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Half the Sky
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95#1 National Bestseller From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era?s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet... more...
The Real North Korea
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 20.99Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis... more...
In Spite of the Gods
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward... more...
China Goes Global
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 21.99Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this... more...
China Airborne
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which... more...
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00This book explores firsthand accounts of the genocide in Darfur. more...
Murder Without Borders
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 22.00?I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.? ? Vaclav Havel What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way? Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and... more...
The Book of Revenge
Random House of Canada 2011; US$ 19.95A darkly comic recollection of a country that no longer exists, and a lyrical examination of the importance of taking a stand when it counts. Set against a backdrop of horrific world events, this is narrative non-fiction at its best. To a young boy growing up poor but happy in an industrial town in Serbia, politics means many national holidays that... more...
Iran, Israel, and the United States: Regime Security vs. Political Legitimacy
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 35.00Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security implications for each of the two states as well as the entire region. more...
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century
Little, Brown Book Group 2008; US$ 25.36China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology... more...









