Historical Study

Williams reveals the real France beneath the tourist traps--where to stay, eat, and be entertained. New detailed information on gourmet self-catering and a dedicated food chapter serve up a rich dollop of cuisine culture, food history, and recipes.Discover France Gaze at the gargoyles and ponder Qua... More

Winner of the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fictionSuketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later he returned to rediscover the city. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people—a book, seven years in the making, that is as vast... More

As the author of the best travel book of recent years at theintensely irritating age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple has now shown that In Xanadu wasno fluke. City of Djinns is an entertaining mix of history and diaryinformed by a deep curiosity about the ways in which the ghosts  of eventhe m... More

This is the extraordinary story of how a quest to try to crack the mystery of the ‘Megalithic Yard’ - an ancient unit of linear measurement - led to the discovery of compelling evidence pointing to the existence of an unknown, highly advanced culture which was the precursor to the earliest known... More

Lighting not only affects efficiency and ambience at the workplace but also offers immense energy-saving opportunities. In the industrial sector, lighting constitutes 2%-5% of total energy consumption but in commercial buildings, hotels, and office complexes, it can go up to 30%. This handbook discu... More

Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire was first serialised in 1914 and published as a novel in 1916. The events in the novel deal with the period 1905-7, a period of tremendous political unrest in Bengal. The public upheaval takes place alongside another revolution – that of women's emancipation and a... More

This book begins with an introduction to the principal ideas behind compilation, and then illustrates these ideas by constructing a simple one-pass compiler. The remainder of the book amplifies the ideas presented in the first two chapters and discusses more advanced topics such as syntax analysis, ... More

Raja Roychowdhury or ‘Kakababu’ is a name that strikes fear in the hearts of all who live in the shadowy world of crime. The ex-bureaucrat’s razor sharp intelligence and feats of breathtaking daring rushes the readers through a maze of spine-chilling mysteries and fearful adventures.... More

Reissue of the sequel to the massive worldwide bestseller Princess Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Dau... More

Alian Danielou approaches the history of India through theenduring institutions of its culture that have remained constant, despite theephemeral historical events that have shaped its destiny. His synthesis andnarration create a thoroughly engaging and readable journey through time, with alevel of d... More

Open source software is considered by many to be a novelty and the open source movement a revolution. Yet the collaborative creation of knowledge has gone on for as long as humans have been able to communicate. CODE looks at the collaborative model of creativity — with examples ranging from collec... More

Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends... More

In 1965 Ernesto Guevara, one of the heroes of the Cuban Revolution, known throughout the world as "el Che", vanished. He eventually surfaced in the newly independent Congo where, with a hundred Cuban guerrilla fighters to assist him, he put to the test his theories about how to help the peoples of A... More

The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game's social origins. In this work, the author examines the game from its origins up to the coming of the First World War. Along the way he considers the crucial r... More

One of the makers of modern India tells the story of the partition of India as never before, with intimate knowledge and feeling. India Wins Freedom has at last won its own freedom. The full text of this autobiographical narrative was confined, under seal, in the National Library, Calcutta, and in t... More