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  • Malay Political Leadership

    by Tony Shome ...
    This book demonstrates how particular values and 'notions of leadership', which underpinned traditional Malay leadership, have played a crucial role in the political evolution of the modern Malaysian nation. The author discusses the nature of Malay 'notions of leadership', and considers this throughout the Malay world at the local as well as at the national level, and goes on to describe and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero

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    The true story of the US Army legend who organized "Blackburn's Headhunters" against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet ... Read more

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  • Playing with Fire

    Pakistan at War with Itself

    by Pamela Constable ...
    A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion ... Read more

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  • Scorched Earth

    Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

    by Fred A. Wilcox ...
    Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar ... Read more

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  • The Singapore River

    A Social History, 1819-2002

    by Stephen Dobbs ...
    For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepôt trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted indus ... Read more

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  • War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia

    A Case of Murder by Medicine

    by J. Kevin Baird, Sangkot Marzuki ...
    Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called.While ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    by Natasha Hamilton-Hart ...
    In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy ... Read more

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  • 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore

    by Chye Kiang Heng ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning urban planning in Singapore; the second section, 'The Built Environment as a Sum of Parts', delves ... Read more

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  • The Universe Unraveling

    American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos

    by Seth S. Jacobs ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. According to the accepted account, Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain made the kingdom ... Read more

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  • Blown to Bits

    by R.M. Ballantyne ...
    This gripping classic from R.M. Ballantyne tells the story of the eruption of Mt. Krakatau in 1883 which killed more than 36, 000 people. ... Read more

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  • Natsir, Rebel Without A Pause

    Historical Indonesian Figures, #1

    by Idrus F. Shahab et al. ...
    Series Book 1 - Historical Indonesian Figures
    MOHAMMAD Natsir (July 17, 1908-February 6, 1993) was a puritan. However, even the honest can be interesting. His life was not as colorful or dramatic as a stage play, but the example set by this person, who had a talent for combining words with deeds, was nothing less than remarkable. With Indonesia currently going through a kind of vicious circle—new leaders taking over, yet an efficient ... Read more

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  • A Delicate Relationship

    The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

    by Kenton Clymer ...
    In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and heightened nationalist activities that emerged in the wake ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD