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2020
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English
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Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century.
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Birlinn
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English
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From the age of just 16, Nicola Sturgeon has devoted her life to the SNP - her determination and grit finally winning her one of Labour's stronghold seats in Govan in 2007, a constituency she battled to win for almost a decade. When the party formed its first (minority) administration in 2007 Sturgeon became Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, and swiftly became one of the Scottish Government's most successful ministers....
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I.B. Tauris
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English
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Vladimir Putin has turned Russia from fledgling democracy into a police state, and in 2020 a constitutional change gave him the means to stay in power until 2036. In this acclaimed political biography, former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Putin. Roxburgh shows how the former KGB man evolved from reformer to autocrat, how he sought the West's respect but earned its fear and contempt. Drawing...
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