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  First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)

  by Loung Ung

  One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the... (more)
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  John Perkins Economic Hitman: Book 2

  The Secret History of the American Empire

  Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption

  by John Perkins

  A riveting exposé of international corruption—and what we can do about it, from the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skullduggery of a de facto American Empire. This... (more)
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  Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

  by John Pomfret

  “A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China’s hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future.”— The New York Times Book Review   As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm... (more)
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  Essential Gandhi; An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas

  by Louis Fischer, Gandhi

  Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty,... (more)
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  My Year of Meats

  by Ruth L. Ozeki

  Veteran filmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years" ( Glamour ). It tells the story of a year in the lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break--a chance to travel through the U.S. to produce a Japanese... (more)
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  Politics in Pakistan

  by Khalid B. Sayeed

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  Pakistan- the Formative Phase 1857--1948

  by Khalid B. Sayeed

  Benedicte Grima asserts in this engrossing study, that performing these rituals of grief and suffering , the paxtun women are in no way less comparative then their male counterparts in revenge and killing.