One does not have to be a member of any communist party to read or appreciate the significance of The Communist Manifesto. One does not have to read it as a gospel in order to transform oneself into a communist either. Communism, per se, may have been wiped off the face of Europe and elsewhere, but it would be nothing short of myopic MacCarthist bullheadedness either to acknowledge the historical importance of the Manifesto, or to see present-day world in the light of what Karl Marx perceived the world 150 years back in time and thought it would be today, contends Subir Ghosh

Many men have formed close relationships with each other and history writer Stephen Ambrose has written about them in his latest book. Drawing from his expertise as an historian, Ambrose discusses the Eisenhower brothers, Dwight and Milton, the soldiers of Easy Company who fought in World War II, and the friendships of Lewis and Clark and Crazy Horse and He Dog, writes Cynthia Arbuthnot

David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Everest--has earned him wide acclaim and four Emmy awards. For this, he is known as one of the elite cinematographers in his field. But his new autobiography, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other High Places, proves he is more than a climber and a filmmaker; he is also an able writer, says Amazon.com

For better or worse, television advertising occasionally becomes a touchstone in our lives. Chevrolet's "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie," Alka-Seltzer's spicy meatball, the Federal Express fast talker, the Energizer Bunny, "Bo Knows" Nike, Quaker Oats' Mikey--these and a select group of other video campaigns get so embedded in our psyches that we can easily recall them, word-for-word and scene-by-scene, many years after they last were aired, says Amazon.com

Presented here is a journalistic account of the birth and infancy years of the Shining Path guerrilla insurgency in Peru. The Shining Path had carried out its first armed raid in May 1980 around the same time as the South American country was returning to a civilian administration after being ruled for more than a decade by a military regime. The subsequent decade saw the Leftist guerrilla organisation leading the country into a gory civil war. Published originally in Spanish around the same time, this journalistic documentation is now accessible to scholars, analysts and observers of both radical Left as well as Latin American politics, argues Gene Evans