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On the Trail of a Lion is a unique, first-hand and often chilling account of the turmoil in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, an exposé of the heroes and the villains of the history and a most human story of one man, Ahmed Shah Massoud, and his vision for his country. The book concludes with an analysis of Afghanistan in the turbulent post-Massoud era.
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On War has been a staple text for military generals who have led their armies in battlefield across centuries since its first publication in 1832. It is also an essential rule book to achieve success in any field and thus remains a classic.
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This book is a brilliant personal 'history', as the author was always reluctant to call his work a historical one. He was a staff officer for most of the war brokering some significant conversations between Eisenhower and Montgomery during times of tension between these two strong willed commanders.
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This book lays out the scientific , legal, political and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy, including important legal battles of fighting biopiracy including neem, wheat and basmati which are synthesised in this book. It is the first detailed legal history of the international and national laws related to biodiverity and IPR. The attempt to 'enclose the commons of biodiversity and biodiversity related knowledge through patents and intellectual property rights ( IPRs) is the final step in the series of enclosures that began with the rise of colonialism. The recovery of the commons through the reocgnition of common creativity of nature and people, paves the way for a future beyond piracy and monopoly, it wakes us to the origins of life in nature and knowledge in culture. It sows the seeds of shared abundance.
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Here is the official report of the Pakistan army for the 1947-49 operations.
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The 1965 conflict between India and Pakistan may not rank among major wars, but within their limited resources, the two nations did manage to fight each other to a standstill. This book has perspective as well as detail. Major General Shaukat Riza visualises each aspect of the war in its entirety and does justice to al the operations carried out in course of the war.
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This book defines the meaning of leadership and brings together the ideas of leading world thinkers to give the reader an understanding of the virtues and tenets of how to become a leader.
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Giap's book is now an evergreen bestseller!
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A blistering narrative of an important battle in the Korean War, which lasted for 48 hours at a stretch.
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This is the best book on military psychology ever written!
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This book calls for speed and stealth in military action. It states the case that in the emerging era of asymmetrical warfare, where threats emerge faster than we can expect and in a variety of ways, we need to be ready for a new form of warfare.
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Remote Sensing, No longer a novel technology, has served now for survey and mapping of natural resources for a great many years and in india for at least a decad. In india its principal and most useful applicatiopns have been in the identification of vegetation in tha mapping of surfave geological structures and the ground water exploration. This book presents in its earlier chapter much introductory material on the principles of remore sensing and contains descriptions of image interpratation methods. The later chapters discuss the techniques of computiontion and evaluation and also the application of the data for resource management.
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This is a detailed account of the daily observations and recordings of the victory in South-east Asia against the Japanese and the great role of Maj-Gen Wingate. This book shows how the joint forces collaborated to achieve victory.
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"This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China’s requirements. Among other things, this analytical process makes important new contributions on the question of PLA transparency, long an issue among PLA watchers. A great deal of emphasis has been put on understanding not only how, but also why a military modernizes itself. Some of the determining factors are national policies and strategy, doctrine, organizational structure, missions, and service cultures."
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The book presents introductory material on the principles of remote sensing and contains descriptions of image interpretation methods. It discusses the techniques of computation and evaluation and also the application of the data for resource management.
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‘Roars and Trumpets’ is the story of a man’s life-long and obsessive passion for the jungles and his helpless surrender to the compelling call of the wild. Spanning a period of half a century, Gurpreet Singh’s love affair with the jungles of India begins in the North West Frontier Province in the pre-Partition days of the British Raj and ends in the forests of Assam, where he spent his entire working life as a tea-planter. The book conjures up a by-gone era, taking us back to the days of plenty, the never-ending stretches of wilderness, the vast jungles and the compulsive lure of the hunt where man and animal engage in a deathly game of survival and try to outwit each other. It is compulsory reading for all jungle lovers who have been hankering for hunting tales and jungle lore in the tradition of Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson.
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The book is aimed at naturalists and sportsmen alike and presents in simple language the natural history of fish found in India.The author has attempted to impart a love of Natural History to fisherman and to gain amongst them more friends for pisciculture in India. The book is considered to be a bible on Indian fishes and fishing in India. The text is accompanied with ninety-six illustrations to help you recognise easily what you have caught besides a chapter on fishing localities that one can go to, experiences anyone can have and knowledge that can be put to good use.
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This is a beautiful leather bound large format limited edition of the Roget's thesuarus for book lovers.
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It's a deft Hindi translation of Jim Corbett's most adventurous tale of his encounter with a very notorious leopard in Rudraprayag.
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This book is the first independent assessment of the Sardar Sarovar Project. Its findings and conclusions are of significant importance to environment policies of the future.
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"Conservationists might set out with very different objectives: preservation and recovery of rare and threatened species - as with rhinos or bustards, sustaining a steady supply of useful products for human use - as with fisheries, or even eliminating threats to human life of livelihood as in the case of rodent pests or man-eating tigers. None of these objectives, however, can be effectively met without a clear understanding of how wild populations of these species function. The necessary knowledge can come only from the application of rigorous science, which involves sampling, modeling and estimating animal populations. Even with such reliable knowledge in their armory, conservationists must face social challenges in application of this science on the ground and in the policy arenas, in which not everyone may share their goals or values. This volume contains 26 articles by the author written in collaboration with other leading biologists, quantitative ecologists and conservationists. It boldly explores a complex terrain that spans ecological theories to social practices. It is a useful guide for those practicing science-based conservation. "
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Here is the story of a hero , the story of young Jonathan, the Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force, who gave up his life in Operation Thunderbolt to rescue passengers of the plane hijacked by international terrorists.
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"This book tells the real history of Adolf Hitler's doctors based on the remarkable secret diary of his physician Professor Dr. Theodor Morell and other papers. The Morell Diaries vanished in 1945. But turned up in 1981 in the National Institute of Health in Maryland in the United States of America which transferred them to the National Archives. Was Hitler clinically mad? What diseases laid him low in 1941 and 1944 - at crucial moments in his nation's history? British historian David Irving was the first to find, identify, transcribe, translate, and publish these vital records. The extraordinary diaries of Hitler's doctor and the accompanying dossier on his ""Patient A"" refute many wartime legends bout Nazi Germany's Dictator. "
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It describes the revolt in Arabia against the rurks, as it appeared to an Englishman who took part. Round this tentpole of a military chronicle, T.E. lawrence has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams. He has brought to his task a fastidious scholarship, an impeccable memory, a style nicely woven of oxfordisms and Doughty, an eye unparalleled...a profound distrust of himself, a still profounder faith
