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From Third World To First - Singapore And The Asian Economic Boom

de Lee Kuan Yew

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 Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, but also the world's fourth-highest per capita real income? This title is the story of that transformation.
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Warlord Survival - The Delusion Of State Building In Afghanistan

de Romain Malejacq

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 How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages...
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Indian Arms And Armour

de Natasha Bennett e Thom Richardson

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 India is a vast sub-continent with a complex history and a great array of languages, cultures and religions. This books serves as a short introduction to the exquisite weapons used in the region from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Among others, it covers archery, swords, shields, daggers, firearms, artillery and elephant armour.
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Revolution In Rojava - Democratic Autonomy And Women'S Liberation In Syrian Kurdistan

de Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga e Michael Knapp

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 The first full-length book of the unique and extraordinary political situation in Rojava, Syria
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The Great Game - On Secret Service In High Asia

de Peter Hopkirk

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 'Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game' Jan Morris
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Us Army Ah-1 Cobra Units In Vietnam

de Jonathan Bernstein; Ilustração: Jim (Illustrator) Laurier e Jim Laurier

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 An illustrated combat history of Bellâ€™s AH-1 Cobra, the first dedicated helicopter gunship to reach frontline service anywhere in the world.
Breakneck - China'S Quest To Engineer The Future

de Dan Wang

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 America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China’s astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West. In *Breakneck*, Wang offers a new framework for understanding China — which helps us to see global geopolitics more clearly too. While China is an engineering state, fearlessly building megaprojects, America is a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad. Building big has fuelled China’s economic ascent. At the same time, social engineering has led to unbearable costs, including the traumas of zero-Covid and the one-child policy. Wang traverses China’s dazzling metropolises and factory complexes, blending political and economic analysis with reportage to show how the Communist Party’s darkening ambitions have unsettled its people. As the US and China are gearing up for a new Cold War, *Breakneck* reveals both the remarkable strengths and the appalling weaknesses of the engineering state. China has learned from the West's successes and failures - and now we in turn can learn from China, not least by taking its global ambitions seriously.
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A Moon Will Rise From The Darkness - Reports On Israel'S Genocide In Palestine

de Francesca Albanese

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 A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israelâ€™s genocide in Palestine
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The Golden Road - How Ancient India Transformed The World

de William Dalrymple

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 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast 'Richly woven, highly readable ... Written with passion and verve' Spectator 'Dazzling ... Not just a historical study but also a love letter' Guardian 'An outstanding new account ... The most compelling retelling we have had for generations' Financial Times India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. In the millennium and a half from c. 250 BC to 1200 AD, Indian art, religion, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world – a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. Here, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the culture and technology of not only its ancient world, but of the world as we know it today. Praise for William Dalrymple and The Anarchy 'A superb historian with a visceral understanding of India' The Times 'Magnificently readable, deeply researched and richly atmospheric' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday
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A Very Short History Of The Israelâ€“Palestine Conflict

de Ilan Pappé

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 An indispensable guide to understanding theÂ Israelâ€"Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it
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Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran And The Rivalry That Unravelled The Middle East

de Kim Ghattas

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 A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize 2020
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A Line In The Sand - Britain, France And The Struggle That Shaped The Middle East

de James Barr

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 The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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Venice And The Mongols - The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed The Medieval World

de Lorenzo Pubblici e Nicola Di Cosmo

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 A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age.
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Hold Everything Dear - Dispatches On Survival And Resistance

de John Berger

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 A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice
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The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine

de Ilan Pappé

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 This major book by the renowned Israeli historian, unveils the hidden and systematic ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948, and its relevance to resolving the conflict.
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The Shortest History Of Japan

de Lesley Downer

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 ‘A terrific overview of Japan’s long and rich history… covers an astonishing amount of ground’ PETER FRANKOPAN Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has embraced foreign institutions from baseball to barber shops. Yet for centuries under the rule of the shoguns, the islands were largely sealed off from the outside world. In charting a course between openness and insularity, Japan has found a way to become ultra-modern while breathing new life into its own unique traditions. In The Shortest History of Japan, Lesley Downer brings an expert storyteller’s eye to the sweep of Japanese history. Here are the emperors and warlords, the samurai and women warriors, the merchants and geisha who shaped this extraordinary modern society. From the hunter-gatherers who fashioned the world’s first pots to the novel-writing ladies of the eleventh-century Heian court, from the devastation of Hiroshima to today’s economic and cultural powerhouse, this is an indispensable, riveting history of the land of the rising sun.
King Of Kings - The Fall Of The Shah And The Revolution That Forged Modern Iran

de Scott Anderson

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 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences. A spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia. Before the revolution, the Shah of Iran seemed invincible. The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues. The regime’s secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. On the international stage, Iran had become an invaluable ally to the West during the Cold War. But village streets spoke of a different country - people derided the Shah as an American lackey and blamed him for economic inequality, for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority. When a volcanic religious revolution erupted, led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini, the Shah was forced off the throne and into exile. How did it all go so wrong? Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott Anderson, this gripping behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how the Iranian Revolution was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions, and how its repercussions are still felt around the world today. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, and now in Europe and the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval - and Iran was the template.
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The Question Of Palestine

de Edward W. Said

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 This original and deeply provocative book, first published in 1978, was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate â€" one that remains as critical as ever.

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Gaza - A History

de Jean-Pierre Filiu

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 The story of the struggle to control Gaza, from the mid-19th century to the present.
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We Are Your Soldiers - How Egypt'S Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade The Arab World

de Alex Rowell

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 A searing exploration of authoritarianism in the Middle East through the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser's reign in Cold War-era Egypt.
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Persians - The Age Of The Great Kings

de Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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 A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.
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Shah Of Shahs

de Ryszard Kapuscinski

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 Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power.
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Hansando And Busan 1592 - Admiral Yi Sun-Sin'S First Victories Against Japan

de Yuhan Kim; Ilustração: Darren Tan

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 A detailed look at Admiral Yi's four 1592 sorties that defeated the Japanese navy and established him as a national hero.
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The Highest Exam - How The Gaokao Shapes China

de Claire Cousineau, Hongbin Li e Ruixue Jia

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 The Highest Exam provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, Chinaâ€™s high-stakes college entrance exam. Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Liâ€"past test-takers themselvesâ€"show how the exam system shapes schooling, serves state interests, inspires individualistic attitudes, and has lately become a touchstone in US education debates.
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