Updates

  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.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  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.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  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.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  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.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Leaders of Asia and the Pacific

Political leaders and policymakers

Rulers and prime ministers of China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia.

Books 11Experts 2Recommenders 5

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  1. The King Never SmilesPaul M. Handley, 2006
  2. The Marcos DynastySterling Seagrave, 1988
  3. Suharto: A Political BiographyR. E. Elson, 2001
  4. ThaksinPasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker, 2004
  5. In the Time of MadnessRichard Lloyd Parry, 2005
The King Never SmilesThe King Never Smiles
T2 The King Never Smiles
Paul M. Handley · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

The monarchy and the Crown Property Bureau as an economic institution.

The Marcos DynastyThe Marcos Dynasty
T3 The Marcos Dynasty
Sterling Seagrave · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos built crony monopolies and hid their wealth abroad.

Suharto: A Political BiographySuharto: A Political Biography
T3 Suharto: A Political Biography
R. E. Elson · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Suharto's rise and the New Order patronage economy behind Indonesian business.

ThaksinThaksin
T3 Thaksin
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Telecoms billionaire turned prime minister; the clearest study of business-politics fusion in Thailand.

In the Time of MadnessIn the Time of Madness
T3 In the Time of Madness
Richard Lloyd Parry · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Indonesia's 1997-98 collapse and the fall of Suharto, reported on the ground.

A Doctor in the HouseA Doctor in the House
T3 A Doctor in the House
Mahathir bin Mohamad · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Memoir by the architect of the industrial policy and the capital controls.

The Man Who Stayed BehindThe Man Who Stayed Behind
T4 The Man Who Stayed Behind
Sidney Rittenberg · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

MaoMao
T4 Mao
Jung Chang · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Richard Branson

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
T4 Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Bill Gates

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi JinpingCEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping
T4 CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping
Kerry Brown · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

A Bigger PictureA Bigger Picture
T4 A Bigger Picture
Malcolm Turnbull · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Nick Crocker

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