PESTA BUKU

PESTA BUKU ANTARABANGSA KUALA LUMPUR 2009PUTRA WORLD TRADE CENTRE, TUN RAZAK HALL 317 April – 26 April 2009 / Booth No. 3044 - 3046 Dear friends and customers,

The following books are now available.


The Memoirs of Rashid Maidin:

From Armed Struggle to PeaceRashid Maidin Publisher: SIRD ISBN: 9789834372727 121 pagesRM25.00 “Since the 1930s, I was involved in the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in the struggle against the British colonizers to free our homeland. Many have asked me why I chose to take this path and not another, they have also asked me about my experiences, my joys and pain and my memories. I’ve had all kinds of questions thrown at me. It is also true that I myself have wished to write down some episodes from my struggle within the CPM….I endured the extreme bitterness of living under both the British and Japanese. I fought against the Japanese during their occupation (1941-45) with all my might, just as I did when the British returned to rule Malaya in 1945. Between 1945-48, when I agitated peacefully against the British, I was one of the CPM’s public representatives, openly organizing the masses for independence. Soon after the declaration of the Emergency. I was caught and imprisoned in British detention camps until 1952. It was a good thing that I managed to escape and join the 10th Regiment [of the Malayan National Liberation Army] with my close friend, Abdullah C.D. In December 1955, I participated in the Baling Talks with Chin Peng and Chen Tien. In 1989, I was one of the CPM’s representatives in the Phuket negotiations which resulted in the Haadyai Peace Accord of 2 December that same year. I hope this memoir will give some idea of the struggle which I plunged myself into for decades.”

Political Islam in Southeast AsiaGordon P. Means Publisher: SIRDISBN: 9789834372697444 pagesRM78.00 PRAISE FOR Political Islam in Southeast Asia“

This is a gem of a book….

One of the bestI have seen on political Islam in Southeast Asia.

Means’s knowledge of his subject matter is prodigious.”-HOWARD FEDERSPIEL, Ohio State University-Newark“

A crowning achievement for Means, and a must-read for anyone inter ested in the political and policy implications of Islam in Southeast Asia.”-DWIGHT W. KIN G, Northern Illinois University How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countries Stay PoorErik S. Reinert Publisher: Anthem Press India and Third World Network ISBN: 9781843313335 365 pagesRM50.00 (Sale of this edition of the book is restricted to South East Asia) Winner of prestigious Myrdal Prize 2008An illuminating history of economic development in the Modern world Erik S. Reinert is a key figure in the growing worldwide movement against neo-classical economic theory. He argues that rich countries have developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism and strategic investment yet, when it comes to today’s poorer nations, the orthodoxy insists on unqualified and absolute standards of free trade.Reinert’s strongly revisionist history reveals how economic theory has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition and the free market ideas of English and later American economics. Our economics were founded on protectionism and state activism and could only later afford the luxury of free trade, so when our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of mass affluence. This book mounts a strong challenge and opens up the debate on why free trade is not the best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.

Living on the Periphery :Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli in Malaysia Nobuta Toshihiro Publisher: Center For Orang Asli ConcernsISBN: 9789834324841 398 pagesRM40.00 What set out as a study on the survival strategies of the Orang Asli in the wake of state-led development found the author being confronted by another element-Islamizationinfluencing both their social relations and their access to development.The book gives an exceptional peak into the contemporary social and economic situation of the Orang Asli in their village setting, providing insight not only into the familiar dichotomy of haves and have-nots, but also into the villagers' close relations with both Chinese and Malays, including intermarriage, over many generations.Living on the Periphery exposes the attitudes of the nonOrang Asli, their different world views, and especially their control of local resources. Even for people familiar with Malaysia, Nobuta's ethnographic account puts a spotlight on the jarring inequalities experienced by Orang Asli that otherwise are so easily overlooked."Living on the Periphery shows that there is no shortage of problems arising from development projects and Islamization in the history of the small indigenous Temuan community studied.... The book is exceptional in that it provides by far the most detailed description to date of development and Islamic pressure on the Orang Asli." A Baer, Asian Anthropology (Vol.7) 2008

Integriti dan Islam: Aplikasi Berkesan Membangun Ummah Disusun oleh Haji Mustafar Haji Ali & Dr. Adanan Mat Junoh Publisher: Institut Integriti MalaysiaISBN: 9789675091131234pagesRM70.00 Bersempena Sambutan Bulan Dakwah tahun 2009, IIM telah mengambil inisiatif menerbitkan sebuah buku atas tajuk Integriti Dan Islam : Aplikasi Berkesan Membangun Ummah sebagai satu daripada usaha mendidik masyarakat tentang peri mustahaknya integriti dalam kehidupan. Buku ini membincangkan integriti dari perspektif Islam serta mengupas bagaimana integriti berperanan membangunkan ummah. Semoga buku ini digunakan di pelbagai institusi seperti sekolah, institusi pengajian tinggi, perkhidmatan awam dan sektor swasta dan sebagai panduan untuk memantapkan integriti masyarakat. Antara penulis - penulis buku ini adalah Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, Prof Dato' Dr. Mohd Yusof Haji Othman, Haji Mustafar Haji Ali, Mohd Shauki Abd Majid, Dato' Haji Wan Mohamad Dato' Sheikh Abd Aziz, Dato' As-Sheikh Haji Nooh Gadut, Tan Sri Ismail Adam, Datuk Dr. Halim Shafie, Mejar Jeneral Dato' Jamil Khir Hj Baharom, Dato' Haji Zakaria Haji Jaafar, Datuk Prof. Madya Dr. Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah dan Dr. Adanan Mat Junoh.

To purchase these or any Gerakbudaya/SIRD title, you can: a) Drop in at the following address: No.11, Lorong 11/4E46200 Petaling Jaya,Selangor, MalaysiaTel: (603) 7957 8343/8342Fax: (603) 7954 9202 b) Send us an email at sird@streamyx.com or gerakbudaya@pd.jaring.com c) Buy it online at http://www.gerakbudaya.com/ d) Get it from all major bookstores in Malaysia Thank you for your kind interest and support. GB Gerakbudaya Enterprise Sdn Bhd
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