Social Studies
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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 -
Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World
Malaysia is no easy country to analyse, or even to understand With so many narratives about the country, its peoples and histories, the noise...RM55.00 -
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
‘The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb’ — Sunday Telegraph When Amitav Ghosh began the research...RM100.00 -
Social Science And Knowledge In A Globalising World
This book examines the contested meanings of globalisation – moving beyond the conventional distinctions between the global and the local, the...RM70.00 -
Socio-Historical Development Of The Kampung Cina Settlement In Kuala Terengganu
No other Chinese settlements in Terengganu could match the socio-historical significance of the Kampung Cina settlement located at the estuary of the...RM22.00 -
Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Duree
This timely book provides deep historical context for contemporary concerns with the ways in which the movement of Islamist ideas has radicalized...RM86.50 -
Southeast Asian Social Science Review: Volume 1
The editorial board is happy to announce the birth of the Southeast Asian Social Science Review (SEASSR), a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to...RM40.00 -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves Its myths and stories...RM55.90 -
Struggle For Justice: Bestcan Workers, The Untold Story 1977
This book captures the challenges and ongoing struggle for workers’ rights in Malaysia through a case study of milestone events that took place in...RM18.00 -
Tao Te Ching
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao Te Ching is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility...RM49.50 -
The Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherer: Key Themes for Archaeologists
This book provides a basic introduction to key debates in the study of hunter-gatherers, specifically from an anthropological perspective, but...RM164.90 -
The Babas
The Babas by Felix Chia, first published in 1980, won the Highly Commended Award for English non-fiction by the National Book Development Council of...RM95.00 -
The Colour of Inequality: Ethnicity, Class, Income and Wealth in Malaysia
This book provides an alternative insight to the debate on inequality in Malaysia, by focusing on the distribution of wealth or assets, rather than...RM40.00 -
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
“Comfort women” or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War It...RM115.00 -
The Food Wars
Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern system...RM40.00 -
The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
In the vein of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an intimate, deeply reported and revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern...RM89.90