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Malaysian Adolescents: Cognition and Understanding Sociological Issues:
Psychosocial Conceptualizing the Diversities
Editors: Lihanna Borhan, Fatimah Hashim & Juliana Othman Editor: A.H.M Zehadul Karim
ISBN 978-967-418-295-3 ISBN 978-967-418-123-9
Pages : 129 Pages : 236
Price : RM 57.00 Price : RM 60.00
Year : 2014 Year : 2014

The changing world also means the Understanding Sociological Issues:
changing of adolescent experiences. Conceptualizing the Diversities
Adolescents today face different is an attempt to incorporate a
challenges and struggles than number of existing societal issues
adolescents a few decades back. which seem to be sociologically
Hence, those adults working with significant and empirically relevant.
contemporary adolescents need to The topics chosen for this book thus
constantly update their knowledge contain some prolific discussion in
adn to be aware of the issues facing adolescents today. the contemporary sociological discourse. Prudentially,
The external issues may be easily gleaned by scanning the mode is a new venture to make the discipline useful
the media, but to be informed of the internal psychosocial to researches focusing on a few contemporary thematic
world of the adolescents, we need to go to the source - the issues based on diversities; this book serves to disentangle
adolescents themselves. This book provides exactly that - strands of thinking in an integral manifestation. The book
a look inside the thought and the psychological processes begins with a critical thinking of theoretical sociology
of Malaysian adolescents. gathering experts from various as it has been revealed in the Islamic perspective which
fields, this book presents data from a nationwide study is followed by another more or less sequential paper on
involving more than 4000 adolescents. The presentation is poverty and resource inequality that prevail among the
done in such a way as to make the information available Muslim nations. Gender issues have also been dealt
to anyone interested in any of the issues presented while with significant importance by including two papers in
not compromising on the integrity of the data. The rich this volume. An important and significantly inquisitive
empirical data presented in this book will be valuable to chapter on menopausal symptoms highlights the preferred
those seeking to find empirical evidence to back their work menopausal treatment techniques among the urban Malay
with contemporary adolescents. women from a medical and anthropological perspective. A
chpter on the reemergence of plantation-agriculture gives
clear indication that although plantation agriculture has
An Introduction to Malay Manuscript been reemerging to make some sort of transformation in
Wan Ali Wan Mamat the agrarian sector, in reality, it does not help the poor as
expected. The book also contains papers on social network,
ISBN 978-967-418-315-8 urban issues, social media and statutory rape as well as the
Pages : 158 work performances and socio-cultural adaptability of the
Price : RM 50.00 Bangladeshi migrant workers. This book has brought a new
Year : 2014 diversion in the field of sociological research. Students and
researchers in Sociology will undoubtedly find it useful for
Malay manuscripts are often said their future academic perseverance.
as records of intellectual and
cultural development and writing
practices of Malay people. It is ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING &
the product of transmission and QUANTITY SURVEYS
achievement of Malay civilization
over generations. In the past,
studies on Malay manuscripts have Malaysian Parks and Landscape Design
been concentrated very much on contents or intellectual Nurhayati Abdul Malek
perspectives in a manuscript but very little on physical,
cultural or writing tradition of manuscripts. A study on the ISBN 978-967-418-416-2
contents of a Malay manuscript would be more informative Pages : 126
if some information on writing and book making practices Price : RM75.00
of the manuscripts concerned are explained. This book Year : 2016
focuses on physical or cultural perspectives in Malay
writing tradition and book making like writing material used, Malaysian Parks and
preparation of paper surface for writing and its general look, Landscape Design is a
Malay handwriting and its development, the Jawi script, book discussing on topics
author and authorship etc. I hope this book will generate regarding the parks and
more interest to Malay manuscripts and Malay writing landscape design focusing on Malaysia with some review
traditions. from other countries such as Indonesia, China, Thailand
and India. It is a compilation of landscape parks and design
that are currently available in Malaysia with brief history

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