Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjut Singh
Patwant Singh and Jyoti M. Rai
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The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and...
Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews
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With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming...
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a...
Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries
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No written source is entirely without literary artifice, but the letters sent from Asia Minor, Syria...
Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure
Jenny Wormald and Anna Groundwater
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic...
Morocco: Challenges to Tradition and Modernity
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The first edition of Morocco was published one year before the mass protests of the Arab Spring...
On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue Between Cultures
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Francois Jullien, the leading philosopher and specialist in Chinese thought, has always aimed at...
Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
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The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a...
Foreigner in Charge: Success Strategies for Expat Leaders in Hong Kong
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With over 7500 multinational companies, Hong Kong is a well-established destination for expatriates....
Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies
Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang and Peter Cappelli
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When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large...