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  • To Catch a Spy

    by Mark ONeill ...
    "A worthy sequel to the classic." — Harlan CobenEstate approved sequel to the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge and 1955 Academy Award-winning film by Alfred HitchcockIt's been a year since John Robie, notorious Riviera jewel thief, proved his innocence by catching a copycat burglar. And it's been a year since John has seen Francie Stevens, the adventurous socialite who not only saw through ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Testament of Mother Mary

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    In Medjugorje, Mother Mary has been appearing since June 24, 1981, to six Croatians. Through these six visionaries, Mother Mary has guided us on a path of spiritual conversion involving five steps: Pray from the heart and pray the Rosary daily; Attend the Lord's Supper and receive the Eucharist; Read and prayerfully meditate on Holy Scripture daily; Fast on Wednesdays and Fridays; Monthly ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Made China A Literate Nation - Zhou Youguang, Father of the Pinyin Writing System

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Zhou Youguang is the scholar who invented Pinyin(拼音), a system ofromanisation for Chinese characters. Since 1958, Chinese primary schoolstudents have learnt Pinyin, before they learn characters. Thanks to him, onebillion Chinese have become literate – the greatest contribution by a linguist inhistory. After an extraordinary life, he died in January 2017 at the age of 111. He had several lives – a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Europeans in Hong Kong

    Teachers, Traders and Techno-stars

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Hong Kong is the most European city in Asia. It was not only built by British rule and the energy and entrepreneurship of Chinese but also by people from continental Europe, The citizens of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal and have made an enormous contribution to the city.They built churches, schools, hospitals, companies and institutions that still thrive today. Catholic orders from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Guardian of China's Architectural History : Liang Sicheng

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Liang Sicheng is known as the Father of Architecture in China. In over 15 years during the 1930s and 1940s, while his country was at war with Japan, he and his wife Lin Huiyin travelled to more than 200 counties in 15 provinces in the Chinese interior and examined 2,738 ancient buildings. Crossing areas with no paved roads, they travelled on foot or by mules and horse carts and slept in temples, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Evangelization of Warren Buffett by Mother Mary

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Warren Buffett, this is a true story. I have your Holy Rosary from Mother Mary. Please take it from me. Please! It's too precious! It's too powerful!In September of 2007, Jozo Ostojić-Josić, the Great Stone Artist of Međugorje, created for Warren Buffett the most unique and powerful rosary the world has ever seen. Jozo enlisted my reluctant help as courier of this priceless work of art because I ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Island

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    On his first morning in Taiwan in 1981, Mark O'Neill was awoken by military conscripts singing a patriotic song on the sports ground of their camp. It was a fitting introduction to martial law and the start of his 40-year journey through the island moored off the coast of Fujian province. Next came learning the Chinese language - traditional characters only, please - and the curious love affair ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Chinese Labour Corps

    The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War: Penguin Specials

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farmers from northern China, these men were simply attempting to make a better life for themselves, ignorant of the war and its causes. Under brutal conditions many died for their efforts, and their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Out of Ireland

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    One evening in his early teens as his family sat around the dining table, Mark O'Neill's father suddenly dropped his English accent and spoke for the first time in his original and long hidden Irish voice. It was the start of an Irish journey for Mark that has lasted a lifetime, taking him through Scotland, to Belfast as a reporter during the Troubles in the 1970s, and from 1978, to the Far East ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why Foreigners Like Hong Kong　

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    This book tells the story of 24 foreigners who are long-term residents of Hong Kong. Their lives have been closely connected with those of their Chinese neighbours. Some were born and raised here, others came to seek opportunities for work and study, and some because they were forced to flee their homeland and start a new life. No matter what brought them here, they have dedicated themselves to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • China's Great Liberal of the 20th Century - Hu Shih: A Pioneer of Modern Chinese Language

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Doctor Hu Shih was the most remarkable Chinese intellectual of the 20th century. He was the leading pioneer of vernacular, rather than classical, Chinese. It was widely adopted by schools and the media during the 1920s. His lectures at Beijing University and elsewhere, books and articles influenced tens of thousands of Chinese. From 1938-1942, he served as China’s ambassador in Washington DC and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army

    The Experience of Chinese Labourers in Russia during the First World War and Bolshevik Revolution: Penguin Specials

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    It is a little known fact that during the First World War Russia received the majority of Chinese wartime labourers working overseas. Despite assurances that they would not be involved in the war, thousands of Chinese workers dug trenches and carried ammunition for troops on the Eastern Front under brutal conditions. Then, in 1917, life for the Chinese worsened with the Bolshevik Revolution's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD