Achin VanaikFuries of Indian Communalism is a powerful and rigorous analysis of the growing phenomenon of Hindu communalism, which currently threatens to tear India apart. Placing the politics of Hindu...

Itty Abraham In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new right-wing BJP Government set off several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits, but also international...

Puah ShteinerThe poignant, autobiographical story of the fall and evacuation of the Jewish Quarter, as witnessed through the eyes of a young girl. With maps. First published January 1, 1987...

Randolph S Churchill Winston S. Churchill. Volume I is the youth years, 1874-1900.  

Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact...

Joe JaffeThis entertaining book consists of a collection of light-hearted stories, each of which can be read and enjoyed on its own. The story begins in 1948 when Chaim Weizmann...

Howard Rosenstein A beautiful hardback book illustrated throughout by 200 original images by the author and others including renowned underwater photographer David Doubilet.Howard Rosenstein wasn’t just opening the first dive...

Martin Indyk A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in...

Lewis Wollpert A unique, scientific look into why we are all believers. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass , the White Queen tells Alice that to believe in a wildly...

Daniel YerginSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs,...

Fareed ZakariaWhat turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of...

Eva DillonA riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the...