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  • The Optimist

    Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

    by Keach Hagey ...
    **"[E]xcellent and deeply reported." —Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review"The first major biography of tech’s newest titan, this sets a high bar for those to follow." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"An exemplary blend of biography, financial technology reportage, and futurology." —Kirkus, starred reviewFrom an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of the enigmatic ... Read more

    RM 85.79

  • Mother Teresa

    The popular tendency is to deify myths, gurus, and personalities without investigating the claims thoroughly. Mother Teresa is one such name. Does Mother Teresa deserve her reputation as the most charitable person who ever lived? This book makes for a gripping but disconcerting read. ‘Brilliant, heroic, devastating’ – Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London ... Read more

    RM 15.64

  • Careless People

    A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    **#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL,** SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!**“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she al... ... Read more

    RM 65.19

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller

    ****THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal**What makes life worth living in the face of death?At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    by Lori Gottlieb ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric“This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global“Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—... ... Read more

    RM 72.49

  • The Man Who Solved the Market

    How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019

    NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho' Bloomberg'A compelling read' Economist'Captivating' New York Times book review<... ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: The shocking true story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal

    **'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James PattersonWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.****The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the shocking story and pursued it to the end.'I couldn ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • On Call

    A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

    **#1 New York Times BestsellerThe memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post“One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the ... Read more

    RM 20.69

  • Source Code

    My Beginnings

    by Bill Gates ...
    *THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friend... ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • Tao Te Ching

    A New English Version

    The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one ... Read more

    RM 44.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Fish Don't Exist

    A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World

    by Lulu Miller ...
    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025. The profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world. 'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado 'Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten' NYT As the daughter of a scientist, Lulu Miller was taught that chaos will come for us all. There is no cosmic destiny, no grand ... Read more

    RM 41.39

  • 沒時間化妝:飛行醫生撼動人心的故事

    No Time for Makeup: The life of a flying doctor and paediatrician

    Series series 人文思潮
    ★全球首個飛行醫生服務機構★第一線真實現場!要是引擎故障怎麼辦?要是袋鼠撞上飛機怎麼辦?要是礦坑塌陷怎麼辦?要是,我救不活患者……無數個「要是」在腦中盤旋,卻擋不住她飛向病人的心。※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※親臨雲端上的急診室,飛行醫生的親身經歷,比編劇想像的還要刺激、更令人腸胃翻滾絞痛!※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※\一位飛行醫生在萬尺高空重拾生命真諦的實錄!/橫跨澳洲荒野、深入地底礦脈,有時會恐懼、有時會出糗、時常來不及化妝,卻始終在與死神爭奪每一秒。在生死交關的現場,最動人的姿態,是那雙因救援而顫抖、卻絕不放開的手。... ... Read more

    RM 32.24

  • Becoming Steve Jobs

    The evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader

    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen.'For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacson's biography' New Yorker*'*A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story' Sunday TimesWe all think we know who Steve Jobs was, what made him tick, and what made him succeed.Yet the single most important question ... ... Read more

    RM 57.89

  • Hidden Valley Road

    by Robert Kolker ...
    12 children.6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia.Science's greatest hope in understanding the disease.___________*ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020**TIME 100 Must-Read Books Of 2020 Pick**New York Times bestseller**Selected as Oprah's Book Club Pick*'Startl... ... Read more

    RM 46.69

  • American Prometheus

    THE INSPIRATION FOR 'OPPENHEIMER', WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR

    ***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenh... ... Read more

    RM 54.99

  • This is Going to Hurt

    The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

    by Adam Kay ...
    **The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry**Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and ... Read more

    RM 49.99

  • The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

    Gold Medal, 2016 Foreword INDIES Book AwardsThe best-selling, ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling!A potent combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, this art instruction book from John Muir Laws (author of The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist and a more attentive naturalist. In straightforward text complemented by step-by-step ... Read more

    RM 98.79

  • Reading Lessons

    An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.**How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can Lady Macbeth teach us about empathy? Should our expectations for our future be any greater than Pip’s? And why is it so ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • Gambling Man

    The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son

    by Lionel Barber ...
    **'Extraordinary ... a privileged boardroom-table view of the gilded age of tech-utopianism' Sunday TimesThe real story behind the mercurial Masayoshi Son, one of the world's most consequential investors, who has three times lost and made tens of billions of dollars**Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades ... Read more

    RM 57.09

  • Biomimicry

    Innovation Inspired by Nature

    Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas for sustainability, solving tough 21st century problems.Biomimicry, a revolutionary approach to innovation inspired by nature, is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million ... Read more

    RM 55.09

  • Ghost in the Wires

    My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

    by Kevin Mitnick ...
    In this "intriguing, insightful and extremely educational" novel, the world's most famous hacker teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data (Frank W. Abagnale).Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies -- and no matter how fast the ... Read more

    RM 44.89

  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    by James Gleick ...
    An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyondRaised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics ... Read more

    RM 50.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 行俠仗醫,以醫弘道:吳明賢的與善同行之路

    by 吳明賢 ...
    醫師這份工作,像泰戈爾的詩;要心地光明、常懷善良與信仰,「把自己活成一道光」,守護最多數人的大幸福。這是一名頂尖醫療院所領導者的遠見與觀察,也是對台灣醫療一路走來的所思所感。「希望讀者們可以從這本不成熟的作品,發現一個醫生內在燃燒的感情,對於人類智慧與善良永遠的傾心、健康誠實的讚頌,以及對愚蠢自私的極端憎惡的感情,能讓讀者即使面對當前一切的懷疑,還能保持著人生向上的憧憬。」──〈自序〉出身嘉義的俠醫這位醫者青年時著迷武俠小說,秉大俠精神做一位俠士醫生,醫術是他弘道的方法,而為病患謀求最大幸福的至善,則是他俠義欲求的唯一,也是最大的成就──他是吳明賢,台灣腸胃科權威醫師,領導著全台數一數二的頂尖醫療機構台大醫院,不斷開創未來。以醫者之眼,論古今典範與未來本書收錄吳明賢醫師行醫歲月迄今的心路歷... ... Read more

    RM 37.61

  • The Strangest Man

    The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

    'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, ... Read more

    RM 46.69