By Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
ISBN: 9789810808648
About the Book
The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler reveals the truth about Operation Valkyrie – an assassination conspiracy involving high-ranking German army officers. The book is a classic – an exciting tale of modern sabotage packed with firsthand information about Stauffenberg’s tragic failed attempt on Hitler’s life. Filled with suspense and flourishes of gut-wrenching intensity, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler is all the more thrilling for one reason – everything is true. Venture inside Hitler’s secret bunker, the Wolf’s Lair, and sit in on discussions of Nazi strategy. Feel your heart race as the briefcase bomb intended to kill the führer is set in place and the conspirators wait for word of his death. Written while those involved were still alive and testifying, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler is the most powerful and candid telling of the near-miss assassination of Hitler ever written.
Praises for the Book
“Exciting and readable.”
─ The Times
“Well written and accurate”
─ The New York Review of Books
By John Breen (Editor)
ISBN: 9789810595265
About the Book
This book is the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. Twelve convicted and two suspected Class A criminals are enshrined at Yasukuni, while the shrine’s museum narrates and account of Japan’s actions in the Second World War that is best described as revisionist. Visits to the shrine by cabinet members often set off protests at home and abroad, especially in China, Korea and Taiwan, and Yasukuni remains a source of considerable mistrust between the Chinese and Japanese governments.
This volume sets out neither to commend Yasukuni nor to condemn it; it seeks, rather, to present authoritative yet divergent views. It accommodates chapters by Japanese intellectuals; it carries multiple Chinese perspectives; and there are also contributions from Western commentators who offer their own insights on the shrine and its place in post-war Japanese diplomacy, ideology and history.
Praises for the Book
“By bringing together a wide range of perspectives and casting Yasukuni in multiple historical, ideological, political and religious frameworks that cut across Japanese, Chinese and international perspectives, this volume contributes much that is fresh and provocative.”
- Mark Selden, Japan Focus
By Rei Kimura
ISBN: 978-981-05-7881-7
About the Book
Shimoda 1856.
Okichi Saito is engaged with the carpenter Tsurumatsu, when menacing shapes of black ships appear in the bay: the US demand the opening of the Japanese market. The envoy, Townsend Harris, the later consul General, is enticed by Okichi’s beauty as he spots her walking from a bathhouse.
Japanese officials, who consider the 15 year old girl only as a pawn in their negotiations, deliver her to “Old man Harris” to perform “personal services”.
Five years later Harris returns home because of ill health. Okichi is free now, but a wounded person, scorned by the townsfolk, forever a “tojin”’ - a foreigner’s concubine.
In these circumstances, her reunion with Tsurumatsu ends as a tragic love story.
PRAISES FOR THE BOOK
“A true bittersweet love story is portrayed between Okichi and her intended Tsurumatsu … This is a wrenching beautifully written story and one very worth reading.”
– Rosalie Whitney, US Times Bestseller List
“The tender and tragic story of Okichi Saito, unsung heroine of Japan, is recounted with poignant, vivid detail… Don’t miss ‘Butterfly in the Wind’. This is one legend you will never forget.”
– Sonya Bateman, BookReviewClub.com/span>
By A Rafi
ISBN: 978-981-05-7880-0
ABOUT THE BOOK
In this book, the author presents a general description of the legendary bomoh, how he acquired his spiritually inherited knowledge and how this was influenced and developed over a period of several centuries. Also, how this knowledge was used in exorcisms, séances and to cure those suffering from mysterious illnesses, the making of talismans, amulets and charms and secret techniques used for invoking spirits and powerful jin.
Western writers described the bomoh as a witchdoctor and shaman who can transform himself into a ‘were tiger’, invoke spirits to enter his body and dispel them. He also had the power to control the weather. People of different faiths and levels of society in Southeast Asia still valued the bomoh’s advice and mystic power, as their ancestors had done a thousand years before.
By Mary
Gomes
ISBN:
978-981-05-0393-2
About the Book
Mary Gomes, author of bestseller
The Eurasian Cookbook, presents
her latest book
Mary ’s
Recipes – A Celebration of a Singapore Kitchen, a collection of local
favourites and more Eurasian dishes.
Mary
Gomes follows the successful publication in 2001 of her first book,
The Eurasian Cookbook, with a
collection of recipes featuring the myriad ethnic cuisines of her home, Singapore
Mary
shares with us her family’s secret recipes from chicken
sambal buah keras to braised duck
and shrimp sambal bostadar to
nonya bak chang. Learn to make
hawker favourites such as harlock
prawns and old family dishes such as yam rice, all simplified for the modern
cook.
Mary has proved
she is among the best in a dazzling array of women cookbook authors that we
are so fortunate to have in
Singapore
–
From foreword by David Kraal
About the Author
Mary
Gomes learnt to cook from her mother and aunts. This
was in the days of hand-grinding spices, scraping coconut, with no more help
than a kuali and cleaver in the
traditional Eurasian kitchen. No such modern accoutrement such as a blender
or cake mixer. When she married her Chinese husband, she learnt the secrets
of the nonya kitchen from her
mother-in-law. Before long, she was fixing Sunday meals for her extended
family and the community of St. Joseph ’s
Church on Victoria Street Singapore
SMary
has been a feature in heritage festivals, cooking classes and demonstrations
and has even participated in The Pasar Malam Besar, the largest Eurasian
festival in the world held annually at The Hague
in the Netherlands
S
AROK OF JAVA
By Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Translated by Max Lane)
ISBN:
978-981-05-8045-2
About the Book
It is the 13th
century in Java. Rebelliousness stirs among peasant farmers and
Brahmin priests alike. Slavery has returned and men, women and
children labour to find gold for Java’s rulers. Bearing the symbols
of spiritual power, a young scholar-bandit and rebel appears, called
Arok – “he who upturns everything”. As the rebellion spreads, it is
Arok himself whom the rulers employ to suppress it. Thus emerges one
of the epic political conspiracies of Javanese history. At stake is
power in Java itself, the Lady Consort Dedes, and an end to slavery
and oppression.
About the Author
Pramoedya is survived by his second wife, Maemunah, with whom he had
five children.
He had three children from his first
marriage, 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A GETAI SINGER’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH A GHOST
Complied by Ralph Modder
Each year, from the last day of the 6th Lunar Month until
the end of the 7th Lunar Month, the souls in hell come to
Earth to feast at the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. They rewarded
those who were kind to them while they were alive and took revenge
on those who had treated them unkindly.
The annual Festival of the Hungry Ghost is celebrated by the Taoists
and Buddhists and is attended by spirits who were being punished in
hell for crimes they had committed when they were alive. They were
permitted to attend the Festival because of their ‘good conduct’ and
appeals made to Yen Lo Wang, the Lord of the Underworld, by family
members for their temporary release. Some unruly ghosts refused to
return to hell at the end
of the Festival. They threatened to bring bad luck and even death to
those who refused to hide them from Hell Guards who had been sent to
arrest them. Some ghosts forced women into having love affairs.
The first Festival was in the Liang dynasty (AD 502-556) when
Emperor Wu was told in a dream that he had to feed the starving
souls in hell with feast in the 7th Lunar Month.
SINGAPORE AND THE MANY-HEADED MONSTER
By Joe Conceicao
ISBN: 978-981-05-7882-4
About the Book
A Number of historians have published academic approaches
on the various riots and ethnic and religious disturbances that have
taken place in Singapore. "Singapore and the Many-headed Monster" is
not one of them. This book is a personal and heart-felt look at the
tragic instances when the many-headed monster - riots - reared its
ugly heads and marred Singapore's history.
The author also writes with compassion about those who were made
sacrificial victims; and reads conclusions relevant and imperative
for today's living.
Gurkhas At War
Eyewitness Accounts from World War II to
Edited by
J.P. Cross & Buddhiman Gurung
About the Book
Gurkhas at War,
the result of in-depth interviews conducted by
editors J.P. Cross and Buddhiman Gurung, offers these remarkable soldiers a
voice in print for the first time. These first-person narratives centre on
the sixty-year period from the outbreak of World War II to the confrontation
in East Timor, including the lengthy battles against the Japanese in the
Burmese jungle, campaigns against the Communists in Malaya and
Hong Kong, as well as more recent deployments in the
Falklands Campaign and Gulf War. We also gain insight into the changes
wrought by Indian independence, which forcibly divided the Gurkha allegiance
between the ex-colony and her old master.
· Historical overviews of Gurkha operations
· Vivid, first-person descriptions spanning more than sixty years of warfare
THE DISUSED WELL
By Othman Wok
ISBN: 978-981-05-5961-8
About the Book
Enter the world of Malay ghost stories with Othman Wok.
In this Compilation, the author shares with you more than twenty tales,
some original and others the retelling of popular ghost stories passed
down through generations. You decide if they are true or mere tales.
Look into the evil eyes of Mak Long Memah's ghost with the author, but
don't let them haunt you tonight…
THE MONGOL ART OF WAR
By Timothy May
ISBN: 978-981-05-7898-1
About the Book
The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into Eastern Europe , are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried out planned and practiced manoeuvres.
In this pioneering book, Timothy May demonstrates that the Mongol military developed from a tribal levy into a disciplined and complex military organization. He describes the make-up of the Mongol army from its inception to the demise of their empire, and he shows how it was the strength, quality and versatility of Mongol military organization that made them the pre-eminent warriors of their time.
• First book-length study of organization of war under Genghis Khan
• Exposes myths and misunderstandings about Mongol warfare
• Analyzes Mongol strategy, tactics, fighting methods
• Vivid accounts of Mongol armies in action
THE KNIGHTS OF BUSHIDO
A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
By Lord Russell of Liverpool
ISBN: 978-1-85367-651-2
About the Book
• A detailed analysis of Japanese war crimes
• Based on evidence presented at post-war trials
• Covers Nanking and crimes against Allied prisoners of war
This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes; a best-seller in its time, but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners, and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This carefully constructed history charts this brutal swathe of destruction, objectively examining individual crimes and detailing the reasons behind Japan's unprecedented disregard for accepted humanitarian principles.
Japanese troops behaved with considerable brutality in their war against China – a campaign designed ‘to punish the people of China '. The Nanking massacre of December 1937 was just one example of the appalling atrocities the Japanese inflicted on the conquered Chinese. Japan also excelled in the mistreatment of prisoners of war. Allied troops unfortunate enough to fall into Japanese hands were abused, humiliated, starved and forced to serve as slave labour.
This sweeping indictment of atrocities committed by the forces of the Rising Sun is a detailed and carefully documented study, and one which throws light on to one of the most disturbing episodes of World War II.
Lord Russell of Liverpool served in World War I and II and acted as Deputy Judge Advocate General for the British Army of the Rhine , giving legal advice on the prosecution of war criminals. He also wrote The Scourge of the Swastika.
HUMORESQUE
By Catherine Lim
ISBN 981-05-5959-3
Price S$25.00 (excl. GST)
ABOUT THE BOOK
“Opening the car door for your wife?
Such men, it is said, are few;
You're doing it for only one reason,
Either the car or the wife is new.”
The above simple four-line and 364 other verses compiled in this book are dedicated to Singaporeans, as there are many verses taking a good-natured rib at the government and ourselves, with different themes, both entertaining and sobering, such as Sex and Gender, Marriage and Courtship, Science, Politics, Letters to God, etc… The verses were featured daily in TODAY newspaper.
To laugh, to cry, to smile, to question, to reflect, to celebrate as well as to lament this very complex thing called life: these 365 simple verses seek to provoke the entire range of emotional and intellectual responses from the reader. n short, engage both head and heart, and have a whole year of both boisterous fun and serious reflection.
Killer Vampires from Hell
By Ralph Modder
ISBN 981-05-6985-8
Price S$13.00 (excl. GST)
About The Book
Must Read!
Benny Wong (The Boy Who Talks to Ghosts) battles against “Killer Vampire From Hell”, another best-selling action-thriller written Benny and his mother, Alice Wong.
In this story, Benny Wong follows his Auntie Nancy to the Spirit World where he meets T'a-kung, the Lord of The Hills and Valleys of the peaceful Shang-aya, ‘a region somewhere near Paradise '. T'a-kung asks Benny to help to recapture Ah Chak, the demon vampire, who had escaped from hell with other vampires and returned to the World of the Living. After three thrilling battles with the vampires, Benny heroically recaptures Ah Chak with the help of the powerful ‘Lightning Sword' given to him by T'a-kung.
The Red Cheong-sam
And Other Old Tales of Malaya and Singapore
By Ralph Modder
ISBN 981-05-0390-3
Price S$19.00 (excl GST)
About The Book
The thirty-one stories selected for this volume portray the scandalous, tragic, violent, romantic and lighter sides of life at various levels of the segregated English and Asian communities in Malaya (now Malaysia ) and Singapore under British colonial rule. It began with the founding of Singapore in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company. It ended during the dismantling process of the British Empire at the end of World War II in 1945.
The stories originated from various sources and were passed on by word-of-mouth or recalled from memory and jotted down over a period of several years. While many were ‘lost in time,' others may have found their way into Far Eastern stories by Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad.
The ‘good old (colonial) days' may still be remembered with nostalgia by a steadily dwindling number of survivors from that era or recalled with mixed feelings by others who might ask, ‘What were so good about those days, anyway?' – remembering the eternal clashes of cultures and those between peoples from two vastly different moulds. It had prompted Kipling to note, ‘Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.'
But, despite the ‘twain' not meeting or whether they did meet without anyone noticing, life moved on, or stumbled along, with all its inherited (Eastern and Western) dogmas, stigmas and human frailties; some of which are recounted in this volume.
The Boy Who Talks To Ghost
By Benny and Alice Wong
Edited by Ralph Modder
ISBN: 9810503911
Price: S$13.00
An Incredible True Story!
This a true story about a thirteen-year-old boy Benny Wong, who is able to talk to good ghosts and those who are members of his family. He is also able to see other spirits, evil spirits ones, too!
His parents James and Alice Wong say:
“Benny is telling the truth, We're not saying this because he happens to be our son. We were involved in many of the incredible events he describes. It is a sensitive story that
Unseen Occupants and Other Chilling Tales
By Othman Wok
ISBN: 981053700X
Price: S$16.00
In this compilation, Othman Wok shares with you more than twenty macabre tales from Singapore , Malaysia and Indonesia ; some original and others the retelling of popular ghost stories passed down through generations.
Sinister, menacing, gruesome…, Wok braved frightening locales to deliver a bizarre assortment of terror-tinted tales to chill your bones!
The BrainSmart Leader
by Tony Buzan, Tony Dottino, Richard Israel
ISBN: 9810519494
Price: S$25.00
About the book -
- Why do so many organizations find it difficult to use teamworking?
- Why do change programmes fail so often?
- How can organizations process information more effectively?
- What does a modern manager need to do to ensure success?
These and other important business issues are dealt with in this challenging book by Mind expert Tony Buzan and his American colleagues, Tony Dottino and Richard Israel. To illustrate their ideas they introduce the concept of the BrainSmart Leader – a corporate change agent who has learned how to harness the awesome capacity of the human brain.
Chinese Military Theory – Ancient and Modern
by Chen-Ya Tien
ISBN: 9810535708
Price: S$ 28.00
About the book -
This is a pioneering work. It includes extensive analysis and discussions of ancient Chinese military theories right up to modern and contemporary times. The author argues that Chinese military theory is closely related to the socio-economic conditions of Chinese society. He bases his historical and contemporary analysis on primary documents and a thorough and complete search of all available materials. The author also locates Chinese military theory in the present strategic situation of China and speculates about the direction and future of China 's development.
Single Picky Girl – A Collection of Columns
by Janice Wong
ISBN: 9810538782
Price: S$15.00
About the book -
- Who should pay on a date?
- When is the best time to quit a job?
- Why is parallel parking so difficult?
- Why does Mr Right always come at the wrong time?
Single Picky Girl is funnily serious and seriously fun. This book brings together 41 columns in Streats, The New Paper, and The Straits Times. It records a twentysomething girl coming to grips with adult life and its rules, or lack thereof, which sometimes make her invent her own.
I Will Sing To The End
by Ian MacLeod
ISBN: 9810536992
Price: S$18.00
About the book -
Dorothy MacLeod escaped on the last ship from Singapore before the city was captured by the Japanese in February 1942. Tragically over three years later she died of debilitating dysentery and malnutrition in a prisoner of war camp off Sumatra .
Ian MacLeod spent fifty years researching the background to his mother's internment and this book is the result of his quest to find the truth behind her life and death in the camp.
It is an uplifting story of fortitude and the sustaining love of family and friends. Most of all it is a tribute to the courageous woman with the golden voice who bravely “sang to the end”.
Duel of the Soul
by FOO Check Teck
ISBN 981-05-1631-2
Price SGD88.00
About the book –
This is a special collector's edition. Only 300 copies are printed and each book is numbered.
PRAISES FOR THE BOOK
“It is inspirational to learn that Musashi, a famous Japanese Ninja who had never lost a fight had a deeply strategic Mind. Dr Foo Check Teck cleverly interprets the messages to align them with modern attributes in sound management. The book is both interesting and informative to management students and professionals.”
Professor CHAM Tao Soon, University Distinguished Professor, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
“In an age when many experienced managers seek to rediscover their spiritual dimension after years of logical achievement and concentration, Check Teck encourages us to return to Mother Nature. This is timely novella, written to help us audit and re-balance our managerial lives. It continues the author's deep research in Sun Tzu and the inner meaning for self and community. You are encouraged to seek the wisdom within.”
Professor Peter McKierman, Head of School of Management , University of St. Andrews , Scotland
by Joseph A. Kechichian & R. Hrair Dekmejian
ISBN 981-05-1948-6
Price SGD35.00
About the book -
This guide to practical political philosophy combines penetrating contemporary analysis with the entertainment value of The Thousand and One Nights, and the deep insight of Sun Tzu.
The Sulwan al-Muta' is an 800-year-old handbook for statesmen written by a Sicilian Arab who pressented this advice to a 'just prince' based on Islamic morality, European realism and a broad-ranging knowledge of different cultures. Warm, wise and witty, the work is explicated using straight philosophical discourse as well as the delirious narrative whirl of fables-within-fables so beloved of ancient and mediaeval Oriental literature.
The translators have preceded their presentation of Ibn Zafaar's text with a highly original analysis of the qualities any leader needs in order to attain and retain command. They demostrate that the wisdom found in the Sulwan is comparable to, but far less cynical than, Machiavelli's The Prince . The authors also show that the notion of a 'just prince' is, even today, easily within reach for those who would lead others.
by J.F. Conceicao
ISBN 981-05-2307-6
Price SGD22.00
About the book -
For Indonesia, the years 1998 to 2004 were a period of political travail. Presidents Habibie, Gus Dur and Megawati, whose regimes spanned this period, succumbed to the perils of running a huge country with a complex political environment, each in a characteristic way. But what brought all of them down was hubis, the inability to see where their ignorance of the truth and reality of their politics would finally lead them. The Trojan Horse for each was the military, who wages an indefatigable battle to keep its power and Indonesia's unity intact.
It can be hope that President Yudhoyono, a retired general, will not make the same mistakes as his predecessors. His first move was to use his Vice-President Jusuf Kalla's influence to win a majority in Parliament. Mr Jusuf was subsequently elected to the chairmanship of the powerful Golkar party.
by Catherine Lim
ISBN 981-05-2306-8
Price SGD16.00
About the book -
The author portrays herself as dead and lying in her coffin. During the three days before the final consignment to dust and oblivion, as friends, relatives, ex-colleagues, fans, lovers and total strangers come to pay their respects, she indulges, for the last time, her love of story-telling. Around each visitor she weaves a dazzling tale with her usual exuberant wit, comic brio and warm empathy. But the tales are more than just that. They are the triggering points for what is the central concern of this book - the exploration of those achingly urgent human questions that everyone asks at some time or other in his or her life: Who are we? Where did we come from? What is the purpose of life? What happens after death? Why are we here at all? What is our conception of god in an age of undisputed scientific power? How should we view good and evil, pain and suffering? Is there such a thing as Ultimate Truth? What does it mean to be human?
by CC Teo
ISBN 981-05-2308-4
Price SGD12.00
About the book -
A boy who sees more then others... a story posted out by a long-dead author... a world on another plane in a mirror... a haunted office... 13 Tales of Terror
Don't be taken in by our modern and urban veneer. Spooky incidents that send chills down your spines. events inexplicable by science and reason do take place in our cosmopolitan city but they are brushed aside as coincidences or figments of the imagination. Some believe there is another dimension and sometimes the two universes merge, resulting in interactions between the inhabitants of our world and theirs.
The Singapore Chinese Massacre
by Ralph Modder
ISBN 981-05-0388-1
Price SGD18.00
About the book -
After the British Had Surrendered Singapore to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, Lt. Gen. Yamashita, commander of the victorious 25th Army, ordered that male Chinese had to 'register' at various centres. The purpose was to discover 'anti-Japanese elements among the Chinese population', in particular Chinese guerrilla-volunteers who had fought courageously when the Japanese invaded Singapore. Thousands of Chinese were picked out at random by the Kempeitai, the dreaded Japanese secret police. The victims were taken to remote places, mostly beaches and shot.
A Bristish War Crimes Court in Singapore in 1947 sentenced several senior Japanese army officers to death or to long prison terms for their parts in the massacre, also known as 'Sook Ching' Massacre ('Sook Ching' meaning 'purification by purge' Chinese) The Japanese had admitted that 5,000 were executed while there were claims the number was about 50,000. The actual number is unknown.
FLAVOURS OF CHANGE by Joe F. Conceicao
Destiny and Diplomacy – Recollections of a
Singapore Ambassador
ISBN 981-05-0392-X
Price SGD25.00
About the book -
Former Member of Parliament and diplomat Joe Conceicao has vivid recollections of the kampong ambience of his varied early years in the Singapore of the 1920s and 1930s. But Katong became his special matrix and Singapore his larger womb for growth. He was an adolescent at the time of the Japanese Invasion and Occupation and learned many lessons, some painful, others enlightening. He was often able to glean some humour from the vicissitudes of life: his account of his career as a grass-cutter for the Japanese is priceless.
After the war, he experienced brief cycles of work as a police clerk, petroleum clerk and administrative clerk, before deciding to become a teacher. But nagged by good and evil spirits, Joe left St Patrick's School to gain a degree. He later joined the university as a teacher-administrator in what was then the perceived “black-sheep” department of continuing education. This turned out to be his stepping-stone to a political career. He both enjoyed and suffered in his new role, and survived to become an ambassador of his country.
“ Flavours of Change is not a set dinner where appetizer must precede entrée. It is more like a tray of finger food, which one can dip into with pleasure according to the whim of the moment”
-George
Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Price: SDG14.90
About the book - There is a wonderful ancient Western tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man; but only on 29 February, only once every four years, in a Leap Year.
On such a momentous day, late one morning in modern Singapore, Li-ann, young, bright, beautiful, catches sight of Jeremy for the first time in a busy part of town. She realizes, with a start, that he is her dream man, and makes the move allowed by the Leap Year tradition.
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1. The Howling Silence
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3. Deadline for Love
ISBN: 9810412495 Price: SGD14.50 |
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2. Shadow of a Shadow of a Dream
ISBN: 9810412509 Price: SGD15.50 |
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4. Meet Me On The QE2!
ISBN: 9810412517 Price: SGD13.50 |
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