In Liberal Doses

 

In Liberal Doses

by Marina Mahathir

ISBN: 983-99507-8-9

Format: Paperback, 200 pages

Publication: Star Publications & Archipelago Press, 1997

Condition: Good

Lelong Price: RM8.00

Marina's "Musings" columns for The Star newspaper -- compassionate, outspoken, liberated, and unabashedly liberal are a talking point in Malaysia's capital and throughout the country. They began as a regular personal commentary on Marina's everyday life as a mother, hut as time went on the range expanded. Her writing came to touch on, and often debate, vital issues of national and global importance and are eagerly read by a huge public. This book collects the best of the columns since 1991, and Marina herself introduces the pieces, putting them into perspective -- a perspective quite different than what is typically reported in the Western media.

East to the Dawn

 

East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart

by Susan Butler

ISBN: 978-0-306-81837-0

Format: Paperback, 489 pages

Publication: Da Capo Press, 1999

Condition: Fair with little tear on back cover

Lelong Price: RM10.00

Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to flynacross the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought her extraordinary life to an abrupt and mysterious end.

Based on a decade of archival research through Earhart's letters, journals, and diaries, and drawing on interviews with the aviator's friends and relatives, East to the Dawn provides the most authoritative and richly textured account of both Earhart's record-setting aviation career and her personal life: her early years with her grandparents, her experiences as a nurse and social worker, her famous marriage to publisher George Putnam, and her secret affair with Gene Vidal, head of the Bureau of Air Commerce.