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The Books
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– Handy Pocket Guide to Asian Gemstones, Carol Clarke.
Hong Kong: Periplus, 2004
– Blue Monkish, Zai Kuning. Singapore: The Substation, 1996
– Who are the Reds, E P Dark. Sydney: F H Johnston, 1946
– The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference,
Richard Wright. London: Dennis Dobson, 1955
– House Decoration in Nubia, Marian Wenzel. London:
Gerard Duckworth, 1972
– Construction Manual of Prefabricated Timber House,
Mohd Shukari Midon, Chu Yue Pun, Hilmi Md Tahir,
Nor Azian Mohd Kasby. Malaysia: Forest Research
Institute, 1996
– The People of the Leaves, Vivian Meik. London: Philip
Allan, 1931
– Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and
Singapore, Paul D Brock. Kuala Lumpur: Malayan Nature
Society, 1999
– The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1954
– The Power of Movement in Plants, Charles Darwin.
London: John Murray, 1880
– Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould. London: Penguin, 1991
– Poisonous Snakes of the World: A Manual for Use by U.S.
Amphibious Forces. Washington D.C.: Department of the
Navy, 1965
– It was the Babblers’ Nest, C Felsinger. Colombo: Lake
House Investments, 1972
– The Observer’s Book of Birds’ Eggs, G Evans. London:
Fredrick Warne & Company, 1954
– The Shell Collector’s Handbook, A Hyatt Verrill. New York:
Putnam & Sons, 1950
– The Observer’s Fighting Vehicles Directory World War II,
Bart H Vanderveen. London: Fredrick Warne & Company,
1969
– Barrack Room Ballads, Rudyard Kipling. London:
Methuen, 1914
– First Charge: A Handbook for Police Officers, Trinath
Mishra. New Delhi: Sheridan Book Company, 2006
– Fan-Tan, Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell. New York:
Alfred A Knopf, 2005
– The Coconut, Edwin Bingham Copeland. London:
Macmillan, 1931
– Malacca Strait and West Coast of Sumatra Pilot,
Hydrographer of The Navy. Taunton: Ministry of Defence,
1971
– Paradise Tales: A Selection of Stories from Air Niugini’s
Inflight Magazine. Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates,
1986
– We Bought an Island, Evelyn E Atkins. London: Coronet,
1978
– Old Goa, S Rajagopalan. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey
of India, 1987
– Tropical Diseases: 50,000 BC to 2,500 AD, Robert
Desowitz. London: Flamingo, 1998
– History of Indian Administration Voulme II, Medieval
Period, B N Puri. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1973
– The Flora of Delhi, J K Maheshwari. New Delhi: Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research, 1963
– The English Teacher, R K Narayan. Mysore: Indian Thought
Publications, 1955
– Home To India, Santha Rama Rao. London: Victor Gollancz,
1945
– Sylvia Plath. Letters Home. Correspondence 1950 – 1963,
Selected and edited with a commentary by Aurelia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975
– Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje. London: Picador,
1984
– Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro. New York: Alfred A
Knopf, 2005
– Aunts up the Cross, Robin Eakin. Melbourne: Sun Books,
1967
– Echoes of Celandine, Derek Marlowe. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1973
– Gone Fishin’: An Easy Rawlins Novel, Walter Mosley.
London: Serpent’s Tail, 1998
– The Opening up of the World, J F Horrabin. London:
Methuen, 1938
– A Pattern of Islands, Arthur Grimble. London: John Murray,
1955
– Report On The Trial of Xanana Gusmao in Dili, East Timor.
Geneva: International Commission of Jurists, 1993
– The Chronicles of Gujarat, Captain A C Elliot ISC. Punjab:
Languages Department, 1970
– A Colour Guide to Kinabalu Park, Susan K Jacobson. Kota
Kinabalu: Sabah Parks Trustees, 1996
– Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops, Isadore Brodsky. Sydney:
University Co-Operative Bookshop, 1973
– Spiders of Australia, Barbara York Main. Brisbane: The
Jacaranda Press, 1964
– First Studies in Plant Life in Australasia, William Gillies.
Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, ND
– The Asian Highway: A Complete Overland Guide from
Australia to Europe, Jack Jackson and Ellen Crampton.
Brighton: Angus and Robertson, 1979
– An Approach to Vedanta, Christopher Isherwood.
Hollywood, California: Vedanta Press, 1963
– Earthworks, Brian Aldiss. London: New English Library, 1972
– In Good Faith, Salman Rushdie. London: Granta, 1990
– Purity and Danger, Mary Douglas. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1970
– Derek Jarman’s Garden. London: Thames and Hudson,
1996
– The Nature of the Universe, Fred Hoyle. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1953
– The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James. New
York: The Modern Library, 1929
– A History of British Gardening, Miles Hadfield.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985
– Oriental Despotism, Karl A Wittfogel. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1957
– How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, Buwei Yang Chao.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956
– Meatless Days, Sara Suleri. London: Collins, 1990
– Canework, Charles Crampton. Leicester: The Dryad Press,
1957
– These Poor Hands, B L Coombes. London: Victor Gollancz,
1939
– The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997
– Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol.2, Hunter S
Thompson. London: Picador, 1988
– Why Worry? K Sri Dhammananda. Kuala Lumpur: Buddhist
Missionary Society, ND
– Granta 58: Ambition. London: Granta, 1997
– Playing and Reality, D W Winnicott. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1974
– The Joy of Laziness: How to Slow Down and Live Longer,
Peter Axt and Michaela Axt-Gaddermann. London:
Bloomsbury, 2005
– Life the Goal, J Krishnamurti. Eerde, Ommen, Holland: The
Star Publishing Trust, 1928
– Tranquilisation with Harmless Herbs, Eric F W Powell.
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Health Science Press,
1974
– Neem Dreams, Inez Baranay. New Delhi: Rupa & Company,
2003
– Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, Greil
Marcus. London: Faber and Faber, 2005
– The Art of Shooting, Charles Edward Chapel. New York: A S
Barnes, 1960
– Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel, Richard Brautigan.
London: Picador, 1978
– Penguin Modern Poets: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough,
Brian Patten: The Mersey Sound. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1967
– All Day, All Night, Cath Kenneally. Cambridge: Salt
Publishing, 2003
– The Privacy of the Self, M Masud Khan. New York:
International Universities Press, 1974
– No Visitors Allowed: Short Stories, John Machado.
Singapore: Landmark Books, 2003
– Pleasant Hell, John Dolan. United States and Great Britain:
Capricorn Publishing, 2005
– Nymphenburg, Palace, Park, Pavilions: Official Guide,
Luisa Hager and Michael Petzet. Munich: Bavarian
Administration of State Owned Castles, Gardens and
Lakes, 1971
– Women Who Think Too Much, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema.
London: Piatkus, 2003
– The Curse of the Pontianak, Ralf Modder. Singapore:
Horizon Books, 2004
– The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers. London:
Penguin, 1963
– Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel of Rural India, Kamala
Markandaya. Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1956
– A Good Man is Hard to Find: Stories, Flannery O’Connor.
London: The Women’s Press, 2001
– Nymphomania: A Study of the Oversexed Woman, Albert
Ellis & Edward Sagarin. London: The Ortolan Press, 1965
– Difficult Daughters, Manju Kapoor. India: Penguin, 2001
– Mother Worship: A Gynocritic Study of the Civilisation
and Culture. An Indian and World Perspective, Ananda.
Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1994
– Sex and Repression in Savage Society, Bronislaw
Malinowski. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1927
– Hello My Big Big Honey!: Love Letters to Bangkok Bargirls
and Their Revealing Interviews, collected by Dave Walker
& Richard S Ehrlich. Bangkok: Dragon Dance Publications,
1992
– Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri: London, Picador, 1999
– Kinetic Art, Guy Brett. London: Studio Vista, 1968
– Hula! New, Easy Self-Teaching Method, Scotty Guletz
(South Sea Scotty). Honolulu: South Sea Sales, ND
– Exasperating Essays: Exercises in the Dialectical Method,
D D Kosambi. New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1957
– London Does Not Belong to Me, Lee Kok Liang. Petaling
Jaya: Maya Press, 2003
– Barbarians at the Gate, Leonard Woolf. London: Victor
Gollancz, 1939
– Men Against the Jungle, Ritchie Calder. London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1954
– Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden, Editors John
M Randall & Janet Marinelli. New York: Brooklyn Botanic
Garden Publications, 1996
– British Citizenship Test Study Guide: The Essential Study
Guide for the Life in the UK Test, Henry Dillon. London: Red
Squirrel Publishing, 2006
– Drawing at the Zoo, Raymond Sheppard. London & New
York: The Studio Publications, 1949
– Europe, Ken Bolton. Adelaide: Little Esther Books, 2005
– Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving. Granada: Miguel
Sanchez, 1994
– The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2000
– Itinerant Blues, Samuel Wagan Watson. St Lucia: University
of Queensland Press, 2002
– The Noble Savage 3, A Meridian Periodical. Cleveland &
New York: The World Publishing Company, May 1961
– The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God,
George Bernard Shaw. London: Constable & Co, 1932
– Chinese Magic and Superstition in Malaya, Leon Comber.
Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1960
– An African Student in China, Emmanuel John Hevi. London:
Pall Mall Press, 1965
– A History of British Serial Killing, Martin Fido. London:
Carlton Books, 2001
– Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. London: Penguin, 2000
– Your Face Mirrors Fortune, R G Rao. New Delhi: Ranjan
Publication, 1997
– Indian Problems in Malaya: A Brief Survey in Relation to
Emigration, K A Neelakandha Aiyer. Kuala Lumpur: The
India Office, 1938
– The Surprising Asians: A Hitch – Hike Through Malaya,
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam, Frances
Letters. Sydney: Angus Robertson, 1968
– A Guide to Bushwalking, Book 3: Blue Mountains and
Heathcote National Park, V. Oerlermans. Helensborough,
New South Wales: Cosmorama Press, 1979
– Prospecting and Mining for Uranium in Australia: Notes
for the Guidance of Prospectors, Australian Atomic Energy
Commission & Department of National Development, 1957
– Cambodia in the South East Asian War, Malcolm Caldwell
and Lek Tan. New York and London: Monthly Review Press,
1973
– 21 Days: A True Story of a Malaysian Hostage in Sierra
Leone, Ganase Jaganathan. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfishbooks,
2005
– Twenty Two Malaysian Stories, Edited by Lloyd Fernando.
Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books, 1968
– Nine Dayak Nights, W R Geddes. London: Oxford University
Press, 1961
– Three Dances of Oceania, Beth Dean. Sydney: Sydney
Opera House Trust, 1976
– Malaya Must Cost No More Australian Blood, Rupert
Lockwood. Sydney: Current Book Distributors, 1951
– Knots, R D Laing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971
– Explosives, John Read. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1943
– The Tin Crisis, Gill Burke. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of
Strategic and International Studies, 1986
– Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury. Frogmore, St. Albans:
Panther, 1974
– The War in the South: The Story of Negri Sembilan’s
Guerillas, Shan Ru-hong. Bangkok: Mental Health
Publishing, 2003
– Kim Philby The Spy I Loved, Eleanor Philby. London: Pan
Books, 1968
– Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee & Walker
Evans. London: Panther, 1969
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