Ngaba, a town on the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau, witnessed a Buddhist Monk dousing himself in gasoline and set himself on fire, after calling out for the return of Dalai Lama from exile in India. Since then 156 Tibetans have self- immolated. While some have wrapped themselves in quilts and wire others drank…
C Conway, a former British Army officer, now working for the HALO trust, a mine-clearing charity, details about the working of mines and explosives and how to deploy them when defending a fortified position. Conway displays his real life experience de-mining war zones to excellent use, as the narrative goes from Assad’s dungeons in Syria…
According to Mishra the West gave the world colonialism, destruction and slavery as half a millennium of dominance is now closing and is sinking under the weight of its greed and hypocrisy. Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding…
America’s most iconic corporation General Electric suffered a swift and sudden fall from grace for top managers. GE’s reputation with investors rested on the preternaturally smooth earnings growth, buttressed by the financial operations of GE Capital, which Welch had expanded. Welch’s tough managerial approach, including ruthless pruning of underperformers earned him the nickname he hated…
Thomas Rid, a German born political scientist who is now professor at the John Hopkins, a renowned expert on technology and national security traces the revelatory and dramatic history of misinformation, reveals the rise of secret deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms. “We live in a age of disinformation –…
In May Octogenarian Rawandan businessman Felicien Kabuga was arrested in Paris after 25-year of manhunt, he is finally in custody accused of bankrolling the worsyty atrocities since the Khmer Rouge: the Rwandan genocide. Melvern as a journalist encountered several leading genocides in Rwanda in the terrible summer of 1994 when 800, 000 people were slaughtered…
Matt Ridley, reveals the vital ingredients for success by chronicling the history of innovation and how we need to change our thinking. We experience dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society From Britain to Brazil, world economy is choking in first gear as we indefinitely await a vaccine, having…
Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged form America’s encounters with the world: the importance of North America, the special roles trading, transnational and technological relation play in defining ties with others, changing attitudes toward alliances and ways of ordering connections among states the need for public support, especially through Congress and the belief that…
Real life is a deeply affecting tale about the emotional cost of reckoning with the desire and overcoming pain including nuanced, precise account of micro-aggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief and alienation. Taylor wielding a scalpel-like prose, explaining human behaviours along with Wallace’s petri-dish worms under the microscope. There is a precision in the details…
A tale of two Texas sisters whose destinies could not be more dissimilar, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Crawford born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Although an untold fortune of oil lies…