 | Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $7.95 Former editor of the South China Morning Post presents a new history of China.
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 | Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $0.18 Philip Pan profiles eleven people in China to illustrate how things are changing and to suggest potential points of future conflict.
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 | A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $11.44 This forthcoming book traces relations between the US and the Middle East over six presidents starting with Eisenhower.
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 | Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin Indyk
Buy new: $24.90 / Used from: $0.01 Martin Indyk was the US Ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration. He had a ring-side seat for every meeting during the failed peace processes in this years.
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 | A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $0.01 Freedman is a historian who is a master at seeing the big picture. In this book, he examines issues in the Middle East using the broad sweep of history, including the fall of the Shah in Iran, and three wars.
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 | The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations) by Noah Feldman
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $8.85 Feldman is a specialist in Islamic thought and in this book he explains the concepts underlying Islamic justice and their implications for government.
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 | The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 An early book on the economic meltdown, by an author who saw the crisis coming quite some time ago.
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 | When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $12.93 Despite the garish cover, this book is a clear, well-written account of modern global economics. It has been named Book of the Year by both The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs.
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 | The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $6.00 Two-thirds of the world has no toilets or latrines. They leave human waste out in the open, which causes a host of sanitation problems. This book tackles the problems and profiles a cast of characters presenting solutions.
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 | How Fiction Works by James Wood
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $9.30 James Wood is a British literary critic living in New York. In this book, he takes apart a number of novels and shows how authors "pull rabbits out of their hats."
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 | The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $5.75 Henry Hitchings is a lexicographer and wrote this globe-trotting profile of the English language.
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 | Breath: A Novel by Tim Winton
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $1.90 A book about two boys growing up, but not for children. It's a coming of age novel by an Australian author.
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 | Sea of Poppies: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $6.55 This highly descriptive novel by Amitav Ghosh was originally turned down by his usual publisher. It was subsequently purchased by a very small publisher and has since received wide acclaim.
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