Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

Odd Arne Westad

Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, "Restless Empire" shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attit...

Lyra's Oxford (#3.5 His Dark Materials)

Philip Pullman

This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet . . . Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit high on the roof of Jor...

Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

Jonathan Slaght

The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owlThe forests near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire are the only place on earth where brown bears, leopards and tigers co-e...