Biographies & Memoirs (GR)

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world?a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the...

Daim Zainuddin is one of Asia's cleverest politicians and policy makers, as well as one of its most controversial. Twice, rescuing the Malaysian economy from near collapse, he has also been instrumental in restructuring the Malaysian economy - in particular in breaking the link between race and wealth. However, he...

Deliverance from Error is the spiritual autobiography of Imam Ghazali, and The Beginning of Guidance, his other work included in this volume, complements his spiritual autobiography and sets out his ideal of how the religious man should order his life from hour to hour and day to day.

This book tells the story of a Malaysian lady’s maiden pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Makkah, she was struck by the grandeur of the Al-Haram mosque, Islam’s holiest mosque. The first sight of the majestic Ka’abah located in the centre of the mosque involuntarily moved her to tears. It...

This is the 40th Anniversary, Sabra-Shatila Massacre edition with a New Introduction.This is the story of Dr Ang Swee Chai, a Penang-born orthopaedic surgeon, and her flight to war-torn Lebanon in 1982 to treat the wounded and dying. This book, a quarter of a century after the Zionist-perpetrated massacre in...

A collection of media interviews of the late PAS Spiritual Leader and Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.Conducted by senior journalist Zakiah Koya over a period of more than two decades, the interviews intensively portray the way Nik Abdul Aziz revealed himself to the English media.Zakiah...

‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not possible in 2014 for a Boeing 777 to have simply disappeared…’A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory. 01:20am, 8 March 2014. Malaysia...

This is Marina Mahathir's story, from her perspective and no one else's. It is, she hopes, the answer to the question: What is it like to be Dr M's daughter? When an apple falls, does it roll far or stay close to its tree?Is it an exact clone of all...

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling...

Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly. How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama believes that when we light up for others,...

Malaysian Son is the story of Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Setiawangsa. Growing up privileged under the authoritarian regime of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the imprisonment of Anwar Ibrahim led him to join the Reformasi movement. As a member of the multiracial People’s Justice...

At the age of thirty-four, I’ve built a nine-figure fashion company, garnered 1.8 million followers on Instagram and managed to squeeze in time to get married and give birth to not one, but four children. And it all started from a blog. Perfect for young entrepreneurs, this book shares the...

As a British teenager, I meet a beautiful Burmese girl on the school bus. Her family self-exiled in 1964, soon after the military coup, to start a new life in England. My fascination is fired for this far-off land. How did Burma, with such a regal past, swathed in natural...

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Many of Haruki Murakami's fans know about his massive vinyl record collection (10,000 albums!) and his obsession...

How did a young girl who rose from underprivileged circumstances in post-war Singapore become a trailblazer of women's global leadership at the United Nations? Noeleen Heyzer was the first woman from outside North America to be appointed as Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and...

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old-joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A...

Karpal Singh is widely regarded as Malaysia’s best criminal and constitutional lawyer. His sudden death on 17 April 2014 in a horrific car accident – just a month after he was convicted of sedition in the High Court – shocked and saddened Malaysians to the core and left a deep...

Lim Kit Siang, doyen of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) that sprang out of the People’s Action Party of Singapore, is a much misunderstood and little-known man. To some, he is a scourge because his political opponents falsely proclaim him to be anti-Malay and anti-Islam. To his supporters, he is...

irst edition. Hardcover. New. It is unlikely that Malaya and Singapore would have experienced the same rapid commercial development from the late 18th century onwards had it not been for Chinese businessmen, like the subject of this book. Born in Malacca at the beginning of the 19th century as a...

Sepulangnya Mahmood Zuhdi dari bumi firaun, beliau bermula dengan menjadi tenaga pengajar di Nilam Puri sambil terlibat secara selingan dalam politik walaupun beliau bukan pemain utama. Dalam kesempatan yang ada, beliau juga giat menjalankan kerja-kerja dakwah dalam jemaah dengan kudrat yang ada. Perjuangan menuntut ilmu bermula semula dan beliau kembali...