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Age of Anger
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Pankaj Mishra |
From Goodreads (edited by me though): **One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis**
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress ha… |
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The Silk Roads
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Peter Frankopan,Peter FRANKOPAN |
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of… |
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Easternization
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Gideon Rachman |
"Easternization is the defining trend of our age--the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power. This shift to the East is shaping the lives of people all ove… |
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When Shakespeare lost the plot
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Subhuti Anand Waight |
"Posing a clever analogy to the well-known line of Hamlet, to be or not to be, the author exposes the superficiality of Western culture and points to the deeper dimension of Eastern meditation. To be… |
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