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THE DRAGON'S TAIL
by WILLIAMS, ADAM |
| From the Cold War through the horror of the Cultural Revolution and into the bloody climax of Tiananmen Square, THE DRAGON¡¦S TAIL traces a gripping adventure of modern China. China is the land of Harry Airton¡¦s birth and privileged childhood ¡V until the Japanese invasion leaves him orphaned and rootless. For twelve angry, disaffected years he has dreamed of returning. When the British Secret Services sees in Harry the perfect spy to send on a dangerous mission to Beijing, he will finally get his chance. But under Mao¡¦s regime, nothing is what it once was. Love is a deadly weapon, and conscience a choice compromise all he ever believed, and risk losing everything he holds dear.
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HEDGE HOGGING
by BIGGS, BARTON |
| Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.
This book tells of the successes and the failures of these men and women. It unveils the moral code that they live by, and describes their different life styles and operating patterns. It also relates the adventures and travails of these incredibly intense and obsessed investment personalities, their peculiarities, and the stresses they experience. Hedgehogs are strange, insecure, but fascinating characters, preying on each other and other investors in the battle for investment survival. |
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CREATING WEALTH
by ALLEN, ROBERT G. |
| Popular speaker multimillionaire, and author of the all-time bestselling real-estate book Nothing Down, Robert G. Allen knows how to bring you financial success. With his seminars sweeping the nation, Allen is at the cutting edge of strategic wealth creation now more than ever. And in this completely revised edition of his classic bestseller Creating Wealth Allen gives you the basic principles that you need to stop thinking poor and start growing rich. Moving beyond just real estate, Allen goes straight to the core of people¡¦s inner motivations and beliefs about money to give you all the fundamentals of wealth creation. By developing a wealthy mind-set, anyone can take off into financial self-reliance ¡V and Allen shows you how. He explains the ways in which most of us have been programmed to think that only saving is good and debt and risk are bad, so that in our efforts to gain security, we cheat ourselves out of getting rich. |
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NIXON AND KISSINGER: PARTNERS IN POWER
by DALLEK, ROBERT |
| Tapping into the wealth of recently declassified archives, Robhert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger¡¦s tumultuous personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for achievements in foreign affairs. Dallek also brilliantly analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad, while recognizing how both men were continually plotting to distract the American public¡¦s attention from the growing scandal of Watergate. With unprecedented detail, Dallek reveals Nixon¡¦s erratic behavior during Watergate and the extent to which Kissinger was complicit in trying to help Nixon use national security to prevent his impeachment or resignation. |
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PRINCESS MASAKO: PRISONER OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM THRONE
by HILLS, BEN |
| Ben Hills¡¦s fascinating portrait of Princess Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, at Harvard and Oxford, and on more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, British, and Australian sources ¡V Masako¡¦s and Naruhito¡¦s friends, teachers, and former colleagues. Many of them have never spoken publicly before, and they now shed light on the royal family¡¦s darkest secrets, secrets that can never be discussed openly in Japan because of reverence in which the emperor and his family are held. Princess Masako poses questions that few in Japan would dare to ask, about the role of the emperor, theplace of women, attitudes toward mental health and IVE, and the power of the bureaucracy. But above all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong. |
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