Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma Requirements: ePUB Reader, 900KB | RetailOverview: For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread […]
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture by Ian Buruma Requirements: ePUB Reader, 6.2MB | RetailOverview: The received myth is that the Japanese are a race so different from the rest of us that no outsider can understand them. Ian Buruma explodes that view with a studied analysis of the way the Japanese […]
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Ian Buruma Requirements: ePUB Reader, 385KB | RetailOverview: Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found amid the […]
Anglomania: A European Love Affair by Ian BurumaRequirements: ePUB reader, 1.9 MBOverview: “Imaginative, original–wittily written.”–The Washington Post Book World To some, England has long represented tolerance, reason, and political moderation. To others, it is a moribund bastion of snobbery and outdated tradition. In this lively and diverting social history, noted author Ian Buruma, himself the […]
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian BurumaRequirements: ePUB reader, 176 KBOverview: In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a […]