Walk through the 100 years of the Philippine presidency form Aguinaldo's four-phased administration to the economic turnaround of the Ramos tenure and the ascension by folk hero Estrada to the millennial presidency. A centennial book with a history flavor unlike before. Read, for the first time, the insights of authors into the lives of twelve men and a woman who defined the contours of the Phi…
Jakarta the booming capital of the world's fifth biggest country, one of Asia's fastest growing cities, fascinates all those who try to discover a bit of its colourful past, This age old meeting place of various peoples offers cultural values and interesting historical sites to those who take trouble to look for it. This book guides the reader into Jakarta's past, to Old Batavia, to ancient man…
Books and articles on the subject of the formation of Malaysia abound. Some dwell on the significance and interpretations of event which have taken place. In the memoir, Ghazali Shafie's decided to chronicle the way these matters should be narrated. He felt he owed future generatios an obligation to put national historical matters in the perspective.
This highly contoversial book reveals, for the first time, one of the greatest military, political and financial secrets of recent times. It is nothing less than the true, if fantastic, account of how Pakistan and the USA covertly controlled the largest guerrilla war of this century, dealing to the Soviet Russian presence in Afghanistan a military defeat that has come to be called 'Russia's Vie…
Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collaborators ask in Argument Without End, a book that will stand as a major contribution to what we know about the Vietnam War. Drawing on a series of meetings that brought together, for the first time ever, senior American and Vietnamese officials who had serv…
This book is a significant study of Indonesia's achievement of independence from the Netherlands immediately following World War II. It places the military and diplomatic struggle between the Indonesians and the Dutch within the international context of the period, so that the conflicting pressures on the two parties as they sought an acceptable, realistic, and workable agreement are made much …
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…
Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inac…
Do you know in Brunei we used to have a festival called 'Berjanawari'? Or that the Brunei word for great-great-great grandparents is the same as the action describing shaking your head? Or that Brunei's largest export used to be derived from mangrove trees? Or that 'Hua Hui' a gambling game was widely played in Brunei? Or the many facts that you have never known about Brunei? This is the second…
The Roaring Nineties is in part the story of how the corrupt and greedy got their comeuppance. But Stiglitz also develops a convincing alternative to the free-market mantra. He shows why greed is not good - for companies, individuals, or societies - and how if left unchecked it leads to deceptions, distortions and disasters. He argues that achieving the right balance between government and the …