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After many years of hard work in the construction business, Paul Noor became a self-made millionaire. While he was at the very peak of his home-building business and about to semi-retire, his long marriage fell apart. That same year, the housing market crashed. Then his home-building business collapsed. Everything caved in at the same time. A homebuilder became homeless. At his low point, Paul had lost practically everything. Everything, except: THE MILLIONAIRE WITHIN him-the Cardinal Rules of Success that he had learned in his construction business. Armed with that knowledge, he got back on...

This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gender, place, ethnicity, nation-state formation, migration and economic activity work their way into and reflect in the lives of ordinary Bruneians. In a first of its kind, all the lead authors of the...

This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gender, place, ethnicity, nation-state formation, migration and economic activity work their way into and reflect in the lives of ordinary Bruneians. In a first of its kind, all the lead authors of the...