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BERPOWER
₨ 7,862A penetrating critique of America’s foreign policy every bit as provocative as Robert Kagan’s best-selling Of Paradise and Power. ?berpower effortlessly mixes military history with keen diplomatic analysis to provide one of the most important assessments of America’s international standing in years. Josef Joffe examines the gargantuan burdens brought on by singular power, arguing that the new Bush foreign policy doctrine has failed to convert fabulous strength into consent and leadership. In contrast to most of his European colleagues, Joffe does not paddle Mr. Big for his new ?berpower status, but traces the roots of Europe’s (and the world’s) new anti-Americanism to envy, fear, and the failure to keep up.
But history whispers that power will generate counterpower, and the writing is already on the wall. How can the ?berpower escape the fate of earlier hegemons who were all laid low by lesser nations ganging up on No. 1? ?berpower promises to be discussed and debated in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic.
ISBN: 0393061353
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE IMPERIAL TEMPTATION OF AMERICA
Author: JOSEF JOFFE -
IDENTITYYOUTH AND CRISIS
₨ 5,026
ISBN: 0393311449
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: YOUTH AND CRISIS
Author: ERIK H. ERIKSON -
DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOPS
₨ 9,439
ISBN: 0393326683
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS ON EDITING* WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Author: RICK SAMMON -
PLAN B-2.0
₨ 6,787In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first century civilization.
The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In “Plan B,” Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature’s deadlines for dealing with these environmental issues, we risk the disruption of economic progress.
In addition to these environmental trends, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide, and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.
ISBN: 0393328317
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: RESCUING A PLANET UNDER STRESS AND A CIVILIZATION IN TROUBLE
Author: LESTER R. BROWN -
KNOWLEDGE AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
₨ 8,809In 1980, the twenty-four year old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more than two hundred years earlier, its disappearance and occasional resurfacing in the nineteenth century, the development of new technical tools in the twentieth century, and finally the student who could see further than his teachers.
Fascinating in its own right, new growth theory helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property, and provides essential advice to those concerned with the expansion of the economy. Like James Gleick’s Chaos or Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe, this revealing book takes us to the frontlines of scientific research; not since Robert Heilbroner’s classic work The Worldly Philosophers have we had as attractive a glimpse of the essential science of economics.
ISBN: 0393059960
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: A STORY OF ECONOMIC DISCOVERY
Author: DAVID WARSH -
GLOBAL CAPITALISM
₨ 9,439International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world’s economies more open to one another than ever before. . . . Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden’s insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the twentieth century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening. It deepens our understanding of the century just past and sheds light on our current situation.
ISBN: 0393058085
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: ITS FALL AND RISE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Author: JEFFRY A. FRIED -
KINGDOM COMING
₨ 7,546Michelle Goldberg’s Kingdom Coming takes us on a journey through an America in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the megachurch to the federal court, Goldberg carefully demonstrates how the growing influence of dominionism — the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers — is threatening the foundations of democracy.
Deep within the “red” zones of a divided America we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ’s name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country’s social problems.
Kingdom Coming offers the powerful testimony of “regular” Americans to illustrate the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide, and it urgently requires us to turn our attention to the mechanisms of an insidious fundamentalism opposed to science, pluralism, and reason.
ISBN: 0393060942
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
Author: MICHELLE GOLDBE -
SPYING ON THE BOMB
₨ 11,012Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive and author of several books on American intelligence including The Wizards of Langley, has written an authoritative and definitive account of U.S. nuclear espionage from the earliest days of atomic research in WWII to the present. Drawing on prodigious research including newly declassified material Richelson details the efforts of the U.S. intelligence community to track the nuclear activities of other states. The results of all this spy craft were at best uneven. With abundant technology aerial reconnaissance, signals intercepts, seismic detection but few human intelligence resources (HUMINT), the U.S. was consistently surprised by nuclear events in the Soviet Union, China, India and elsewhere. And we’re still getting it wrong. Richelson analyzes how American intelligence first underestimated Iraq’s nuclear program in the 1980s and then overestimated it in 2003. It’s instructive that after 1998, the U.S. did not have “a single HUMINT source” in Iraq. Considering the intelligence community’s “mixed record” and the continuing nuclear ambitions of rogue states like North Korea and Iran, Richelson concludes chillingly, “Trouble Is Waiting to Happen.” More than a comprehensive and often compelling history of nuclear espionage, this is an important contribution to the debate regarding American intelligence that began on 9/11.
ISBN: 0393053830
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: AMERICAN NUCLEAR INTELLIGENCE FROM NAZI GERMANY TO IRAN AND NORTH KOREA
Author: JEFFREY RICHELS -
TAMING AMERICAN POWER
₨ 8,809The United States currently wields unprecedented global power. Americans often assume that their global role is benevolent and their dominant position unchallenged, but other states are increasingly worried about U.S. dominance and are beginning to turn their concerns into action. In this elegant and provocative new book, Kennedy School professor and renowned scholar Stephen M. Walt analyzes the different strategies that states employ to counter U.S. power or to harness it for their own ends. These responses threaten America’s ability to achieve its foreign policy goals and may eventually undermine its dominant position. To prevent this, Walt argues, the United States must adopt a foreign policy that other states welcome, rather than one that reinforces their fear of American power.
ISBN: 0393052036
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIMACY
Author: STEPHEN M. WALT -
SIX QUESTIONS OF SOCRATES
₨ 4,712
ISBN: 0393326799
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: A MODERN- DAY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH WORLD PHILOSOPHY
Author: CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS AUTHOR OF SOCRATES CAFE -
COMPLETE GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
₨ 14,182
ISBN: 0393325512
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: 107 LESSONS ON TAKING, MAKING, EDITING, STORING, PRINTING, AND SHARING BETTER DIGITAL IMAGES
Author: RICK SAMMON -
FLESH IN THE AGE OF REASON
₨ 4,724How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light?
Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how — through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon — ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the body moved center stage in the eighteenth century, writing brilliantly on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned, and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered Satanic. And Porter explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blake, and Byron.
ISBN: 0393050750
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE MODERN FOUNDATIONS OF BODY AND SOUL
Author: ROY PORTER -
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
₨ 725
ISBN: 0393059170
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: BUSH / CHENEY’S NEW WORLD ORDER
Author: MARK CRISPIN MILLER -
FEAR’S EMPIRE
₨ 4,396In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration’s foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber “provides the first coherent and insightful response to the dubiousness and danger of preemptive attack and preventive war” (Senator Gary Hart). He shows how chosen “rogue states” have been made to stand in for terrorists too difficult to locate and destroy, and how the United State continues to support dictatorships in nations it regards as friends, while believing we can impose democracy on vanquished enemies at the barrel of a gun.
We cannot defeat fear with fear. Fear is terrorism’s most powerful weapon. If we let ourselves be ruled by our imaginings of what “might” happen, we become instruments–willing or unwilling subjects–of “fear’s empire”
Lucid informed and compelling”.– GEORGE SOROS
Passionate and persuasive Well-documented and incisive, Fear’s Empire is essential reading at this critical time in world affairs”.BOB KERREY, president, New School University.
“Barber once again proves that he is among the very top serious thinkers and writers about American politics and culture.”-LESLIE H. GELB, president, Council on Foreign Relations.
ISBN: 0393325784
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: WAR, TERRORISM, AND DEMOCRACY
Author: BENJAMIN R. BAR -
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LITTLE WOMEN
₨ 995This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868—69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott’s own precursors to Little Women. “Criticism” reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Elizabeth Vincent). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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THE GREAT PRETENDERS
₨ 8,179
ISBN: 0393019691
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: THE TRUE STORIES BEHIND FAMOUS HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
Author: JAN -
COMPASS
₨ 7,232
ISBN: 0393050734
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: A STORY OF EXPLORATION AND INNOVATION
Author: ALAN GURNEY -
LOSING AMERICA
₨ 7,546
ISBN: 0393059421
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: CONFRONTING A RECKLESS AND ARROGANT PRESIDENCY
Author: SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD -
A HISTORY OF NARRATIVE FILM
₨ 14,182
ISBN: 0393978680
Publisher: NORTON
Subtitle: 4TH ED
Author: DAVID A. COOK