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  • The Creators

    A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 1 - Knowledge Series
    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso ... Read more

    S$ 10.34 SGD

  • The Discoverers

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 2 - Knowledge Series
    An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to ... Read more

    S$ 16.34 SGD

  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Read more

    S$ 8.82 SGD

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    The Sunday Times bestseller about The Rivals who defeated Hitler

    by Tim Bouverie ...
    The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace – from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES HOLLAND'A masterpiece' RICHARD J. EVANS** WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2026**‘The best book I have ever read about the politics of the Second World War’ TIM SHIPMAN</stron... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Pillars of Creation

    How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

    by Richard Panek ...
    The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

    by Simon Critchley ...
    From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our livesTragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A ... Read more

    S$ 7.40 SGD

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    S$ 19.61 SGD

  • Made in the USA

    The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    With Trump’s new tariffs now in effect, get an overview of the state of manufacturing in America and its role in the US economy.“There’s no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.” —Bill GatesIn Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary ... Read more

    S$ 22.12 SGD

  • In Search of a Kingdom

    Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.“Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” —Wall Street JournalBefore he was ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • Stilwell and the American Experience in China

    1911-1945

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman’s groundbreaking narrative follows Stilwell from the time he arrived in ... Read more

    S$ 10.34 SGD

  • Dynasty

    The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

    by Tom Holland ...
    A “startlingly visceral” (The New York Times) portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, from Augustus to Nero—by the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History“Holland is a master of narrative history. On the strength of Dynasty, he deserves a laurel wreath.” —The Washington PostIn Dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the ... ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • The Shelf

    From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading

    by Phyllis Rose ...
    "Exhilarating, adventurous, original . . . The Shelf is a reminder of what reading and writing are all about." —Azar Nafisi,#1 New York Times– bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranAfter a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, Phyllis Rose decided to read like an explorer. Casting herself into the untracked wilde... ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD