The Story of Howard Head: How One Man Reinvented Two Industries

It was the spring of 1947 and Howard Head was an engineer for the Martin aircraft company. Needing a break from work, he joined a few friends for a week of skiing. By the end of...

Nasreen Kabir chronicles the iconic Pyaasa

Nasreen Munni Kabir who chronicled the lives of Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan in her documentaries, has come up with a...

Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers

Chocolate Wars raises the question of the piety of the Quaker families — the Cadbury and Rowntree and Fry clans that dominated the British cocoa business. They concocted chocolate...

New Bond book "Carte Blanche" takes spy to Dubai

Carte Blanche is the name of the new James Bond novel, which has been set amid the skyscrapers and blue waters of Dubai and is due for release in May. The first James Bond novel...

Linda Himelstein: Smirnoff, rags to riches to rags

Chances are, when you take a shot of vodka, the last thing you think about is the story behind the brand. But there's a lot of history there, especially if the vodka is Smirnoff....

Amazon and Penguin announce-2011 breakthrough-novel-award

Amazon and Penguin recently announced their fourth annual Breakthrough Novel award competition. The international competition to find the next popular novel will award a grand prize...

Discovery Channel dives into fiction

The Discovery Channel announced this week that it will enter the world of graphic novels. A series of graphic novels aimed at the youth market (ages 9 and above) are now in development,...

Mills & Boon invites Indian Women to join their circle of true ‘Friends for Life’

Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., the global leader in series romance and publisher of the most widely read women's fiction books “Mills & Boon,” is coming closer to the heart of the...

The Peter Principle

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong was a slim, 167-page management self-help book that became a best seller. It is a book by Laurence J. Peter (a former teacher) and...

Reading Revolution

Andrew Pettegree has dived into the history of the book just as its future seems most uncertain. His new work, The Book in the Renaissance, came out a mere month before Barnes &...

"Vuvuzela," "staycation" among 2,000 words added to Oxford Dictionary

The third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, the largest single-volume English dictionary, was released on August 19. According to an announcement made a day earlier, the...

If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition

During economic contractions, it becomes much more difficult to sell your products, maintain your customer base, and gain market share. Mistakes become more costly, and failure becomes...

Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era

The main objective of this book is to dispel some of the conventionally-held views surrounding trade between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. For instance,...