Nonfiction

‘A wonderful book . . .[a] must for every student of globalization’—N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys technologies Ltd.Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each ... More

Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the... More

An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics today and into the next century. In the summer of 1993 Foreign Affairs published an article entitled ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ by Samuel Huntington. No article, according to the editors of that distinguished journa... More

In India Unbound, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a comprehensive view of the economic and social transformation of India from independence to the new millennium. It is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Das... More

Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 4 provides rule charts and practice pages for these grammar and punctuation skills: kinds of sentences simple & complete subjects & predicates common, proper, singular, plural nouns irregular plurals using I & me correctly possessive nouns & pronouns kinds of verbs sub... More

In his devastating new book Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the West and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists, armed with weapons of alarming power. Relying on unique access to former and current government officia... More

In the tradition of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founds in the middle of the Afghan city of Kabul, and lifts the veil of secrecy about the vibrant women who were her students there.Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went t... More

Recognized as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber's masterpiece. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life.... More

Bowe travels around the nation to report on the slave labor that our government and corporations depend on, but are trying their best to disavow or ignore. He presents a sobering look at the moral costs of the cheap goods to which our economy has grown so accustomed.Most Americans would be shocked t... More

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.... More

Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of ... More