One would have liked to think that slave trading had perished with the medieval ages. It has not. Human commodity trafficking flourishes in the hands of transnational criminal organisations. Trafficking in women and children for sex trade is a burgeoning industry. Organised crime is often seen as a form of borderline entrepreneurship that sustains itself through opportunities provided by various forms of prohibition. The argument in their favour is that they are simply meeting the demands of consumers willing to pay for certain commodities and services not regarded socially acceptable. Drug trafficking is one activity. Human commodity trafficking is another, rues Subir Ghosh

If the man known better for having discovered the wreckage of the Titanic has something to say, it might be well worth listening to Robert Ballard, president of the Institute for Exploration and former director of the Center for Marine Exploration. This one is, however, not about the unsinkable ship (he wrote 'The Discovery of the Titanic' a little more than a decade back). Here he amalgamates science, history and breathtaking first-hand accounts in a volume that is less preoccupied with the undersea discoveries he has made in course of his hundred-plus deep-sea expeditions -- he is more concerned with the technological advances that made these discoveries possible, writes Gene Evans

Barely does the public recover from the shock of a mindless shootout in some school in some part of the country, than it has to face contend another outburst of a psychopath in another. No one knows where and when an American lunatic with a gun will enforce her/his unfettered licence to kill. While the gun control vs gun rights debate rages on, so do mindless killings. If at all, killings could be anything but mindless. So much for the debate, shrugs Christine McNeill

A person is innocent until proven guilty. But not always. What happens when someone is blameless, but is proven culpable in court and, therefore incorrectly, convicted. Justice delayed may be justice denied, but when a person is wrongly convicted it can only mean something is grossly rotten with the justice system. The more one reads about the trials, tribulations and mortification innocents have been made to go through, the more one wonders how many more were punished for crimes they did not commit before the authors of this book decided to take up the cudgels for the wrongly convicted, asserts James Warder

This book is clearly not meant for those with an academic interest either in military history or in movie history. It is not clear who this book is meant for. May neither. Yet to concede it to James Wise and Anne Rehill, their collection of 28 profiles does not make light of either. In fact, the sequel to 'Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services' should appeal to those who have a little bit of an interest in both. Since it is the individuals who have been written about, movie buffs are the likelier of the two to lap it up. The exploits of most are a revelation, says Subir Ghosh