Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
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Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian...
Biography science
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Paul Taylor and Pew Research Center
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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is...
Politics social issues
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
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A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and...
History politics
Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt, Christine Reiko Yano and Yifen Tsau Beus
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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and...
George Yeo on Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao: Pruning the Banyan Tree
Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee and George Yong-Boon Yeo
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Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of...
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - the Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume 4
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The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most...
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell
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The four volumes of spin-doctor and strategist Alastair Campbell's Diaries were a publishing...
African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
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Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for...
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
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Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject...