Memoirs
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Non Returnable: My Special Child From Heaven
Despite having a life most people would have coveted, I was not a hundred percent satisfied I had always longed for a daughter, thinking that...RM32.00 -
Notes on ‘Camp’
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the...RM7.50 -
One Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven They are strangers to her When she is born her parents hand her over to...RM80.00 -
Operation Nasi Kerabu: Finding Patani in an Islamic Insurgency
The news from Patani is like a movie: smoke, bombs, a near civil war Yet just over our northern border, the people are Muslim, Bahasa-speaking,...RM25.00 -
Out of Place: A Memoir
Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties This account of...RM75.00 -
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
Let Carla Valentine, mortician and curator - the mistress of death and high queen of the specimen jar - tell the truth about, in her words:...RM55.90 -
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against Muhammad Mossadegh, a bedridden...RM79.00 -
Penang Perspective: My island in the Sun Volume II
Khor Cheang Kee worked for more then 50 years on the Pinang Gazette (the oldest English language newspaper east of Suez), the pre-war Straits Echo,...RM25.00 -
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his...RM79.90 -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
Places of Mind charts the intertwined routes of Said's intellectual development, revealing him as a study in opposites: a cajoler and strategist, a...RM87.00 -
Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches
Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia where there is a significant number of ethnic Chinese, many of whom have played an important role...RM124.00 -
Rabrindranath Tagore
Polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913 But Tagore was much more than a writer...RM86.00 -
Recollections of My Non-Existence
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer...RM99.90 -
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 -
Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali’s political development in the sixties When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the...RM55.00 -
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 -
Riot Days
The fierce, thrilling and acclaimed memoir of Maria Alyokhina: artist, protestor, outsider, prisoner, survivor On 21st February 2012 Maria Alyokhina...RM52.50 -
Roland Barthes
In this cogent, accessible biography, Andy Stafford offers a new picture of the man and his work, one that helps us to understand him even as it...RM76.50