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China's Tibet?: Autonomy or Assimilation
By Warren W. Smith Jr.
"Warren Smith deserves a prize for this work. He has presented a clear-eyed, well-informed, and penetrating analysis of China's blatantly colonial policy in Tibet. If you want to understand the realities of the Tibet question, this book is a must read. You'll never again hear the oft-repeated phrase 'China's Tibet' in quite the same way."—Robert Thurman, Columbia University

Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China
By Susan Brownell
Click here to see an article on Beijing's Games and Susan Brownell in the Wall Street Journal.

"As a former topflight athlete who speaks Chinese and trained and competed with Chinese women teammates, Brownell has a strongly personal take on virtually every facet of her story: the nationalist and legal implications of Taiwan's case, the missteps of sports announcers, the history of stadium design, problems with steroid use, charges of child abuse in the athletic training process, the pressures on Chinese members of the IOC, gender stereotyping in the media, and the claims of China's own martial 'wushu' tradition to be classified as an Olympic sport."—Jonathan D. Spence, author of The Search for Modern China

China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
By Judy Polumbaum
"China Ink is a fascinating window onto the world in which Chinese journalists operate. Among the book's most striking revelations is the wide variety of personalities, tactics, values, and aspirations with which they approach their task."—James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly

The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, 2008 Edition
By Allan J. Lichtman
"Do me a favor. Don't read this book. Because if you do, it could put all of us pundits and political consultants out of business. Allan Lichtman has some nerve, revealing our trade secrets to the great unwashed public. Including the biggest secret of all, which is that the presidential vote is simple, rational, and highly predictable."—William Schneider

Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers
By Carl J. Richard
"I have read Carl Richard's Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts with great pleasure. This is superb work. Historians of the American founding have long known that the founders were powerfully influenced by the ancient writers, but in the absence of long and tedious labors have not known enough about the subject to make their own studies complete. Richard has performed those labors for us, and presented his findings in a way that is both crisply written and richly informative."—Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama

Founding Father: How C-SPAN's Brian Lamb Changed Politics in America
By Stephen E. Frantzich
"Brian Lamb realized that Americans deserved, and would appreciate, a direct and unfiltered window into their government, politics, and intellectual life. He was a pioneer who understood that the media sometimes did best when they got out of the way. This well-reported book traces Lamb's life and describes how he changed politics in America."—Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria
By Margaret Sands Orchowski
"Margaret Sands Orchowski's Immigration and the American Dream is a readable sociological and political report that provides the information on which sound immigration policy can be crafted. It should be required reading in every office in Congress and every policy think tank in the District of Columbia."—Gov. Bill Richardson, New Mexico

The Patient Will See You Now: How Advances in Science, Medicine, and Technology Will Lead to a Personalized Health Care System
By Carey James Kriz
"Terrific insight! The Patient Will See You Now predicts the transformation of American healthcare into an industry that is consumer-directed, evidence-based, and far more personalized than what we have today. Author, Carey Kriz, details the dynamics for this change as consumers, increasingly burdened by the cost of their care but also empowered by information and choice, demand more and get more from a system no longer immune to the forces of global competition, price, and quality transparency."—Dr. Bill Crounse, Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation

Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign Second Edition
By Steven E. Woodworth
"Praise for the first edition:

Lucid and engrossing. An interesting, fast-paced, and efficient narration of the battle and the campaign."—Civil War Book Review