Social Studies
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No Dram of Mercy
No Dram of Mercy is the story of a woman’s courage, told simply and unassumingly in her own words Sybil Kathigasu was the wife of an lpoh doctor...RM28.00 -
Orang Asli Animal Tales
The Orang Asli - the first people of Peninsular Malaysia - are nature's naturalists They are intimately familiar with the social structure and...RM20.00 -
Other Malays: Nationalism And Cosmopolitanism In The Modern Malay World
This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful...RM48.00 -
Paradise Lost: Mahathir and the End of Hope
Paradise Lost: Mahathir and the End of Hope takes a critical look at Mahathir Mohamad’s role in Malaysia’s political evolution and his ultimately...RM60.00 -
Pemanasan Global & Perubahan Iklim
Buku ini ditulis untuk mengajak pembaca menelusuri debat yang berlaku sekitar isu pemanasan global dan perubahan iklim dari perspektif sains, politik...RM18.00 -
Penang: Rites Of Belonging In A Malaysian Chinese Community
In what is today Malaysia, the British established Georgetown on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to migrate to...RM49.00 -
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
A vital and incisive solution to many of the problems society faces today: we must reclaim the commons We are losing the commons Austerity and...RM58.00 -
Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar
Pursuing Morality is an in-depth and fascinating study of ordinary life in Myanmar’s southeast through a unique ethnographic focus on Buddhist...RM149.00 -
Race
Is who we are really only skin deep In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and...RM22.90 -
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 -
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
Aceh is a region that is no stranger to violent conflict and tragedy This special territory of Indonesia has faced occupation, fallen into civil war,...RM105.00 -
Resistance In The Age Of Austerity: Nationalism, The Failure Of The Left And The Return Of God
In November 1999 the first protest movements that became associated with the anti-globalisation movement took place in Seattle, and came to be seen...RM75.00 -
Revisiting Malaysia Modernisation: Essays On Science, Technology, Religion And Environment
Much work on Malaysian modernisation focuses exclusively on its economic aspects, presenting the country as an exemplar of rapid growth and...RM35.00 -
Revisiting the Social Contract: The Malaysia-Borneo Perspectives
Joe Samad, a passionate writer on contemporary Malaysian issues, expresses deep concerns about Malaysia's direction While acknowledging the existence...RM32.00 -
Rising From The Ashes? – Labor In The Age Of “Global” Capitalism
Without parallel in sophistication of coverage for readers curious about labor, Rising from the Ashes provides sharp analysis of the hottest issues...RM66.00 -
Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades”—John Gray, New York Times Book...RM120.00 -
Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected...RM48.00 -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy
From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us...RM105.00