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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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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On China

by Henry Kissinger

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 Examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, this title describes the essence of its millennia-old approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, reflecting on these attitudes for our own uncertain future.
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The Great Game - On Secret Service In High Asia

by 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

by Jonathan Bernstein; Illustration: 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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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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Venice And The Mongols - The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed The Medieval World

by 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

by John Berger

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 A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice
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A Line In The Sand - Britain, France And The Struggle That Shaped The Middle East

by 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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The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine

by 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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Empire Of Ashes - Truman, Hirohito, And The Descent Into Total War

by James M. Scott

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 From the acclaimed Pacific War historian, the harrowing story of Americaâ€™s bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the dramatic struggle to end the Second World War
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The Shortest History Of Japan

by 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.
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The Question Of Palestine

by 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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The Invention Of The Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

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 Best-selling analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian with a new preface
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Persians - The Age Of The Great Kings

by 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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Damascus - A History

by Ross (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Burns

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 Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city. This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the cityâ€™s tumultuousexperiences over the last century.
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The Noodle Maker Of Kalimpong - My Untold Story Of The Struggle For Tibet

by Anne F. Thurston e Gyalo Thondup

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 But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo Thondup is none other than the older brother of the Dalai Lama and his special envoy, a trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping.
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Shah Of Shahs

by 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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