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"Hanya kanda sebagai sejarawan dapat membantu hamba untuk membetulkan semula jurusan sejarah yang memang salah lni," Melalui utusan surat dari masa lalu , Nyemah Mulya, pahlawan perempuan 15 tahun, meminta pertolongan seorang sejarawan untuk memastikan kerajaan Melaka tidak jatuh ke tangan Portugis. Sekiranya tidak, sejarawan tersebut akan terpupus dari susur...

Dr.Heenie Lee has a sharp eye for detail and a keen ear for dialogue. The anecdotes as related to him by his mother are delightful, a veritable treasure trove of Chinese beliefs and customs. He makes the past come alive through them and in the process is leaving a wonderful...

Abandoned Gods tells the story of Nira, a young woman trekking the dark interiors of Sarawak with a sick child on her back to get to Kuching General Hospital, a hundred kilometres away. On the way, she meets a whole host of demons, spirits, ghouls and ghosts, and gets a...

A new retelling of the “Million Dollar War” When British colonists first arrived in Malaya, they considered Naning, a small village about 30 miles from Malacca, to be under their jurisdiction. The incumbent penghulu of Naning, Dol Said, resisted, claiming that Naning was an independent sovereign state with its own...

In this beautifully illustrated book, Nooraini Mydin grabs you by the hand and takes you with her on a madcap rail adventure through 10 countries. She sleeps alongside 53 passengers in the open carriage of the Trans-Siberian train, traversing Siberia to take in the stunning views of Lake Baikal. She...

In this book of short essays, paired with accompanying exercises, Clarissa Lee explores the concept and practice of artscience, which provides a bridge beyond the illusory division of art and science into "two cultures". Artscience transcends disciplinary identification, and yet it is derived from how art and science meet and...

This book is not intended as a textbook. It is a brief guide on autism spectrum disorder for parents of young children.

Atop the southern end of Bintang Range, about 20 kilometres from the north-western shoreline of Peninsular Malaysia, is Larut Hills. It is a 6,878-hectare forest reserve spanning lowland, hill dipterocarp, oak-laurel and montane forests, whose citizenry include rare plants, enchanting fauna and the human residents of Maxwell’s Hill, a hill...

Adat merupakan lambang kekuatan atau identiti bagi sesebuah bangsa. Kekuatan pegangan amalan adat sesuatu kaum akan menjadikan kaum itu terus dihormati kerana mempunyai prinsip yang teguh untuk meneruskan kelangsungan bangsanya. Jadi pelbagai cara dan pendekatan harus dibuat supaya semua amalan baik dapat dikekalkan pada masa hadapan, di samping dapat menonjolkan...

In Class, Race and Colonialism in Peninsular Malaysia: A Political History of Malaysian Indians, Michael Stenson offers the authoritative political history of ethnic Indians in colonial and early post-colonial Malaya. Rejecting the plural society approach, he discusses relevant aspects of the political economy of colonial Malaya, including its class structure,...

Cultural mapping is an approach to recording and revealing an integrated picture of cultural character, significance and workings of a place. The second edition of Janet Pillai’s book contains everything you need to know about this process, and how to plan and begin your own projects. “This guide on Cultural...

This book contains suggestions for improving English language coursebooks, a new way of teaching English grammar, lessons from multicultural classrooms, a study on multimodality lessons, positive psychology and language teaching, reflections of a Nyonya author and a story of teachers from the perspective of a dyslexic student. This book was...

Flying Lizards invites you to get to know, and have access to, the rich oral tradition of the Orang Asli. Orang Asli oral tradition includes myths about their view of the world and its genesis; heroic accounts of revered personalities (whether real or fictitious); a catalogue of do’s and don’ts...

Through a highly personal and engaging journey, this book exposes the myths and mysteries surrounding the most tumultuous period of Malayan history. It illuminates our understanding of the subterranean forces shaping the people and country then and now. Almost immediately after WWII, the British fought a long “Emergency” war against...

. . . The meaning of the phrase “Islam is socialist in nature” merely acts as a categorisation into a particular system of society based on the features that characterise it as socialist. Those who are against Islam being considered as socialist either do not understand the meaning of certain...

Islam dan Sosialisme, yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1976 sebagai Islam dan Sosialisma, ditulis oleh Profesor Dr Syed Hussein Alatas, pakar sosiologi Malaysia yang terulung. Walaupun sebuah naskah yang nipis, idea-idea beliau merangkumi persoalan yang besar dan penting, termasuk kaitan antara agama dan teori sosialis, jenis-jenis sosialisme yang berlainan serta kegelisahan...

“As May 13, 1969 has lived on as one of Malaysia’s most iconic moments of political transition and change, it deserves to be told and retold through many lenses and by many interlocutors. How did those palpably touched by the ordeal, and lost friends, neighbours and family members survive the...

Bold & Powerful: These two words aptly describe Masuma Tavakolis book, Life Under Taliban. Consolidating personal experiences including abuse and torture, the illustrated book will break your heart and help you understand why many Afghans flee their country and live in others part of the world as refugees. Masumas work...

The story of Lim Kit Siang is greatly intertwined with that of the nation. This book, however, is not a typical biography. It is neither a comprehensive account of the life of a statesman nor a hagiography. It is a tribute and a personal story of Lim Kit Siang’s political...

These pages contain my childhood recollections of Malaya, observations and musings on my time in legal practice and some thoughts on events in the new millennium. These reminiscences also include several brushes with history, events which shaped Malaysia and set me on my path through life,from my call to the...