Orchids of Borneo, Brunei Darussalam - Idris Mohd Said & Mahmud Sudin  RM400

Burma/Myanmar

• Reporting the Retreat - War Correspondents in Burma - Philip Woods  RM90

• White Butterflies - Colin McPhedran  RM70

China

• A Mini-Encyclopaedia of Chinese Crafts - Roberta Helmer Stalberg & Ruth Nesi   RM100

• Chinese System of Foods for Health & Healing - Henry C. Lu  RM100

• Chinese Tea Culture: The Origin of Tea Drinking - Wang Ling  RM100

• Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong - Ben Chu  RM50

• Entangled Landscapes: Early Modern China and Europe - Yue Zhuang & Another (eds)  RM120

• The Chinese Pakua: An Exposé - Ong Hean-Tatt  RM100

Indonesia

• Batik Patterns - Pepin Press  RM120

• Spice Islands: The History, Romance and Adventure of the Spice Trade: Ian Burnet  RM100

Thailand

Bangkok Design Thai Ideas in Textiles and Furniture - Brian Mertens    RM100

Xtras

• A Complete Book of Letter Writing - Dayashankar Gupta Satyapriya  RM50

• Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare - Jeremy Butterfield  RM50