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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
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  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
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  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
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  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
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  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
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  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
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  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
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  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
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Central Asia

Asia Pacificregion

Small but sharp. Two books cover most of what an investor needs: how the Caspian oil concessions were won, and how the resulting money leaves the region through offshore structures.

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  1. The Oil and the GlorySteve LeVine, 2007
  2. KleptopiaTom Burgis, 2020
  3. Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central AsiaAlexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, 2017
The Oil and the GloryThe Oil and the Glory
T2 The Oil and the Glory
Steve LeVine · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The fight for Caspian Sea oil from the 19th century to the present.

Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money i
T2 Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Central Asia's rulers use offshore firms, foreign banks and Western property.

KleptopiaKleptopia
T2 Kleptopia
Tom Burgis · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

How money from resource-rich autocracies flows into Western finance and law.

Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled PromiseKazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise
T3 Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise
Martha Brill Olcott · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard account of Nazarbayev-era state building and asset allocation.

Murder in SamarkandMurder in Samarkand
T3 Murder in Samarkand
Craig Murray · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

A UK ambassador's account of Uzbekistan's cotton trade and its abuses.

Great Games, Local RulesGreat Games, Local Rules
T3 Great Games, Local Rules
Alexander Cooley · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Central Asian states play the outside powers off against each other.

Restless ValleyRestless Valley
T3 Restless Valley
Philip Shishkin · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Kyrgyzstan's revolutions, asset seizures and the Bakiyev family's businesses.

Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kaz
T3 Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
Joanna Lillis · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Reporting on the succession, Zhanaozen and how the state and business interlock.

The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-FiThe Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
T3 The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Pomfret · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard economic survey: resource rents, transit corridors, reform records.

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