It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China and with the history of world...
American foreign policy in recent years has been based, in part, on the assumption that Osama bin Laden is still alive. George W. Bush promised as president that he would get Osama bin Laden ‘dead or alive’ and has been widely criticized for failing...
India, named after the river Indus, is heir to one of the world’s oldest and richest civilizations and the origin of many of the ideas, philosophies, and movements that have shaped the destiny of humankind.
For the traveller, India is both an insp...
NEW 4th EDITION A Traveller’s History of Japan not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation’s development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to kar...
Thailand holds a special place in the minds of the world’s nature-lovers as a paradise of splendid tropical forests, untrammelled ocean beaches, and spectacular underwater coral grottos. This book provides all the information a visitor would need to...
