The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century
By: Jonathan E. Hillman
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision…
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1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
By: Ezra F. Vogel
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no sc… read more
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4. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
By: Herbert P. Bix
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herb… read more
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5. By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest Is Changing the World
By: None , Elizabeth C. Economy
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants compris… read more
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6. Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar
By: Peter Macinnis
4.05
Format: None pages,
In the tradition of Salt and Stiff, a wide-ranging and provocative look-teeming with little-known f… read more
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7. Why Marx Was Right
By: Terry Eagleton
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more
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8. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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10. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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11. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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12. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
By: Gad Saad
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more
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13. The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
By: Elizabeth C. Economy
3.78
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at th… read more
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14. 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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15. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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16. The Opium War
By: Brian Inglis
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain a… read more
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17. Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence
By: David L. Shrier
3.60
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century
By: Jonathan E. Hillman
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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19. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
By: Daniel Lewis
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that re… read more
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