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A Malay Village and Malaysia - Peter J. Wilson
A Malay Village and Malaysia:... Social Values and Rural Development... by... Peter J. Wilson... This is an anthropological study of a rubber tapping community in Jandram Hilir in Selangor, West Malaysia. Its main focus is how such a community interacts with the outside world. In its 171 pages the author...
Price: $13.00
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By Jungle Track and Paddy Field - Teed Apha
By Jungle Track and Paddy Field... -... Teed Apha... This collection of sketches of a very ordinary man of his observations in Australia and the Malayan jungle. The author contrasts Australia as a land of great open desert spaces with the Malayan jungle, a mass of tangled vegetables and fruit hang...
Price: $92.00
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Estate Surveying - R.B. Perkins
Estate Surveying... by... R.B. Perkins... This textbook serve as a reference and guide book for students facing surveying examinations. Topics covered are linear measurement, compass surveying, plan drawing, levelling, roadmaking, trigonometry, logarithms and major surveys. 189 pages with line drawings, tables of square and linear measurement and a glossary...
Price: $46.00
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Kiln-drying Characteristics of Some Malaysian Timbers - G. S. Grewal
Kiln-drying Characteristics of Some Malaysian Timbers... by... GS Grewal... This is a 20-page pamphelt, based on research of the Malaysian Forest Service, outlines applications of the kiln-schedules, factors to considered in doing so, kiln defects and ways to minimise them. It includes four tables... Published by Malaysian...
Price: $10.00
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Lowland Rice Soils in Malaya - K Kawaguchi & K Yuma
Lowland Rice Soils in Malaya... -... K Kawaguchi & K Yuma... Following on from the authors' work on Thai rice soils, in this book they produce a report on their investigation of rice soils in Malaysia carried on in 1965. The purpose of the work was to examine the state of...
Price: $20.00
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Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu - MG Swift
Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu... by... MG Swift... This work, a revised Ph.D thesis, mainly seeks to study the workings of the matrilineal system of kinship prevalent in Negeri Sembilan at the time of the research. Swift particularly looks at how this system copes with the patrilineal system of...
Price: $20.00
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Malay Peasant Women and the Land - Maila Stivens, Cecilia Ng & Others
Malay Peasant Women and the Land... by... Maila Stivens, Cecilia Ng, Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Jahara Bee... This study by a team of national and international academics looks at Malay women's role in the agricultural sector of the Malaysian economy, particularly as to how their property ownership and their role...
Price: $66.00
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Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Phillipines - Charles Robequain
Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Phillipines:... A Geographical, Economic and Political Description of Malaya, the East Indies and the Philippines... by... Charles Robequain... This work, although published more than half a century ago, arguably remains one of the standard colonial geographic text books for the region. It certainly sets a...
Price: $20.00
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Malayan Timbers for Flooring - HJ Burgess
Malayan Timbers for Flooring... -... HJ Burgess... This little handbook was compiled by the author when he was a Timber Research Officer at the Forest Research Institute. It conists of brief details of the recommended timbers with their technical specifications aand suitability for various types of florring use.10pages... Weight 0...
Price: $10.00
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Malaysian Timbers for Furniture - P. K. Balan Menon & H. J. Burgess
Malaysian Timbers for Furniture... -... P. K. Balan Menon & H. J. Burgess... (revised by H. C. Sim)... This is a 24-page pamphelt, based on research of the Malaysian Forest Service, surveys the appropriate types of timber suitable for furniture in some technical detail. Weight 0.20 Kg... Condition: Very...
Price: $10.00
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Planting Techniques for Oil Palms in Malaysia - JWL Bevan & Others
Planting Techniques for Oil Palms in Malaysia -... by... JWL Bevan, T Fleming & BS Gray... Many parts of the traditional Malaysian countryside have disappeared under the spread of the ubiquitous oil palm. This book was one of the first manuals produced which had led to the country being the second...
Price: $39.00
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Rice Cultivation in Malaya - Elena M Cooke
Rice Cultivation in Malaya... by... Elena M Cooke... According to this book, although now rice is an essential staple for most inhabitants of the country, the start of its cultivation was relatively recent - as late as the 15th century AD. The book covers the history of rice cultivation, its practice...
Price: $30.00
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Rubber in Malaya 1876-1922 - JH Drabble
Rubber in Malaya 1876-1922... -... JH Drabble... Rubber and tin were the two products which transformed Malaya's economy from the nineteenth century onwards. Drabble traces the establishment and development of rubber cultivation in Malaya from 1876 to 1922, bringing together the factors of capital, labour, entrepeneurial activity, Government policy, technical...
Price: $32.00
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Rubber: Its Sources, Preparation and Cultivation - Harold Brown
Rubber:... Its Sources, Preparation and Cultivation... by... Harold Brown... Although this book was written based on experiences of rubber growing in West Africa, it was used as one of the main works of reference in Malaya at the time of publication. The book was designed so as to inform the...
Price: $69.00
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Synthetic Rubber and Malaya - Charles Gamba
Synthetic Rubber and Malaya... --... Charles Gamba... At the time this booklet was published, Malaya produced almost 50% of the world's rubber. However during the war the United States started developing a synthetic version of the product which was seen as a threat to the Malayan economy. Gamba visited the States...
Price: $39.00
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Three Malay Villages: Paddy Growers in West Malaysia - Hardcover
Three Malay Villages:... A Sociology of Paddy Growers in West Malaysia... Edited by... Masuo Kuchiba, Yoshihiro Tsubouchi... & Narifumi Maeda... This book is based on the field work of a group of Japanese sociologists and anthropologists, mainly between 1968 and 1972, in three villages in Kedah, Kelantan and Melaka. Three...
Price: $30.00
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Three Malay Villages: Paddy Growers in West Malaysia - Masuo Kuchiba & Others
Three Malay Villages:... A Sociology of Paddy Growers in West Malaysia... Edited by... Masuo Kuchiba, Yoshihiro Tsubouchi... & Narifumi Maeda... This book is based on the field work of a group of Japanese sociologists and anthropologists, mainly between 1968 and 1972, in three villages in Kedah, Kelantan and Melaka. Three...
Price: $20.00
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Twentieth-century Impressions of British Malaya - Arnold Wright (ed) (Reprint)
Please note the copies of this book are en route to The Penang Bookshelf from the publishers in the States. They're expected to arrive in early May. Until then we are taking forward orders of this popular book... Twentieth-century Impressions of British Malaya:... Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and...
Price: $89.00
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Twentieth-century Impressions of British Malaya - Arnold Wright (First edition)
Twentieth-century Impressions of British Malaya:... Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources... -... Arnold Wright (ed)... Wright was in the habit of doing PR for the British colonies. He tackled Malaya after his successful volumes on Western Australia, Natal and Ceylon. His role was mainly as editor while he left...
Price: $2,847.00
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