Biographies & Memoirs (GR)

The Temiars of the Puyan River is the story of a Temiar community in the Kelantan hinterland. Never before has it been told in such detail and clarity, even though anthropologists have been intrigued with the Temiars for over a hundred years. It is a story of their survival in...

Suara dan pidato terus melewati tembok penjara. Suara dan pidatonya menujah awan. Suara dan pidatonya terus meledak di tengah kota dan bertempias ke penjuru desa. Musuh-musuh menjadi kecut semasa jaga dan mengigau semasa lena. Suara berada di mana-mana. Sebagai pemimpin, lebih teruji. Dia sebagai besi yang tak akan berkarat biarpun...

一位在马来西亚森林里领导反英反殖战争12年的游击队领袖的回忆。“有生以来，时至今日我才得以回顾我所形容的悬浮的历史观。我是紧急状态这一历史事故的其中一个中介角色。如今接触到解密文件，我终于能详尽地回顾紧急状态的另一面向。”陈平在1940年1月参加马来亚共产党，当时他还是个15岁的学生。他献身于共产主义运动，战前的反英国殖民统治斗争，以及最终向日本侵略者发动游击战，这些经历将他迅速推上马来亚共产党权力结构内的各个领导职位。年仅18岁的陈平已是共产党组织的马来亚人民抗日军与当时负责在敌后方地下收集情报的英国地下136部队的重要联系人。当他还只是一名十几岁的青少年时，已被委以重任，领导马来亚共产党在霹雳州的活动。日军投降后，陈平受委为中央委员，随后又进入党的决策单位政治局。当时他只有21岁。陈平在23岁那年正式出任马来亚共产党总书记，成为马来亚共产党的最高领导人。1948年6月，马来亚进入紧急状态时期，还有四个月才过24岁的陈平成为英帝国的首号通缉犯。

What’s in a Name takes the reader to the often-troubled heart of Malaysian politics and business over the last 50 years. Nazir Razak built CIMB Group into one of the most successful banks in Asean. In a career spanning three decades, he has been at the centre of the action....

In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task—following in the footsteps of one of historys greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cooks leadership Apple has soared: its stock has nearly tripled to become...

Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel and public speaker with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamorous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt...

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanfords campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range 'Wonderful' - Chris Bosh, two-time NBA Champion For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes...

In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of...

Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week. Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in...

Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times, and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia....

A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century. In addition to a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid, he wrote a...

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and had no place to call home. For Liyana, home was often unstable. Once a bright teenager full of optimism, she faced uncertainty and found no support from family, government agencies and welfare groups....

"It is important not to forget the role of the many people like [Gunn Chit Wha] who…played their part in helping our nation through the challenges of independence and beyond." —From a foreword by HRH Sultan of Selangor Meet Gunn Chit Wha, a pioneering role model with many firsts: she...

Lee Kuan Yew played the pivotal role in Singapore’s transition from British Crown Colony to independent developing nation, and on to the economically powerful and diplomatically influential city-state it is today. Throughout this surprising and at times painful journey, he has proved a charismatic and occasionally controversial leader. Lee is...

King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand is the world’s longest reigning monarch. Indeed, his 65-year reign is one of the longest in world history, an achievement few would have predicted when the Thai king acceded the throne after the mysterious death of his brother in 1946. How did King Bhumibol revive...

When the renowned American businessman, Jim Thompson, disappeared on Easter Sunday 1967 in mysterious circumstances, the legend of this extraordinarily gifted designer and entrepreneur began. During a period of twodecades, he had developed silk making from being a static village craft into a dynamic textile industry providingexquisite silks for both...

Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967. Explores the double legend of Thompson’s silk company and the unsolved case.” -- The New Yorker

Malaysia’s longest-serving and most outspoken prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been politically active for more than 60 years. As a young doctor he agitated for independence from the British and promoted the rights of the Malays, and his long political career culminated in his 22-year term as prime minister...

Marina Mahathir continues to make her mark as a community leader, writer and outspoken commentator on social and political affairs. She is also the eldest child of Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister. Marina has for more than 20 years written an insightful and provocative column which is published fortnightly in The...