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Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York
An unprecedented study that reveals tapestry’s role as a modernist medium and a model for the movement’s discourse on both sides of the Atlantic...RM302.50 -
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
When the state of Israel was formed in 1948, it precipitated the Nakba or 'disaster': the displacement of the Palestine nation, creating...RM55.50 -
What Is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas’s unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious...RM156.00 -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home
A family memoir, encompassing some of the most fascinating aspects of twentieth century European history, from the acclaimed author of Dark...RM60.00 -
When The Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka's commanding and passionate debut novel explores unfamiliar history - that of Japanese Americans in World War II With crystalline...RM63.00 -
Where Australia Collides with Asia: The Epic Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of On the Origin of Species
This book begins by exploring the voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago with its raft of...RM110.00 -
Where Corals Lie: A Natural and Cultural History
For millennia, corals were a marine enigma, organisms that confounded scientific classification and occupied a space between the animal and plant...RM235.00 -
Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonized before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the...RM72.50 -
Where Monsoons Meet : A People’s History of Malaya
Where Monsoons Meet attempts to lead a new path away from the beaten tracks The history book of Malaya is refreshing in its highly readable and...RM23.00 -
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the...RM53.90 -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted Return of a King, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that...RM99.00 -
Why Did They Kill? : Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead...RM153.70 -
Why Marx Was Right
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with Taking ten of the most common...RM76.50 -
Why the West Rules for Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever...RM69.90 -
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed...RM64.00 -
William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping out from Raffles’ Shadow
When the achievements of great individuals are exaggerated, an enormous shadow is cast over the work of their subordinates This happened in...RM60.00 -
William Farquhar and Singapore: Stepping out from Raffles’ Shadow
When the achievements of great individuals are exaggerated, an enormous shadow is cast over the work of their subordinates This happened in...RM80.00 -
William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master
A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art...RM120.00