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The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf's urgent and important exposé of the cult of beauty in abridged, accessible form Every day, women around the world are confronted with a...RM28.90 -
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity In today's world, women have more power,...RM69.90 -
The Better Angels Of Our Nature: A History Of Violence And Humanity
This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate, argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has...RM70.50 -
The Book of Beginnings
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way...RM76.50 -
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 Business Of Human Rights: An Evolving Agenda For Corporate Responsibility
In a time when Multinational Corporations have become truly globalized, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to...RM105.00 -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Hunting and gathering peoples, including Kalahari Bushmen, Australian aborigines, Eskimos, and Pygmies, are the subject of endless appeal This...RM263.00 -
The Challenge And Burden Of Historical Time: Socialism In The Twenty-First Century
An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, "The Challenge and Burden of...RM95.00 -
The Challenge Of Ethnicity: Building A Nation In Malaysia
The essays in this book focus on the themes of ethnicity, national identity and nationalism They reinforce analyses of earlier studies in the 1960s...RM120.00 -
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people But avoidable...RM55.00 -
The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade and Feasting among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash,...RM149.00 -
The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade And The Elusive Promise Of Development
The global coffee chain is currently characterized by a paradoxical coexistence of a 'coffee boom' in consuming countries and a 'coffee crisis' in...RM65.00 -
The Collapse of Globalism
Globalization is dead Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are...RM69.90 -
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples...RM100.00 -
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450 – 1800
Two distinguished historians examine the impact of the world's most influential information technology The emergence of the book was not...RM86.20 -
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong,...RM80.00 -
The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...RM102.00 -
The Contest Of The Century: The New Era Of Competition With China
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century China's rise has now entered a critical new...RM47.50