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Culture, Identity and Foodways of the Terengganu Chinese
The Chinese minority in Terengganu, Malaysia, are struggling to maintain their Sinic culture, identity and community in the face of socio-political changes and Islamisation since the early 1970s. They are also facing problems due to population attrition from an outflow of the younger generation to larger cities in Malaysia for jobs and further education. The acculturated Terengganu Peranakan Chinese, descendants of the earliest settlers who arrived at least two centuries ago, face additional inter-generational tensions and challenges. This book is based on extensive interviews and fieldwork and includes: an overview of the role of the Kuala Terengganu Chinese associations in promoting traditional Chinese culture and identity; a study of the Peranakan Chinese in Tirok, to further examine issues of identity maintenance and identity shift; and a comparison between the foodways of the Tirok Peranakan Chinese with a similar rural Peranakan community in the neighbouring state of Kelantan to demonstrate the community’s continual negotiation of Sino–Malay identity.
Metal-semiconductor hybrid nanoparticles: Halogen induced shape control, hybrid synthesis and electrical transport
Metal-semiconductor hybrid nanoparticles combine materials with different physical properties in one nanostructure. Charge separation processes and potentially increased conductivity in thin film devices make them promising candidates for advanced applications in photocatalysis or (opto) electronics. The work on hand deals with the preparation of CdSe nanoparticles that later act as seeds for the defined deposition of metals and with the electrical characterisation of monolayers of the resulting hybrid structures. In context with the shape control of the semiconductor component in a hot injection synthesis, the role of halogen compounds and the influence of their molecular structure are examined. Analytically as well as theoretically supported explanations for the formation of the evolving hexagonal pyramidal shape, which is especially favourable for metal deposition, are presented. The deposition of different metals onto the obtained semiconductor components is examined and unusual instabilities of an Au shell on CdSe hybrid nanoparticles are investigated. Furthermore, the impact of deposited Pt on the electrical transport of CdSe nanopyramids is demonstrated.
Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene
In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine. This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ecocultural lens, looking at the ways that Singaporean life and culture is deeply entangled with the nonhuman lives that flourish all around us. The authors represent a new generation of cultural critics and environmental thinkers, who will inherit the future we are creating today. From chilli crab to Tiger Beer, Changi Airport to Pulau Semakau, O-levels to orang minyak films, these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects, prompting us to recognise the incredible urgency of climate change and the need to transform our ways of thinking, acting, learning, living, and governing so as to maintain a stable planet and a decent future.
Gazeta Lwowska
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Mimpi Bintangku
Komik MIMPI BINTANGKU, mengisahkan Nazmi terpaksa membuat keputusan. Adakah untuk menurut hasrat hati orang tua, atau melukakan hati mereka demi mengejar impian sendiri? Bagi kebanyakan orang, semakin cemerlang keputusan akademik mereka dalam SPM, semakin mudah untuk mengejar mimpi masing-masing. Namun tidak bagi Nazmi. Kecemerlangannya dalam akademik membuatkan cita-cita Nazmi semakin sukar digapai dan dicapai. Dia ingin menyambung pelajaran dalam bidang seni bagi mengejar impian menjadi seorang pelukis komik, namun cita-citanya itu tidak mendapat restu ibu bapanya. Mereka mahu Nazmi menerima tajaan biasiswa National Heritage dan melanjutkan pelajaran ke United Kingdom dalam bidang kejuruteraan.
Hasan Tiro; Unfinished Story of Aceh
Kepergian Tiro sungguh merupakan kehilangan besar bagi Aceh. Paska – penjajahan Belanda, tidak banyak tokoh ‘segila’ beliau. Sekilas Hasan Tiro lebih revolusioner, karena berani mengancam Jakarta dengan kehendak merdeka (1976) di tengah kepemimpinan orde baru yang over militeristik dan eksis sampai 30 tahun. Ini yang mengakibatkan perjuangan Aceh di pimpinan Tiro sungguh mahal harganya. Selama itu Aceh telah berubah menjadi ‘Serambi Kekerasan’. Ribuan orang meregang nyawa. Karena itu, andai capaian damai (MoU Helsinki 2005) tidak diisi dengan upaya memperbaiki diri Aceh ke yang lebih baik, niscaya mereka yang menamakan diri pahlawan harus bertanggungjawab terhadap ribuan nyawa yang...
New Terrains in Southeast Asian History
Annotation Southeast Asian scholars may have special insights into their respective countries, but they are just as easily infected by political and didactic functions of their national histories as any historian. The editors (a professor and former professor with the School of Humanities, U. Sains Malaysia) present 15 papers in which Southeast Asian scholars turn a critical eye on their national historiographies. Five of the papers explore broad methodological issues, while others examine particular historiographic traditions from Burma (Myanmar), Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The final group consists of case studies of the application of new methodologies and understandings to particular historical events or periods. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Spirit of Missions
Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.
Szkarada z głębi
Powieść fantastyczno-przygodowa dla dzieci 9-13 lat . Dwaj bracia, Tomek 11 lat i Paweł 14 lat, wyjeżdżają na wakacje nad polskie morze. W czasie sztormu, zostają wyrzucone na brzeg żółte okulary. Tomek je znajduje i gdy zakłada na nos, w ich szkłach zaczynają pokazywać się dziwne obrazy. Między innymi widzi małą rybkę trzymającą w pyszczku złoty łańcuszek, na którym znajduje się złoty kluczyk. Tomek czuje, że rybka prosi go o pomoc. Okazuje się, ze bezpieczeństwo mieszkańców podwodnego świata zostało zagrożone. Powróciła Szkarada. Niesamowite i momentami niebezpieczne przygody, dziwne zjawiska, morskie potwory, a nawet prawdziwy smok. To wszystko sprawia, ze wyprawa chłopców przeradza się w prawdziwą walkę o przetrwanie dla podwodnego świata.
