Arisa kata, dia Puteri Duyung! Kata Izhar, Arisa Dayang Senandung! Hakikatnya, Arisa hanyalah anak nelayan yang tinggal di rumah setinggan. Dia punya cita-cita tinggi untuk mengubah kehidupan keluarga, namun demi adik-adik dia terpaksa melupakan niat untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke universiti. Baidura dan adiknya, Izhar telah menawarkan pekerjaan sebagai kopi 'lady' di pejabat mereka kepada Arisa dan membawa gadis itu tinggal bersama mereka. Sebagai anak kampung yang polos dan lurus, semuanya begitu asing buat Arisa. Banyak suka duka yang berlaku di dalam era baru kehidupannya. Akhirnya, kehadiran Arisa di dalam keluarga itu menjadi buah mulut saudara-mara. Demi menutup mulut tempayan yang sentiasa terbuka itu, Izhar telah bersetuju untuk mengahwini Arisa. Arisa pula bersetuju untuk berkahwin dengan Izhar kerana Izhar telah berjanji untuk membiayai pelajarannya ke menara gading. Walaupun bukan kerana orang ketiga, pasangan yang baru mengenal bahagia itu dilanda badai juga. Kapal mereka terumbang-ambing di lautan tanpa haluan. Mereka ingin mencari arah, tapi seakan tenggelam punca. Kini, mereka hanya mampu bertahan selagi terdaya. "Betul Iz nak kahwin dengan Icha? Dia tu bukan betul sangat, rempang-rempang bahasa. Wayar berselirat, tak putus saja lagi." - Muiz - "Wayar dia cuma berselirat, belum putus lagi. Bila dah kahwin nanti, saya akan susun balik wayar tu elok-elok dan takkan biarkan dia putus, Insya-ALLAH!" - Adib Izhar-

At the turn of the twentieth century, two young men from Palakkad, Puthu and Krishnan, meet aboard a ship bound for Malaya, and strike up an instant connection. Over the next two decades, they set up a restaurant in Singapore selling curry puffs and kopi, become successful, get married and start families. However, Krishnan harbours a dark secret that threatens to destroy the dreams he and Puthu have built together, a secret that only carelessness can reveal…

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old enemy and enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse still, Gavin has lost more than his powers as Prism -- he can't use magic at all. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will face a master of shadows as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and Karris, Kip will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of hidden assassins called The Broken Eye. Read the third book in Brent Weeks's blockbuster epic fantasy series that had Peter V. Brett saying, "Brent Weeks is so good, it's starting to tick me off!".

Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of Maya and her baby sister, Maya is ready to hate her. Aunty M smiles a lot, but says little. However, after Aunty M rescues a fellow maid living in the same building and beaten by her employer, Maya discovers a side of Singapore hitherto unknown to her. She and Aunty M grow closer as they meet more and more women in need. What will happen when Mama finds out about Maya and Aunty M s growing involvement with the aunties? Will Maya lose Aunty M too? After all, Mama did say she hates busybodies ... This poignant coming-of-age story, told in the voice of inquisitive Maya, explores the plight of migrant domestic workers in Singapore and the relationships they form with the families they work for.

This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.

This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a significant contribution to the emancipation of women's football in many countries. It also traces the evolution of women's football in face of resistance, rejection and prejudice and describes women footballer's struggle for equal rights in a male dominated football world.

Just before her twenty-seventh birthday, Jazzy hatches a plan. Before the year is out, she and her best girlfriends will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh - Western expat - husbands, with Chanel babies to follow. As Jazzy - razor-sharp and vulgar, yet vulnerable - fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs are revealed. Desperate to move up in Asia's financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlish - colourful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang - Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of a young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.

Consists of 20 chapters in 2 parts; pt. 1 contains chapters on Aegean prehistory and the East and pt. 2 contains chapters on classical Greece, Etruria, and Rome.