Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a w...
In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party....
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of t...
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination...
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course fr...
The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century. From the sage-kings of ancient China to the...
A memoir from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Not only [Buck’s] most important book, but—on many counts—her best...
In 1951, Ningkun Wu returned to China from the University of Chicago to teach English at the behest of the new Communist government. Two years la...
The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman -- is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form b...
This classic gives a unique and sweeping insight into life in China, and in particular the differences between China and the West. Chapters: The...
The Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic,...
The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in th...
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