Category Archives: Book
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In space, no one can hear you scream
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I was reading a sci-fi book (not linked to the title of this post as it would be too obvious and by know I think you know me) set in a very far-away future where mankind is no more and what remains are a full …
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Go West
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No, this has nothing to do with the famous Pet Shop Boys’ song. What? No one else remembers this song? Such a shame. No, this one is not from the Pet Shop Boys but from Talk Talk. Come on guys, know your classics or perhaps …
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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North
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I began reading The Tea Road by Martha Avery or how China and Russia meet across the steppe (the original subtitle). As could be expected from it, it is far more than a book on tea and contains a lot on Russian-Chinese relations and how …
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Of tea and strategy
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The Republic of Tea by Mel & Patricia Ziegler and Bill Rosenzweig And no, this is neither a post on whether or not Sun Tzu, Clausewitz or any other general or theorist ever drank tea nor a real review of The Republic of Tea book. …
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Tea and Opium
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose To summarize it in a few words, this books is the story of how Robert Fortune stole the secrets of tea for the British East …