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Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Irtroducing, Global Issues explores the challenging conflict and security, the global economy, development, and the environment. Notable features of the new edition include:a discussion of the war in Iraqa stronger focus on global security and terrorism... More

A woman's journey from her father's harem through the Islamic Revolution. Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sister... More

The president and CEO of Scandinavia Airlines details how to restructure an organization so that customer needs take priority, how to best utilize employees who deal directly with customers, and how to increase employee motivation... More

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a ... More

Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from t... More

Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 -- Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approaching that of a royal princess, only to be stripped ... More

Brilliant...true autobiography aries when a man encounters something in his life which shocks him...Tender,lyrical,explosive and cruel. -- OBSERVER... More

Dispensing pithy advice as "Attila", Roberts presents more than 300 secrets for creating successful management and leading an entrepreneurial team to victory against competitors in the real world.... More

Paul Burrell pays tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales in this celebration of her life. From the inside, he takes the reader into Kensington Palace and the extraordinary life she led. Paul Burrell served Diana, Princess of Wales, as her faithful butler from 1987 until her death in 1997. He was much m... More

The author begins this book with an account of the broadimportance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be ascience of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary stateweakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak statesfor int... More

An award-winning journalist and author of IBM and the Holocaust explains how the world became dependent on the use of oil, looking at the role of energy cartels and special interests in promoting petroleum over alternative resources, the origins of the modern-day oil crisis, and ways to kick the oil... More

‘An astonishing and profoundly exciting book. It is the coming together of scholarship, history and anthropology, with literature . . . intellectually thrilling, compelling.’ —Book ReviewPacked with anecdote and exuberant detail, In an Antique Land provides magical and intimate insights into E... More

In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successfu... More