Vijayaraje Scindia grew up in a world of feudal privilage and married one of the richest men in India, a high-ranking Maharaja who ruled Gwalior, a kingdom the size of Portugal with over four million subjects. As his wife she played hostess to kings, viceroys and fellow princes, entertaining them to cocktails in the gliterring durbar hall and to banquets that ended with a silver train of brandy…
This book contains a wealth of knowledge and experience of Dr. Jose Paciano Laurel as a teacher, lawyer, member of parliament, jurist, political leader and statesman, he took lessons that are very relevant to current African national problems so that more people should know about them
Joesoef Isak adalah editor naskah-naskah Pramoedya Ananta Toer juga otak di balik respons politis yang diberikan Hasta Mitra terhadap tindakan rezim yang merepresi usaha penerbitan mereka. Sebelum ditahan, ia menjabat Sekretaris Jenderal Persatuan Wartawan Asia-Afrika (PWAA) dan pernah menjadi Pemimpin Redaksi Koran Merdeka. Sebagai wartawan, ia bukan kategori wartawan kuli yang hanya bekerja u…
Peter Wright was a key figure in british intelligence for nearly a quarter of a century. This book, which the British government has gone to great lengths to keep from being published, is a memoir that recounts his extraordinary career in that wilderness of mirrors, the world of espionage.
God's politician: John Paul at the Vacitan examines the transformation of the once-static papacy into a high-profile office which wields great power behind the scenes.
This study is supplementary to an earlier study of the juridical status of the City of Jerusalem which was published in November 1979. Although it is not feasible to make a clear separation of the legal issues concerning Jerusalem, on the one hand, and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the other, as they are essentially inter-related, the City and the territories with which this study is conc…
Singapore became a base for Indonesian special operations during the years 1945-1950, both as source of material needed by the newly independent Republic of Indonesia in the face of probable designs on the part of the Netherlands East Indies government to force a military solution to the conflict, and as a transit port in neighboring countries. This book, based on the author's personal involvem…
This is a book about people. It is not a book of opinion. It is a book of stories. The stories were collected during five months of travel in 1995 in four non-Arab Muslim countries-Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia. So there is a context and a theme.
In this indictment of the president and his inner circle, David Corn reveals and examines the deceptions at the heart of the Bush presidency. He details and substantiates the many times the Bush administration has knowingly and intentionally misled the American public to advance its own interests and agenda." "The Lies of George W. Bush is not a partisan whine - it is instead a carefully constr…
In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead …