Major corporations have not only not protected the environment, but when given the chance (or, rather when given the chance to create such chances), they have only engaged in a plunder of environmental resources. Investigative reporters James Ridgeway of the Village Voice and Jeffrey St. Clair of CounterPunch narrate shocking stories tales of mindless, irresponsible environmental-spoilage and with a smattering of depressing photographs and graphics, says Subir Ghosh.

For a book that is written in English, French and Spanish, Deep Water naturally reaches out to a substantial number of people. It comes across as a colourful mini-encyclopaedia with an underlying thread of concern that runs throughout the book. The concern is voiced more discretely towards the end. The book consciously treads a middle path -- between celebration of life and the concern at the present and the future, writes Subir Ghosh.

They say the enemy came in the night, but the enemy can come at any hour, be it dawn or twilight, because the enemy is always there and these people know it, locked in a tribal hunger that bubbles in the blood and hides out on the mountain, an old carcass waiting to rise again, waiting to roar again, to pit neighbour against neighbour and dog against dog in the crazed and phantom lust for a lip of land. Excerpts.

The main fault is not in ourselves. It lies in our unjust and unequal society, in a social system that in no way corresponds to the potentialities of our development, just as our technological sophistication contrasts with the primitiveness of our social organisation. But we cannot just plead innocence and irresponsibility. We are not prisoners of this system. Though sobered up by past defeats and burdened by the weight of our environment, we, too, can try to be masters of our fate and fight for a different future. Excerpts.

The author's contention is simple -- that the generation which grew up during the Depression, vanquished tyranny as youths, and then delivered prosperity and freedom from Communism as adults is a unique generation. What he does to drive home his point is an intertwined tale of anecdotes. Brokaw's World War book is neither war reportage nor a perspectival analysis of the war in any way. It is a well-collated volume of ideas, opinions and impressions, feels Gene Evans.