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  • Breaking Twitter

    Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

    by Ben Mezrich ...
    ‘An excitable, high-octane account’ – IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter’s front doors after buying the digital giant for $44 billion. His takeover came with the promise of fundamental change, but nothing could prepare the company for the chaos to come – brutal mass firings, an exodus of advertisers and ‘blue-tick’ celebrities and a vicious battle for control.With unique ... Read more

    RM 49.99

  • Everything Is Predictable

    How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

    by Tom Chivers ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr'Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy. I learned a lot and so will you' Tim HarfordThomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the p... ... Read more

    RM 46.69

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 社群帝國那些人:權力、貪婪,及迷失的夢想

    Careless People:A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    Series series FROM
    ★揭密臉書企業文化及審查亂象,美國國會舉行聽證會保護的話題之書!★我在臉書上班的故事,文筆諷刺幽默,《紐約時報》盛讚是商業版的《BJ單身日記》。★FB、IG、Threads、Messenger占了台灣人社群使用率的八成以上,關於Meta管理高層,你必須知道的真相。他們掌握的權力越大,他們的責任感卻越低!「政要的來來去去令我震驚不已,然而,你依然有辦法想像,馬克再繼續穩坐這個位置替世界領袖主持會議五十年,他將會見識這些人卸任,還有後繼好幾代跟隨他們腳步的領袖。他簡直就像英國女王一樣。」作者莎拉.溫-威廉絲曾經位處全球最具影響力的社群帝國——Facebook/Meta的核心。她將透過其經歷,以扣人心弦且充滿黑色幽默的敘述方式,講述幾個人漫不經心地將世界握在手中的故事,揭露這家科技巨頭之中真正發生的內幕。從幕前搭乘私人飛機前往各地出差、與世界各國領袖會面,到幕後令人瞠目結舌的厭女故事與雙標行為 ... Read more

    RM 50.73

  • 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

  • Written In Bone

    hidden stories in what we leave behind

    WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.' - The Sunday TimesOur bones are the silent witnesses to the... ... Read more

    RM 49.99

  • 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

  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions

    'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH

    THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIANThe world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.Is there a God?How did it ... Read more

    RM 53.29

  • My Stroke of Insight

    'A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities' The Times'Incredible' New Scientist'This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book' Oprah WinfreyOn the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain.A neuroanatom... ... Read more

    RM 46.69

  • 奧本海默(上下兩冊)

    American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    2006年普立茲獎傳記類得獎作品.美國國家書評獎最佳傳記★《書單》和《發現雜誌》年度科學類好書★《紐約時報》年度一百本值得關注的好書★《紐約時報書評》、《華盛頓郵報圖書世界》、《堪薩斯城星報》及《芝加哥論壇報》年度好書他是美國的普羅米修斯,「原子彈之父」,戰爭期間為他的國家帶頭努力從大自然攫取令人敬畏的太陽之火。之後,他明智道出其中的危險,也對潛在的助益懷抱希望。…但,奧本海默的警告無人理會,最後,他被消音了,成為麥卡錫主義和美國反共聖戰中最著名的受害者。《奧本海默》(American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer)是一部全面描寫原子彈之父羅伯特.奧本海默的傳記。奧本海默是二十世紀的代表人物,一位傑出且富有魅力的物理學家,他在戰爭期間帶領團隊為國家建造原子彈,並直面科學進步帶來的道德後果 ... Read more

    Was RM 104.96 Now RM 89.21

  • Broken

    in the Best Possible Way

    by Jenny Lawson ...
    The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. N****ow with a new bonus chapter.‘Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it’ - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**kAs her fans already know, Jenny Lawson suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny humanizes what we all face in a... ... Read more

    RM 45.49