Politics

Talks in China (1925) has been put together from the lectures delivered by Tagore in 1924 in China where he went at the invitation of the Beijing Lecture Association. It is interesting to note that his China visit was the most tempestuous of all his foreign trips. He met with organised hostility fro... More

Talks in China (1925) has been put together from the lectures delivered by Tagore in 1924 in China where he went at the invitation of the Beijing Lecture Association. It is interesting to note that his China visit was the most tempestuous of all his foreign trips. He met with organised hostility fro... More

Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians are as colorful as Hugo Chavez, now making international news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade policies. As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth largest oil ex... More

For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique,has succeeded.For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from th... More

The essays in this book provide a response to the millions ofwords Noam Chomsky has written in the past forty years. It examines Chomsky'sideas about the "moral equivalence" between the U.S. and the USSRduring the Cold War, his long support for totalitarianism in Southeast Asia, hisnotion ... More

‘In her Ordinary Person’s Guide, Roy’s perfect pitch and sharp scalpel are, once again, a wonder and a joy to behold. No less remarkable is the range of material subjected to her sure and easy touch, and the surprising information she reveals at every turn’—Noam ChomskyThis second volume o... More

Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILL... More

* "Too many environmentalists see capitalism as the enemy. Porritt grapples with its reality--a system capable of delivering sustainability and enhancing wellbeing, but only if we think carefully about what form of capitalism we want. This book stimulates that thinking."Adair Turner* "Here??'s a com... More

In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani dispels the notion of ‘good’ (secular and Westernized) Muslims as against ‘bad’ (premodern, fanatic) Muslims. He argues that such judgements emerge out of politics ... More

It is almost unprecedented for a head of state to publish a memoir while still in office. But Pervez Musharraf is no ordinary head of state. As President of Pakistan since 1999, his is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and he continues to play a crucial role in the global war on terror. A... More

For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the "Wall StreetJournal" reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan...And then came thebroadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told here - in asto... 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

During the cold Himalayan winter of 1965-1966, a peculiar collection of C.I.A. equipment ripped from its moorings by an avalanche came to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. This work provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.At some p... 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

Aromatic spices and exotic trade routes mingle headily in this lush, evocative history. This is an exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage. "The Spice Route" transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth. "The Spice Route" is one of history's great anomalies. Shr... More

This collection of essays and stories by Bertrand Russell, the influential modern philosopher, is divided into four distinct parts. The first part is devoted to six essays on the books that influenced him in youth, broadly speaking from the age of 15 to the age of 21. For Russell, this was a time wh... More

Founded during World War II, the CHERUB organization employed children and teens to spy on the German forces. CHERUB still operates in Britain, with more than 250 agents, all under the age of 17. This new series follows the adventures of these young agents. Original.CHERUB agents are all seventeen a... More