Families of today are forced to deal with high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours and many find it impossible to attain the standard of living their parents managed so easily. In Alissa Quart’s new book reveals in a montage of stories…
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest and greatest religious traditions, highlighting its key philosophical concepts and texts and exploring everyday Hindu beliefs and practices from worship to pilgrimage to cast. An articulate liberal and South Indian parliamentarian, Shashi Tharoor’s latest book explores India’s belief systems and point the dangers that lie ahead, and argues…
Sir Marin Sorell the former CEO of WPP who resigned in April 2018 which he founded and grew into the world’s biggest advertising holding group, embroiled in contro0versy over his departure. Ken Auletta states in the last chapter of Frenemies, “Seventy-two and still robust, Martin Sorrell was unlikely to step down any time soon” which…
Asian Billionaire Robert Kuok offers insights into doing business in Indonesia. In 1950s Robert Kuok, then a young rice trader, was among a small group of Malaysian-Chinese businessmen gathered at Singapore’s airport to welcome Chin Sophonpanich, patriarch of Bangkok Bank. When Kuok needed capital he approached HSBC in 1949 for a $100, 000 letter of…
Without libraries we have neither a past nor a future. This book highlights for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it. Edward Wilson- Lee starts the book with “on the morning of his death,…
The slum clearances of the late nineteenth century as Boughton asks why the state’s duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. He also shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society – as was seen in the fire in…
India has been unable to match China’s powerful infrastructure, diplomacy as both US and India worries that China wants to become a regional “hegemon”, a fear that has united the world’s largest democracies over recent years. A rising India wants a power broker at the table of global powers, with its huge military and growing…
This is the story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Hick’s hidden love and secret affair. Lorena Hickok, an accomplished ground-breaking journalist, one of America’s first female sportswriters, a lead reporter for Associated Press and the first woman at the New York Times to have front page byline, who covered everything from the Lindbergh kidnapping to the…
Kevin Le Gendre, Jazz expert, radio broadcaster, deputy editor of Echo and longtime music journalist, has produced a compassionate history of black British music. This is the first in a two-volume work beginning with the middle ages to the 1960s, which comprises the emergence of Jazz, Calypso and Ska and the genesis of the soul.…
In 1930s eminent economist, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century, the advance of technology would see us all working 15 hour week, but they were proved wrong, instead, today on average working hours have increased considerably. Now across the world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin that…