Arjun Srivastava's Library

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when independence was thrust upon it in 1965. Today the former British trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with one of the world’s highest per capita income. The story of that transformation is...

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
Robert Jay Lifton
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chi...