A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World

Bobo Lo

With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y...

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (#28 Discworld) HB

Terry Pratchett

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats . . .But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone ...