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The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the history of Italy like a...RM55.00 -
The Last Days
1981, Kuala Lumpur An aging Communist revolutionary arrives in the hazy heart of the capital while the country lurches towards a political turning...RM49.00 -
The Last Empress
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history, marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic...RM60.00 -
The Last Mughal: The Fall Of A Dynasty, Delhi 1857
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner...RM100.00 -
The Last Phase In The Transformation Of Capitalism
This volume includes six essays, the first dating from 1935 and the last from 1967, by one of the outstanding economists of our time The economics...RM52.00 -
The Last Post: Story Of The Emergency & Commemorative Events, 1948-1960
The author, a retired police superintendent with experience of the Malayan 'Emergency', sets down a mainly factual record of the period in the state...RM140.00 -
The Legacy and Heritage of Loke Chow Kit
Many people know of the Chow Kit district in central Kuala Lumpur, but not many know of the man it was named after In The Legacy and Heritage of Loke...RM130.00 -
The Library: A Fragile History
Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google Famed across...RM72.50 -
The Library: A World History
A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings...RM270.00 -
The Life in the Writing: Syed Hussein Alatas
The Life in the Writing is the first biography of the Malaysian scholar and former National University of Singapore academic, Syed Hussein Alatas...RM50.00 -
The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World
Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before...RM142.90 -
The Lifeways Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
In this book, Robert L Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead...RM143.20 -
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East
This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America...RM189.00 -
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and Origins of Our Times
The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period Arrighi argues that...RM110.00 -
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to...RM58.90 -
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture and, with its...RM71.50 -
The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past
Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions...RM138.00 -
The Makioka Sisters
Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family It is a loving and nostalgic...RM70.00