New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in August 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

August 2018

(Last Updated 31-8-18)

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 - Agriculture

• A Malay Village and Malaysia - Peter J. Wilson  RM140

• Farmer and Village in West Malaysia - Tsutomu Ouchi & Others   RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Arts & Culture

• Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era - Adil Johan  RM80

• Frank Swettenham and George Giles: Watercolours and Sketches of Malaya 1880-1894 RM200

• Living Crafts of Malaysia - Mubin Sheppard  RM60

• Malaysian Customs & Etiquette - A Practical Handbook - Paduka Noor Aini  RM50

• Simulations: Extending Painting - Kamal Mustafa  RM70

• Songket: Malaysia's Woven Treasure - Grace Inpam Selvanayagam  RM150  SOLD

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography & Memoirs

• Children of a Bus Conductor: Musings of Growing Up in Old Malacca - Ong Puay Hoon  RM50

• Out East in the Malay Peninsula - G.E.D. Lewis  RM60

• Out East in the Malay Peninsula - G.E.D. Lewis  RM80

• Reputations Live On an Early Malay Autobiography - Amin Sweeney  RM150

• Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan Journals, 1874-1876 - PL Burns & CD Cowan (eds)  RM500

• Syed Mokhtar Albukhary: A Biography - Premilla Mohanlall  RM50

Borneo

• Beyond Romance: Fieldwork in Sarawak - Kelvin Egay & Hew Cheng Sin (eds) RM50

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

• Natural Man: A Record from Borneo - Charles Hose  RM100

• North Borneo Brunei Sarawak - George L Harris  RM300

• Sarawak: The De La Rue Story - Neville Watterson   RM300

• The Ethnic Groups of Borneo - Victor T King (ed)   RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - British East India Company Period

• An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore, 1819-1867 - Charles Buckley  RM300

• William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping out from Raffles' Shadow  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Business Economics & Labour

British Malaya: An Economic Analysis - Li Dun Jen  RM130

Malaysia & Singapore - Cooking & Food

• Cookery for Beginners - Helen M Wallis & Louise Urquhart   RM500

• Nyonya: The Family Recipes - Deety Lenton  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Fiction

• The Further Side of Silence - Hugh Clifford  RM100

• The Prau with the Silent Soul- Faisal Tehrani  RM50

• The Soul of Malaya - Henri Fauconnier  RM50

• Three Men in Malaya (To Say Nothing of the Boy) - Richard Sidney   RM1,000

Malaysia & Singapore - Folklore

Bunga Rampai Dongeng Melayu - Arena Wati & Ehsan Kastawi  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Indian Community & Culture

• Indian Plantation Labour in Malaysia - Selvakumaran Ramachandran  RM120

• Indian Plantation Labour in Malaysia - Selvakumaran Ramachandran  RM100

• Indian Transmigrants: Malaysian and Comparative Essays - Jain  RM60

• The Malaysian Indian Dilemma: The Struggles and Agony of the Indian Community in Malaysia - Janakey Raman Manickam  RM150

• The Malaysian Indian: Forgotten History of the Colonial Era - Janakey Raman Manickam  RM120

Johor

Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore, 1784-1885 - Carl A Trocki  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Journalism

Peninsula: A Story of Malaysia - Rehman Rashid  RM70

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

Colloquial Malay - Richard Winstedt  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Law & Legal System

• Abuse of Power: Selected Works on the Law and the Constitution - Tommy Thomas RM60

• Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia - H. P. Lee  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Magic & Popular Religion

The Malay Magician: Being Shaman, Saiva & Sufi - Richard Winstedt  RM220

Malaysia & Singapore - Malay Community & Culture

Malay Kinship and Marriage in Singapore - Judith Djamour  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature & Wildlife

• Malayan Animal Life - MWF Tweedie & JL Harrison  RM50

• Malaysia's Green and Timeless World: An Account of the Flora, Fauna and Indigenous Peoples of the Forests of Malaysia - Charles Shuttleworth  RM60

• Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 21 (2018) - Andre Schuiteman (ed)  RM110

• Mosses of Singapore and Malaysia - Anne Johnson  RM200

• The Genus Schefflera in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo -Aida Shafreena Ahmad Puad & Ors  RM250

• The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russell Wallace (edited by John van Whyte)  RM80

Malaysia - Orang Asli/Indigenous Peoples

Temiar Religion: Geoffrey Benjamin  RM90

Penang

Glimpses of Old Penang - Neil Khor Jin Keong  RM600

Malaysia & Singapore - Poetry

Beyond the Archipelago: Selected Poems - Muhammad H. Salleh  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Politics

• Anything but the Law: Essays on Politics and Economics - Tommy Thomas  RM60

• Ousted! - Patrick Keith  RM60

• Regime Resilience in Malaysia and Singapore - Greg Lopez & Bridget Walsh (eds)  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Post-Independence History

Malaysia: Prospect & Retrospect: The Impact and Aftermath of Colonial Rule - Richard Allen  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Independence History

• Indigenous Political Systems of Western Malaya - J.M Gullick  RM90

• Straits Affairs The Malay World and Singapore - D.J.M. (ed) Tate  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Religion

Chindia: From Political Interface to Spiritual Dialogue - Tee Boon Chuan (ed)  RM50

Selangor

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

• Small Town: A Personal Tribute to Kuala Kubu Baru, Hulu Selangor, Malaysia  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Sports

Champion Fellas - Dipika Mukherjee & Sharon Bakar (eds)  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - The 'Emergency'

• Green Beret, Red Star - Anthony Crockett  RM130

• I Want to Live: A Personal Account of One Woman's Futile Armed Struggle for the Reds - Xiulan  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Travel Guides

Illustrated Guide to the Federated Malay States 1923 - Cuthbert W Harrison  RM250

Malaysia & Singapore - World War II

• The Fall of Singapore - Frank Owen   RM50

• The Passionate Islanders: Singapore at War 1941-2 - Ralph Modder  RM80

Asia

• Architectural Conservation in Islam: Case Study of the Prophet's Mosque  SOLD, but back in stock now RM70

• Asia Through Asian Eyes - Baldoon Dhingra  RM50 

• Buddhism and Society - Melford E Spiro  RM60

• Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia - Sylvia Fraser-Lu   RM200

• Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor - G.Wade & Sun Laichen (eds)  RM90

• The Art of Southeast Asia - Philip Rawson  RM50

• The Asean Charter: A Commentary - Walter Woon   RM130

• The Economic Development of South-East Asia - CD Cowan (ed)  RM60

• The Oriental Adventure: Explorers of the East - Timothy Severin  RM60

Burma/Myanmar

Karst and Caves of Myanmar - Michael Laumanns (ed)   RM100

Cambodia

International Speleological Project to Cambodia 2008 - Michael Laumanns (ed)  RM100

China

• The Taste of China: Roundup of China's Eight Cuisines - Li Xin  RM90

• Yiwu, China: A Study of the World's Largest Small Commodities Market - M. Jacobs  RM70

India

The Navy in India, 1763-1783 - Sir Herbert Richmond  RM200

Indonesia

• A Commentary on The Rules for Kings (Majlis Aceh) - Yahaya Jusoh & Kamarul Azmi  RM50

• Return to Malaya - RH Bruce Lockhart   RM50

• The Head-Hunters of Borneo - Carl Bock  RM70

• The Rules for Kings (Majlis Aceh) - Yahaya Jusoh & Kamarul Azmi Jasmi  RM50

• Travels in the East Indian Archipelago - Albert S. Bickmore  SOLD RM220  

Xtras

• Living the Dream…Or Enduring the Nightmare: British Football Meets Foreign Billionaires - Bob Holmes  RM60

• Made in the South Pacific - Christine Price  RM50

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon  RM50

• Twilight of the Angonoka: Biology and Conservation of the World’s Rarest Tortoise  RM200