A Modern History of Hong Kong

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  Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

  The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last return…

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  How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

  The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, bei…

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  Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

  What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and …

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  Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

  From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success
  
  Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to aba…

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  Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)

  This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.
  
  The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggles to rescue Struan's from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To do this, he seeks…

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  The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

  For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major c…

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  The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780735211735.
  
  A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical ti…

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  The Book of Goose

  A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.
  
  Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in A…

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  Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

  Now a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller
  
  "I raced through Radical Candor --It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Can…

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  Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

  The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
  
  An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses be…

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  Wandering Souls

  One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of the Year
  Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024
  Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
  
  “A deeply humane an…

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  Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink

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  Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

  Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a p…

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  The Shortest History of China

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  White Teeth

  At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevo…

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  The Future of War: A History

  In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismi…

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  Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

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  The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

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  Love in a Fallen City

  Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fictio…

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  The World of Yesterday

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