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A Billion Voices by David Moser
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
After Cancer - A Guide to Living Well by Ranjana Srivastava
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
As medical care improves, people are surviving cancer in increasing numbers. But there is little information about life post-treatment--what are some common themes and long-term side effects that people can expect to encounter? With warmth and vigor, After Cancer demystifies the aftermath of treatment, ...Show more
America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? by Kori Schake
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"The rules-based international order is being challenged... not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the US." --European Council President Donald Tusk, 8 June 2018 Under President Donald Trump, the United States has burned like a wildfire through the goodwill it accrued in 70 ...Show more
Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution by FRENCH PAUL
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At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victors set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan. Yet, the country was to be severely disappointed. This study explores China's betrayal by the West, ...Show more
Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials by Xu Xi
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials: the Hong Kong Ser.
Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city's enduring presenc ...Show more
Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
Flock of Brown Birds by Ge Fei
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In this avant garde novella, memory and time are subjective. A writer named Ge Fei retreats to the beautiful solitude of the Waterside to finish his novel inspired by the Revelations of St. John. He perceives ominous and portentous signs in the natural landscape around him, particularly in a flock of br ...Show more
Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China's Shadow: Penguin Specials by Benjamin Bland
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials: the Hong Kong Ser.
Teenage activists turned politicians, multi-millionaire super tutors and artists fighting censorship - these are the stories of Generation HK. From radically different backgrounds yet with a common legacy, having grown up in post-handover Hong Kong, these young people have little attachment to the era o ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
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