Politics & Current Affairs - Non Fiction

BEIJING RULES: CHINA'S QUEST FOR GLOBAL INFLUENCE

作者 Bethany Allen 出版社:John Murray 出版日期2024-11-04

LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship and repression . . . compelling' Daily Telegraph 'A timely read . . . Chilling . . . Startling . . . A powerful case for more coordinated western intervention' Guardian 'Brilliant' Irish Sunday Independent The remarkable story of China's two-decade quest for global dominance. 了解更多

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THE NEW COLD WAR

作者 Robin Niblett 出版社:Atlantic Books 出版日期2024-07-03

An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN 'An excellent short guide: concise, informed, and full of insight' SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic, politica 了解更多

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THE WEST: A NEW HISTORY OF AN OLD IDEA

作者 Naoise Mac Sweeney 出版社:WH Allen 出版日期2024-07-03

“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imag 了解更多

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REALITY: VIRTUAL WORLDS AND THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

作者 David J 出版社:Penguin 出版日期2024-07-02

rom one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of 'technophilosophy', Chalmers argues categorically, 了解更多

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We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader

作者 Michael Dillon 出版社:Ebury Press 出版日期2024-04-01

Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery. From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi Jinping is a man obscured by caricatures. In this short, essential primer, historian and writer Michael Dillon unveils 了解更多

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THE GREAT WAVE: THE ERA OF RADICAL DISRUPTION AND THE RISE OF THE OUTSIDER

作者 Michiko Kakutani 出版社:HarperCollins Publishers 出版日期2024-03-04

In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, creative and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger. A confluence of crises is upon us, one emergency cascading into another. As people become steadily more disillusioned, new radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider – the protester, the start-up founder, the outlaw. Some of these outs 了解更多

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Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth

作者 Tom Burgis 出版社:William Collins 出版日期2024-02-29

Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES 'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A true-life thriller' ANNE APPLEBAUM From the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth. Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the tr 了解更多

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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM

作者 Martin Wolf 出版社:Penguin 出版日期2024-01-02

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, 了解更多

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Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds

作者 James Chai 出版社:Icon Books 出版日期2023-10-31

Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the loudest and most charismatic victors, but are silent about the true movers and shakers: the rebels, the honest servants, the quiet doers, the square pegs in a round hole, and the ordinary believers who kept showing up. Through seven moving tales of courage, prolific Malaysian writer, James Chai, shows us in his debut book how: - A frail 70-year-old woman became the face of Malaysia's largest protest tha 了解更多

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Devil's Coin

作者 Jennifer McAdam 出版社:William Morrow 出版日期2023-08-08

*A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023* "[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. . ." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter who took on the creators of the world’s biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict them The OneCoin global cryptocurrency fraud stole tens of billions of dollars from ordinary people around the world. Unlike Madoff or Enron, who relieved the world’s wealthi 了解更多

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The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea

作者 Sung-Yoon Lee 出版社:PAN MACMILLAN U 出版日期2023-06-15

Prices include Singapore GST (if applicable). For eligible deliveries outside Singapore, prices may vary at Checkout based on local taxes and duties.Details Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murderous regime’s ch 了解更多

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Shutdown : How Covid Shook the World's Economy

作者 Adam Tooze 出版社:Penguin Books Ltd 出版日期2023-03-30

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic' The Times From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, r 了解更多

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BEIJING RULES: CHINA'S QUEST FOR GLOBAL INFLUENCE

作者 Bethany Allen 出版社:JOHN MURRAY 出版日期2023-03-08

Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China's hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back' Kirkus Reviews The remarkable story of China's two-decade quest for global dominance. For several decades China's ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quiet coercion. Stories of the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian reach are breathtaking - the gagging of sports stars and 了解更多

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THE LION AND THE DRAGON BRITAIN AND CHINA : A HISTORY OF CONFLICT

作者 Lawrence James 出版社:WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 出版日期2023-03-08

Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in the awakening of China, then covers relations between the two countries during the period when an aroused China did indeed shake the world. Lawrence Jame 了解更多

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Rendezvous with Injustice – How a family survived hell after blowing the whistle on the 1MDB financial scam

作者 Laura Justo , Xavier Justo 出版社:Laura Justo, Xavier Justo 出版日期2023-02-14

“A riveting tale of love, betrayal, greed and fraud." – Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian “A real-life horror story, grippingly and movingly written, that deserves to be read by anyone opposed to corruption." – Clare Rewcastle Brown, author of ‘The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Exposé’ What happens when you blow the lid on a financial scam involving playboy businessmen, the prime minister of a country, and the laundering of billions of dollars? 了解更多

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Defeating the Dictators : How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman

作者 Charles Dunst 出版社:Hodder & Stoughton 出版日期2023-02-02

Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch 'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MP The world is currently experiencing the lowest levels of democracy we have seen in over thirty years. Autocracy is on the rise, and while the cost of autocracy seems evident, it nevertheless remains an attractive option to many. While leaders like Viktor Orban disr 了解更多

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ANWAR IBRAHIM: TENACIOUS IN DISSENT, HOPEFUL IN POWER

作者 Khoo Boo Teik 出版社:Gerakbudaya Enterprise 出版日期2023-01-10

Over 50 years Anwar Ibrahim was a Malay nationalist student, a motor of Islamic activism, a co-opted rising star in government, an ‘anointed successor’ to the premiership, a persecuted reformist, and a revitalized Opposition Leader. He disdained comfortable irrelevance to rouse indignant masses against the regimes of five prime ministers. In September 1998 he was a political prisoner with a blackened eye. In November 2023 he became the Prime Minister. In the 21st century 了解更多

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SCHOLAR ACTIVIST KHOO KHAY JIN: REFLECTIONS ON THE PENAN SARAWAK AND MALAYSIA

作者 Francis Loh Kok Wah 出版社:SIRD and ALIRAN 出版日期2023-01-09

Khay Jin worked ... to identify strategies to eradicate poverty and improve employment and equity restructuring in Sabah and Sarawak. He was never an arm-chair critic ... he personally took part in a number of focus group discussions with communities ... to obtain and analyse data and input from various stakeholders including grassroots communities and to ensure their voices were heard and taken into consideration in national and state planning. Citation from the UNITED NAT 了解更多

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KNOWING YOUR ROOTS: IN THE WAKE OF THE NEW XIONG-NUS AT CHINA’S GATE

作者 Lim Yu-Book 出版社:Lim Yu-Book 出版日期2023-01-07

Before Donald Trump declared trade war on China, most Chinese were happy to accept the US as the lǎo-dà (老大)—not exactly the ‘big boss’ in its usual intended meaning, but more a status accorded to someone out of an air of resignation and light contempt. Since he wants to be number one, let him be! But we know his true colours! China was not quite perturbed by Trump’s trade war. They knew who the ultimate losers would be. But the fact that the coronavirus was 了解更多

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COVID-19: CRITICAL & PERIOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE

作者 Dr. Anor Hidayah Za 出版社:Hidayah Zainool 出版日期2023-01-06

This book is for the reader to know the actual situation of handling critically ill patients in the critical care unit and operation theatre The truth and reality that most of the front liners in the hospital and critical care setting scenario are difficult to imagine. Portraying the collective interaction of daily living as doctor and specialist in her field, falling sick and giving up is not an option. Instead, she finds strength in every bump and hurdle. And would l 了解更多

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MY STORY: BENEATH CALM WATERS

作者 Michelle Ng 出版社:Top Hat Pte.Ltd 出版日期2023-01-06

Michelle was elected as the State Assemblywoman for Subang Jaya in 2018. At 28 years old, she was the youngest elected representative in the 14th Selangor State Assembly. Michelle also served as Chair of the Select Committee on Water Resource, and was thus the only woman Chair of a Select Committee that term. 了解更多

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DOCTOR IN THE DOCK

作者 Ariza Mohamed 出版社:Firdaus Press Publication 出版日期2023-01-06

DR. ARIZA MOHAMED is currently an Associate Professor with UniKL- RCMP in Ipoh. She teaches medical students. One of the topics she taught was on pre-term labour. She graduated as a specialist in 1997. She worked as a consultant specialist in several hospitals before joining the university. She led a fairly quiet life until she was summoned in 2018 by her patient 15 years before for severe prematurity which had unfortunately ended as cerebral palsy. She had to endure a trial 了解更多

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Anwar: Prologue Moving Forward Towards A Progressive Nation

作者 Ronifira Rejab 出版社:Jagat Media 出版日期2023-01-05

Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim has solemnly sworn his oath in the 24th of November, 2022. This Paramount inquiry remains, will he be able to safeguard this Unity Goverment, or otherwise? 了解更多

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Unequal Partners

作者 Joe Samad 出版社:SIRD 出版日期2023-01-05

Malaysia desperately needs a new perspective and a new narrative to rid itself of the 60-year yoke of regressive policies and politicking that has stifled its advancement. Race, religion and identity politics still dominate the national narrative. The solution to these destructive politics will not come from the peninsula. It is Sabah and Sarawak, with its history of racial harmony and religious tolerance that we must look to for that new perspectives, direction, and leadersh 了解更多

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Regaining Control: Malaysia Economic Policy During Covid and Beyond

作者 Shankaran Nambiar 出版社:SIRD 出版日期2023-01-03

“Covid-19 was a global pandemic. All countries, and nearly all localities, were affected. And yet infection rates, death rates, and impact on societies varied widely. What accounts for this variance? The Malaysian story is told by Shankaran Nambiar, one of the country’s leading economists. We already know that in the United States, Covid-19 responses became highly politicised. The China story seems equally political, but driven from the top down. The Malaysian story is n 了解更多

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Bangsa Melayu: Malay Concepts of Democracy and Community, 1945-1950

作者 Ariffin Omar 出版社:SIRD 出版日期2023-01-03

The years immediately after the Second World War were critical in the remaking of Southeast Asian societies. 'Bangsa Melayu' is an innovative study of political ideology in two related but distinct Malay communities in peninsular Malaya and East Sumatra at this time of tremendous political ferment. Prior to this period the kerajaan – monarchies headed by the sultans – had been central to Malay political culture and identity. With the rise of nationalism, contestation over 了解更多

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Another One Case

作者 Syamirulah Rahim 出版社:PENERBITAN KATA PILAR (M) SDN BHD 出版日期2023-01-02

Memory is a double-edged sword that is both a blessing and a curse. In the halls of a hospital, echoes of human suffering and triumph ring loudest, imprinting indelible marks upon the minds of its workers. Some memories are sweet, a blissful balm to recall; others knives-sharp, wounding the soul. Death and life, pain and healing, laughter and tears - however we choose to remember them, they remain forever unforgettable. 20 cases, 20 writers. Regardless of whether we are healt 了解更多

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Resetting Malaysia Education, Faith and Society

作者 Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi 出版社:SIRD 出版日期2023-01-02

This book intends to reset and make Malaysia into a nation for the rakyat, not just for a select few. Resetting Malaysia compiles articles that put forth ideas on how every Malaysian can make changes that will eventually bind us into a single nation that respects the faiths, cultures and lifestyles of all—by challenging inherited perspectives, narratives and perceptions. Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi explores how educational institutions impart imitative and uncritical practices 了解更多

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Making Democracy Work: Institutional Reforms for Malaysia

作者 Ooi Kok Hin (BERSIH) 出版社:Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) 出版日期2022-11-01

For decades, institutions have been deprived of the capability to provide meaningful and effective check and balance on the executive. However, following the end of dominant party rule in 2018 and the political turbulence that followed, the concentration of power in the prime minister began to be contested as the demand for reforms grew. In Making Democracy Work, Bersih brings together contributions from researchers and experts to study and propose recommendations in four key 了解更多

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War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the COVID Pandemic

作者 Pierre Kory 出版社: Skyhorse 出版日期2022-10-25

Big Pharma and health agencies cry "Don't take ivermectin!" A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite? Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas asking those afflicted with COVID-19 not to take the drug. But why? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory, the co-founder of an expert group of physicians’, and his pligh 了解更多

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Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You

作者 Parag Khanna 出版社:Orion Publishing Co 出版日期2022-10-06

Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050? Mobility is a recurring feature of human civilisation. Now, as climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilise and technology disrupts, we're entering a new age of mass migrations - one that will scatter both the dispossessed and the well-off. Which areas will people abandon and where will they resettle? Which countr 了解更多

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No Escape : The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs

作者 Nury Turkel 出版社:HarperCollins Publishers 出版日期2022-10-05

A devastating account of China's genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was born in a 're-education' camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He spent the first several months of his life in captivity with his mother, who was beaten and starved while pregnant with him, whilst his father served a penal sentence in an agricultural labour camp. Following this traumatic start - and not without a heavy dose of good fo 了解更多

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We Are Marching Now : The Inside Story Of Bersih 1.0

作者 Danny Lim 出版社:Matahari Books 出版日期2022-09-01

Bersih was ostensibly all about electoral reform. But it has become so much more than that. For Bersih was – is? – a Big Thing. You don’t bring the nation’s capital to a standstill – five times from 2007 to 2016 – without leaving an enduring impact. But how did it start, and by whom? (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t Ambiga.) Dozens of people involved in the very first Bersih speak candidly to journalist Danny Lim about the motivations, strategies, surprising cooperati 了解更多

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Who Lost Russia?: From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War in Ukrain

作者 Peter Conradi 出版社:OneWorld 出版日期2022-08-25

An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his catastrophic invasion of Ukraine in February 2022? And how much are failures of Western policy towards Russia since the end of Communism to blame for the bloodiest war on European soil since 1945? These are the questions at the heart of Who Lost Russia?, an updated edition of which Oneworld will be publishing this July. In the original version of this book, critic 了解更多

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The Lazarus Heist

作者 White Geoffrey 出版社:Penguin Business 出版日期2022-08-09

Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. They form one of the most effective criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more than $1bn in an international crime spree. Their targets include central banks, cryptocurrency companies, film studios and even the British National Health Service.In this jaw-dropping, global investigation, journalist Geoff White examines how the North Korean regime has harnessed 了解更多

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Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

作者 Kishore Mahbubani 出版社:PublicAffairs 出版日期2022-08-02

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun. America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.America values strategic decisiveness; China valu 了解更多

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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

作者 Desmond Shum 出版社:Simon & Schuster 出版日期2022-07-09

THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder’s Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously reappeared four years later on the eve of Red Roulette’s publication and global media coverage about it 了解更多

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The Unfinished Business

作者 Yeo Bee Yin 出版社:REFSA 出版日期2022-07-01

COULD HE HEAL HER BROKEN HEART? What was she doing here? Hyattown had changed very little in the years Vanessa Sexton had been away. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hadn't changed much either - he was still lean, athletic, rugged...But the once reckless boy had become a solid, dependable man. He'd stood her up on the most important night of her life; could she ever trust him again? So Vanessa had finally come home, Brady thought. She could still t 了解更多

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How Politics Works (How Things Work)

作者 DK 出版社:DK UK 出版日期2022-06-02

Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique graphic guide. Combining clear, jargon-free language and bold, eye-catching graphics, How Politics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of politics. Covering everything from political theory to methods of government, the book presents the ideas and theories of key political philosophers, leaders, movem 了解更多

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

作者 Michael Lewis 出版社:WW Norton US 出版日期2022-04-05

New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was 了解更多

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REBEL: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom

作者 Rahaf Mohammed 出版社:HarperCollins 出版日期2022-03-08

• A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. • In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped from Saudi Arabia. But the eighteen-year-old only made it as far as Bangkok before her passport was taken away. Stuck in a hotel room, the teenager decided to reach out to the world on Twitter – and the world answered. Her account gained 45,00 了解更多

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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

作者 Bill Gates 出版社:Allen lane 出版日期2022-03-05

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off 了解更多

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Eve of Destruction : The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world

作者 John Hughes-Wilson 出版社:John Blake Publishing Ltd 出版日期2022-03-03

US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, might spring to mind at the mention of nuclear destruction, but the majority of the events recorded in this book are entirely unknown to most people. This book records the f 了解更多

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Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

作者 Peter Schweizer 出版社: Harper 出版日期2022-01-25

That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony. Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League universities, even professional athletes—all willing to sacrifice American strength and security on the altar of personal enrichment. In Red-Handed, six-ti 了解更多

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The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism

作者 Zawawi Ibrahim 出版社:Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) 出版日期2022-01-01

This book explores the ethnography of emerging proletarian social consciousness and resistance. By the 1970s Malay peasants on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia found themselves reconstituted as a class, not only as an economic category but also as a community in a capitalist plantation frontier society. The plantation, as a window to capitalism, serves as a micro-level base to explore how Malays responded to wage labour and the plantation’s class hierarchy. More specif 了解更多

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MANAGING MALAYSIA AS TUN MAHATHIR

作者 Dr. Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri 出版社:Biblio Press 出版日期2022-01-01

Managing a nation is the highest form of achievement that any leader can possess. Tun Dr. Mahathir who has vast experience and calibre of managing Malaysia fro twenty-three years as Prime Minister over two terms certainly is one-of-a-kind world leader. What are the challenges and hardship managing Malaysia over the years? In this book, Dr. Zaharuddin has diligently put forth interesting insights on how Tun Dr. Mahathir has become one of the most respected leader while bringi 了解更多

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Final Reckoning: An Insider's View of The Fall of Malaysia's Barisan Nasional Government

作者 Romen Bose 出版社:Penguin Random House SEA 出版日期2021-12-14

An unparalleled political blockbuster of intrigue, disaster, incompetence and the biggest financial scandal the world has ever seen Romen Bose worked as a Political Communications Consultant for former Malaysian Premier Najib Razak for six years and was a close confidante to decision makers in the upper echelon of the country's political elite. Bose was present during the major controversies that hit the Najib Razak administration, witnessing first-hand how the country's 了解更多

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What's In A Name

作者 Nazir Razak 出版社:Whitefox Publishing 出版日期2021-11-08

What's in a Name takes readers to the often troubled heart of Malaysian politics and business over the last fifty years. Nazir Razak built CIMB Group into one of the most successful banks in Asean. In a career spanning three decades, he has been at the centre of the action. And when he was not, he had a ringside seat for all the biggest deals and power struggles, victories and defeats involving some of the most colourful characters of recent times. In this revealing mem 了解更多

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Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

作者 Sam Harris 出版社:Corgi 出版日期2021-08-19

"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam Harris Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris's search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth a 了解更多

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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering The World

作者 Tom Burgis 出版社:William Collins 出版日期2021-08-07

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN 'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA 'Combines forensic investigative journalism with the narrative propulsion of a literary thriller. 了解更多

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Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World

作者 Clive Hamilton 出版社:One World 出版日期2021-08-06

Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, Hollywood, think tanks, universities and the Chinese diaspora are being ma 了解更多

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Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

作者 Sathnam Sanghera 出版社:Penguin 出版日期2021-07-10

***FEATURING UPDATED AND NEW MATERIAL*** ***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times _____________________________________________________ EMPIRE explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide. EMPIRE explains Brexit and the feeling that we are exceptional. EMPIRE expla 了解更多

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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (PB)

作者 Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac 出版社:HarperCollins 出版日期2021-06-04

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it in the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015--have written a cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and 了解更多

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (PB)

作者 Fareed Zakaria 出版社:W.W. Norton Company 出版日期2021-05-10

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering 了解更多

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

作者 Michale Lewis 出版社:W. W. Norton & Company 出版日期2021-05-04

The news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big-scary big, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities, medical and political, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis's riveting nonfiction thriller pits a rogue band of visionaries, working under the radar, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom. It is a race against time, and the deadline is now ... or yesterday. 了解更多

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THE BOMBER MAFIA

作者 Malcolm Gladwell 出版社:LITTLE BROWN 出版日期2021-04-27

"In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most m 了解更多

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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

作者 Tim Marshall 出版社:HarperCollins 出版日期2021-04-22

Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding' - Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. 了解更多

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Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

作者 David Goodhart 出版社:Penguin Books 出版日期2021-04-03

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere 'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph 'Utterly compelling ... one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe' Sunday Times The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known: that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers and cleaners are doing essential work that keep 了解更多

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Our House is on Fire : Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

作者 Beata Thunberg , Greta Thunberg , Svante Thunberg , Malena Ernman 出版社:Penguin Books 出版日期2021-04-03

The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her younger s 了解更多

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Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

作者 Nadav Eyal 出版社:Pan MacMillan 出版日期2021-04-02

A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' -Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism today. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is unsustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current w 了解更多

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