9 best books of August: Amazon editors' favorite picks

3. "Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future," by Tom Scocca

Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future, by Tom Scocca, Riverhead Hardcover, 384 pp.

With China as a rising global power, its capital city and cultural center, Beijing, is poised to become a cosmopolitan city to rival New York and London. In Beijing Welcomes You, New York Observer columnist Tom Scocca talks to everyone from the scientists working on changing the weather to the architects constructing the new metropolis to create a portrait of the city as it is now, and as it will be in the future.

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