History
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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914
This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time...RM210.90 -
The Blind Assassin
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port...RM54.90 -
The Blood Of The People: Revolution And The End Of Traditional Rule In Northern Sumatera
In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs In Malaya the traditional...RM70.00 -
The Bodo of Assam: Revisiting a Classical Study from 1950
The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam During colonial times they resisted Christianization and in recent decades they...RM117.00 -
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses LuLing...RM40.00 -
The Book of Records
The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if...RM100.00 -
The Book of Saladin
The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub Saladin grants...RM50.00 -
The Book of Silk
Luxury, beauty, refinement, sensuality, elegance - silk is synonymous with all of these No fiber - natural or man-made - rivals its versatility Silk...RM180.00 -
The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary
A compendium of spices: the history and uses of the world's favourite flavours Now available in paperback Spices are rare things, at once familiar...RM59.00 -
The Book of Symbols
The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all...RM166.00 -
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan Broadly...RM132.00 -
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles The Dutch Golden Age has long...RM149.90 -
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of...RM99.00 -
The British and the Vietnam War: Their Way with LBJ
During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace, but...RM145.00 -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British...RM99.00 -
The Buddha in the Attic
After the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco They are picture brides, promised the American...RM57.00 -
The Bungalows of Penang Hill
From the first colonists to the towkays and millionaires of modern Malaysia, a bungalow on Penang Hill has always been an aspiration and a dream How...RM69.00 -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt
In 2011, the world's eyes were on Egypt, as revolution swept across the country But what lay below the surface of events was harder to see Living in...RM135.00