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Chinese Lessons

Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

John Pomfret Holt Paperbacks

"[A] compulsively readable new book on today's China . . . Chinese Lessons is a rich, first-hand account of modern Chinese history as it was lived and experienced by five of the author's 1981 classmates at Nanjing University . . . Pomfret's affection for the people he is writing about almost always shows through, which keeps Chinese Lessons from feeling like a polemic; the book's accumulation of acutely observed detail is compelling."—Karl Taro Greenfeld, The Washington Post Book World

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The Argumentative Indian

Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

Amartya Sen Picador

"[A] profoundly wise and engaging collection of essays . . . While the pieces in The Argumentative Indian are, as one would expect, enjoyably erudite and full of intriguing insights, they are not written in academic language . . . The book is formed from a series of elegantly written historical and moral-philosophical essays which together cohere to form a single original argument: that India is and has always been 'a joint construction in which members of different communities were involved.'"—William Dalrymple, The New York Review of Books

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Angel of Vengeance The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination Ana Siljak St. Martin's Griffin In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver...

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