This book containing selected of collection speeches and artwork of former President of Philippine Corazon C. Aquino.
The late King Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. The thirteen contributions that make up this book present differing aspects of the modernisation process that took place in Saudi Arabia during the era of King Faisal.
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a new field of study in international relations. Found in 1985, the organization itself is just a decade old, quite a short period of time in the context of the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. An association of seven countries of the region, viz, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it cuts acr…
Saudi Arabia: A case study in development is a completely revised and updated edition that includes new sections namely, Focus on Achieving the Three Five Year Plan, Strategy Five Fourth Ventilation Plan - National Industry - Efforts and Evaluation, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Policies and Projects, Higher education, Oil Pricing, New Ministry Organizational Chart.
I was twenty. A wintry dawn filled the sky above the low buildings of Shino-In, a small Buddhist temple forming part of the main monastery complex of the Shingon sect situated at the top of Mount Koya in Japan. In the silent room of tatami mats, plastered walls and paper windows, beside my futon, my tea, left in a cup from the night before, had frozen solid. I had not slept much; it had been to…
Pol Pot is an extraordinarily challenging subject, for no modern revolutionary leader has so purposefully, and successfully, left so little trace. And he certainly deserves his enigmatic reputation: an indifferent student, he became a gifted teacher; an amiable mediocrity as a youth, he led (leads) one of the world's toughest guerrilla organizations; described by all who knew him as polite, cha…
"In the 1990s Americans have been thinking incessantly about the leveling winds of cultural forces. They Have been worrying about the power of those winds swiftly to level the works of government, such as laws and schools, and of centuries, such as families and standards of taste and traditions of civility.
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.
A behind-the-scenes account of the campaign that elected Joseph Ejercito "Erap" Estrada as the 13th President of the Philippines. It explains how and why he won the campaign, detailing the strategies, events and people responsible for his victory, as well as his own personality.