History

During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry's money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media univ... More

Finalist for the 2006 Gelber Prize: "A brilliant contribution to the American foreign policy debate."--Anatol Lieven, "New York Times Book Review" At a time when America's dominance abroad was being tested like never before, "Taming American Power" provided for the first time a "rigorous critique of... More

‘Insightful, probing, and extremely well-written; in the genre of business and company profiles, this is as good as it gets.’ Kirkus Reviews Drawing on his unmatched expertise in Japanese culture and his unique, unlimited access to Sony’s inner sanctum, John Nathan pulls the veil from ... More

The Press in India has always been at the forefront of national life. This book shows that the tradition of independent journalism is alive and well in India in the sixth decade after independence, and indeed much of what has appeared in Indian newspapers has shaped and affected the course of Indian... More

Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders o... More

‘In his third book William Dalrymple has dug deep to present the case of the Middle East’s downtrodden Christians. More hard-hitting than either of his previous books, From the Holy Mountain is driven by indignation. While leavened with his characteristic jauntiness and humour, it is also profou... More

A popular text that explains the origins, beliefs, scriptures and philosophies of this ancient religion; from gods, goddesses, and the Bhagavad-Gita, to philosophy and politics.... More

An informative study of Hindu history that moves swiftly but thoroughly through the ages, from the early emergence of the Vedic tradition, to developments in twentieth-century Hinduism.... More

Presented here together for the first time are the greatest of the ancient Chinesse classics on strategic thoughtSun Tzu’s Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and ... More

Edward Said takes an unusually sharp and penetrating look at the way in which the experts, the policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. He shows how our traditional misunderstandings of the outside world have led us to continue to misunderstand events of en... More

In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes... More

James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resi... More

If you think Switzerland is all chocolate confectionary, picture-perfect Alpine countryside, yodelling and cuckoo clocks, then think again. The winter playground of St Moritz, outrageous clubbing in Zurich, culture vultures in Basel, cosmopolitan Geneva - Switzerland is three countries rolled into o... More

In twenty-five years Aids has killed 25 million, one million for each year of the epidemic, and another 40 million have been infected – a total exceeding the population of Tamil Nadu. But why, when Aids is preventable? Many of these lives could have been saved and millions of infections could have... More

Is Islam compatible with democracy? Despite the seemingly endless debate on this issue. Moataz Fattah’s study is a rare investigation of actual Muslim beliefs about democracy across numerous and diverse Islamic societies. Fattah’s survey analysis of more than 31.000 Muslims in 34 countries (incl... More

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy, termed by Srila Prabhupada as very authoritative while introducing the reader to the spirt, vast ocean of knowledge and outlook of Indian philosophy, also helps him to graps throughly the central ideas. Philoosophy, in its widest etymological sense, emans love o... More

As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed "The "Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the ... More