This triumphant, upbeat story, shows how one small action can bring big, positive change. From the creators of the international bestseller & much-loved classic, Giraffes Can't Dance. And as the tree began to blossom, Just like Chutney said, The Children both began to feel The happiness it spread. Chutney the chimpanzee has a special tree
- a happy tree! Can he plant it in Drabsville & bring hope & joy to a once dreary town?A colourful, rhyming story about happiness & positivity from the creative-duo behind Giraffes Can't Dance. Giraffes Can't Dance has been a much-loved family favourite for over 20 years, & has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. (Adapted from The Chimpanzees of Happy Town, first published in 2006.)
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China is rising. But how should the West
- & the United States in particular
- respond? This could be the key geopolitical question

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A controversial look at the impending Chinese economic collapse--the history behind it, its contemporary causes, & its dire implications for the global economy All the experts agree: the 21st century belongs to China. Given Americas looming insolvency & the possibility of the collapse of the U.S. dollar, who can doubt that China is poised to take over the role of economic superpower? Written by political economist & leading financial journalist James Gorrie, this book offers a highly controversial, contrarian view of contemporary China. Drawing upon a wealth of historical & up-to-the-minute data, Gorrie makes a strong case that China, itself, is on the verge of an economic crisis of epic proportions. He explains how, caught in a recurrent boom/bust cycle that has played itself out several times over the past sixty years, China is again approaching total economic & social collapse. But with one important difference this time: they may very well take the entire global economy down with them. Explores the Chinese communist partys unfortunate history of making costly & very bloody mistakes on an enormous scale One-by-one Gorrie analyzes those critical mistakes & explains how they may lead to economic collapse in China & global depression Describes Chinese "cannibal capitalism, " & where its massive abuse of the countrys environment, people, & arable lands is leading that country & the world economy Chronicles Chinas history of recurring economic crisis & explains why all the evidence suggests that history is about to repeat itself ...

An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor. In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions & perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light into the darkest corners of the human heart. ...

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. Kinnit is rich, handsome & successful, but his past is a mystery to him & he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own
- involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess
- that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

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Timothy Kinnit needs Albert Campion's help. He is rich, handsome & successful but his past is a mystery to him & he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of his own
- involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess
- that must also be brought to life by Campion's investigations. An Albert Campion mystery.

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These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, & describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to Engl&. The visit was a catalogue of frustrations, which he relates with the verve & irony of a master narrator who relished the human comedy. His efforts to meet the real life & mind of China, in whose history & politics he had long been interested, were blocked at every turn by the resources of state propaganda & the claustrophobic attention of sullen Party guides. The visit was arranged by the London-based Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, which was ostensibly committed to the impartial interchange of culture & ideas. It proved to be run by a Communist claque whose ruthless methods of control outwitted the well-connected membership. Back in Engl&, & with help from MI5, he resolved to get to the bottom of the society's affairs. His investigations provoked a tumultuous public row which Trevor-Roper, no shirker of controversy, zestfully traces in these pages. Through the book, which closes with an account of his visit to Taiwan & South-East Asia in 1967, there runs the wisdom of historical perspective that he brought to contemporary events & his lifelong commitment to the defence of liberal values & practices against their ideological adversaries. ...

In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they
- good Christians all
- profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways. & that was just the beginning. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age of the A-Bomb, THE CHINA MIRAGE explores a difficult century that defines U.S
- Chinese relations to this day.


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Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies & "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals & the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? & how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions & more. Opening with a critique of "one person, one vote" as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages & pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy & democracy, & argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable & politically stable. Bell summarizes & evaluates the " China model"--meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, & democracy at the bottom--and its implications for the rest of the world. A timely & original book that will stir up interest & debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. ...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies & "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals & the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? & how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions & more. Opening with a critique of "one person, one vote" as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages & pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy & democracy, & argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable & politically stable. Bell summarizes & evaluates the " China model"--meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, & democracy at the bottom--and its implications for the rest of the world. A timely & original book that will stir up interest & debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. ...