This is arguably the best biography of Mao and Deng. The author has gone into granular details which gives wonderful perspectives on them. Besides this,…
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The Business of Judging
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more…
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Agatha Christie: A Biography
Readers looking for information on where Agatha Christie wrote her most famous mysteries Death on The Nile, Murder on her Orient Express and Appointment with…
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Flashman: A Novel
Most young readers are not aware the Flashman books are novels. Product of an imaginative mind. I read the 12-volume series when young. I doubt…
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Lives of the Law
The topics in this 2011 book are thorny, to use a term reflective of the durian season now. Tom Bingham is acknowledged as the best…
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The Far Pavilions Picture Book
Mary Margaret Kaye was a British writer. Born in Shimla, India in 1908, her most famous book is The Far Pavilions which she published as…
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The New Emperors: Mao & Deng; a Dual Biography
This is a stunningly detailed dual biography of Mao and Deng. The late Salisbury is a reporter who wrote many books on Russia and China.…
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Traveling with the Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain was a roving reporter for a few American newspapers when the Innocents from the New World went on a cruise to the Old…
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To Catch a Thief
This delightful 1955 mystery cum romance movie stars two of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars. Cary Grant played the leading man. The beautiful Grace Kelly the…
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Excellent book – China in the Age of Xi Jinping
This 2021, 763-page book is actually the history of China written in a concise and readable manner. Its emphasis is on the politics from the…
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