A History of Hong Kong
By: Frank Welsh
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1842 a "barren island" was reluctantly ceded by China to an unenthusiastic Britain. "Hong Kong",…
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1. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
By: John Bew
4.46
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
3. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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6. Victoria: A Life
By: A.N. Wilson
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of ni… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
8. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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- asia
9. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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10. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browder
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more
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11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
12. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
13. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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- nonfiction
14. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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- nonfiction
15. 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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- asia
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- china
17. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
18. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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20. A History of Hong Kong
By: Frank Welsh
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1842 a "barren island" was reluctantly ceded by China to an unenthusiastic Britain. "Hong Kong",… read more
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21. The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong
By: Michael Sheridan
4.07
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handov… read more
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- china
