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Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xxviiiI, 186 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A respected former prime minister of Singapore discusses Islamic terrorism; economic growth; democracy; the welfare state; education; the free market; the roles of the United States, China and India in world politics; and much more.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. So in January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. While remaining largely hidden from the American public and most of Congress,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle"--
1950s. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive Yang felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling...
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