Biographies & Memoirs (GR)

Saya telah melalui pahit maung di bawah penjajah Inggeris dan Jepun. Pada masa pendudukan Jepun (1941-45), saya bergerak melawan pendudukan tersebut setakat yang saya mampu. Begitulah juga apabila Inggeris kembali menjajah semula Malaya pada 1945. Di antara 1945-48, tempoh perjuangan secara aman melawan Inggeris, saya menjadi salah seorang wakil terbuka...

Memoir Abdullah CD: Penaja dan Pemimpin Rejiman Ke-10 secara khusus memfokuskan kepada perjuangan bersenjata menentang penjajah British untuk kemerdekaan Malaya yang bermula pada bulan Jun 1948. Secara umum bolehlah disimpulkan perjuangan bersenjata anti-British adalah akibat wajar dari penindasan British secara kekerasan ke atas pergerakan rakyat yang berjuang menentangnya. Juga ia...

Hannah’s story is not only about politics. It is about a spiritual journey of self-discovery. It is also about the role of values and faith in public office. Hannah’s Christian convictions show us how faith is a prime mover for righteousness, justice and good governance in the state and the...

The Temiars of the Puyan River, Vol. 2 is the story of a Temiar community in the Kelantan hinterland. Never before has it been told in such detail and clarity, even though anthropologists have been intrigued with the Temiars for over a hundred years. It is a story of their...

Buku ini adalah usaha memaparkan peranan Ustaz Sulam Haji Mansor sebagai seorang guru agama biasa di sebuah kampung terpencil yang berjaya meletakkan dirinya di persada lebih luas. Sememangnya Ustaz Sulam bukanlah sosok tokoh yang dikenali ramai di negara ini. Dia bukan ulama tersohor yang berceramah serata tempat. Dia pun tidak...

‘Rendezvous with Injustice – How a family survived hell after blowing the whistle on the 1MDB financial scandal’ Staggering new account by Laura and Xavier Justo is a plea for truth and justice — and reveals the human cost to blowing the whistle on the scandal of the century What...

A BARACK OBAMA AND A BILL GATES SUMMER READING PICK 2022 A NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 'This book helped me understand modern politics better' - Bill Gates, Summer Reading Pick 2022 'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post 'It's been a long time...

'Inspiring' GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' INDEPENDENT 'I loved it' ADAM KAY 'Beautiful' MATT HAIG 'Luminous' NICCI GERRARD 'Essential reading' MADELEINE BUNTING 'A celebration' CHRISTIE WATSON A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The i Independent Book of the Month Caring is an issue that affects us all - as...

The Temiars of the Puyan River is the story of a Temiar community in the Kelantan hinterland. Never before has it been told in such detail and clarity, even though anthropologists have been intrigued with the Temiars for over a hundred years. It is a story of their survival in...

Suara dan pidato terus melewati tembok penjara. Suara dan pidatonya menujah awan. Suara dan pidatonya terus meledak di tengah kota dan bertempias ke penjuru desa. Musuh-musuh menjadi kecut semasa jaga dan mengigau semasa lena. Suara berada di mana-mana. Sebagai pemimpin, lebih teruji. Dia sebagai besi yang tak akan berkarat biarpun...

一位在马来西亚森林里领导反英反殖战争12年的游击队领袖的回忆。“有生以来，时至今日我才得以回顾我所形容的悬浮的历史观。我是紧急状态这一历史事故的其中一个中介角色。如今接触到解密文件，我终于能详尽地回顾紧急状态的另一面向。”陈平在1940年1月参加马来亚共产党，当时他还是个15岁的学生。他献身于共产主义运动，战前的反英国殖民统治斗争，以及最终向日本侵略者发动游击战，这些经历将他迅速推上马来亚共产党权力结构内的各个领导职位。年仅18岁的陈平已是共产党组织的马来亚人民抗日军与当时负责在敌后方地下收集情报的英国地下136部队的重要联系人。当他还只是一名十几岁的青少年时，已被委以重任，领导马来亚共产党在霹雳州的活动。日军投降后，陈平受委为中央委员，随后又进入党的决策单位政治局。当时他只有21岁。陈平在23岁那年正式出任马来亚共产党总书记，成为马来亚共产党的最高领导人。1948年6月，马来亚进入紧急状态时期，还有四个月才过24岁的陈平成为英帝国的首号通缉犯。

What’s in a Name takes the reader to the often-troubled heart of Malaysian politics and business over the last 50 years. Nazir Razak built CIMB Group into one of the most successful banks in Asean. In a career spanning three decades, he has been at the centre of the action....

In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task—following in the footsteps of one of historys greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cooks leadership Apple has soared: its stock has nearly tripled to become...

Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel and public speaker with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamorous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt...

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanfords campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life. - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range Wonderful - Chris Bosh, two-time NBA Champion For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes...

This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into peoples bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad;...

In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of...

Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week. Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in...

Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times, and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia....