China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)
By: Richard Baum
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy …
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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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- china
- nonfiction
- history
2. The Firm
By: John Grisham , Robin Waterfield
4.06
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Adaptation for younger readers. Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When… read more
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"Her thoughts could not escape the present."-John Grisham, The Firm
"love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future"-John Grisham, The Firm
"Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected."-John Grisham, The Firm
"I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you."-John Grisham, The Firm
3. 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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4. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
6. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
7. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.96
Format: 289 pages, ebook
This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facil… read more
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8. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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9. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more
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- china
10. 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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- china
- nonfiction
- history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
11. Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
By: Erich Schwartzel
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business… read more
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- china
- nonfiction
- history
12. When Women Were Dragons
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.85
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more
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"The dragons did not go away."-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
13. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo
4.30
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
By: Megan Walsh
3.97
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the rela… read more
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- china
- nonfiction
- history
15. China: The Bubble That Never Pops
By: Thomas Orlik
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping,… read more
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- china
- nonfiction
- history
"Call it “Sinophrenia"-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops
"The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying …"-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops
16. 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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- nonfiction
- history
17. China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)
By: Richard Baum
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy … read more
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- china
- nonfiction
- history
