This book contains: 1. Dedication for Indonesian 2. Haji Mohammad Lukminto founder of the Sritex Group 3. 8 Principles for succes in managing the Textiles industry 4. H.M. Lukminto: A multi-dimensional man 5. Loyalty: Willing to die for his friends Etc.
The brief tenure of Alexander Dubcek, the charismatic and courageous leader of Czechoslovakia during the heady "Prague Spring" of 1986, rocked the foundations of European communism. Dubcek, who believed in "Socialism with a human face", brought what Andrei Sakharov called "the breath of freedom" to the Iron Curtain Countries. But the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and Dubcek's removal from powe…
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. But few outside his close friends and family have heard the story of his extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor, and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History…
Boris Yeltsin's triumph in the first direct election ever held in Russia was a political resurrection unique in Soviet history — and his courageous stance during the coup attempt of August 1991 has catapulted him into the world spotlight. But who is this earthy yet enigmatic man, -- a democrat or a demagogue, a Westernizer or a Russian nationalist? In the first book to examine Yeltsin's ex…
By October 1973 special prosecutor Archibald Cox was tracing the Watergate cover-up to the Oval Office. President Nixon demanded that he stop. In the Saturday Night Massacre” two heads of the Justice Department quit before Nixon found a subordinate (Robert Bork) willing to fire Cox. Immediately public opinion swung against the president and turned Cox into a heroseemingly Washington's las…
The history of Pakistan Foreign Service is as old as Pakistan itself. The book is well studded with Dr Koreshi's collection of memories and memorabilia, as also photographs with many of those who made history. There is a lot of Dr Koreshi in these memories, a little too much, for some. But this is understandable. It is basically an account of his personal journey as a Pakistan diplomat, who cli…
By Way of Deception describes the shocking scope and depth of the Mossad's influence, disclosing how Jewish commu- nities in the U.S., Europe, and South America are armed and trained by the organization in secret "self-defense" units, and how Mossad agents facilitate the drug trade in order to pay the enormous costs of its far-flung, clandestine operation. And it portrays a network that has gro…
Internationally admired for her fearless reporting, especially on the Chechen wars, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya has turned her steely gaze on the man who, until very recently, was a darling of the Western media. A former KGB spy, Vladimir Putin was named President of Russia in 2000. From the moment he entered the public arena, he marketed himself as an open, enlightened leader e…
Ibn Battutah was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China, and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer…
This book is based on a decade of personal experiences, hundreds of interviews and several encounters with President Fujimori. It is a first and timely attempt to order and analyse the hugely varied and complex events of the Fujimori decade.