Solomon Islands Business Intelligence Report (World Business Intelligence Library)

Book Description

Business intelligence info for successful export-import, business and investment operations, Strategic contacts and more. Updated annually

Product Description

The author and his wife realized their dream of retiring early and travelling the world. Humorous anecdotes are incorporated to illustrate the experiences of living and travelling in third world countries.

Customer Reviews:

very understandable.......1999-05-27

stimulatin

Amazon.com

The veteran author of critically praised books about Emily Brontë and Lucie Duff Gordon has written an exemplary popular biography of the powerful, controversial prime minister who indelibly shaped the world's largest democracy. Katherine Frank's solidly researched narrative is particularly good on the early years of Indira Gandhi (1917-84), cogently delineating her complex relationship with her father, nationalist hero Jawaharlal Nehru, which was intimate when they were pouring out their feelings in letters, but strained when they were actually together. We see an intelligent, strong-minded woman coming of age in a turbulent time marked by her relatives' frequent stays in prison as India struggled for freedom from Great Britain. After independence, when Nehru became prime minister, Gandhi was politically active but for many years resisted seeking power in her own right. Following the deaths of her husband (Feroze Gandhi, no relation to the Mahatma) in 1960 and Nehru in 1964, she moved into the top spot, aided by the Congress Party bosses' mistaken impression that she would be a figurehead they could manipulate. On the contrary, Frank shows Prime Minister Gandhi prompted by her deep fear of disorder toward increasingly authoritarian acts, most notoriously the state of emergency declared in 1975, when she authorized the arrest of many opposition leaders. Frank depicts Gandhi as having more faith in her personal bond with the Indian people than in the messy workings of democracy. But the religious and political divisions inflamed by her policies came home to roost in 1984, when she was assassinated by her own bodyguard, a Sikh enraged by the massacre of militant Sikhs in the Golden Temple. This sympathetic but unsparing portrait makes it clear that Gandhi was a flawed leader but evinces compassion for a woman striving with a difficult personal and political legacy. --Wendy Smith

Book Description

On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional Indian namaste greeting, Indira Nehru Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she had lived, surrounded by men, yet isolated. It was a violent end to a life of epic drama.
Here is the first popular biography of one of the world's most influential leaders, India's third prime minister. Brought up during an era that saw the rise of Indian nationalism, Indira was raised to be what her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, called "a child of revolution" - destined to play a political role in the creation and governing of an independent India. Despite her early reluctance to embrace this role, Indira eventually presided over a huge, complex, religiously riven, and male-dominated country. She was born to a wealthy, westernized family, but she had a gift for connecting with the poor of the countryside and the urban slums, the illiterate, the dispossessed - so much so that "Indira is India" became a familiar slogan. Throughout childhood, love, marriage, imprisonment, motherhood, and a sequence of personal and family tragedies, her personal hopes and desires were continually subsumed by the historical and political imperatives of her country.
In this beautifully written book, the acclaimed biographer Katherine Frank draws on unpublished sources and more than a hundred interviews to create a rich, balanced portrait. INDIRA captures in full color the personal and political fate of the leader of the world's largest democracy - the woman who played a dominant role in the history of the twentieth century and who, when it ended, was voted Woman of the Millennium by the BBC.

Customer Reviews:

Was the author denied an interview with Maneka Gandhi?.......2007-06-23

It may very well be that Sonia cared for Maneka's child during the day, and Indira slept with him by night, but before painting this uncaring picture of Maneka, did Katherine attempt to get the other side of the story?

Even if she had been refused an interview, perhaps she should have attempted to give her readers a third-party (her own?) view of what was probably transpiring in the Nehru-Gandhi household (as she does in numerous other places), rather than passing along what is probably Sonia Gandhi's view of the situation.

Or perhaps Katherine didn't really care whether she maligned Maneka, the not-so-powerful politician?

A "tragic" life.......2006-08-26

This is a very good account of Indira Gandhi's life. I felt very sad after reading it. I knew already about her life and politics as being an Indian. But this book gave me a very comprehensive account of her life, except her last couple of years, which I think were
hurried. I think that spicy tidbits of alleged affairs about her, Nehru and her husband should have been avoided as they distract from the larger point and have given her worshippers an excuse to discount the book. Description of India's early life before she became the Prime Minister is very engaging. You can see how the seeds of her later-day paranoia and siege mentality were sown during her unhappy childhood and her estrangement with her husband. You feel sad that in the end that privileged upbringing, lots of potential, education at the best schools and colleges and tutoring by her father in democratic traditions did not amount to much. She achieved little and destroyed much.

It is amazing that in a vibrant democracy, she was able to undermine every political institution, which is essential for a democracy. How she instigated conflicts in Assam, Kashmir and Punjab. How she shamelessly went around dismissing democratically elected state govts and playing one group against another. How she let loose her son, Sanjay as an extra-constitutional authority to subvert judiciary and beaurocracy. She surrounded herself with sycophants and boot-lickers. In her own words, she herself admits, "men who may not be very bright but on whom I can rely"? Only bright spot in her career was the liberation Bangladesh. She used every weapon available to stay in the power. In the end, the forces she helped unleashed consumed her. Even her son Rajiv who became Prime Minister after her violent death was killed Srilankan Tamil Tigers whom she nourished. It might seem like a poetic justice in the end but India was/is the big loser having lost so much and still fighting those forces.

History will not be kind to her and I hope that Indian people would not let another Indira immerge on the political scene.

Great Read.......2005-04-05

This is one of the best biographies on Indira Gandhi. Most of the other books on indira authored by Indian journalists tend to focus primarily on her political activities with a brief summary of her childhood and adult years. This is by far the most comprehensive attempt at combining the various threads and presenting the story of a normal human being. Katherine's description of Indira's years at Anand Bhawan, Europe, marriage to Feroze read like a best seller fiction. Meticulous research, analysis and an objective attempt to understand the influences in Indira's life prior to her prime ministership is the hallmark.

Missing is the analysis in understanding why a shy, reserved person longing for anonymity suddenly craves for power, and seeks power with scant regard for the institutions set-up by her father, leaders she grew up with. Going by Indira's example,I am disappointed that despite having the best role models (Gandhi, Nehru), best education ( shantiniketan, finishing schools, oxford), global exposure, immense wealth, Indira in her latter years behaved very much like an average middle class Mother, the book unfortunately fails to provide a rationale for this abnormal behavior.

Still a great attempt from a non-indian to understand and piece together the life of the most charismatic and powerful Indian leader in the last 30 years.

Indira and India.......2004-08-28

This is a thorough and critical account of the life of Indira Gandhi, concentrating on her early life and her relationship with her father Jawaharlal Nehru, then on to her time a Prime Minister, the Emergency of 1975-77, the influence of her son Sanjay, and finally her violent death.

The author gives great detail of Indira's childhood and privileged upbringing: it seemed a lonely childhood and adolescence. The close bonds with her father seemed to make her marriage with Feroze Gandhi next to impossible. Franks is highly critical of the baleful influence of Sanjay Gandhi and of Indira for being blind to his faults.

It was interesting that the author quickly dismisses any notion of Indira Gandhi as a conviction politician: the exercise of power seemed a sufficient driving force for her, to the extent that democratic values were dispensible.

I thought that this book is as important an account of post-1947 Indian politics as it is a biography of Indira Gandhi (the two seemed to be closely linked). A good read for all that.

G Rodgers

Indira is no more.......2003-08-17

Result of an obviously (too) meticulous study, the book reveals a very objective account of one of the leading female figures of the world... The emphasis is not limited to her political life and therefore you understand almost all underlying motives in her most absurd decisions. Throughout the book, you both love and hate Indira Nehru Gandhi but most of the time, you pity her for the life she, afterall, did not really wanted to have but couldn't refuse either... There is struggle, war, peace, politics, Byzantine games, democracy, dictatorship but happiness in this life....

Nehru (Routledge Historical Biographies)

Average customer rating:

Nehru (Routledge Historical Biographies)
B. Zachariah
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Historical | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Presidents & Heads of State | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Asia | History | Subjects | Books

General | Middle East | History | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 041525017X

Book Description

How did Jawaharlal Nehru come to lead the Indian nationalist movement, and how did he sustain his leadership as the first Prime Minister of independent India? Nehru's vision of India, its roots in Indian politics, society and religion, as well as its viability have been central to historical and present-day views of India. This engaging and sophisticated new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has come to be and the politician he actually was.

Benjamin Zachariah discusses the central issues of the Nehruvian period, such as foreign policy, non-alignment and the Cold War, the Indian nationalist movement and Independence, the Kashmir problem, economic pressures, and Nehru's political legacy. The introductory chapters look at Nehru's personal and family background and his time as Gandhi's disciple. Zachariah provides a balanced and critical account of Nehru's thought and actions, drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources.

Autobiography, Travel & Postnational Identity: Narratives of Selfhood in Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies)

Average customer rating:

Autobiography, Travel & Postnational Identity: Narratives of Selfhood in Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies)
Javed Majeed
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Political | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Asia | History | Subjects | Books

Essays & Travelogues | Reference & Tips | Travel | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This is the first study to show how the group identities of nationalism in South Asia were grounded in notions of individual selfhood. Javed Majeed argues that the writing of autobiography played a key role in formulating the complex connections between nationalism and interiority. By focussing on Jawaharlal Nehru, M.K. Gandhi and Muhammad Iqbal, and a range of other South Asian nationalist autobiographies and travelogues in English, Urdu, and Persian, he shows how notions of travel grounded the autobiographical projects of leading nationalists.

Envoy extraordinary;: A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India,

Average customer rating:

Envoy extraordinary;: A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India,
Vera Brittain
Manufacturer: A.S. Barnes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

South Asia | Asia | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007J3SAI

Gandhi, Nehru and Jp: Studies in Leadership

Average customer rating:

Gandhi, Nehru and Jp: Studies in Leadership
Bimal Prasad
Manufacturer: South Asia Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

The Gentle Colossus: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru

Average customer rating:

The Gentle Colossus: A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru
Hiren Mukerjee
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Middle East | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0195620291

Gokhale, Gandhi and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian nationalism

Average customer rating:

Gokhale, Gandhi and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian nationalism
B. R Nanda
Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

India's foreign relations during the Nehru era: Some studies

Average customer rating:

India's foreign relations during the Nehru era: Some studies

Manufacturer: Asia Pub. House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Jawaharlal Nehru: A study in ideology and social change

Average customer rating:

Jawaharlal Nehru: A study in ideology and social change
R. P Dube
Manufacturer: Mittal Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

South Asia | Asia | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 8170990718

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Study of His Writings and Speeches with a Foreword by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar.

Average customer rating:

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Study of His Writings and Speeches with a Foreword by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar.

Manufacturer: Mysore: Rao and Raghavan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I8302Y

Average customer rating:
Architecture in the Shoin Style: Japanese Feudal Residences (Japanese Arts Library)
Fumio Hashimoto , and H. Mack Horton
Manufacturer: Kodansha America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
Residential | Building Types & Styles | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
General | Home Design | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 087011414X

Average customer rating:
Architecture in the Shoin Style : Japanese Feudal Residences (Japanese Art Library, Vol. 10)
Fumio; Horton, H. Mack (translator) Hashimoto
Manufacturer: New York: Kodansha America, Incor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WW5K92

Customer Reviews:

Dated yet Timeless.......2005-07-03

I'm rating this 5 stars, not because it is so absolutely perfect a book, but because it must be read by any beginning student of mind control.

This book covers the primary basics you need to begin to see through the Matrix in which you are caught. Williamson introduces all the major psycho-formal techniques that abstractly underlie all advertisement and propaganda.

Despite too much jargon and over-writing, this book is so good one hates to dwell on the weaknesses. First it is truly dated. All the sample ads are from the 70's. But that isn't so bad in that all the same techniques are in use today. Then the graphics aren't great, for a book devoted to analyzing graphics, the repro's are too small, in the margins, and only in black and whilte (that last particularly irritating in her section on use of color). I'd rather she had cut out some of the theoretical jargon and devoted the saved space to better/more/bigger graphics, perhaps a coffee table book is needed? In fact, her little offset paragraphs, where she cans the theoretical verbiage and pulls off the gloves and gets into throw-down mode (one such offset paragraph per sample ad), are the heart and soul of the book - the entire book could have been just these gems, buffered by a succint introduction.

Another beef I have is that sometimes even her "wheels to the pavement" (text offset paragraphs) deconstructions of the sample ads seem to pull punches sometimes. Maybe it is just due to lack of space, maybe it's her wish to focus on illustrating just one main principle at a time, maybe it is simple prudishness? Whatever the reason, she misses A LOT of nasty stuff in her ad samples, and it is mostly sex stuff she's omitting.

I'm not talking here about the old 50's thing with secret dirty words written in ice cubes. That subliminal stuff is fun but whether it is true or not, it is a sideshow. She could have gotten plenty of milage without those controversial subtleties just by pointing out the most outrageously obvious uses of sexual imagery and symbolism in practically every ad. But she goes very lightly on this angle. She does include a brief section on use of sex, with a few obvious and tame/lame examples, but in fact almost every single ad had this and she just doesn't point it out.

For example, her A10 ad, with a woman cradling a man's head at her breast, his mouth gaping open like a baby. Maybe she thought it is just too obvious to mention? But we need to acknowledge what's going on to begin to understand how we are being played. The ubiquitous use of women with their legs open or splayed - again zero comment from her, though she must know these postures are very carefully crafted and used by the designers.

For example in her very first ad of Chapter 1, A2, she gives a great analysis of the use of color and space in the scene, but totally omits to comment that the woman's legs (only hers) are opened and she (not the man) is holding her long tall drink between them. Yes it is all very obvious in a way, once you begin to know how to look consciously at ads. But then so are many other things she discusses at much greater length. We are turning to her for help in precisely that - flicking the switch to conscious perception, and her almost total omission of the use of sex imagery is not helpful.

Not only sex but other powerful attributes of the images and texts (e.g. implicit violence) are missed by her analysis.

Anyway, it is a GREAT book for its time, and a must-read as you begin to dig your own tunnel out thru the Matrix prison walls.

But what I really want to know is, apart from Williamson's type of 'outsider' purely academic analysis, how explicitly are students of marketing and advertising, who end up as professional creating this stuff, taught how to use these precise languages of form and text and so on, that enable them to bore a chunnel right into the base of your brain? I mean does a Professor stand up somewhere with some textbook and say "Now students, remember to always pose the woman with her legs spread in the center of every shot, while making it appear natural and accidental. And always position your phallic objects thusly ..." ??

Is that happening, in some lecture room? Or is not only the INTERPRETATION of ads happening at the pre-conscious level, but even the CREATION of them as well?

What a world! It is mind control all the way down, starting with our genetically coded fixation with the human face (count how many media representations you see of a human face each day!)

Anyway just read this book, let it be a file in your cake.

A powerful book........2000-06-11

I don't ever write reviews or do this sort of thing, but since this book is seemingly so marginalized in this online store, I felt it important to say: I was never the same after this book. I don't look at myself or at anything in the same way. I can scarcely even put it all into words. You simply must read this book. With every passing day, the world is more awash in nonsense. Nothing can cut through it but at least this book can help you to look at it (the nonsense) in a new way.

Decoding Advertisements is a first-rate book!.......1997-08-05

Decoding Advertisements is a witty, clever, and accessible introduction to the pernicious world of advertising. Judith Williamson writes for a general audience, and has loads of interesting insights to offer into the ways in which advertisements shape our thinking and personalities. This book is a must for anyone who has ever wondered what advertisements are _really_ selling. Kent Worcester

Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising

Average customer rating:

Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising

Manufacturer: The Eihosha Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HJSO5M

Average customer rating:

Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising
Judith Williamson
Manufacturer: Marion Boyars, London & NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UI4S00

Customer Reviews:

The Complete Reportoire of Anna Pavlova. - Mind-Boggling!.......2005-06-09

This book contains all the roles Pavlova ever danced in detail with an abundance of illustrations. This book is a must-have.

Average customer rating:

Pavlova: Repertoire of a Legend
John and Roberta LAZZARINI
Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GT41YQ

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books