The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
By: Daniel A. Bell
3.26
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system On January…
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1. 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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2. The Fat Years
By: Chan Koonchung
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from offi… read more
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3. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
By: Jane Mayer
4.16
Format: 76 pages, ebook
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more
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4. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By: Richard McGregor
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's ri… read more
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5. Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
By: None
4.18
Format: None pages, ebook
In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bebe,and The Smartest Kids in the Wor… read more
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6. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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7. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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8. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… 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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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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11. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more
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12. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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13. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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14. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
15. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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- nonfiction
"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
16. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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18. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
19. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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20. Keir Starmer: The Biography
By: Tom Baldwin
4.06
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more
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21. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
By: Bethany Allen
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more
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22. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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23. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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24. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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25. The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well
By: Mark Schatzker
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunct… read more
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26. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
By: Susan L. Shirk
4.11
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more
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27. The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
By: Daniel A. Bell
3.26
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system On January… read more
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- china
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28. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
By: Scott Rozelle
4.24
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from … read more
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29. Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
By: Weijian Shan
4.41
Format: 496 pages, ebook
Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that w… read more
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30. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
By: Peter Hessler
4.56
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more
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