History

The Corporation that Changed the World is a popular history of one of the world’s most famous companies. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was the forerunner of the modern multinational. Starting life as a trader in Asian Spices, the Company ended its days running Britain’s Indian empire. ... More

"The Best is Yet to Be" provides a fascinating, behind-the-scenes perspective on the beginnings of American Century Investments and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. But even more intriguing is the insight this book offers into Jim Stowers himself. How did he develop the ideas and beliefs ... More

These are in-depth profiles of India's biggest business barons. These are the men who are powering the new India's leap into the 21st Century; the faces behind the great Indian success story. You'll find them all here. The traditional big names of Indian insutry; Ratan Tata and Kumar Mangalam Birla... More

India produces more films than any other country in the world, and thesc works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, thc Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Islands, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this domi... More

The Unforgettable Maharajas transports the reader back in time through 150 years of Indian royalty. Fairytale childhoods, magnificent palaces and forts, luxurious lifestyles, princely pastimes "et al unfold in all their splendour through this extensively researched and lavishly produced book.... More

A debate is taking place over what values should define the international order. For global elites, it is a debate about how to rule the world: a conflict between one vision of global order based on U.S. empire and another based on an expanding, corporate-controlled global economy. These visions are... More

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

In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia " a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of "Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11," this is a gross understatement. In his new book, Secrets of the Kin... 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

Traces the author's spectacular turnaround successes with three major corporations and spells out his trendsetting approach on meeting the demands of today's service economy.The president and CEO of Scandinavia Airlines (SAS) shows how to adapt to the new customer-driven economy.... More

Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan's richest families to her subsequ... More

The Cannes Film Festival jury voted unanimously to award the 2004 Best Picture Award to Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. Since then it has gone on to smash all box office records for a documentary and created an international discussion about the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. The Of... More

The World Since 1945 traces the major political, economic, and ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena from the end of World War II to the present day. The sixth edition of this widely acclaimed textbook—thoroughly updated throughout—provides not only the background that stud... More

Weak or failed states – where no government is in control – are the source of many of the world’s most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been u... More

/Benjamin Franklin Publisher, inventor, educator, and statesman, Benjamin Franklin was a complex and appealing character. Here is a wide-ranging selection of his writings from Poor Richard's Almanac, scientific essays, and political commentaries, plus a generous doThis authoritative Bantam Classic e... More

Never before have so many people worried about the effects of military conflict. At a time when terrorism is opening the way for new forms of warfare worldwide, this book provides a much-needed account of the real dangers we face, and argues that the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and of... 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

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

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