The books presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and public architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the mid 1930s and 1940s. The architects, a small list of the first generation of modern architects, were trained in western architectural traditions, if not actually in the West. Miami Beach and Bombay, two subtropical cities built on islands, both with large portions of their land reclaimed from the sea share a unique architectural kinship.

The book presents the first full analysis of new office design that supports and enhances the performance of knowledge workers. Forty three recent case studies drawn from countries around the world are set within a unique conceptual matrix that provides a framework for thinking about strategies for reinventing office space.

The last two years of Gandhi's life were most significant for India's freedom struggle. The 1946 communal riots in Calcutta and Noakhali convinced the leading Congress stalwarts, including Nehru and Patel of the need for partition despite the fact that none of them endorsed the two nation theory. Despite being Gandhi-centred, the biography is thus imbued with questions which it attempts to answer. Though a unique study of one of the most prominent personalities of the twentieth century, it addresses areas of human concerns, which will always remain universal

In the early 1970s, when author was researching this book, most of the protagonists involved with the story were alive. Their memories were fresh and their notes and papers intact. He was able to meet and talk to them. Each one of them gave his part of story freely, perhaps spicing it with many more details that may not have figured in the trial.

This book analyses the law and policy for the management of global common resources. As competing demands on the global commons are increasing, the protection of the environment and the pursuit of growth give rise to all sorts of conflicts. The book analyses issues in the protection of the global commons from fairness, effectiveness, and world order perspectives. The author looks at the cost effectiveness of international environmental problems.

1n 1967, Naxalbari, a village in west Bengal, became the centre of a Mao-inspired militant peasant uprising guided by firebrand intellectuals. Today, Naxalism is no longer the Che Guevara style revolution that it was. Spread across 15 of India's 28 states, it is one of the world's biggest most sophisticated extreme left movements. The author combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country.

The author was sixteen when he became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, he rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. As he recovered his faith and mind, he tried to put his experiences behind, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded it became clear to him that Islamist groups pose a threat to this country that we -Muslims and non-Muslims alike-do not yet understand

This is an extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times, detailed in its observations, universal in its appeal, by a writer who marks a fresh new voice on the Indian literary scene

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