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Plans for Borneo Books Website for 2012

BBooks — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:21:15 +0000

Best wishes to all for 2012. This could be an interesting year both globally & locally here in Sabah, Malaysia

Borneo Books is steadily increasing its internet business…thanks to those of you who have used our service over the last 12 years.

We see scope for increasing the number of titles we sell online (a lot fewer than in our shop in KK) and we are thinking of selling hardback 2nd hand books (we have a large stock of rather offbeat ones). We also have some stock of old postcards, prints, maps and magazines. And we have several new titles to put up.

So, do keep a look out for new offerings over the next 12 months.

Sama-Bajau dalam kanca urbanisasi

BBooks — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:30:50 +0000

Akibat urbanisasi, kebanyakan petempatan komuniti Sama-Bajau di Asia Tenggara terintegrasi dalam bidang kuasa urban. Walaubagaimanapun, ia berlaku lebih dari aspek fizikal dan budanya sosio-ikonomi, maka hailnya urbanisasi yang dialami adalah lebih bersift ancaman daripada bersifat pembangunan masa depan…….

Contemporary Asian Pools and Gardens

System — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:00:00 +0000

Cook Book; Asian Health & Diet

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Cookies Galore

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Cookies Galore, the latest offering by Betty Saw (a.k.a Betty Yew) contains over 70 recipes for mouthwatering cookies. The veteran culinary expert gives her take on the old staples of shortbread, chocolate chip cookies, etc., with recipes for Double Chocolate Shortbread, Raisin and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies and other original sweet and savoury cookies. The book contains recipes for both Chinese and Western cookies. Vegetarians should find the book useful, since Betty includes several eggless cookies, such as Eggless Almond Butter Cookies and Eggless Double Ginger Cookies.

Craft & The Visual Arts: The Encyclopedia of Malaysia

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The diversity of crafts and visual arts in Malaysia is a reflection of its age-old cultural traditions, pluralistic society and exposure to external influences over the centuries. This volume explores the origins and development of the country’s rich artistic heritage and provides a comprehensive overview of significant Malaysian crafts and artworks. The volume begins by discussing the various types of traditional crafts, their form and function and the elements that have influenced their evolution, thereby laying the foundation for the more detailed examination that follows. The next sections of the volume showcase the beauty and history of the crafts of pottery and earthenware, woodcraft and carving, plaiting and basketware, textiles and embroidery, metalware, and recreational and ceremonial crafts. The development of the modern art tradition in Malaysia from the 1920s and the establishment of local art infrastructure from the 1950s are covered in the last two sections of the volume. These sections trace how, in tandem with national development and the search for identity following Independence, modern art has evolved to become a medium of expression for uniquely Malaysian subjects and discourse. In the early 21st century, artworks by Malaysian artists are treasured by collectors and are appreciated not only for their artistic merit but also for their commercial value.

Crimson Sun over Borneo

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Japanese forces were advancing across South-east Asia and the Pacific in 1942, crushing all that stood in their way. Against this onslaught, British and American government officials were compelled to escape into the jungle to reach the safety of neutral territory. Some succeeded, others failed. This is the story of one such group of men and women who thought they had reached safety, only to find themselves confronted with the brutality of a Japanese platoon. There is inevitably conflict among them, physical as well as mental, for the jungle has a strange effect on man. Their attempts to escape the invaders by making their way down river to Dutch Borneo and then, their luck holding, to Australia provoke dissension at a time they can ill-afford disunity. Besides these emotions are others: love and terror, lust and enmity which become even more consuming when they mistakenly believe themselves to have reached safety, through a splinter group escapes and is, in part, preserved. Hickling’s penetration of the Japanese officer’s mind is a sympathetic but merciless feat of imagination. There is a religious preoccupation throughout the novel; all the characters, good or bad, are seeking someting in which to belive. Codes of behaviour are stripped down. Friend or foe, his characters have that clarity of vision which comes to a man who knows he is to be hanged at breakfast time.

Crocker Range Scientific Expedition 2002

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Crocodiles of Borneo; Man – eating

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

What’s that? Feels like a log. Before Kebir could respond, there was a thundering sound as through the river had exploded! And Bangan disappeared!. Thus began the saga of Bujang Senang, the notorious man-eating crocodile of the Batang Lupar, Sarawak, who managed to give many a sharp-shooter, let alone countless Bomohs (witch doctors) and professional crocodile catchers the slip for many years. Crocodiles, feared more than any other wild animal by the local inhabitants of Borneo, continue to exact a toll on human lives along the Batang Lupar and other rivers of Borneo. This is the story of Bujang Senang and other man-eating crocodiles of Borneo, traced by veteran journalist James Ritchie and crocodile specialist and proprietor of Jong’s Crocodile Farm, Johnson Jong. But for their efforts, these stories would have remained the topics of occasional Iban longhouse storytelling sessions. [BBooks has gathered that in some places crocodiles are making a comeback due to lessened hunting and more desire to conserve them. In some parts of Borneo there are now quite a lot of young crocodiles. But what will happen when they get bigger.....?]

Crowned With the Stars; The Life & Time of Don Carlos Cuarteron First Prefect of Borneo 1816 – 1880

System — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000