Singapore. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 2007. Black and white photographic plates, xxvii + 311pp, paperback. This is the long-awaited biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based..... More
Malaysia. Pelanduk Publications. 2000. Colour photographic plates, 244pp, index, gilt title spine and upper cover, dustjacket. Biography of Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, a veteran politician who has been in the Malaysian political scene from the time of the country's independence in 1957. When referring to this item please quote stockid 48610..... More
Singapore. Penguin. 2021. xxii + 193pp. Paperback. "In the following recollections, divided into several chapters, Azly Rahman presents a mixed-genre memoir-snippets of growing up in a world rooted in the pastoralness and ruralness of things. The world of his kampong or the Malay village. These are stories of separation -..... More
Singapore. NUS Press, 2020. Black and white illustrations in text, viii + 300pp, index. Hardback in dustjacket. "Wang Gungwu's account of his university education in Singapore and the UK, and the early years of his career as an academic in Malaysia capture the excitement, the ambition and the choices of..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2018. Black and white photographic photographic illustrations, 219pp, index, hardback in dustjacket. ""As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain..... More