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An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China

'Urgent and accessible, its moral force is a gut punch' New Yorker'A fierce polemic on an enduring problem' The Economist*A searing study of American

An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China

'Essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging' - Ann Patchett 'Desmond is utterly convincing: we must all become poverty abolitionists' - Emil

A gentle story - with a surprise twist! - about the bond between an imaginative bear and his best friend.

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living and the importance of reason and morality and continue to

'Improvisations of Empire' examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his

This volume is intended to be both a catalogue for the special exhibit that will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Institute'

Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), the son of a Low

On the world of Kioku, one's Animal Sign is their connection to the gods and the source of their powers, known as Tarots. However, those born under th