Publishing Director Paul Kratoska and Marketing Manager Winnifred Wong are both in Chicago attending the AAS meeting. We have a small stand that we share with NIAS Press, and our books will also be on display at the University of Hawaii stand. Please drop by to say hello or leave us your namecard to be put on our new book alerts mailing list.

Chandar S. Sundaram at History department of Lingnan University gave a strongly favourable review to Guns of February in the latest issue of IIAS newsletter. He calls it "really the first attempt to showcase the Japanese fighting man of World War II. The picture that emerges is both fascinating and groundbreaking."

Sundaram points out one of the key strengths of this book when he said that the fascinating vignettes of the Japanese soldiers' daily existence and encounters bring "an immediacy to the book, so vital in discussing soldiers' lives 'at the sharp end of war'."

Seven SUP titles in the ICAS bookprize longlist, including Contesting Malayness, Dialogues with Chin Peng, Yaa Baa, The Singapore River, Gender Practice in Contemporary Vietnam, Earthenware in Southeast Asia, and Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra.

The past week has seen launches of two new, very interesting online databases of images and printed matter from key libraries. British Library Images Online has thousands of images and makes them available for download and purchase. The New York Public Library Digital Gallery has 250,000 images available online, in specific collections. Not so strong on Asia, but very good on design and ephemera.