MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE (Hết hàng)
Author: Herman Melville
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781847496447 | Giá: 67,450 đ)
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its ...

PERFUME - THE STORY OF A MURDERER (Hết hàng)
Author: Patrick Süskind
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780141041155 | Giá: 218,500 đ)
Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, ...

SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND: (PATTERNS OF LIFE) (Hết hàng)
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9781784873646 | Giá: 233,700 đ)
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history - from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age - ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF A LOST WORLD (Hết hàng)
Author: Steve Brusatte
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9781509830091 | Giá: 193,800 đ)
THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Bestseller 'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the ...

(HARD-COVER) THE LITTLE BOOK OF LYKKE: THE DANISH SEARCH FOR THE WORLD'S HAPPIEST PEOPLE (Hết hàng)
Author: Meik Wiking
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780241302019 | Giá: 410,400 đ)
It's easy to see why Denmark is often called the world's happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per household than anywhere else.   So nobody knows more about happiness - what the Danes call lykke - than Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and author of the bestselling sensation The Little Book of Hygge. But he believes that, whilst we can ...

FACTFULNESS: TEN REASONS WE'RE WRONG ABOUT THE WORLD--AND WHY THINGS ARE BETTER THAN YOU THINK (Hết hàng)
Author: Hans Rosling - Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 8934986051218 | Giá: 155,800 đ)
“One of the most important books I’ve ever read―an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” ―Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ―Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, ...

THE INFLUENTIAL MIND: WHAT THE BRAIN REVEALS ABOUT OUR POWER TO CHANGE (Hết hàng)
Author: Tali Sharot
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780349140636 | Giá: 222,300 đ)
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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (Hết hàng)
Author: Virginia Woolf
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781847496577 | Giá: 57,000 đ)
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and ...

MANAGING FOR RESULTS (Hết hàng)
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780060878986 | Giá: 226,100 đ)
The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, The Practice of Management. MANAGING FOR RESULTS shows what the executive decision maker must do to move his enterprise forward. Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for profits and ...

RADICAL MARKETING (Hết hàng)
Author: Sam Hill - Glenn Rifkin
Thể loại: Cooking - Science - Social - Economic (ISBN: 9780887309793 | Giá: 199,500 đ)
The authors provide an engrossing, in-depth look at unconventional strategies that enabled innovative organizations to usurp valuable market share from traditional industry leaders, illustrating how an emotional bond with customers and a focus on growth equal success.   Minh Khai bookstore would like to ...

DUBLINERS (Hết hàng)
Author: James Joyce
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781847496317 | Giá: 57,000 đ)
James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author's development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form. Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the ...

TALES OF HORROR (Hết hàng)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781847496096 | Giá: 60,800 đ)
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe's inventiveness and natural talent as a storyteller.Immensely popular both during ...

TREASURE ISLAND (Hết hàng)
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrator: David Mackintosh
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781847494863 | Giá: 54,150 đ)
One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas­ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day. But more than just a children’s classic, the novel is considered to be one of the greatest feats of storytelling in the English language, with characters such as ...

SKIN IN THE GAME (Hết hàng)
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780141982656 | Giá: 212,800 đ)
In his inimitable, pugnacious style, Taleb creates a jaw-dropping framework for understanding this idea. SKIN IN THE GAME challenges our long-held beliefs about risk, reward, politics, religion and finance - and makes us rethink everything we thought we knew.   Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work?   The answer: ...

THE 30 YEAR WAR (Hết hàng)
Author: Many authors
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9786047703623 | Giá: 285,000 đ)
In August 1945, the Vietnamese people led by the Communist Party and President Ho Chi Minh rose up to wrest back national independence and freedom from the French colonialists and Japanese fascists. On 2nd September 1945, President Ho Chi Minh solemnly proclaimed to the world the barth of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam with his famous Declaration of Independence, thus putting an end to the 80-year French domination. However, shortly afterward, the nascent Seate of laborers had to take up ...