Our main store in Ubud is bursting at the seams with lots of new and interesting books on Bali and Indonesia. We have expanded our Children's books to include many new bilingual (Indonesian/English) books and we have also expanded the Indonesian Studies books particularly in the areas of Indonesian History, Indonesian Politics and Indonesian Literature. Not all of our books are listed here on the website but you can always email us to ask for specific titles.

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We are very happy to have an outlet in this beautiful Tea Room/Restaurant. Biku is a very different type of restaurant. It is a wonderful 150 year old Joglo that has been refurbished and fitted out with antiques and large leather reading lounges. It is the perfect place to rest, read, eat and drink. We have a fine selection of new, used, out-of-print, antiquarian and rare books on Indonesia. Also, a range of handmade cards and gifts, daily newspaper and magazines from around the world We welcome Book Club meetings, Book Launches and Discussion Groups. Contact us on info@ganeshabooksbali.com Please come in and meet the staff, peruse the bookshelves and enjoy the atmosphere. Click here for a map of Ganesha in Biku Kerobokan

We have just opened a new bookstore on the main street of Sanur. It houses our full range of new and used books as well as a small selection of Rare and Out - of -Print books on Bali and Indonesia. This store also houses a very special Children's Corner with lots of colourful cushions and a table or two for children to relax and read all the books on our shelves. This store is in the heart of Sanur and we have parking available out the front. Click here for a map of Ganesha in Sanur Do your guests like to read? Ganesha Bookshop is offering this new service to Hotels in Bali. If you are interested in having an In-House library within your hotel in Bali, please contact us so we can select for you an excellent range of books on Indonesian Art, Literature, Architecture, Culture, Cooking, Music, History, Language, Children’s Books, Travel and Religion. Click here to send us an email. Ketut Yuliarsa, owner of Ganesha Bookshop, Balinese Poet and observer of contemporary Balinese Society is available to entertain and inform your guests with 3 fascinating seminars. These seminars are of approximately 1 hour duration each and can be given during a Breakfast sitting, Morning or High Tea, or at an arranged time and place. Perhaps even in a garden setting within your Hotel grounds. US$10 per person. Minimum 6 people in a group. here to send us an email. This seminar will explore the source of Balinese religion and tradition: What is Balinese Hinduism and how did it develop on Bali? How is it that Bali is a Hindu island surrounded by predominantly Islamic islands? This seminar will also look at the formation of Balinese Cultural Identity through its tradition, arts and adat (customary law). How does Bali move from a traditional agrarian community into a modern global economy? How do global changes and the implementation of modern ideas and technology, affect everyday life in the Balinese community? In this seminar we will explore the adaptability of the Balinese today. How was Bali created as a Paradise Island? How did the demand for Paradise create a community that can adapt its cultural heritage to service the global Tourist industry? We will explore the ability of the Balinese to produce and reproduce every kind of handicraft as well as reproducing popular spiritualism. THE RAINBOW TROOPS by Andrea Hirata Price: US$30.00 The Rainbow Troops, by Andrea Hirata, shattered all Indonesian book sale records, making him the best selling author in Indonesia to date. Set on Belitong Island this is the story of a tight-knit group of students and their teachers fighting for education and dignity, even as they face continual hardship. Fabulously rich in natural resources, Belitong is also home to chronic poverty and educational discrimination. This amazing story tells of a persistent young teacher and her tireless efforts to fight for her ten students' right to an education. For more details click here GO TO SLEEP, GECKO! TIDURLAH, TOKEK! (Bilingual: Bahasa Indonesia and English) A Balinese Folktale by Margaret Read MacDonald Price: US$8.00 We have all had nights when we could not get to sleep. We try counting sheep, drinking warm milk, or having a hot toddy. All Gecko wants is to go to sleep, if only the chief would make everyone pipe down! In this story we learn, as does Gecko, that there are some things you just have to put up with. Hard Cover book with beautiful illustrations. For more details click here LE MAYEUR DE MERPRES - Painter, Traveller by J. Ubbens and C. Huizing Text in both English and Dutch Price: US$230.00 A stunning book of the Belgian impressionist painter, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958), Jean Le Mayeur, as he was known, arrived in Bali in 1932 where he met and married his muse and wife, Ni Nyoman Pollok. He remained in Bali for the rest of his life. The Japanese occupation of Indonesia during World War 11 resulted in Le Mayeur being placed under house arrest. He continued to paint using rice sack for canvas. Tourism played a vital role in the international circulation of his work as travellers eagerly bought his art. The artist's house is now a museum in Sanur in its original condition, with over 80 works exhibited. For more details click here SERIES OF STORY BOOKS IN BOTH INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH by Suroso & Suhartanto Price: US$4.50 per book 1. The Flood in Toba Land/Banjir di Tanah Toba 2. The Story of Giant Kebo Iwo/Kisah Raksasa Kebo Iwo 3. The Owl Yearning for the Moon/Burung Pungguk Merindukan Bulan 4. The Wanderer and His Magic Pipe/Pengelana dan Seruling Ajaibnya 5. Jaka and The Magic Bean Tree/Jaka dan Pohon Kacang Ajaib 6. The Singing of the Crust Boat/Tenggelamnya Perahu Kerak 7. The Beauty and the Bad-Looking Price/Si Catik dan Paneran Buruk Rupa 8. Jadrin in the Mouse Island/Jadrin di Pulau Tikus 9. The Plan of a Wicked Wolf/Siasat Sergala Jahat 10. A Princess Became a Paddy/Putri Raja Menjadi Padi For more details click here LEARN BALINESE DVD by www.BASAbali.org Price: US$25.00 24 Conversational videos, punctuated with language exercises, grammatical explanations and electronic flashcards. Cultural notes serve as a resource to anthropological, historical and current topics about Bali and a series of modules teach the endangered Balinese script. For more details click here SARONG INSPIRATIONS by Will Meyrick Price: US$45.00 Sarong Inspirations charts Will Meyrick's journey in Asia over 15 years of working and travelling - from his very early days of discovery in Thailand through to motorcycle dashes across Laos and stints of life in Khmer villages and Indian homestays to learn the secrets handed down from generation to generation. This book has over 100 recipes from the kitchen of the famed "Sarong" restaurant in Bali and features some of the signature dishes that have made Sarong such a favourite amongst all the "foodies" of Indonesia. For more details click here THE RAPE OF SUKRENI by A. A. Panji Tisna (translator George Quinn) Price: US$18.00 Written in the 1930's by A. A. Panji Tisna, a prince of the Balinese state of Buleleng, this novel draws on the melodramatic conventions of Balinese theater to present a powerful indictment of the commercialization of Balinese society. While on one level the novel appears to be concerned with the Balinese-Hindu notion of karma, its main thematic thrust is in fact the impact of modern commerce on Balinese society. Even more telling today that it was when it was written, The Rape of Sukreni offers a unique and dark insider's view of the island's future that violently challenges the conventional image of Bali as a honeyed paradise filled with artists and happy tourists. For more details click here THE ROSE OF CIKEMBANG by Kwee Tek Hoay (Translator George A. Fowler) Price: US$18.00 The Rose of Cikembang is an excellent example of "peranakan" literature of the Netherlands East Indies that flourished between 1900 and the Japanese Occupation beginning in 1942. Highly sentimental in tone, the novel is rich in many of the controversial themes that Kwee was famous for: interracial love and the lives of its offspring, fate and karma, and mysticism and reincarnation. This novel was also made into a movie. For more details click here JAVANESE GENTRY by Umar Kayam (Translator Vladislav Zhukov) Price: US$30.00 Javanese Gentry depicts the implicit concerns of a variety of characters for whom the attainment of that higher status is for most a dream. When Sastrodarsono returns to his village as a schoolteacher, he becomes by virtue of that position a member of the gentry class, awesomely elevated above the peasantry of his origins. From those most traditional of Javanese institutions he moves on with his bride to find his place in a line of modernizing generations active across the whole span of reent Indonesian history: the late-colonial period, Japanese occupation, war of independence and two decades of social disorder ending in the mid-1960's with the rise of Suharto's New Order government. For more details click here THE SAGA OF SITI MARIAH by Haji Mukti (Translator Catherine Manning Muir) Price: US$25.00 The Saga of Siti Mariah is a window into the workings of Cultuurstelsel, the forced cultivation system imposed by the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1830 until 1870. Embedded in this book's pages are the lives of Dutch sugar barons, indigenous elite, European officials, and Chinese middlemen who were enriched under the system, intersected by lives of Javanese peansants who suffered under its yoke and Javanese women who were bedded by the Dutch masters and administrators, fit only to be concubines, never wives. For more details click here DROUGHT by Iwan Simatupang (Translator Harry Aveling) Price: US$18.00 Drought is a joyous celebration of life and human commitment. Its hero is an ex-student, ex-soldier and ex-bandit, who decides to trransmigrate to one of the outer islands of Indonesia in order to start life again as a farmer. He almost fails, but in so doing he is involved with a wonderful range of inspired madmen - bureaucrats, bandits, psychiatrists, religious teachers, and the beautiful woman known simply as the V.I.P. The outsiders humorously combine to question the normality of conventional society. This novel has been hailed as the first really modern Indonesian novel, and the beginning of a completely new path in Indonesian writing. For more details click here RAFFLES AND THE BRITISH INVASION OF JAVA by Tim Hannigan Price: US$16.95 On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this entertaining and highly readable narrative explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles - long celebrated as a hero, a liberal and a vsionary - in a shocking new light, showing how he crushed dissent, looted palaces and incited massacres to further his own insatiable ambitions. This is remarkable book. For more details click here SPICE ISLANDS by Ian Burnet Price: US$39.95 Cloves and Nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia and this book tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the hsitory of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years. It follows the Silk Road across Central Asia and the Spice Route over the Indian Ocean and describes how the spice trade into Europe came to be dominated by Middle Eastern and Venetian merchants. Much of the story is told through the lives of historical characters such as Columbus and Magellan as well as Sir Francis Drake, Jan Pieterzoom Coen and other lesser known but equally important characters. The story revolves around the intense rivalry between the Sultans of Ternate and Tidore and their relationship with the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, who at different times occupied the Spice Islands. For more details click here BALI: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to the World's Most Spectacular Tropical Island Price: US$24.95 This updated and revised edition of the bestselling Bali guide gives the latest information on what to do and see on this famous tropical island. Lively articles by experts present every aspect of the island's history and culture, along with detailed descriptions of all the sights, with maps and photos included. An informative section at the end of the book gives important travel and etiquette tips, transportation notes, a language primer, a list of further readings, and a glossary. For more details click here FROMMER'S BALI DAY BY DAY Price: US$12.99 This guide book has 18 self-guided tours and 44 maps. A travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything in the smartest, most time-efficient way. There are thematic tours for every interest, hundreds of evocative photos and bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place. Also a guide to hotels, restaurants, shopping and nightlife for all budgets. For more details click here WALTER SPIES a life in art by John Stowell Price: US$150.00 A painter, musician, photographer, choreographer, architect.....When he died more than 70 years ago, the artist Walter Spies was known to only a few close friends. Now he is prized as one of the finest painters of the tropical landscape. His life and deeds in Bali gradually took on mythical proportions. This is a fully-documented biography in an 80,000 word text. It places the works and related documents in chronological order and supplies a catalogue of all the known works, including mention of those that have been lost. Spies was the co-founder with Rudolf Bonnet of the Pita Maha organisation of artists in Ubud . He had a close relationship with the King of Ubud, Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati and together they fostered the art of Bali, especially in the Ubud area. For more details click here NYOMAN MASRIADI: Reconfiguring the Body by T. K. Sabapathy Price: US$140.00 Nyoman Masriadi is currently Southeast Asia's most well-received and most highly collected contemporary artist. This publication includes an extensive review of his works, his life and inspirations - through the words of art critics, T.K. Sabapathy and Goenawan Mohamed. The visual imagery and narratives in his paintings are derived from observation of social life. Reactive against formalism, his early works show him sparring with Western modernism in the guise of cubism but meshing it with caricature, the cutting street language Indonesians use. Goenawan Mohamad uncovers the local complexities and richness of contemporary Indonesian society and experience. For more details click here EARTH DANCE by Oka Rusmini Translated by Rani Amboyo and Thomas M. Hunter Price: US$18.00 Earth Dance is the story of four generations of Balinese women and centres on the conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires. It is narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga, a Balinese woman in her thirties and the novel shows Balinese women, as depicted by her mother, grandmother and female peers, to be motivated by two factors: the yearning to be beautiful and the desire for a high-caste husband. Earth Dance reveals that both high-caste status and beauty has a price. Behind both lie jealousy, derision and intrigue. This is an exceptional novel by a modern Balinese female writer. Anyone interested in Balinese society today and a Balinese woman's role in it, should read this novel. For more details click here AND THE WAR IS OVER by Ismail Marahimin Translated by John. H. McGlynn Price: US$18.00 The final days of World War 11 serve as the backdrop for this novel by Ismail Marahimin. Fighting has not reached the small Sumatran village of Taratakbuluh, but the quiet, traditional-bound way of life in this remote outpost on the jungles edge has nonetheless been transformed, for the Japanese have chosen it as the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Dutch internees. The novel centres on a plot by some of the Dutch prisoners to escape into the jungle but the drama of this planned escape yields to the even more dramatic tension of the human relationships that punctuate the novel. For more details click here THE PAINTER OF LOST SOULS by Michael Vatikiotis Price: US$18.00 A fast-paced, intensely emotional drama of Indonesian life high and low, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the reformasi era, after the fall of Suharto in 1999. The Painter of Lost Souls is the story of Sito, a brilliantly gifted artist who leaves his home in a poor village in Central Java while still in his teens to make his name and his fortune in the royal city of Jogjakarta. Vatikiotis tells a suspenseful tale that weaves together a fascinating inside view of the art boom in Indonesia. For more details click here BALI BY DESIGN 25 Contemporary Houses by Kim Inglis Price: US$34.95 Bali by Design features 25 stunning contemorary homes and showcases the ideas of a new generation of talented international and Indoneisan desiigners. Each of these extraordinary houses presents new solutions for age-old challenges - illustrating how stylish modern lifestyles may be achieved through clever architecture and interior design. For more details click here TUTTLE CONCISE BALINESE DICTIONARY Balinese-Indonesian-English and English-Balinese-Indonesian by I Gusti Made Sutjaja Price: US$19.95 Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest is the first comprehensive works of its kinds and size. It promotes a "contextual" approach, combining not just botanical and technical, but also economic, social and ritual elements. In short the book focuses on how the peoples of Borneo rely on the plaited arts in their daily lives. There are 21 contributors who are experts on the subject. The work relies on firsthand experience in the field and is organized into 12 parts that discuss the ethnobotanical and technical aspects of basketry in Borneo. For more details click here INVENTING ART: THE PAINTINGS OF BATUAN BALI by Bruce Granquist Price: US$65.00 This is an extra-ordinary book - lavishly illustrated with 327 full colour reproductions, maps and diagrams. This book aims to make accessible the extraordinary paintings of the Batuan style. It does this by explaining some of the cultural codes that the paintings contain, as well as narratives that link them to the rich Balinese traditions. The book concentrates on the Batuan elements of line, shape and tone and through these elements communicates the meanings beyond Batuan's cultural life. A heavy tome, filled with beautiful reproductions and illustrations For more details click here BALINESE ART: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF BALI 1800-2010 by Adrian Vickers Price: US$49.95 Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese Painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene. Balinese art has been popular and widely collected around the world for many decades. Starting with a discussion of the island's aesthetic traditions and how Balinese art whould be viewed and understood, this book goes on to present pre-colonial painting traditions, some of which are still practicedin the village of Kamasan - the home of "classical" Balinese art. However, the main focus is the development of new styles starting in the 1930's and how these gradually evolved in response to the tourist industry that has come to dominate the island. For more details click here PETUALANGAN ANAK INDONESIA (in Indonesian) by Nicholas Mark Illustrations by Bambang Shakuntala Price: US$5.00 Petualangan Anak Indonesia is also known as "The Indoventurers" and it draws heavily from local traditions. This book was written by an Australian student for the Indonesian readers. Nicholas was inspired to write these stories after studying Bahasa Indonesian at Sydney University. He recalled his first visit to Indonesia when he was a small child and he remembered with great fondness the Ubud Monkey Forest. Years later, at university, he was inspired to write a story about the Ubud Monkey Forest and we follow the adventure of Wayan, a boy who dreams of entering the monkey forest but is continually forbidden by his parents because of its danerous reputation. Then we follow Mutia and the cruel witch of Minankabau and then the third story, Nanda and Dani and their mission to save Yogyakarta from dangerous volcanic eruptions. This book is a "Ganesha Bookshop" favourite! For more details click here FIRST ENGLISH WORDS Bilingual Edition English-Indonesian with CD Editor: Bernard Sellato Price: US$12.00 Packed with fun and useful everyday vocabulary with 36 thematic spreads each fully illustrated with fun and engaging scenarios. For more details click here THE TALE OF THE FIRST WHITE ELEPHANT IN BALI by Nigel Mason Price: English Version: US$15.50 / Indonesian Version: US$12.50 Like all classic fairy tales, this children's book deals with essential emotions such as love, fear, danger and compassion. It also deals with a wealth of cultural information about the spiritual and ritual life of the Balinese. A mixture of fact and fiction, the story is told with great humour. From the start The Tale of the First White Elephant in Bali captures your imagination and is difficult to put down until you reach the final chapter - a miraculous happy ending with the help of Ganesha, the Hindu god os wisdom and a rooster with a splendidly colourful tail. It is beautifully illustrated by David Barrett. For more details click here THE JUNGLE SCHOOL by Butet Manurung Price: US$16.50 The Orang Rimba (People of the Forest) are nomadic tribes who live in the rainforests of Sumatra. Slowly the outside world is catching up with these people. Butet Manurung shares here the journal she kept during her first year in the jungle as an anthropologist through to her development as an educator and activist. She tells of her adventures with stinging bees and prowling bears, with biting ants and motorbikes but it is her relationship with the Orang Rimba that traansforms her from an outsider to a trusted teacher within this fragile community. Butet is determined now to bring literacy to these indigenous people to better equip them to face the onslaught of the outside world. It is a very touching and inspiring tale. For more details click here BOROBUDUR AND OTHER POEMS by Jennifer Mackenzie Price: US$10.00 At the time of the construction of Borobudur in the ninth century, Buddhism and been established in Java for several centuries. Jennifer Mackenzie's Borobodur, an exquisity long poem, tells the story of its legendary architect, Gunavarman, and of Indonesia's mystical monument with cultural understanding, sensitivity and great feeling. Like Gunavarman, by the poem's end, Mackenzie becomes a "dot on the horizon" leaving us stilled in silence. For more details click here THE COURT OF SURAKARTA by John Miksic Price: US$19.50 This is a richly illustrated book with an easy to read history of the Kraton of Surakarta in Central Java In the early 20th century, Indonesian was divided into 350 greater and lesser kingdoms. The court of Surakarta Hadiningrat, formed in the 1740's can trace its origins to kingdoms of the 8th century. In 1945 the ancient kingdoms were superseded by the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia. Today, the court of Surakarta continues to strive to find new ways to achieve harmony between change and tradition which Javanese philosophy has always emphasized as one of its main goals. For more details click here MAJAPAHIT TERRACOTTA: The Soedarmadji Jean Henry Damais Collection by J. H. Damais Soedarmadji Price: US$19.95 The Majapahit Empries (13 - 16th Century) was based in the contemporary regency of mojokerta, East Java, Indonesia. Majapahit reached its peak during the reign of Rajasanagara, popularly known as Hayam Wuruk (1350-1389). Some of the brick structures of the ancient city, including gateways, temples and pools, can be still be seen today around the village of Trowulan in Mojokerto, reflecting the architecture that once defined the place. Besides stone statues and inscriptions, this mighty kingdom also left testimonies of everyday life in the form of terracotta artifacts. This book is a guide for collectors of Majapahit terracotta, to enable them to better distinguish authentic pieces from fakes or replicas. It will provice readers with insight into the exciting variety of this little known art form. For more details click here REPUBLIC OF FUN by Butet Kartaredjasa, translated by Jennifer Lindsay Price: US$13.00 A selection of Indonesian actor Butet Kartaredjasa's humorous column published in the newspaper Suara Merdeka from 2007-2009, written in the voice of his alter ego, Mr Blurt. Translated by Jennifer Lindsay. For more details click here SHARP TIMES by Goenawan Mohamad, translated by Jennifer Lindsay Price: US$19.00 A collection of critical and philosophical essays written between 2002-2011 by Goenawan Mohamad, from his weekly column in Tempomagazine. This is the third published collection of his essays in English translation by Jennifer Lindsay. For more details click here THE GLORY OF BATIK The Danar Hadi Collection by Judi Achjadi Price: US$39.95 The Glory of Batik explores the fabulous collection of Javanese batik brought together over the course of forty years by H. Santosa Doellah. The Danar Hadi Collection amounts to some 10,000 pieces spanning a century and a half, from the mid 19th century to the present day. Possibly the largest single privately owned accumulation of Javanese batik in the world, The Glory of Batik inspires a deep appreciation of this ancient art. For more details click here INDONESIAN SLANG Colloquial Indonesian at Work by Christopher Torchia and Lely Djuhari Price: US$14.95 Indonesian Slang is an informal compendium of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms. Designed to be both educational and easy to read, the chapters hit on various linguistic themes, among them characters, animals, food, slang, family affairs and politics. Entries include the expression in Bahasa Indonesia, a translation, an equivalent expression in English, and an explanation if necessary. A handy book for the casual traveler to Indonesia. For more details click here INDONESIAN COOKING, Satays, Sambals and more by Dina Yuen Price: US$16.95 Indonesian Cooking is Chef Dina Yuen's culinary exploration of the world's largest and most diverse archipelago the fabled Spice Islands of Indonesia. This is a vibrant, multi-layered nation with a fabulous and largely unexplored cuisine and her easy-to-follow recipes now make them accessible to everyone. The dishes in Indonesian Cooking range from the familiar Chicken and Beef Satays, Lumpia Spring Rolls, Fresh Steamed Vegetables with Peanut Dressing (Gado-Gado) and Nasi Goreng (Traditional Indonesian Fried Rice) to more exotic dishes like Spicy Lemongrass Beef, Burned Sugar Pork, Grilled Swordfish with Fragrant Yellow Rice, and Tamarind Roasted Prawns. These flavorful recipes are easy to make with ingredients readily found in any well-stocked supermarket. Bring the tastes of Indonesia home with the help of Indonesian Cooking! For more details click here ETHNIC JEWELLERY FROM INDONESIA Continuity and Evolution Text by Bruce. W. Carpenter Photographs by Philippe Heurtault Price: US$90.00 Illustrated with nearly 600 photographs of rare jewellery amassed over 30 years by collector Manfred Gehmann, this book explores the depth and breadth of an ancient and magnificent tradition of the Indonesian people. The Jewellery represented in this book is from Indonesia's outer islands including Sumatra, Borneoi, Sulawesi, Sumba and Maluku. The history of the jewellery is told from the perspective of the materials used,including gold, silver, brass, ivory, shell and animal teeth. A definitive book on the magnificent jewellery of this archipelago. For more details click here GOLD JEWELLERY OF THE INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO Text by Anne Richter and Bruce W. Carpenter Photography by Jorg Sundermann Price: US$110.00 Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago features ore than 700 unpublished masterpieces from the tribal, ethnic and courtly gold body ornament traditions of Indonesia's outer islands - Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas and Southeast Maluku. These pieces date from the 4th to the 20th century and many are extremely rare and of high quality. This latest research has been woven together to produce a groundbreaking new book that thrusts the virtuoso gold work of Indonesia into the international spotlight. For more details click here TWILIGHT IN DJAKARTA by Mochtar Lubis Price: US$15.00 A classic book of Indonesia by one of Indonesia's most famous writers. Mochtar Lubis, in this vivid dissection of social and political life in Jakarta at the beginning of the 1960's, reveals the dark currents of poverty, corruption and vice which course beneath the surface of one of the great cities of the Third World. Suryono, a young Western-educated government official, the author depicts the complex web of threads which enmesh both individual and society in a newly developing nation, with compassion as well as insight. For more details click here BALI: A PARADISE CREATED by Adrian Vickers Price: US$16.95 Bali: A Paradise Created bridges the gap between scholarly works and the more popular travel accounts readily available today. It offers an accessible history of this fascinating island and an anthropological study not only of the Balinese, but of the paradise-seekers from all parts of the world who have invaded Bali in ever-increasing numbers over the decades. This authoritative, much-cited work is now updated with new photos and illustrations, a new introduction, and new text covering the part twenty years. For more details click here THE MONSTER THAT ATE UBUD A Path to Enlightenment for the Serious Dim Bulb By Mr. Newmi, A.G. Newman & David Trevelyan Price: US$15.00 Chuck Fung and Swami Shoeman are as different as night and day, but when the meet in Ubud, Bali, they become inseparable opposites, thus unwittingly embodying Balinese cosmology. Attempting to make a buck off the ever-burgeoning crowd of spiritual seekers to this paradise island, they pool their talents and enlist the help of a Balinese shaman. The shaman spins a cryptic yarn that convinces the hapless chumps that they have extraordinary powers of creative visualization. The Fung Shoe brothers write a book about the wellspring of abundance they have discovered through their meeting with the sharman. A very tongue-in-cheek look at Ubud and the aftermath of Eat Pray Love. For more details click here BALI ADDICTION/BALI KETAGIHAN by Tina Ross Price: US$22.00 Bali Ketagihan is a collection of memoirs, advice, experiences, discoveries and culture collated together over two and half decades of travelling to Bali. An unexpected relationship and marriage to a "Bali Boy" provided a greater insight to the local life. First time travellers and regulars to the island may find some interesting perceptions in this collection. For more details click here 50 INDONESIAN ARCHITECTS EMERGINGS by Imelda Akmal Price: US$45.00 This new book by Imelda Amal comprises 50 profiles of well-known Indonesian architectural firms and 13 new architectural firms (the "emergings"), who are considered influential on Indonesian architecture today. The works in this book are definitely a feast for the eyes. Stunning pictures of modern buildings and contemporary designs presented on a simple white layout. There are details on each photo that explain building names and locations and also their achievements on architecture design contests. For more details click here NEW REGIONALISM IN BALI ARCHITECTURE by Popo Danes Price: US$45.00 Popo Danes is recognised as one of the leading Architects in Bali today. His work is a blend of art and spiritual architecture with a sensitivity that is hard to surpass. This book is packed with architecture that will raise your spirit. Popo's traditionalism is not forgotten here, but enhances his new Architecture to new heights. For more details click here BALI HOME Inspirational Design Ideas by Kim Inglis Price: US$25.00 Bali is an island paradise that inspires countless dreams of tropical beaches, exotic people and gorgeous views. More than just an increasingly popular tourist destination, Bali is also a global leader in tropical design, showcased in all its glory in Bali Home. Covering over 100 homes, garden estates, hotels, restaurants and more, this book gives a tantalizing glimpse of the latest design trends coming out of Bali. Full-colour photography, both of decorative details and architectural concepts, is accompanied by an insightful text that gives attainable interior design tips to tropical dream seekers. 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