DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation & evolution & future of China`s state-controlled capitalism. Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. Then, as Treasury secretary, he created the Strategic Economic Dialogue with what is now the world`s second-largest economy. While negotiating with China on needed economic reforms, he safeguarded the teetering U.S. financial system. Over his career, Paulson has worked with scores of top Chinese leaders, including Xi Jinping, China`s most powerful man in decades. In DEALING WITH CHINA, Paulson draws on his unprecedented access to modern China`s political & business elite, including its three most recent heads of state, to answer several key questions: How did China become an economic superpower so quickly? How does business really get done there? What are the best ways for Western business & political leaders to work with, compete with, & benefit from China? How can the West negotiate with & influence China given its authoritarian rule, its massive environmental concerns, & its huge population`s unrelenting demands for economic growth & security? Written in an anecdote-rich, page-turning style, DEALING WITH CHINA is certain to become the classic & definitive examination of unlocking, building, & engaging an economic superpower. ...

Following the successful publication of Dear Francesca & Dear Olivia, bestselling author, Mary Contini picks up the thread of her family story from 1934 in Pozzuoli, Naples, following the commercial success of the family business
- Edinburgh`s acclaimed Valvona & Crolla
- & the Dolce Vita of parent`s generation. With her inimitable style she shares stories of exuberant family relationships, mouth-watering food & hilarious laughter, painting a vivid picture of life in wartime Italy & Scotland & the decades immediately after.

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Would you risk your life to save a stranger? Discover what happens next in the Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller, Dear Amy.. .A local schoolgirl has been missing for weeks when Margot Lewis, agony aunt of the ` Dear Amy` advice column, receives a letter: Dear Amy, I`ve been kidnapped by a strange man. I don`t know where I am. Please help me, Bethan Avery This must be a hoax. Because Bethan Avery is another young girl, who went missing twenty years ago. As more letters arrive, Margot becomes consumed by finding the sender &
- unlike the police
- convinced that the girls` disappearances are connected. Solving this puzzle could save someone`s life
- but could it also cost Margot her own? `A first-rate psychological thriller. It`s simply impossible to guess what`s coming next` Irish Independent ` Terrific
- delivers suspense, twists & smart writing` Julia Heaberlin, author of Sunday Times bestselling Black-Eyed Susans ` Haunting.. .this story will stay with you` Jane Corry, author of My Husband`s Wife ` Skilfully handled. An accomplished psychological thriller` Daily Mail



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So what is this England really like & how do the English really see themselves? Intrigued by the many contradictory emotions that the English feel for their own country, Harry Reid, one of Britain's leading journalists, set out on voyage of discovery. As he travels down the byways & up the highways of this green & pleasant l&, he anatomises a country which is still as rich & diverse & eccentric as ever. But is it a country at peace with itself? Has it lost its way? At a time of economic uncertainty & international upheaval would the English fly the flag or would the contrasts between city & village, slum & prosperity, betray a deeper ambiguity about what it actually means to be English? At the end of his journey Harry Reid attempts an analysis of where England is & where it is going. ...

From an award-winning project comes an inspiring, collaborative book that makes data artistic, personal
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From the show`s creators, a groundbreaking new novel, inspired by the Broadway smash hit, Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today`s going to be an amazing day & here`s why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen draws high school senior Evan Hansen into the Murphy family`s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell. That the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn`t invisible anymore. & Connor`s wealthy parents have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his `closest friend`. As Evan gets pulled deeper into their family, he knows that what he`s doing may not be right, but if he`s helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. He`s confident. He`s a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. But when everything is in danger of unravelling, he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity & the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity & profound isolation. ...

Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the `must-read` book that you wish you hadn`t? Librarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing letters to the books under her care, from love letters to Matilda & The Goldfinch, to snarky break-up notes to Fifty Shades of Grey & The Hobbit. Annie`s letters will make you laugh, remind you why you love your favourite books, & give you lots of new entries for your reading list. She`s also on-hand to help out with your bookish dilemmas: recommendations for lazy readers; excuses to tell your friends when you`d rather stay home reading; & how to turn your lover into a reader. Hilarious, compassionate & smart, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is the consummate book-lover`s book. ...

Worried that the whale living in her pond is unhappy, Emily writes to Greenpeace, who, though offering the best of advice, insist that it is impossible for a whale to live in a pond. Undeterred, Emily continues to seek the best course of action for her beloved whale, finally setting him free. ...

From the best-selling author of Americanah & We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today
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From the best-selling author of Americanah & We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today
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