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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)

by Mark Cooper-Jones

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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu Anyan

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The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

by Ruixue Jia (Goodreads Author)

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The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad

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and, from 1867, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The latter title was a defensive move. Defeated by Prussia and under pressure from within, the Habsburg emperor Franz Joseph agreed to the renaming in order to mobilize powerful ...more

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Harald’s Quotes

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The truth is that there was very little patriotism in France in 1793, if by patriotism we mean a willingness to suspend party conflict in wholehearted support of the government against foreign foes. To many Frenchmen the government seemed to be the worst enemy. In supporting it they would only encourage a body of men whose principles they detested, men who had outraged their monarchist sentiments, persecuted their religion, disrupted their business and made their property insecure.”
― R.R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution

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