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Raffles and the Golden Opportunity
Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java An English adventurer, disobedient...RM52.50 -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India
India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition...RM69.90 -
Rainforest Hero: The Life and Death of Bruno Manser
In 1984 Swiss shepherd Bruno Manser trekked through the virgin rainforests of Borneo to live among the jungle’s last nomads In six years among the...RM55.00 -
Ramayana: A Retelling
The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia Its story of Rama's...RM58.00 -
Rambles In Java And The Straits In 1852
First published in 1853 as De Zieke Reiziger (The Invalid Traveller) and reissued under its subtitle, Rambles in Java and the Straits in 1852, the...RM60.00 -
Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art
Large, bold, and colourful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art...RM165.00 -
Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle — and the renewed threat of invasion...RM150.00 -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who...RM70.00 -
Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China
This work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China It explores the reasons...RM75.00 -
Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film And Literature
In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia "Reclaiming Adat"...RM40.00 -
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely...RM65.00 -
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
One of the most influential books on Western understanding and sympathy for Red China in the 1930s The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and...RM79.90 -
Red Star over Malaya: Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation In...RM85.00 -
Red Star Over the Third World
From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution remains as an inspiration After all, that Revolution proved that the working...RM25.00 -
Reflections of a Curious Victorian Lady in North Borneo: The Short Stories of Ada Blanche Pryer
Ada Pryer, was the wife of the first British Resident of Sandakan, North Borneo (now Sabah) Fortunately rather than complain or just being resigned...RM160.00 -
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic
It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the...RM138.00 -
Regeneration
Regeneration is Pat Barker's classic, Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of World War I and trauma Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and...RM49.50 -
Regrettable Things That Happened Yesterday
A teenager discovers his grandfather's secret identity only after his death A young immigrant to 1940s Singapore is convinced the end-times are nigh...RM38.90