Search Results: Titles starting with K from The Penang Bookshelf

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Fixi Novo, 2014. First edition. Paperback. New. The fourth and final volume of the KL Noir series. A collection of 'sick and twisted' fifteen short stories and one essay evoking the seedier side of the capital city's life. 279 pages. Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Buku Fixi, 2013. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. The second of 4 volumes about the city�s dark side. The 18 short stories tell of what lies underneath the shiny facade of Kuala Lumpur. Very Good Paperback. First Edition. 278 pages. Weight: 0.5 kg Post free within Malaysia Apart from three or four light marks on the front cover the book looks new.

Kuala Lumpur: Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. Businesses and governments everywhere rely on a competent arbitration system in order to resolve contractual disputes more efficiently and with greater confidentiality than the resolution procedures of most courts. This book celebrates the relatively short existence, since 1978, of the country's principal arbitration body, which is internationally recognised as an experienced, neutral, efficient and reliable dispute resolution service provider. 151 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. 1.2 kg. Post free within Malaysia, but, due to its weight, this book is likely to incur additional postal charges when posted outside Malaysia

Ipoh, Malaysia: Parsosma Enterprise, 2015. First edition. Paperback. New. The author recounts the exploits of a Tamil member of the Communist resistance to the British during the 'Emergency' period. The book is based on oral accounts of those who knew him. 86 pages. Please see the scan of the contents page for further details. Weight: 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo), 1999. First edition. Paperback. New. New. With a view to preserving the folklore of the Kadazan of the Penampang District of Sabah, the author and a group of volunteers set about interviewing Kadazandusun elders. The ten stories were originally complied in the the people's own language and has been translated into English for the first time. 41pages. Weight: 0.4 kg Post free within Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia: Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Seven years after the Malay language spelling reforms of 1972, this book sets out to clarify some common misunderstandings about the new spelling system. 57 pages. Weight: 0.3kg. Post free within Malaysia There is a little bit of wear on the cover. The binding is tight and the text clear with mild tanning throughout.

Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia: Pustaka Dian Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/good. A collection of studies on Malay cultural life and customs. The book was written in the Jawi script. 223 pages Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The dust jacket has several signs of wear and the title has been written in ink on the faded spine of the jacket. The first and last end papers have a shadow from the dust jacket. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is mild tanning throughout. There is a previous owner's name written neatly on the inside back cover.

Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2017. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A history of the Australian presence in Penang between 1955 and 1988 when the country's armed forces and their families were based there for two year tours. The book not only looks into the lives of those based here but looks at the significance of the deployment in the context of Asian and Australian military history. Very Good Paperback. 320 pages with an index and some black and white plates.Weight: 0.7 kg Post free within Malaysia The text block has spotting in places. The binding is tight, the text clear and there is minimal tanning of the pages.

Singapore: Helang Books, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. New. This book is emblematic of the way Singapore has changed in the course of the last century. A virtually uninhabitable piece of land, marshland and infested with mosquitoes, was settled by a Javanese community at the beginning of the 20th century and turned into reasonably productive agricultural land. The village was eventually replaced to become a prime residential area, The only remnant is a small mosque. The authors were able to find some of the displaced former inhabitants and, through their voices, reconstruct what village life was like before the arrival of the bulldozer. New Hardback. First Edition. 288 pages with maps, black and white and colour photographs and colour illustrations, a bibliography and an index. Weight: 1.2 kg Post free within Malaysia, but, due to its weight, this book is likely to incur additional postal charges when posted outside Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur: Modern Education Publishers, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A debut novella by a young Malaysian writer, who uses his own rural upbringing to inform a story about a country boy who 'makes good' by going to university to lead a life different from that of his family and peers. His main preoccupation is coping with the conflicts between his home environment and the new world presented to him. Very Good Paperback. First Edition. 77 pages. Weight: 0.4 kg Post free within Malaysia The cover has a little rubbing around the edges and a couple of small nicks on the front and back. The binding is tight, text clear and there is mild tanning throughout.

Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Sabah Museum, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. A picture dictionary in the Iranun, Bahasa Malaysia and English Languages. The illustrations are line drawings. Near Fine Paperback. First Edition. 47 pages. Weight: 0.5 kg Post free within Malaysia Apart from a mark on the front cover, the book looks new.

Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: Sabah Museum, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A picture dictionary in the Begak, Bahasa Malaysia and English Languages. The illustrations are line drawings. Fine Paperback. First Edition. 41 pages. Weight: 0.5 kg Post free within Malaysia

Jakarta: PT Katalis, 2020. Revised. Softback. New. A pocket sized dictionary from Indonesian to German and from German to Indonesian published on licence in Indonesia New Softback. Revised Edition. 351 pages. Weight: 0.4 kg Post free within Malaysia

New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. Good/good. A children's tale about a mouse deer and a tortoise and their attempts to find food without becoming food themselves - for the crocodiles. Good Hardback in a Good Dust Jacket. Unpaginated about 25 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Weight: 0.6 kg Post free within Malaysia This is an ex-library book with labels on the spine and a rear end paper and small stamps on a front end paper and the title page. The dust jacket, now protected by a plastic sleeve, is in almost perfect condition apart from a library label. The binding is tight and there is no tanning throughout.

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Matahari Books, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Hardcover. New. If you want to pig yourself on the food that Indian Muslims brought to Malaya from the establishment of Penang as a British port onwards, this is the book for you. It is a guide to be the best and not so good Nasi Kandar eateries in Penang. Grease abounding! New Hardback First Edition. 90 pages with lots of colour photographs. Weight: 0.5 kg Post free within Malaysia

Colombo: Lake House, 1988. Revised. Paperback. Good. This work mainly concentrates on the Nayakkar dynasty of Kandy where an alien king had to contend with restive Sinhalese nobles. The power play and consequent weakening of the kingdom's strength made it an easy target once the British decided to invade. Good Paperback. Revised Edition 304 pages with a bibliography, index and two maps. Weight: 0.6 kg Post free within Malaysia The cover has a fair bit of wear and the spine is creased. The binding is tight, the text clear and there is mild tanning of the pages.

Sibu, Malaysia: Sarawak Chinese Cultural Association, 2010. First edition. Paperback. New. Kanowit, or Kanowit Bazaar, is situated on the Kanowit and Rajang Rivers, near Sibu Sarawak. During the Brooke period the area saw a big influx of Chinese from Singapore and Fujian to take advantage of the trading opportunities there. The Chinese community were the dominant community in the town at the time of Fielder's research in the early 1970s. His monograph maps out the setting, population, economics, multiracial and uniracial activities, religion and the role of the family. New Paperback. 277 pages with figures, tables, maps, a bibliography and an index. Weight: 0.6 kg Post free within Malaysia

George Town, Penang: Pinang Peranakan Mansion Sdn Bhd, 2015. Second edition. Hardcover. New/new. 2-6-16. This book sets out to remember Chung Keng Kwee, one of the leaders of the Chinese community in Malaya in the 19th century, through two magnificent buildings he arranged to be built in Penang, the Shen Zhi Shu, an ancestral hall and the Hai Ji Zhan, a family mansion. The author, one of the city's leading conservation architects, in the first part of the book gives brief biography of Chung, in the second part, explains how the buildings were constructed and finally uses old maps and architectural drawings to try and fathom Chung's motive for designing the buildings in this particular manner. The book is bilingual in Chinese and English. 120 pages. Weight: 0.9kg. Post free within Malaysia

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2014. Revised. Paperback. New. Within a year of the publication of the first edition of this biography of Malaysia's most prominent lawyer-politician, he was killed in a road accident. He had already avoided death on Malaysia's roads once in 2005, since when he had been confined to a wheel chair. This did not prevent him continuing to act in both high profile and lesser reported cases of significance or in joining in the opposition parties' successes in the 2013 election. This biography gets a man who, despite being larger than life, was also an advocate and defender for every Malaysian seeking justce and change. 349 pages including an index and several black and white photographs. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia

Berlin: Michael Laumanns, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. The purpose of this book is to gather together the various accounts of cave exploration in Myanmar at the time of publication. Because of the country's unstable political past, speleological expeditions have been few and far between, in each case being limited to specific areas of the country. It was hoped that by publishing these recent accounts future cavers would have a base upon which to build a more comprehensive speleological map of the country. 139 pages with a list of 282 caves, a bibliography and several maps. Weight 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia