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An arranged marriage falls tragically short of expectations. In a beauty parlour, friendly gossip unearths uncomfortable truths. In pre-independent India, a young widow fights to succeed in a profession that is an exclusive male preserve. And an ageing music teacher refuses to let poverty snuff out ... More

Medals or stripes proclaiming your designation are of little consequence when you are cornered by a hardened criminal. Viewed from this perspective alone, life 'on the beat' for top-cop Aftab Ahmed Khan has been no safer than that of any ordinary policeman patrolling the mean streets. What made a ma... More

A stunning exposé of how A.Q. Khan set up Pakistan’s nuclear programme, and the role of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponsBased on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic ... More

When Bhagat Singh was executed by the British after a sham trial for his involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case at the age of twenty-three, he was glorified by the Indians as a martyr for his youth, his defiance and his reckless bravery. It was only many years later, after Independence in 1947, t... More

From bootlegger Al Capone to “ Teflon Don” John Gotti, mobsters have long frightened and fascinated the public. Their sometime flamboyant but almost always violent lifestyles have inspired popular movies such as The Godfather and hit television shows like The Sopranos, but these romanticized dep... More

New Page 1 In the preparation of this handbook, every effort was made to provide the pathologist in training with an up-to- date, concise manual detailing the many varied aspects of forensic pathology. Specialized areas, such as forensic anthropology and forensic pathology, have been mentione... More

A successful international business expert turns conventional wisdom on its head and shows how the U.S. can start acting in its own interests.What "Freakonomics" does for understanding the economy, "The J Curve" does for better understanding how nations behave. Bremmer's tour of the nations of the w... More

The Concise Edition of an international bestseller. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o’clock news the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self-defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the ... More

Dedicated to Ruskin Bond, who has resisted growing up for many years, the stories in this collection are a tribute from a spectrum of creative writers to the grand young man of Indian fiction. Conceived in the course of  a writer's retreat in Landour, deep in the wooded hills of Garhwal, in Nor... More

The Migration Reader introduces the key articles and documents that analyze the complex phenomenon of transnational migration and the challenges it poses for contemporary societies, states, and international relations. Enhanced by the editors’ commentary, the selections identify concepts and trend... 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

In 1938 Subhas Chandra Bose reached the peak of his political life, when he was elected President of the Indian National Congress. Leading the forces of anti-coloniaIism and socialism, he was re-elected in 1939, having defeated Gandhi's nominee in a bitterly contested election. However, in the face ... More

On 9 August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and d... More

This challenging new book reviews the ethics at the heart of the Islamic legal system and suggests that these laws have been misinterpreted by certain sources in an attempt to control women.... More

Extended coverage is given of Florida's parks, beaches, and natural attractions, plus Orlando and the Gulf Coast. Full color. 83 maps.Grab your flip-flops, sunscreen and mouse ears, sunny Florida awaits. Idyllic beaches and palm trees border America's subtropical paradise, where alligators, art deco... More

This book is a compilation of scholarly articles that cover theoretical and practical aspects of internationalorganizations. The overall question these articles try to answer is whether IOswork or not, how well they work in different areas, and how well they haveadjusted to changes in the internatio... More