Post Economic Growth - Development Challenges in East Asia (Press City University of Hong Kong)(Paperback / softback)

Post Economic Growth - Development Challenges in East Asia (Press City University of Hong Kong)(Paperback / softback)

City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong (Dapiran Antony)(Paperback)

A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a

Asia Bond Monitor - June 2020 (Asian Development Bank)(Paperback)

This edition of the Asia Bond Monitor reviews developments in emerging East Asian local currency bond markets and discusses how the financial sector can help fund the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).Local currency bonds outstanding in emerging East Asian markets climbed to USD16.3

International Relations of East Asia: Structures, Institutions and International Order (Huang Xiaoming)(Paperback)

East Asia's rapidly changing role in international security, the global economy, development and global governance are expertly accounted for in this much-needed, state-of-the-art text. Xiaoming Huang offers an engaging and informed account of the key concepts, issues and actors working in this

Central Peripheries - Nationhood in Central Asia (Laruelle Marlene)(Paperback / softback)

Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of

Between Kant and Hegel - Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism (Harris H. S.)(Paperback / softback)

Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty (Lansley Stewart)(Paperback)

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet. Based on exclusive access to the

Beach (Garland Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can

Dynamic Growth of Chinese Firms in the Global Market: Challenges, Strategies and Implications (Tse David K.)(Paperback)

How have Chinese multinationals benefited from China's economic boom to enable their international expansion? This book is based on many years of original research tracing the emergence, growth and future of Chinese firms in the world economy. The authors seek to provide new perspectives and

Issues and Challenges in the Malaysian Economy: Towards Inclusive Growth (Hamid Mohd Fahmee Ab)(Paperback)

Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book investigates a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on jobs creation and the threats of environmental degradation and trade protectionism. In developing the debate around

Rice Mother (Manicka Rani)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the South East Asia and South Pacific Region Commonwealth Writers' Prize in

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Wagner Jan)(Paperback / softback)

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme ''Speech and Silence.'' Poet, essayist, translator of Anglo-American poetry, Jan Wagner has published seven collections of poetry and his works

Strengthening Rural Livelihoods - The impact of information and communication technologies in Asia(Paperback / softback)

Enthusiasm among international development agencies about harnessing the potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development has waned as observers have recently questioned the impact and sustainability of such interventions. By presenting the findings of research

Making of Europe - Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 (Bartlett Robert)(Paperback / softback)

A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what

Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood (Booth Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire... An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the

Noble House - The Fifth Novel of the Asian Saga (Clavell James)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling James Clavell's classic novel of age-old feuds played out in modern Hong Kong - now in stunning new

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 (Brunton Deborah (The Open University UK))(Paperback / softback)

Medicine in Modern Britain 1780-1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine - scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional - in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times. Divided thematically, each chapter within this book addresses a different

Vertigo (Barr Charles (University of East Anglia UK))(Paperback / softback)

In the 1992 Sight and Sound poll, critics and film-makers voted Vertigo the fourth greatest film of all time. This new edition of Barr's study of Vertigo is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by the author, and a stunning new jacket

Hope Without Optimism (Eagleton Terry)(Paperback / softback)

In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to

Tai-Pan - The Second Novel of the Asian Saga (Clavell James)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling classic set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong repackaged for a new generation of

Breakfast with the Nikolides - A Virago Modern Classic (Godden Rumer)(Paperback / softback)

Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting

Dross City: Urban Metabolism - Carlo Gasparrini, Anna Terracciano

An in-depth, illustrated exploration of one of humanity's greatest challenges: its rubbish Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger

Darling Days - A New York City Childhood (Wright iO Tillett)(Paperback / softback)

A New York memoir of an unfettered childhood in the Lower East Side of the

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Tomasello Michael)(Paperback)

“A landmark in our understanding of human development.”?Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You’re Told“Magisterial…Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can…be