General Books

(2024-09-12) , Thweep Rittinaphakorn , Narisara Chakornbongse , Narisara Chakornbongse

This book, Unseen Burma - Early photography 1862-1962, is my tribute to this wonderful country and her people. Old photographs spanning one hundred years provide proof of its past glories. In this digital age, countless photos are taken daily, yet hoe many will be treasured in the next century. Faces of people who are long gone, traditions and lifestyles that are forgotten in the modern world, and landscapes that are now altered, these photographs are a treasure trove that I would like to share.

(2024-07-11) , ศุภชัย วงศ์นพดลเดชา, Louis Sketcher

เพราะตึกแถวมีเรื่องราว... มันบรรจุประวัติศาสตร์ผ่านองค์ประกอบทางสถาปัตยกรรมผ่านร่องรอยคราบเก่า และยังมีหลากหลายเรื่องเล่า ผ่านวิถีชีวิตของชาวย่านนั้นๆ หนังสือ Bangkok Shophouses จะชวนคุณมาร่วมสังเกต และทำความรู้จักกับเรื่องราวเหล่านี้ผ่านภาพวาดจากดินสอ, ปากกา, และสีน้ำ ของตึกแถวในแต่ละย่านของเมืองเก่ากรุงเทพฯ เพื่อให้คุณได้ดื่มด่ำกับเมืองแห่งนี้ในอีกมุมมองหนึ่ง และอาจจะเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้คุณ ได้ออกเดินทางตามรอยตึกแถวที่อยู่ในหนังสือเล่มนี้หรือมองหาตึกโปรดในมุมมองของคุณเองก็เป็นได้

(2024-07-12) , Rosie Hewitson , Joel Holland (Illustration)

Tje first time i visit London, from my home in New York City, was in 2006; I was there to prep for exhibition of my drawings in Clerlenwell. I stayed ad the posh ZetterHotel for afew days and walked for miles (and kilometers) by myself, and with my friends Dan and Helen, checking out the city. I remember going to the Fryer's Delight, Ineternational Magic, the Columbia Road Flower Market, The old Curiosity Shop, walking through Holland Park, and more. I loved it all: the food, the shoes, the energy of the history, and the people from all around the world.

(2024-05-18) , Timothy P.Barnard

The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities but also animals. What was the relationship between these two processes in colonial Singapore? How did various interactions with animals enable changes in interactions between people, and the expression of power in human terms? The imposition of imperial power relationships was a process that was often complex and messy, and it led to the creation of new communities throughout the world, including the colonial port city of Singapore. Through a multidisciplinary consideration of fauna, this book weaves together a series of tales to document how animals were cherished, slaughtered, monitored and employed in a colonial society, to provide insight into how imperial rule was imposed on an island in Southeast Asia. Fauna and their histories of interacting with humans, thus, become useful tools for understanding our past, revealing the effects of establishing a colony on the biodiversity of a region, and the institutions that quickly transformed it. All animals, including humans, have been creatures of imperialism in Singapore. Their stories teach us lessons about the structures that upheld such a society and how it developed over time.

(2024-07-12) , Stuart Husband , Horst A. Friedrichs , Horst A. Friedrichs, photographer , Nora Krug, writer of foreword

"Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photographer Horst A. Friedrichs opens the door to the world of bricks-and-mortar bookstores, showcasing their variety, quirkiness, and vitality with lavish photography. It celebrates the passion and commitment of the owners with interviews and anecdotes. Explore William Stout Books, a specialty store for architecture and art books in San Francisco, and Baldwin's Book Barn in Pennsylvania, a 5-story bookstore housed in a dairy barn open since the mid-1940s. Discover Gay's the Word, the UK's first and only dedicated LGBTQI bookshop and Livraria Lello, whose Art Deco interior is a temple to reading in the middle of Porto, Portugal. Some of the featured bookstores specialize in a certain genre, some are massive with vaulted ceilings, some are tiny and filled to the brim with books, some are in historic buildings that evoke a different time and place, and some are brand new, hightech, architect-designed spaces. What all the bookstores have in common is that they are all dedicated to spreading the written word to their communities." -- Amazon.com.

(2024-05-18) , Timothy P.Barnard

Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the “greening” of the nation-state, and became Singapore’s first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature’s colony—a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.