Leaders & Notable People

In June 2007, with his approval rating at an all-time low, Tony Blair stood down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after more than a decade in office. In this riveting account, Anthony Seldon--a recognized expert of British politics--follows the career of Tony Blair starting from its pinnacle ... More

Captures the achievements of this Sufi thinker and founder of gnostic hurufism.Captures the achievements of this Sufi thinker and founder of gnostic hurufism.... More

Covers the 10th-century founder of the great Cordova Caliphate.Covers the 10th-century founder of the great Cordova Caliphate.... More

Comforting and enlightening, the teachings in Every Day God are lighthearted, often humorous, and relevant to modern life. At the core of each teaching is an invitation to meet this largely undiscovered self, a self that flows from our divine source.... More

Gandhi, an inspiration and a despair to all who approached him, has been subjected to MORE analysis than any other person in contemporary history. And yet something is missing in the puzzle that Gandhi was and is. This volume is one more attempt to understand and to explain him by laying a little mo... More

K.F. Rustamji, who was chief of the Madhya Pradesh police and later founder Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF), worked as the chief security officer of Prime Minister Nehru from 1952 to 1958. Rustamji maintained a diary right from the time he joined the service in 1938 and continued... More

The only daughter of former president George H. W. Bush brings together family reminiscences, personal stories, and never-before-published photographs in an intimate insider's portrait of her father's life and political career and a detailed study what it is like to be the daughter of one president ... More

This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the first millennium BC. It covers Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around ... More

This is the riveting and frightening story of ambitious, tempestuous and avowed anti-American Hugo Chavez, who is making waves through South America and being widely compared to Fidel Castro. Ex-paratrooper, outspoken socialist, and brash personality, Chavez is known for his stance against big busin... More

"Gladstone and Disraeli "surveys the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how they became the leaders of different parties and goes on to consider their premierships, analysing many different aspects of the two men. Using a wide variety of sources and historiogra... More

whose fortunes he follows here, Mile to Go is in a sense autobiographical, an exemplary account of the social life of the body politic. As it guides the readers through government's attempts to grapple with thorny problems like family disintegration, welfare, health care, deviance, and addiction, Mo... More

The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews w... More

One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni... More

Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the 20th century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Brocheux's vivid and convincing portrait of Ho Chi Minh goes further than any previous biography in explaining both the myth and the man, as well as the times in which he w... More

The era of Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war in both the East and the West. Richard Polenberg's introduction to this new volume provides an engaging historical and biographical overview of the period b... More