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Great music is about so much more than just the end product. Very often the stories behind the songs and their creators can be as scintillating as the music itself.This book is about more than just 101 slabs of music you are being advised to listen to. It's about the...

Buku ini menghimpunkan terjemahan baru untuk lebih 20 esei nukilan penulis Inggeris terkemuka George Orwell (1903-1950). Beliau bukan sahaja novelis yang berpengaruh (1984 dan Animal Farm) tapi mengembangkan tema-tema yang sama dalam pelbagai esei yang terbit dalam akhbar dan majalah untuk bacaan massa.Antara topik yang diutarakan adalah politik kolonialisme, bahasa,...

The Malaysian lawyer and author Matthew Thomas was introduced by his family to Anne when he was 29. Despite their initial trepidation, they got along very well and within a year they were married. Decades later, she would lie in a coffin at the same church they were married in....

Sebuah cerita yang disampaikan dari jauh di dalam hutan di Malaysia. "Jika kita terlalu tamak, hutan akan digondol. Semua hidupan akan terganggu.” Diilhamkan oleh pengetahuan dan pengalaman Orang Asli suku kaum Batek. (A story from the depths of Malaysia's rainforest. "If you take too much, you take away the forest....

The Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, despite the name, is seldom heard. In this brief recollection of his short tenure as the Dewan Rakyat Speaker, Tan Sri Ariff Yusof, reveals his side of the story, by dissecting the events and procedures of Parliament while providing an insider’s view of the...

Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century — and then wrote about what they saw. Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective...

THE MALAY TALE OF THE PIG KING was originally written by a merchant from Semarang (now Indonesia) in 1775 as Hikayat Raja Babi. The story begins when a royal couple is cursed to have a child who resemble a pig. Aside from his unusual appearance, The Pig King is a...

Bersih was ostensibly all about electoral reform. But it has become so much more than that. For Bersih was – is? – a Big Thing. You don’t bring the nation’s capital to a standstill – five times from 2007 to 2016 – without leaving an enduring impact. But how did...

French ethnologist Jeanne Cuisinier explored Malaya, mostly Kelantan, in 1932 and 1933. In her lectures on Radio Paris — made public in this book for the first time since their broadcast in the 1930s — and in other texts assembled here, she shared her vivid and affectionate insights into the...