The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
By: Thant Myint-U
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natu…
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1. Native Speaker
By: Chang-rae Lee
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire… read more
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2. The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
By: Nathan Thrall
3.00
Format: None pages,
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3. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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4. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
By: Lee Kuan Yew , Henry Kissinger
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it… read more
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5. The Glass Palace
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more
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6. Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
By: Damien Lewis , Zoya Phan
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma to the Karen tribe, which for decades has been re… read more
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7. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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8. Dragonsteel
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
This is Brandon Sanderson's Honor's Thesis for his undergraduate degree in English from Brigham You… read more
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9. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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10. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.46
Format: 272 pages,
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day … read more
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11. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
12. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
13. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
14. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.22
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more
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15. In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
By: Sebastian Strangio
4.26
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A timely look at the impact of China’s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia “An ex… read more
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16. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
By: Thant Myint-U
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natu… read more
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17. Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
By: Joanna Lillis
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. St… read more
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18. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Haitian revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in November… read more
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19. Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
By: Barnaby Phillips
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art A Prospect Bes… read more
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20. A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma
By: David Eimer
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
David Eimer journeys to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life… read more
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