FEATURED TITLES In the Middle of China's Future: What Two Decades of Worldwide Newspaper Columns Prefigure about the Future of the China-U.S. Relatio
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In the Middle of China's Future: What Two Decades of Worldwide Newspaper Columns Prefigure about the Future of the China-U.S. Relationship
by Tom Plate
AED 117.00
From the author of In the Middle of the Future: Tom Plate on Asia another substantial anthology of searching columns that tackle the really tough questions on where the U.S.-China rivalry and relationship may be headed. The best journalism tackles the really tough questions! Was the U.S. asleep when China was waking up? Or was its engagement too timid? Will Washington find conflict with Beijing unavoidable? Or has the U.S. policy of engagement and accommodation been the best way to go? Award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist Tom Plate reviews his own two-decade record of newspaper commentary on China in a searching re-evaluation of where he was right and where he went wrong and where the U.S.-China rivalry and relationship may be headed. With themed sections on Beijing's rise in Asia, bilateral relationship with the U.S., military and security questions and interlinked economies. Contains the best columns that succinctly illustrate the dynamic rise of China. |
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The Liar
by Nora Roberts
AED 91.00
Heart-broken but unbowed, Shelby is determined to fix her problems - if only for the sake of her gorgeous little daughter Callie. Returning home to Tennessee and the family she thought she'd lost for ever, she discovers a new sense of strength and freedom. And hope, too, in the handsome form of carpenter Griffin Lott - a straight-dealing man who couldn't lie to her if he tried. |
9781447274735 |
Mobile Library
by David Whitehouse
AED 85.00
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he's been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble and Val is in danger of losing her job. There's only one thing to do -- and so they take to the road in the mobile library...Quirky, dark, magical and full of heart, Mobile Library is both a tragicomic road trip and a celebration of the adventures that books can take us on. It's a love-letter to unlikely families and the stories that shaped us. |
9781939714039 |
Are You Fully Charged?
The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life
by Tom Rath
AED 99.00
Tom Rath, author of five influential bestsellers, reveals the three keys that matter most for our daily health and well-being, as well as our engagement in our work. Drawing on the latest and most practical research from health, psychology, and economics, this book focuses on changes we can make to create better days for ourselves and others. Are You Fully Charged? will challenge you to stop pursuing happiness and start creating meaning instead, lead you to rethink your daily interactions with the people who matter most, and show you how to put your own health first in order to be your best every day. |
9780307908230 |
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from
Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
by Leonard Mlodinow
AED 120.00
Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. In the process, he presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species and our society that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today’s technological world. |
9781406360721 |
Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done
by Stephan Pastis
AED 46.00
Timmy Failure is back and he's as clueless as ever in this New York Times bestselling sequel to Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. Packed full of laughs, this hilarious book is perfect for fans of Wimpy Kid and Barry Loser. Timmy Failure is the founder, president and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, probably the country, perhaps the world. And he's about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe. But someone is clearly trying to cheat. Bamboozle. Hoodwink. Con. Defraud. So it's up to Timmy, with the dubious help of Total, his lazy polar bear partner, and his unlikely new ally, eccentric Great Aunt Colander, to find a way to avenge these shenanigans. Defeat this injustice. And obliterate Timmy's arch-nemesis, the WEDGIE, aka the Worldwide Enemy of Da Goodness In Everything. If he can only get his entry form in on time. |
9781407148748 |
Tiny Bit Lucky (Tom Gates 7)
by Liz Pichon
AED 46.00
From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children's Book Award, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award 2013, comes the seventh amazing instalment of Tom Gates' adventures - now in paperback! Will Tom and his band DOGZOMBIES be LUCKY enough to win the Rockweekly Bandbattle competition? They just might be if they could find time to practice! But with inspectors in the school, an amazing new cartoon on TV, caramel wafers to eat and a stray cat getting in the way, Tom's a bit too busy having FUN! |
9781421580364 |
Tokyo Ghoul 1
by Sui Ishida
AED 56.00
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she's only interested in his body - eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own. |
9780785190226 |
Ms. Marvel 2: Generation Why
by G. Willow Wilson
AED 69.00
Who is the Inventor, and what does he want with the all-new Ms. Marvel and all her friends? Maybe Wolverine can help! Kamala may be fan-girling out when her favourite (okay maybe Top Five) super hero shows up, but that won't stop her from protecting her hometown. Then, Kamala crosses paths with Inhumanity for the first time - by meeting the royal dog, Lockjaw! Every girl wants a puppy, but this one may be too much of a handful, even for a super hero with embiggening powers. Collecting: Ms. Marvel 6-11 |
9780241198667 |
Curry
AED 130.00
Take your taste buds on a global curry adventure. Invite top chefs, writers and cooks into your kitchen, from Vivek Singh (The Cinnamon Club), Das Sreedharan (Rasa Restaurants) to David Thompson (Nahm) and they'll share their secrets for authentic, taste-tingling curries that are easy to create at home. |
9780500517819 |
People of Print:
Innovative, Independent Design and Illustration
by Marcroy Smith
AED 195.00
Here is a an overview of the exceptional work produced and championed by over fifty of the leading illustrators, printmakers and designers from the sphere of independent, print-based design. People of Print is split into three sections: Part 1 features essays by journalist Andrew Losowsky; Danielle Pender, curator at KK Outlet; and Lawrence Zeegen, Profess29or of Illustration at University of the Arts London. It includes interviews with Heretic, a London-based illustration and screen-printing studio, and Jeremy Leslie, Creative Director at magCulture; and a site visit to St Cuthberts Mill, a paper manufacturer in Somerset. Part 2 consists of profiles on such creatives as Brazilian illustrators Bicicleta Sem Freio, Melbourne-based screen-printers Dangerfork, Portland-based letterpress KeeganMeegan & Co., and New York-based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh. Part 3, the Directory, lists a wide selection of print-based websites. |
9789953888316 |
الحضور
by مايكل براون
AED 74.00
تقودنا الرواية وهي تسرد قصة حب نشبت بين شاب وشابة في مركز لمجموعات دعم مصابي السرطان يعانيان, معا يتقاسمان الالم, لكن فجأة يولد الأمل الكبير من رحم اليأس القاتل. يسعيان معا إلى أمنيات رائعة في وقت ليس فيه كثير من الوقت فيدخلان صراعا آخر إنما هذه المرة مع الساعات والثواني. يفردان شراشف الذكريات لتتعمق صلات احداهما بالاخر ويرسمان غدا مضيئا بمعزل عن طوله أو قصره |
9789953888408 |
مارك مازيني
by حروب الظل
AED 56.00
ألماظ المسيحية الدمشقية ، تتزوج الكونت اللبناني المقيم في باريس وتبدأ رحلتها عبر الأطلسي لتكتشف عوالم العرب في المهجر ، وتشيد عالمها هناك ثم تعود مرة أخرى إلى باريس لتنجب الحفيد المنتظر للكونت . كارلوس بدوره يكبر ويتشارك أحلامه مع صديقه الكردي بوتان ، حفيد أشهر أمراء الأكراد الذي يغادر دمشق لإكمال أحلام أبيه ، أما كارلوس فيتابع خط رحلة أمه ألماظ وألماستها الزرقاء في اتجاه البرازيل. |
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