The soong dinasty is absolutely fascinating. It reads like a novel but is much better than any novel. it would be hard to find a parallel in modern times to the soongs and their in-laws, from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kai-shek, for the wide swath they cut in history and their influence, mostly for the worse, on so many hundreds of millions of people.
The aim of this book is to provide a detailed overview of the Portuguese experience in the European Union, and thereby assist candidate countries, notwithstanding national differences and variations in the European Union itself.
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 …
Tiger's roar identifies the major challenges facing Asia's four tigers (Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong), Japan, China, and their Shoutheast Asian neighboars (notably Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the philippines) as the region increases its role and stature on the world stage.
Anwar Ibrahim represents a new generation of Asian leaders steering their nations into the new millennium, conscious of the fact that they operate in culturally and politically diverse communities. In this collection of essays, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance shares his vision for a more tolerant and diverse Asia. Brilliant, convincing and thought provoking. Asian Renai…
Drucker On Asia is the result of extensive dialogue between two of the world's leading business figures, Peter F Drucker and Isao Nakauchi. Their dialogue considers the changes occuring in the economic world today and identifies the challenges that free markets and free enterprises now face with specific reference to China and Japan. * What do these economic changes mean for an individual count…
The history of the Middle East since World War I is a recapitulation of blunders blunders which caused and prolonged the turmoil and bloodshed of the past 60 years, blunders by the great powers, by the Arabs and the Jews. The Sinai Blunder deals with the events that led to a disastrous Arab defeat in 1967, left Israel in occupation of Arab lands, and started yet another cycle of violence and ar…
This book was written by me in Ahmadnagar Fort prison during the five months, April to September, 1944. Some of my colleagues in prison were good enough to read the manuscript and make a number of valuable suggestions. On revising the book in prison 1 took advantage of these suggestions and made some additions. No one, I need hardly add, is responsible for what I have written or necessarily agr…
A great deal has happened in the USSR, much of it a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's selection as general secretary in March 1985. New political terms have been introduced, and Sovietologists have been hard at work trying to give meaning to what has been taking place within Soviet society.
The Rockefeller dynasty has been a scape-goat for America's ills throughout the twentieth century. It has also been revered as the source of the widest-ranging system of philanthropy the world has ever known. Above all, it has symbolized the almighty power of the ethic of hard work.