As many as 51 of the world's biggest 100 economies are corporations, not countries. The multinational corporation is one of the most powerful institutions of our times which dominates not only global economics, but also politics and culture. The mechanisms of corporate control over public life have remained largely obscured from public perception. That is, until now, says Subir Ghosh

usan Faludi, author of the feminist bestseller Backlash, has done it again with an exhaustive report on the betrayals felt by working men throughout the United States. American men are angry and discontented, she argues in Stiffed, because their sense of what it is to be a man has been destroyed by everything from corporate downsizing and the shrinking military of the post cold war era to the increase in local sports teams leaving town, says Amazon.com

'The Physicists' - Die Physiker - is one of the most well known plays of Friedrich Durrenmatt, the famous Swiss writer/dramatist. Durrenmatt was born in Konolfingen on 5 January 1921 and passed away in Neuenburg on 14 December 1990. Durrenmatt wrote 32 plays, 16 novels and novellas, 18 major articles and a large number of essays. His writing has been translated into almost all the European languages and into Afrikaans. In his last years, Durrenmatt had also taken to painting, writes Chandra Holm

What the white and the black legends have in common is that they do not attribute any great political or social importance to Villa prior to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. The epic legend, by contrast, states that in his years as an outlaw, Villa became the idol of Chihuahua's peasantry and the scourge of the Terrazas. No one has better described the epic legend than the U.S. correspondent John Reed. Excerpts

This book on happiness is the result of many conversations between the Dalai Lama and a psychiatrist based in Phoenix, Arizona, Howard C. Cutler. According to the Dalai Lama, what people really want is happiness in their lives. He maintains that people are really compassionate and gentle in nature, unlike the traditional western view of man as a cruel and predatory creature. While the Dalai Lama agrees that there are many cruel people in the world, he believes that the seeds of kindness and empathy for one's fellow humans are in each of us, waiting to be nurtured, writes Cynthia Arbuthnot