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  • Empire of Pain

    The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

    by Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    The award-winning investigation from the author behind bestselling sensation London FallingWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionThe Sunday Times BestsellerA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'One of The Telegraph's 20 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time'There are so many "they did what?" moments in this book, when your jaw practically hits the page' – The Sunday Times</... ... Read more

    S$ 19.94 SGD

  • Birth Vibes

    Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth

    by Jen Hamilton ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER“A refreshingly compassionate roadmap built on boundaries, clarity, and real communication, because growing a family shouldn’t mean losing yourself.” ―Eve Rodsky***, New York Times*** bestselling author of Fair PlayChildbirth is one of life’s most powerful expe... ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 26.69 SGD

  • After Steve

    How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

    by Tripp Mickle ...
    From the New York Times' Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • This is Going to Hurt

    The bestselling secret diaries of a junior doctor, now a major BBC comedy-drama

    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

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Breaking Through

    My Life in Science

    by Katalin Karikó ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines“Katalin Karikó’s story is an inspiration.”—Bill Gates“Riveting . . . a true story of a brilliant biochemist who never gave up or gave in.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in ChemistryA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE... ... Read more

    S$ 7.62 SGD

  • Careless People

    A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...
    **#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

    S$ 23.21 SGD

  • A Hippocratic Odyssey

    Lessons From a Doctor Couple on Life, In Medicine, Challenges and Doctorprneurship

    by Suresh K Pandey, Vidushi Sharma ...
    Do you want to transform your passion for becoming a doctor or successful medical professional into reality? Can't wait to use your medical knowledge and skills to serve humanity? While you may have an undying passion to help people at their most vulnerable times, you might still find the thought of interacting and building a relationship with patients overwhelming.If you can relate to the above, ... Read more

    S$ 19.83 SGD

  • Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

    Being a doctor with no borders and other ways to stay single

    by Damien Brown ...
    Damien Brown, a young Australian doctor, thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he's sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the hospital, for which he's to be the only doctor, is filled with malnourished children and conditions he's never seen; and the health workers - Angolan war veterans twice ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • In Her Room

    How Music Helped Me Connect With My Autistic Daughter

    by James Cook ...
    When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music, but never pointed at anything, and hadn't crawled yet.At the age of two-and-a-half, after months of invasive tests, Emily was finally diagnosed ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

    A Memoir

    by David Shields ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.“Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer.”—The Wall Street JournalMesmerized and ... Read more

    S$ 13.94 SGD

  • Gotham Girl Interrupted

    My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy

    by Alisa Kennedy Jones ...
    Nora Ephron and Allie Brosh fans take note: Alisa Jones' memoir Gotham Girl Interrupted is a smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down."Get to your safe spaces, people. Here comes the shimmer..."From irreverent NYC blogger Alisa Kennedy Jones comes an account of her "misadventures in motherhood, love, and epilepsy" that James Patterson calls "smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very ... Read more

    S$ 13.72 SGD

  • The Infinity Machine

    Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence

    by Sebastian Mallaby ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book AwardA revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future – and what it means to winEven in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is recognized as a special case. Born to working class, immigrant parents in North London, a chess prodigy by five ... Read more

    S$ 42.28 SGD

  • Cham Tao Soon: Life At Speed

    by Tao Soon Cham ...
    My autobiography is a record of my life and interactions with many interesting people over the course of my work. This involved key industries and organisations like Keppel Corp, Wearnes, Natsteel, SPH, UOB, LTA, JTC, and SSO. Having the good fortune to meet many prominent Singaporeans such as Tan Chin Tuan, Wee Cho Yaw as well as Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Dr Toh Chin Chye, Mr Lim Kim San ... Read more

    S$ 29.20 SGD

  • The Contrarian

    Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

    by Max Chafkin ...
    A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politicsSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 SGD

  • Life, Almost

    Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood

    by Jennie Agg ...
    'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully written' Pippa VosperAfter losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience.Part-memoir, part-scientific ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Super Mario

    How Nintendo Conquered America

    by Jeff Ryan ...
    The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has plot twists worthy of a video game. Jeff Ryan shares ... Read more

    S$ 15.69 SGD

  • Other Rivers

    A Chinese Education

    by Peter Hessler ...
    'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of ... Read more

    S$ 11.76 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

    by William Kamkwamba ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX AND A NEW WEST END MUSICAL.When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees. This is his story of how he found a way to make a difference, how he bought light to his family and village, and ... Read more

    S$ 9.04 SGD

  • With the End in Mind

    Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

    by Kathryn Mannix ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy RentzenbrinkWhat if everything you thought you knew about death was wrong?How should we prepare for the facts of dying and saying our goodbyes?And what if understanding death improved your life?<p... ... Read more

    S$ 19.61 SGD

  • Newton

    Ackroyd's Brief Lives

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton’s long ... Read more

    S$ 18.30 SGD

  • Trillion Dollar Coach

    The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

    by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle ...
    #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerThe team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several ... Read more

    S$ 25.82 SGD

  • Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb

    And 333 Other Surprising Facts That Will Make You Wealthier, Healthier and Smarter Than Everyone Else

    by Mark Di Vincenzo ...
    Mark Di Vincenzo, the New York Times bestselling author of Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, brings us another book of fascinating, eminently useful facts certain to make you healthier, wealthier, and wiser. Readers of Schott’s Miscellany and other compendiums of helpful information will delight—and profit—from these little known tidbits about health, money, food, death, bugs, politics, history, ... Read more

    S$ 13.18 SGD

  • Dark Side of the Moon

    Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race

    by Wayne Biddle ...
    A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago.This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of “rocket scientist” Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply only ... Read more

    S$ 24.73 SGD