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BEIJING RULES: CHINA'S QUEST FOR GLOBAL INFLUENCE

By Bethany Allen Publisher:John Murray Publication Date: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. Learn More

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THE NEW COLD WAR

By Robin Niblett Publisher:Atlantic Books Publication Date: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 Learn More

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THE WEST: A NEW HISTORY OF AN OLD IDEA

By Naoise Mac Sweeney Publisher:WH Allen Publication Date: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 Learn More

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REALITY: VIRTUAL WORLDS AND THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

By David J Publisher:Penguin Publication Date: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, Learn More

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

By Michael Dillon Publisher:Ebury Press Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Michiko Kakutani Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth

By Tom Burgis Publisher:William Collins Publication Date: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 Learn More

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THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM

By Martin Wolf Publisher:Penguin Publication Date: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, Learn More

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

By James Chai Publisher:Icon Books Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Devil's Coin

By Jennifer McAdam Publisher:William Morrow Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Sung-Yoon Lee Publisher:PAN MACMILLAN U Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Shutdown : How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By Adam Tooze Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date: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 Learn More

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BEIJING RULES: CHINA'S QUEST FOR GLOBAL INFLUENCE

By Bethany Allen Publisher:JOHN MURRAY Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Lawrence James Publisher:WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Laura Justo , Xavier Justo Publisher:Laura Justo, Xavier Justo Publication Date: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? Learn More

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

By Charles Dunst Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton Publication Date: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 Learn More

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ANWAR IBRAHIM: TENACIOUS IN DISSENT, HOPEFUL IN POWER

By Khoo Boo Teik Publisher:Gerakbudaya Enterprise Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Francis Loh Kok Wah Publisher:SIRD and ALIRAN Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Lim Yu-Book Publisher:Lim Yu-Book Publication Date: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 Learn More

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COVID-19: CRITICAL & PERIOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE

By Dr. Anor Hidayah Za Publisher:Hidayah Zainool Publication Date: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 Learn More

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MY STORY: BENEATH CALM WATERS

By Michelle Ng Publisher:Top Hat Pte.Ltd Publication Date: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. Learn More

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DOCTOR IN THE DOCK

By Ariza Mohamed Publisher:Firdaus Press Publication Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Anwar: Prologue Moving Forward Towards A Progressive Nation

By Ronifira Rejab Publisher:Jagat Media Publication Date: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? Learn More

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Unequal Partners

By Joe Samad Publisher:SIRD Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Regaining Control: Malaysia Economic Policy During Covid and Beyond

By Shankaran Nambiar Publisher:SIRD Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Ariffin Omar Publisher:SIRD Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Another One Case

By Syamirulah Rahim Publisher:PENERBITAN KATA PILAR (M) SDN BHD Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Resetting Malaysia Education, Faith and Society

By Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi Publisher:SIRD Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Making Democracy Work: Institutional Reforms for Malaysia

By Ooi Kok Hin (BERSIH) Publisher:Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Pierre Kory Publisher: Skyhorse Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Parag Khanna Publisher:Orion Publishing Co Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Nury Turkel Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: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 Learn More

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We Are Marching Now : The Inside Story Of Bersih 1.0

By Danny Lim Publisher:Matahari Books Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Peter Conradi Publisher:OneWorld Publication Date: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 Learn More

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The Lazarus Heist

By White Geoffrey Publisher:Penguin Business Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

By Kishore Mahbubani Publisher:PublicAffairs Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Desmond Shum Publisher:Simon & Schuster Publication Date: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 Learn More

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The Unfinished Business

By Yeo Bee Yin Publisher:REFSA Publication Date: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 Learn More

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How Politics Works (How Things Work)

By DK Publisher:DK UK Publication Date: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 Learn More

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By Michael Lewis Publisher:WW Norton US Publication Date: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 Learn More

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REBEL: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom

By Rahaf Mohammed Publisher:HarperCollins Publication Date: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 Learn More

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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

By Bill Gates Publisher:Allen lane Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By John Hughes-Wilson Publisher:John Blake Publishing Ltd Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Peter Schweizer Publisher: Harper Publication Date: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 Learn More

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The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism

By Zawawi Ibrahim Publisher:Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) Publication Date: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 Learn More

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MANAGING MALAYSIA AS TUN MAHATHIR

By Dr. Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri Publisher:Biblio Press Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Romen Bose Publisher:Penguin Random House SEA Publication Date: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 Learn More

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What's In A Name

By Nazir Razak Publisher:Whitefox Publishing Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Sam Harris Publisher:Corgi Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering The World

By Tom Burgis Publisher:William Collins Publication Date: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. Learn More

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

By Clive Hamilton Publisher:One World Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

By Sathnam Sanghera Publisher:Penguin Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Publisher:HarperCollins Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (PB)

By Fareed Zakaria Publisher:W.W. Norton Company Publication Date: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 Learn More

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By Michale Lewis Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company Publication Date: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. Learn More

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THE BOMBER MAFIA

By Malcolm Gladwell Publisher:LITTLE BROWN Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Tim Marshall Publisher:HarperCollins Publication Date: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. Learn More

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

By David Goodhart Publisher:Penguin Books Publication Date: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 Learn More

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

By Beata Thunberg , Greta Thunberg , Svante Thunberg , Malena Ernman Publisher:Penguin Books Publication Date: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 Learn More

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Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

By Nadav Eyal Publisher:Pan MacMillan Publication Date: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 Learn More

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