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What Next?

Posted in Bath, Books, China, Flashback, Globalisation, Politics on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In Bath there’s a great bookshop called Topping and Company in a part of town called the Paragon.  It’s slightly outside of the centre of town and so not a bookshop that I tend to walk past very often.  Monday happened to be one of those days when I do walk past it however and [...]

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The Paradox of Development and Globalisation

Posted in Books, Development, Globalisation, Reading, Travelling on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the moment I’m reading a book called Paris-Saigon: 16 000 km en 2CV dans l’esprit de Larigaudie by Edouard Cortès and Jean-Baptiste Flichy. It’s about two guys (the authors) who (predictably, given the title of the book) travel by 2CV from Paris to Saigon (and it’s amazing how tempted [...]

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