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    Spinoza

    Ian Buruma

    Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time

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    Spinoza

    Ian Buruma

    Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time

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    The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

    Ian Buruma

    In this spellbinding account of three Word War Two collaborators - a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess and Himmler’s masseur, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he…

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    Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

    Ian Buruma

    Ian Buruma’s moving and powerful story of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.

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    The China Lover: A Novel

    Ian Buruma

    In his enthralling novel, Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the lure of erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations…

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    The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West

    Ian Buruma

    A collection of essays about the cultural divide between East (from Iraq to Japan) and West (Western Europe and North America). The topics include Japanese sex in the cinema, the…

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    Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing

    Ian Buruma

    In this enlightening and often moving book, critically acclaimed essayist Buruma conducts readers on a global tour of Chinese dissidence. Panoramic and intimate, disturbing and inspiring, Bad Elements is a…

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    Theatre Of Cruelty

    Ian Buruma

    In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World War II to explore that question-to…

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    Anglomania: A European Love Affair

    Ian Buruma

    In this lively and diverting social history, noted author Ian Burman, himself the son of Dutch immigrants to England, provides an incisive look at anglophilia–and anglophobia–over the last two centuries.

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    Year Zero: A History of 1945

    Ian Buruma

    A history professor describes the events during the year World War II ended, beginning a new era of prosperity in America, rebirth and rebuilding in Europe, and the start of…

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    The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

    Ian Buruma

    "An exploration of the nature of collaboration, and all the gray areas between heroism and abject opportunism, through the interwoven stories of three World War II-era collaborators under Nazi and…

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    A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir

    Ian Buruma

    [This book is] a classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma’s unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo’s underground culture as a young…

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    A Tokyo Romance

    Ian Buruma

    Ian Buruma’s unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo’s underground culture as a young man in the 1970s.

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    The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson

    Ian Buruma

    A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and…

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    Murder in Amsterdam

    Ian Buruma

    It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed…

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    The China Lover

    Ian Buruma

    When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor’s office…

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    Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan

    Ian Buruma

    In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. ‘A comparative study…

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    Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

    Ian Buruma

    Ian Buruma’s moving and powerful story of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.

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    Playing the Game

    Ian Buruma

    A fictional biography of Prince K.S. Ranjitsinhji, the legendary cricketer. Littered with cameos of personalities such as W.G. Grace, Gandhi, Disraeli and C.L.R. James, and heroic innings at Lord’s, tiger-shoots…

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    Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence

    Ian Buruma

    In 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammed. Buruma returned…

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    Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

    Ian Buruma

    Offers a look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents. Drawing on many contemporary and historical examples, this title argues that the violent passions inspired by religion…

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    Inventing Japan: 1853-1964

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    The story of modern Japan, from first ‘opening’ to the West with Admiral Perry’s Black Ships in 1853, through World War II, to Japan’s emergence as a Western-style democracy and…

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    Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

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    Succinct, elegant, and challenging … Its insights and the link it makes are illuminating, and help show that the divide between the West and its enemies is an old one…

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    Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings

    Qing Dai

    The prison writings of Dai Qing, China’s best-known investigative journalist and environmentalist, offer insight into the mental and physical tribulations that accompany imprisonment by an authoritarian government devoted to squeezing…

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    Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings

    Qing Dai

    The prison writings of Dai Qing, China’s best-known investigative journalist and environmentalist, offer insight into the mental and physical tribulations that accompany imprisonment by an authoritarian government devoted to squeezing…

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    George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye

    Sabine Rewald

    A penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works

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    Rene Leys

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    In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young…

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