History

For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant see... More

'It is not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.' Winston Churchill coined the term in 1950 but the temptation of summitry has been around for centuries. In this incisive and readable book, David Reynolds takes us from the Babylonians right up to Blair and Bush. But th... More

The Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith It is symbolic that Adam Smith's masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the "Declaration of Independence. In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fu... More

Talks in China (1925) has been put together from the lectures delivered by Tagore in 1924 in China where he went at the invitation of the Beijing Lecture Association. It is interesting to note that his China visit was the most tempestuous of all his foreign trips. He met with organised hostility fro... More

Talks in China (1925) has been put together from the lectures delivered by Tagore in 1924 in China where he went at the invitation of the Beijing Lecture Association. It is interesting to note that his China visit was the most tempestuous of all his foreign trips. He met with organised hostility fro... More

This is the riveting and frightening story of ambitious, tempestuous and avowed anti-American Hugo Chavez, who is making waves through South America and being widely compared to Fidel Castro. Ex-paratrooper, outspoken socialist, and brash personality, Chavez is known for his stance against big busin... More

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For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty... More

So Bertrand Russell wrote after the dawning of the Russian Revolution, at a time when Europe seemed on the verge of political dissolution. In this powerful work of political and social analysis Russell examines the main roads to freedom that we have constructed for ourselves since the nineteenth cen... More

A thorough biography, based on unique access to government documents and extensive interviews with those close to the infamous Latin American rebel, traces Che Guevara's life from its privileged roots to struggles in Cuba and Bolivia. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.... More

A journalist tells of his quest to find the Ark of the Covenant, how he traced it to a remote corner of war-torn Ethiopia, and the significance of the Ark and its mysterious disappearance... More

For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique,has succeeded.For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from th... More

When his queen Arjumand Banu—Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace—died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfect love for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand men laboured day and night to fulfil the emperor’s obsession. The result was the Taj M... More

Late at night, Shah Jahan was summoned to the tent where his beloved wife Mumtaz lay dying. With tears in her eyes the empress whispered to the emperor to build a monument symbolising the sublime beauty of their love. Mumtaz died while Shah Jahan gazed into her eyes. This little book traces in words... More

The true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse - seabiscuit - which encompasses a pivotal moment in America histoy : its resurrection from the Depression. New Book... More

It is a book produced by a remarkable cultural circumstance in the former Soviet Union which fostered the creation of groups of students, teachers, and mathematicians called “Mathematical Circles”. The work is predicated on the idea that studying mathematics can generate the same enthusiasm as p... More

Man's immutable yearning for freedom and human rights is the pulsating lifeline of The Ruse, a story that mirrors the humanistic philosophy of the Khalsa, enunciated 300 years ago. Set in 18th-century Punjab, against the backdrop of the terminal years of Aurangzeb's reign, it relives Banda Singh Bah... More