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9780062287939 SUPREME COMMANDER (Hard Cover) SEYMOUR MORRIS HARPER US S$32.00 HIS Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals, The Storm of War, and Truman. He is the most decorated general in American history— and the only five five-star
9780060539184 THE STORY OF THE JEWS (Hard Cover) SIMON SCHAMA HARPER US S$46.00 HIS
9780062285188 TESTIMONY (Hard Cover) STEVEN SPEILBERG HARPER US S$60.00 HIS
9780062218292 ASTORIA (Hard Cover) PETER STARK HARPER US S$35.0 HIS
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds.
This illustrated, large-format book, Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation—A 20th Anniversary Commemoration combines, for the first time, the behindthe-scenes story of the making of Schindler’s List with the history of the remarkable organization inspired by that landmark film.
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, threeyear journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast.
Cover art to come 9780593073612 FOOD UNWRAPPED (Soft Cover) DIANIEL TAPPER HARPER US S$28.00 HIS
9780062218018 THE $11 BILLION A YEAR (Hard Cover) ANNE THOMPSON S$32.00 HIS
Have you ever wondered why tiger prawns are so large? Or what 'formed ham' really is? Or even what, exactly, goes into a seafood stick? Food Unwrapped is the hit Channel 4 television series that gives us the information we really want to know about the food we consume every day, such as: where the wax on lemons comes from; how the caffeine is removed from decaffeinated coffee and whether there are actually any strawberries in strawberry flavouring.
This chronicle of 2012 is a slice of what happened during a watershed year for the Hollywood movie industry. It's not the whole story, but it's a mosaic of what went on, and why, and of where things are heading." What changed in one Hollywood year to produce a record-breaking box office after two years of decline? How can the Sundance Festival influence a film's fate, as it did for Beasts of the Southern Wild and Searching for Sugar Man, which both went all the way to the Oscars? Why did John Carter misfire and The Hunger Games succeed?
9780062200112 CONGO (Hard Cover) DAVID VAN REYBROUCK HARPER US S$35.00 HIS Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck’s rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nationstates, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo.
9780593073056 THE BIG BOOK OF FIGHT (Hard Cover) ROWLAND WHITE TRANSWORLD S$28.00 HIS Everybody dreams of flying. For as long as we've been able to look up and see the birds we've wanted to join them. But our efforts to do so have not always been as elegant or accomplished. Instead, there's been danger, excitement, courage and brilliance. The Big Book of Flight is a celebration of it all, and a lot more besides, packed with derring-do stories of aviation's pioneers as well as fascinating profiles of remarkable planes, from Spitfires to Space Shuttles (and a number of other wondrous projects that never quite got off the drawing board).