New Kings of the World
Title | New Kings of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Fatima Bhutto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | PERFORMING ARTS |
ISBN | 9781733623704 |
A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.
The New Kings of Crude
Title | The New Kings of Crude PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Patey |
Publisher | Hurst |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1849045380 |
In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan--only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Title | The New Kings of Nonfiction PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Glass |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2007-10-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1440620784 |
A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure- capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life. These pieces-on teenage white collar criminals, buying a cow, Saddam Hussein, drunken British soccer culture, and how we know everyone in our Rolodex-are meant to mesmerize and inspire.
The Way of Kings
Title | The Way of Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon Sanderson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 1013 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765376679 |
A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Title | The Last Kings of Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Kaufman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735224439 |
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
Kings of the Earth
Title | Kings of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Clinch |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-12-12 |
Genre | Brothers |
ISBN | 9781481175401 |
Told in a chorus of voices that spans a generation, "Kings of the Earth" examines the bonds of family and blood, faith and suspicion, that link not just three brothers but their entire community.
Kings of a Dead World
Title | Kings of a Dead World PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Mollart |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2024-04-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504094409 |
A novel set in a near-future world of hunger and hibernation: “[An] intriguing and timely premise . . . executed with verve.” —Alison Moore, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Missing The Earth’s resources are dwindling. The solution is The Sleep. Inside a hibernating city, Ben struggles with his limited waking time and the disease stealing his wife from him. Watching over the sleepers, lonely janitor Peruzzi craves the family he never knew. Everywhere, dissatisfaction is growing. And the city is about to wake . . . “A haunting vision of the near-future with expert world-building and rich complex characters.” —Temi Oh, Alex Award–winning author of More Perfect “A challenging dystopia for our time.” —Aliya Whiteley, Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist and author of Skyward Inn