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This Pulitzer-prize-winning and National Book Critics Circle award-winning rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that ...
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In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of ...
Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs ...
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 ...
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