This book reexamined everything pertinent written about and by Hillary Clinton. He interviewed some two hundred of her colleagues, friends, and enemies and was allowed unique access to the candid record of the 1992 presidential campaign kept by Hillary's best friend, Diame Blair.

Municipal authorities and agencies around the world are striving to place their cities on the road to sustainability. Cities, as very complex entities, offer a constant interaction between people, resources and the environment. This makes strategic planning demanding and difficult. This book, written by worldwide specialists from Canada, India, Italy, Palestine, Peru, Spain and the Netherlands, is a guide to establishing a city on a sustainable path. It addresses sustainable urban planning issues by breaking the city down to its main components.

How to define an economic disaster? A difficult question. The first and second World wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial crises, stock market crashes, the collapse of the Soviet command economy and Third World disasters are discussed in this comprehensive book. The book examines the legacy of economic disasters and asks whether economic disasters are avoidable or whether policymakers can learn from their mistakes.

This book differs from textbooks on international management because it zeroes in on culture as the crucial dimension and educates students about the cultures around the world so they will be better prepared to work successfully for a multinational corporation or in a global context.

1857 was a defining moment in the history of the British Empire. This book depicts the historic event from various perspectives: English, Indian, European and American. Through a selection of documents of the time, it provides glimpses into the actions across northern India, maps the contours of dissent against Raj and explores the immediate responses to the upheaval in India and outside.

The ultimate test of effective governance is the fulfillment of its commitments to the citizens ensuring delivery of public services right up to the excluded and the marginalized sections of society. Institutions and their functionaries are the vehicles which carry the governance agenda forward. The represent the connecting links between the state and the citizens in terms of programmes of development. In this backdrop this report evaluates the four key institutions of governance in India: the parliament, the judiciary, the policy making institutions and the institutions of local self government.

This book examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi. This book also undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life.

South Asia has become a centre of attention on the world stage with the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan since 9/11, the ongoing concern over Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, and India's emergence as a regional economic power. In addition, the macroeconomic issues affecting South Asia-economic effects of national debt, fiscal deficits, capital flows, international trade, globalization, governance, and militarization continue to prevent the region from achieving sustainable development.

This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.

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