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  • The Truth

    Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind

    by Neil Strauss ...
    This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences."As such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of—and a few things I feel like I should regret a whole lot more than I actually do. Because, unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain. ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, A

    1599

    by James Shapiro ...
    Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners awardWhat accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 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

  • Home Is Where We Are

    by Wang Gungwu, Margaret Wang ...
    Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate.... We seemed always to have been home.Wang Gungwu’s account of his university education in Singapore and the UK, and the early years of his career as an academic in Malaysia captures the excitement, the ambition, and the choices of a generation that saw it their responsibility to build the new ... Read more

    S$ 17.21 SGD

  • Before the Big Bang

    The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond

    by Laura Mersini-Houghton ...
    "A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington PostA revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of the world’s most celebrated cosmologistsWhat came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created? Until recently, scientists could only ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 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

  • Turtles of the World

    A Guide to Every Family

    by Dr. Whit Gibbons, Jeffrey Lovich ...
    Series series A Guide to Every Family
    A lavishly illustrated guide to the world's turtles that covers every family and genusTurtles of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these amazing reptiles. Characterized by the bony shell that acts as a shield to protect the softer body within, turtles are survivors from the time of the dinosaurs and are even more ancient in evolutionary terms than snakes and crocodilians. Of more ... Read more

    S$ 30.07 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

  • 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$ 25.82 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$ 17.65 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 Dancing Wu Li Masters

    An Overview of the New Physics

    by Gary Zukav ...
    "The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York TimesGary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, a touchstone for readers of science and spirituality, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever ... Read more

    S$ 16.88 SGD

  • The Human Kind

    A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

    by Dr Peter Dorward ...
    The Human Kind is a compelling account of some of the hardest cases in one doctor's career.Everyone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain.Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult relationships with patients, of the ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 17.54 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

  • 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

  • Elon Musk Young Readers’ Edition

    by Ashlee Vance ...
    Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world. He is also the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films, starring Robert Downey Junior. From his humble beginnings in apartheid South Africa, he showed himself to be an exceptionally bright child, and overcame brutal bullying to become the world’s most exciting ... Read more

    S$ 21.14 SGD

  • The Sting of the Wild

    by Justin O. Schmidt ...
    The “King of Sting” describes his adventures with insects and the pain scale that’s made him a scientific celebrity.Silver, Science (Adult Non-Fiction) Foreword INDIES Award 2017Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it’s a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test ... Read more

    S$ 23.97 SGD

  • The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly

    A Physician's First Year

    by Matt McCarthy ...
    A scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, bringing readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence.In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first ... Read more

    S$ 16.34 SGD

  • The Good Nurse

    A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

    by Charles Graeber ...
    This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead.“The best book(s) I read this year” (top ten books, EW) —Stephen KingRegistered nurse Charlie Cullen was dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But ... Read more

    S$ 11.33 SGD

  • Uncle Tungsten

    Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.“A rare gem…. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.” —The New York Times Book Review**Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 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$ 17.65 SGD

  • The Cowshed

    Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    by Ji Xianlin ...
    Translated by Chenxin Jiang ...
    A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental memoir is one of the few surviving recordings of the movement’s oppositionThe Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 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