Bestsellers
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
- The Fight for Our Future
- By: Maria Ressa
- Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.
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Phenomenal story & great listen
- By ZAH on 12-01-22
By: Maria Ressa
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Seven Things You Can't Say About China
- By: Tom Cotton
- Narrated by: Orson Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy.“
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What a brilliant account of the evil empire of the CCP
- By Anonymous User on 03-20-25
By: Tom Cotton
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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The New China Playbook
- Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
- By: Keyu Jin
- Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....
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Good content but missing important information
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-23
By: Keyu Jin
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrated by: Josie Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....
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Did not like narrator
- By Linda H. Andreae on 10-09-19
By: Hyeonseo Lee, and others
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Some People Need Killing
- A Memoir of Murder in My Country
- By: Patricia Evangelista
- Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Some People Need Killing is a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist.
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Felt like a missed opportunity
- By Patrick Edward Shanahan on 10-31-24
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
- The Fight for Our Future
- By: Maria Ressa
- Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.
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Phenomenal story & great listen
- By ZAH on 12-01-22
By: Maria Ressa
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Seven Things You Can't Say About China
- By: Tom Cotton
- Narrated by: Orson Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy.“
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What a brilliant account of the evil empire of the CCP
- By Anonymous User on 03-20-25
By: Tom Cotton
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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The New China Playbook
- Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
- By: Keyu Jin
- Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....
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Good content but missing important information
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-23
By: Keyu Jin
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrated by: Josie Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....
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Did not like narrator
- By Linda H. Andreae on 10-09-19
By: Hyeonseo Lee, and others
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Some People Need Killing
- A Memoir of Murder in My Country
- By: Patricia Evangelista
- Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Some People Need Killing is a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist.
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Felt like a missed opportunity
- By Patrick Edward Shanahan on 10-31-24
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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....
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a must read book!
- By Val Lendaro on 06-02-24
By: Dmitri Alperovitch, and others
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On Xi Jinping
- How Xi's Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
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In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.
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Informed research with deep insights, but very hard to follow.
- By Josh Carter on 02-18-25
By: Kevin Rudd
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Shadow Cell
- An Insider Account of America's New Spy War
- By: Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency—an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops.
By: Andrew Bustamante, and others
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Danger Zone
- The Coming Conflict with China
- By: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century....
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Quality control issues
- By Rock Island on 09-17-22
By: Hal Brands, and others
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The Great Successor
- The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
- By: Anna Fifield
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea....
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Great book
- By WPD on 06-26-19
By: Anna Fifield
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom
- Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
- By: Emily Feng
- Narrated by: Emily Feng
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an award-winning NPR correspondent.
By: Emily Feng
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When China Attacks
- A Warning to America
- By: Col. Grant Newsham
- Narrated by: Axel Bosley
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare....
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Repetitive and full of bias
- By Radka R. on 04-09-23
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Phantom Plague
- How Tuberculosis Shaped History
- By: Vidya Krishnan
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....
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Excellent
- By M. Flanigan on 06-07-23
By: Vidya Krishnan
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Party of One
- The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
- By: Chun Han Wong
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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From one of the most admired reporters covering China today comes a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.
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Impartial, we’ll researched and critical view that is hard to find
- By Anonymous User on 01-07-24
By: Chun Han Wong
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Has China Won?
- The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
- By: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....
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Outstanding, timely, and prescient
- By William J Brown on 04-19-20
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Retribution
- The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....
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A superb study by one of the world's finest histor
- By Easton Reader on 12-22-16
By: Max Hastings
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Asian American Histories of the United States
- Revisioning History
- By: Catherine Ceniza Choy
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history....
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Great book
- By Ryan Juguan on 03-11-25
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Spies and Lies
- How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
- By: Alex Joske
- Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security....
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Beware of the MSS
- By Reed Ramlow on 03-08-24
By: Alex Joske
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The Decisive Decade
- American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China
- By: Jonathan D.T. Ward
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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In The Decisive Decade, Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward offers a comprehensive framework for how the US can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically....
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North Korea Undercover
- Inside the World's Most Secret State
- By: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching....
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Highly listenable, humorous and enlightening
- By Kevin Stokes on 09-09-15
By: John Sweeney
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The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
- By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.
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An excellent work, well written and superbly read
- By MM@CC on 06-02-24
By: Steve Tsang, and others
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Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth - and How to Fix It
- By: Dambisa Moyo
- Narrated by: Pamala Tyson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From an acclaimed economist, a call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy. Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes....
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brighten piece of work
- By Boyce Collins on 05-09-18
By: Dambisa Moyo
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Other Rivers
- A Chinese Education
- By: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Peter Hessler provides an intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.
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The accuracy of observations. The outstanding perspective.
- By Ray Chou on 03-14-25
By: Peter Hessler
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Crouching Tiger
- What China's Militarism Means for the World
- By: Peter Navarro
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower....
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Interesting policy book ???
- By Tom on 12-14-16
By: Peter Navarro
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Should the World Fear China?
- By: Zhou Bo
- Narrated by: David Cui Cui
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People's Republic is a "partner for cooperation, an economic competitor, and a systemic rival".
By: Zhou Bo
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China in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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In this fully revised and updated third edition, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower....
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Amazing!
- By Anonymous User on 07-11-20
By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, and others
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Dear Leader
- Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
- By: Jang Jin-sung
- Narrated by: Daniel York
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....
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Outstanding! A life-changing listen.
- By Gotta Tellya on 09-29-14
By: Jang Jin-sung
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The Third Revolution
- Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
- By: Elizabeth C. Economy
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today....
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A decent synopsis of Xi Jinping and his polices
- By Yoda on 04-29-19
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Monsoon
- The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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From best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan comes an examination of the Indian Ocean region - an area that will become crucial to global politics as the 21st century continues....
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A map is worth a thousand words ...
- By Loren on 06-03-12
By: Robert D. Kaplan