Product Description: It is, as Chris Patten notes, a funny old world. And it seems to be getting funnier by the day. The global triumph of liberal democracy, with the world made in America and Europe's image, has failed to materialize. What will take its place? Here Patten draws on his many years at the highest levels of international affairs to tackle the big questions of our time - from energy shortages to the arms trade, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering a wise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the world today...read more

A thought-provoking analysis of the relationship among the United States, Great Britain, and Europe reveals how the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall transformed the Western alliance and explains how the threat of terrorism, Asian economic competition, and cultural divides could have profound implications for the West. Reprint.

Product Description: Big Bamboo is a fine art photography book capturing much more of the sensation of life in Hong Kong that anything currently available. Finished at the very highest quality this is a book that every inhabitant, visitor and lover of the city must have...read more

Product Description: By the middle of the century, the global population will be 10 billion. Can the world cope and can the environment be saved? The world's most powerful thinkers on these vital questions each examine different aspects of the ways we encourage growth, and at the same time respect the earth...read more

Hong Kong's last British governor takes a close-up look at the future of Asia and and explains how its influence will shape world politics, economics, and social institutions in the twenty-first century. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.