The Halberd at Red Cliff
The Halberd at Red Cliff by Tian Xiao Fei (2018) is an excellent addition to my library of literature on The Three Kingdoms. Tian is…
The Rise and Fall of Economies: Comparative Histories of Middle East and China
These three books are on comparative history. The long divergence’s key argument is that by the 19th century, the Middle East had fallen way behind…
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Murders & Mysteries: Malaysian Edition
Malaysian Murders and Mysteries are a compilation of 42 of the most notorious criminal cases of Malaysia. It starts with the murder of JWW Birch…
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela when he died in 2013, at age 95, was universally acclaimed as a political saint. The facts known to laymen were that this…
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The Forbidden City of Lhasa
These six books tell the tales of the intrepid explorers who penetrated the Forbidden City of Lhasa deep inside Tibet in the 19th and early…
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The life story of Nelson Mandela
“Opportunity for high office is a matter of fate.” -Tseng Kuo Fan advising Li Hung Chang. (Li Hung Chang and China’s Early Modernisation Page 21).…
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St. Catherine’s Monastery’s treasure
“You stand on the authority of Scripture, but you cannot determine what was originally written. “ So charged the critics of the Church in the…
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St Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai
St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai is a sight to behold for all travellers who set their eyes on it for the first time. I…
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History & Music
Here are 2 books bought in 2005 on a single magical visit to Kinokuniya KLCC. Both were newly published hardbacks then. Both combined history and…
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Kino’s haul
I had a great harvest last Saturday. Not the harvest of souls as in Matthew 13:8. But of 4 excellent books at Kinokuniya. The House…
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Everest
Before Nims Purja (2019) was Reinhold Messner (1978- 86). Before Messner was Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (1953). All four were exceptional mountaineers. Each…
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