Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-09-21
Type: BOOK
Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be. “This touching memoir of an American dropped into the ...
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2019-05-21
Type: BOOK
An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt’s past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians: political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-08-04
Type: BOOK
In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they ...
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Type: BOOK
In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-01-21
Type: BOOK
“Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment.” —The New York Times Book Review From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country ...
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-05-07
Type: BOOK
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural ...
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-02-14
Type: BOOK
"Iep jāltok is a collection of poetry by a young Marshallese woman highlighting the traumas of her people through colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of nuclear testing by America, and the impending threats of climate change" ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-05
Type: BOOK
China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic and political story of the last three decades. Arthur Kroeber enhances our understanding of China's changes and their implications.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-09-29
Type: BOOK
This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-06-11
Type: BOOK
In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service--offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation--to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful ...
