India Unbound

India Unbound
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2002-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0385720742

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.

Plutocrats

Plutocrats
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101595949

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.

The Millionaire and the Mummies

The Millionaire and the Mummies
Author: John M. Adams
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250026695

The biography of Theodore Davis, a rich American robber baron who, in the early 20th century discovered 18 tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

Sinister Forces—A Warm Gun

Sinister Forces—A Warm Gun
Author: Peter Levenda
Publisher: Trine Day
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1936296772

The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this analysis that exposes new connections between religion, political conspiracy, terrorism, and occultism. Readers are provided with strange parallels between supernatural forces such as shaminism, ritual magic, and cult practices, and contemporary interrogation techniques such as those used by the CIA under the general rubric of MK-ULTRA. Not a work of speculative history, this exposé is founded on primary source material and historical documents. Fascinating details on Nixon and the "Dark Tower," the Assassin cult and more recent Islamic terrorism, and the bizarre themes that run through American history from its discovery by Columbus to the political assassinations of the 1960s are revealed.

Little Shoppe of Horrors

Little Shoppe of Horrors
Author: Richard Klemensen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-09-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Little Shoppe of Horrors #21 (now in a 8-1/2" x 11" standard definition reprint format) came out in 2008 - when LSoH became a twice a year publication. Featuring an in-depth study of the horror movie that made Hammer Film a house hold name - THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. History of the making of the film; interview with director Terence Fisher, first asst. director Derek Whitehurst, star Peter Cushing and producer Anthony Hinds. Makeup artist Norman Bryn does an analysis of Phil Leakey's groundbreaking creature makeup. Hugh Harlow, who worked for Hammer during that period, remembers Bray Studios - November 19, 1956 to January 3rd, 1957. A look at the abortive Hammer TV series pilot - TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN. And the original script idea by Milton Subotsky (one of the founders of Amicus Productions) 'The "Lost" Subotsky Script for THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN'. Interviews with director Peter Sasdy (TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) and actor Shane Briant (FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL).

When Illness Strikes the Leader

When Illness Strikes the Leader
Author: Jerrold M. Post
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1995-02-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780300063141

Dr. Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins explore the impact of physical and mental illness on political leadership.

Festivals of the Athenians

Festivals of the Athenians
Author: Herbert William Parke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1986
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780801494406

A descriptive study of the religious festivals of the ancient Athenians, depicting and explaining the behavior associated with each, speculating on what happened at the mysteries, and elucidating the primitivism that pervaded classical Greek thought

George Bush

George Bush
Author: Webster Griffin Tarpley
Publisher: Progressivepress.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780930852924

George Bush is the "Emperor of the New World Order" and a mystery man. By intensive research, Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin have broken through his wall of silence. Here are the details frightening, gory, hilarious the background and life of the President. How the Bush family made its money promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi war machine. Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other bases of power. The 'war hero' story. George Bush and the secret government: from global population control, to Zapata's Watergate burglars, to Iran-Contra. Kissinger, China, and genocide in the Third World. Bush's Leveraged Buyout Mob, or the theft of a nation. Breaks the code of silence which Anglo-American finance oligarchs impose on their conduct of world affairs. A must read as long as these private forces dominate both Republican and Democratic parties and a vivid X-ray of the dynasty that occupies the highest seat of power in the nation.

Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture

Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture
Author: R. K. Fisher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981356683

What happened when women ruled the world? There are many questions about the Old Culture - a culture even before history was written. Whatever happened to the Great Goddess? When did patriarchy start? How did women become objectified? This book is about the Journey of ancient women with their many glories and challenges. It talks about the gender partitioning which still survived in some cultures today, women as warriors, advisers, goddesses and properties. Chapters included are: -The Goddess Paradigm -Women Warrior -Dethroning the Queen of Heaven -The Queen in Exile Written with a Mathematician's precision and a Historian's curiosity, Time Maps covers over millennia worth of developments & impacts of civilizations, migrations, leaders and continents. Illuminating concepts of societies, dynasties, heroes, kings and eras through incisive and thorough research, looking at ideas, theories & world views with a sense of wonder and delight.