History
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The True History of Chocolate
Chocolate – ‘the food of the Gods’ – has had a long and eventful history Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies,...RM49.90 -
The Underground Railroad
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow...RM42.90 -
The Unfinished Revolution: Sun Yat-Sen and the Struggle for Modern China
The Unfinished Revolution is a superb new biography of Sun Yat-sen, whose life, like the confusion of his time, is not easy to interpret His...RM129.90 -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations Whether trying to escape war and persecution or to find a...RM75.50 -
The Unwomanly Face of War
The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize...RM75.50 -
The UP Saga
Histories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and on the rise and fall of big British-owned colonial...RM145.00 -
The Vagrants
The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a...RM40.00 -
The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from...RM36.90 -
The Viceroy of Ouidah
In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in...RM35.90 -
The Vietnam War
More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche In this intimate...RM126.00 -
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
World War II marked the apogee of industrialized total war Great powers savaged one another Hostilities engulfed the globe Mobilization extended to...RM68.90 -
The Virtual Weapon and International Order
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its...RM79.00 -
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan
The Wages of Guilt is a major work of cultural history, and one that only Ian Buruma could have written Buruma is perhaps the West's leading...RM69.90 -
The War of The Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerillas, 1948-1960
Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the...RM73.00 -
The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and...RM69.90 -
The Waves
Set against the vivid backdrop of the sea, six characters grapple with the death of a beloved friend, Percival The characters are subtly revealed...RM40.00 -
The Ways of the World
This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades It shows how experiencing the riots,...RM118.00 -
The Weight of Our Sky
A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur,...RM66.00