This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the ` Wastepaper Queen`. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China`s story
- one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, & in the halls of power of the world`s largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual & the Communist Party`s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility & teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world`s largest buyer of Rolls Royces & Ferraris yet the word `luxury` is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. & why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.
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` The kind of vision the world needs right now... Pankaj Mishra shouldn`t stop thinking` Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times` This is the most astonishing, convincing, & disturbing book I`ve read in years` Joe Sacco` Urgent, profound & extraordinarily timely` John Banville How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world
- from American `shooters` & ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism & misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises
- freedom, stability & prosperity
- were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, & self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose
- angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, & anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, & the pursuit of wealth & individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity
- with the same terrible results Making startling connections & comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency & profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.




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` This is the most astonishing, convincing, & disturbing book I`ve read in years` Joe Sacco ` Urgent, profound & extraordinarily timely...throws light on our contemporary predicament, when the neglected & dispossessed of the world have suddenly risen up to transform the world we thought we knew` John Banville How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world
- from American `shooters` & ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism & misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises
- freedom, stability & prosperity
- were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, & self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose
- angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, & anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, & the pursuit of wealth & individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity
- with the same terrible results Making startling connections & comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency & profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.




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Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton`s greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark & disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the `eternal triangle` of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author`s combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched & meticulous evocation of the manners & style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel`s first publication in 1920. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction
- it won the Pulitzer Prize & it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author.
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J. M. Coetzee’s “ Age of Iron” is another example of why this author in particular has won both the Booker Prize & the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, J. M. Coetzee brings his insight & deft use of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange & disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies & brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant`s son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger & despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. ...

Street plan of Agen, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5`s Agent Zigzag. Dashing & louche, courageous & unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, & the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers & his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories & top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain`s most sensational double agent. ...

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower
- the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding & corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of Empire describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean & its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family, almost all of them previously invisible to history. They include an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia, & a dragoman (interpreter) at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul. Through the life-stories of these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome & the Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-ransoming & anti-Ottoman rebellion. He describes the conflicting strategies of the Christian powers, & the extraordinarily ambitious plans of the sultans & their viziers. Few works since Fernand Braudel`s classic account of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, published more than sixty years ago, have ranged so widely through this vital period of Mediterranean & European history. With a masterpiece of scholarship as well as story-telling, Agents of Empire builds up a panoramic picture, both of Western power-politics & of the interrelations between the Christian & Ottoman worlds.
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