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align="center"><br> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EG26Aa03.html"><strong>Dissecting an assassination</strong></a><br><i>An Act of State. The Execution of Martin Luther King </i>by William Pepper <br><br>William Pepper's new book examines the assassination of Martin Luther King, one of the most successful proponents of non-violence in history, at the time that he was becoming vocal regarding the Vietnam War. Officially blamed by the US government on a lone assassin, Pepper lays out a heavily researched case that fingers the government as orchestrator and executor of the plan to neutralize King and his non-violent message.<strong> - Sreeram Chaulia<br></strong></font></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/king-book.gif" border="0"></div></td></tr></table><br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EG19Df02.html"><strong>The burden of prints</strong></a><br><i>Imprint of the Raj: The Colonial Origins of Fingerprinting and its Voyage to Britain</i> by Chandak Sengoopta<br><br>In an obscure village in Bengal in 1858, Sir William James Herschel experienced a momentary flash of inspiration that would revolutionize the field of criminal investigation - and, a recent book argues, make him the true pioneer of fingerprinting technology. <b>- Jason Overdorf</b></font></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/imprint-book.gif" border="0"></div></td></tr></table><br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/EG12Dj01.html "><strong><font size="2">Doing a number on the investing public</font></strong></a><br><font size="2"><em>The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America,</em> by Alex Berenson <br><br>Obeisance to quarterly earnings was just one facet of the rampant dishonesty on Wall Street that has led to the loss of billions of dollars by investors since 2000, according to this book, which tells the story of how small lies ultimately led to mammoth deception by accountants, brokers, bankers and corporate titans. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> </font></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/number-book.gif" border="0"></div></td></tr></table><br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font></font><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EG04Dh04.html"><strong><font size="2">The sailor and the shogunate</font></strong> </a> <br><font size="2"> <i> Samurai William,</i> by Giles Milton<br> <br> After a harrowing 19-month journey, a remarkable mariner named William Adams became the first Englishman to visit Japan, and would rise to fame and power in the shogunate of Tokogawa Ieyasu. This book tells the story of the real man behind James Clavell's famous novel <i> Shogun,</i> and of the chicanery of the most successful trading nation of the 17th century. <b> - John Berthelsen</b></font></p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/samurai-book.gif" border="0"></div></td></tr></table><br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/EG04Ae05.html "><strong><font size="2">Exposition of revolutionary terror</font></strong></a><br><font size="2"><em>The Gate, </em>by<em> </em>Francois Bizot<br><br>Francois Bizot, a French historian of Buddhism, was the only Westerner to live through the time of Cambodia's obscurity by surviving and escaping a Khmer Rouge prison camp. His recent book offers a blow-by-blow narrative of the nation's descent into chaos. <b>- Sreeram Chaulia  </b></font></p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/Gate-book.gif" border="0"></div></td></tr></table><br> <table class="" id="table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="493" border="1" style="WIDTH: 493px; HEIGHT: 343px"> <tr> <td class="" valign="top" bordercolor="red" align="left" height="0"><strong><font color="red">THE FACES OF ISLAM<img hspace="5" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/islam-siege-book.gif" align="right" border="0"> </font></strong> <br> <br> <a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF28Ak01.html"><strong><font size="2"><em>Islam under siege</em> </font></strong></a> <br> <font size="2">by Akbar S Ahmed<br> <br> Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs and raises important questions of relevance to Muslims and to non-Muslims alike, while also providing a route to dialogue between civilizations. - <b>Ahmad Faruqui</b></font><br> <img hspace="5" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/pearl-book.gif" align="right" vspace="5" border="0"><br> <a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EF28Df02.html"><strong><font size="2">Who killed Daniel Pearl?</font></strong></a> <br> <em>Qui a tue Daniel Pearl? </em>by Bernard-Henri Levy<br> <br> The book has already caused a stir in the French-speaking world. It is likely to create an even bigger sensation once the English-language version comes out as Levy airs some awkward theories on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl at the hands of Islamic extremists - if it even was them. - <b>Pepe Escobar</b></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EF21Dh03.html "><strong><font size="2">Sony's uncertain prospects</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><i>Business the Sony Way</i> by Shu Shin Luh <br> <br> Sony's shares in late April fell more than 15 percent, indicative of the transition under way at the electronics giant. Its current chairman wants to take the firm in a digital direction - and investors are uncomfortable with this new vision of Sony. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> </font> <br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/sony-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EF14Df02.html "><strong><font size="2">Of pox and puppets</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><i>The Brainfever Bird</i>, by I Allan Sealy<br> <br> Fetid, pulsating Old Delhi provides the perfect landscape for this thriller, where, much like today's real-life SARS scare, a plague breaks out and takes its deadly toll, all related in vivid metaphors and a distinctive prose style. - <b>Shailaja Neelakantan</b> </font> <br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/brainfever-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table><br> <table id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EE31Ad02.html "><strong><font size="2">The art of investment</font></strong></a><br> <i><font size="2">Sun Tzu on Investing</font></i><font size="2"> by Curtis J Montgomery <br> <br> It is hard to find anything new to tell equity investors, especially after the dot-com bubble burst. But a recent book that uses the insights of ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu just might have something that fits the bill. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> </font> </font></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/images/sun-tzu-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table><br> <table class="" id="table1" style="WIDTH: 485px; HEIGHT: 142px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="485" border="2"> <tr> <td class="" valign="top" bordercolor="darkorange" align="left" bgcolor="gainsboro" height="0"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div><span class="580422303-30062003"><font face="Arial" size="2">Gary,</font></span></div> <div><span class="580422303-30062003"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you for an intelligent and objective view of my recent book, <em>Sun Tzu On Investing</em>. Our Sun Tzu-style investing portfolio, which we call WallStraits 8 Portfolio, has, since September 2000, gained 27.6 percent while the Straits Times Index has lost 7.8 percent annually, including dividends - thus helping to validate the ancient wisdom of making sure-win investments. Very best regards,</font></span></div> <div><span class="580422303-30062003"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Curtis J Montgomery<br></strong><span class="580422303-30062003"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801073754/http://www.wallstraits.com/">http://www.wallstraits.com</a></font></span></font></span></div></font></div></td></tr></table> <br> <table id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EF07Aa01.html"><font size="2"><strong>Minority rule, majority hate<br> </strong></font></a><font size="2"><i>World on Fire</i> by Amy Chua <br> <br> What does September 11, 2001, have to do with the murder of Yale Professor Amy Chua's Chinese Filipino aunt in Manila? Chua examines the correlation between ethnonationalistic violence and free market democracy and proposes methods for preventing the recurring violence she believes emanates naturally from globalization. - <strong>Sreeram Chaulia</strong> </font>   </font> </font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/fire-world-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EE24Dh02.html "><strong><font size="2">Rising from the ashes</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><i>Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival</i> by Richard Katz<br> <br> It seems almost perverse to be a Japan-optimist these days, when so much of the news coming out of Tokyo is bad, but a new book predicts that since the reform genie has been let out of the bottle, it is only a matter of time before the world's second largest economy makes a comeback. <b>- David Peters</b> </font><br>   </font></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/Katz-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EE17Df02.html"><strong>Love, the mystery unsolved</strong></a><br> <i>Abandon</i> by Pico Iyer<br> <br> A graduate trying to understand the secrets of Sufism is taken on a quest through Syria, Spain, Iran and India, where his understanding of the mystical dimension of Islam, unfortunately for this book, increases more than his comprehension of love. - <b>Jason Overdorf</b></font> </font></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/south_asia/images/abandon-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EE10Dh02.html "><strong>A prescription for the Japanese economy</strong></a><br> <i>Balance Sheet Recession,</i> by Richard C Koo <br> <br> Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration is pushing tough structural reform to cure Japan's long-running economic sickness. A new book challenges this economic medicine and insists that the road to recovery begins with increased government deficit spending. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> <br> <br>    <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EE10Dh01.html">Fighting over the cure</a> <br> </font></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/balance-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EE03Aa02.html "><strong>Wilsonian idealism reconsidered</strong></a><br> <i>Woodrow Wilson<strong> </strong></i>(Profiles in Power series), by John Thompson<br> <br> A number of distinguished statesmen have been lauded for their Wilsonian policies, but after reading this book, which draws on newly released archives and presents a more rounded view of Woodrow Wilson's personality and philosophy, this might not appear to be such a compliment. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b> <br> </font></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/wilson-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/ED26Ag03.html"><strong><font size="2">The curse of the poppy</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><i>The Opium Economy in Afghanistan. An International Problem</i> by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime<br> <br> If ever foreign intervention were needed in Afghanistan, where poppy cultivation is at an all-time high, it is now, if the social and economic devastation not just of the Afghan people but across the world is to be stopped. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia<br> </b></font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/opium-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><b></b> <a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ED19Df02.html "><strong>A tale of two women</strong></a><br> <i>A Married Woman,</i> by Manju Kapur<br> <br> Telling the story of a middle-class woman from Delhi caught in an unhappy marriage against the backdrop of the destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992, Manju Kapur's second novel explores love and repression in India. <b>- Shailaja Neelakantan</b> <br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/married-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/ED12Ag02.html"><strong>Afghanistan: The lost homeland <br> </strong></a><i>West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story</i>, by Tamim Ansary<br> <br> Born of an Afghan father and an American mother, the author has his feet firmly planted in different continents - even though he lives in the United States, his concern and passion for troubled Afghanistan permeates every page of the book. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b></p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/afghan-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/ED05Dj02.html "><strong>Economic doomsday</strong></a><br> <i>The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures,</i> by Richard Duncan<br> <br> Postulating that the US economy is on the verge of collapse, and the whole world is going down with it, a new book offers an unabashedly alarmist view of the imminent unraveling of the global economy - an outcome the author argues has now become unavoidable. <b>- David Peters</b> <br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/dollar2-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC29Ak03.html"><strong><font size="2">Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><i>Of Paradise and Power, America and Europe in the New World Order</i>, by Robert Kagan<br> <br> In a timely book, Kagan explores how Europe favors peaceful responses to international problems, preferring negotiation, diplomacy and persuasion to coercion, while America prefers to resort to force more often, and is less patient with diplomacy. The author's solution to the problem that this divide is causing might not go down too well in "old Europe". - </font><b><font size="2">Sreeram Chaulia</font></b><br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/paradise-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"><br>  </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC22Df01.html "><strong>A cynical, idealistic melange</strong></a><br> <i>Out of God's Oven: Travels in a fractured land,</i> by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa<br> <br> Take a pinch of optimism and a cup of pessimism stirred with nearly six years of constant travel and you get a book that captures the issues gripping contemporary India - and it's a vision of a lighted bomb, the fuse sputtering fast. <b>- Jason Overdorf</b> <br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/oven-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="Table2"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC15Df05.html"><strong>The art of keeping the peace</strong> </a> <br> <i>Trumpets and Tumults. The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper</i>, by Indar Jit Rikhye<br> <br> With a track record in peacekeeping around the world second to none, Indian's Major-General Jit Rikhye is a voice worth listening to as he recounts with wit and sincerity his travels and travails of over half a century. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b></font> </p></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/trumpets-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC08Df04.html "><strong>The capitalist case for India</strong></a><br> <i>The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change</i> by Gurcharan Das <br> <br> Is India's economy being held back by its democracy? That is the idea put forth in a recently released book, which suggests that privatization is the panacea for all of India's social and political ills. <b>- Shailaja Neelakantan</b> </font> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/elephant-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC01Df03.html"><strong>Pakistan: The world's next failed state?</strong></a><br> <i>Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan,</i> by Mary Anne Weaver <br> <br> With a profusion of drugs, arms, private militias, fundamentalist ideologies and sectarian violence, what holds Pakistan together? A new book examines the volatile nation's recent history and what could lead to its demise. <b>- Sreeram Chaulia</b> <br> </font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2">   </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/pakistan-book-2.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EB22Ad03.html"><strong>The mystery behind Zhu's miracle</strong></a> <br> <i>Zhu Rongji and the Transformation of Modern China</i>, by Laurence J Brahm<br> <br> Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has been the architect of China's economic boom for over a decade. This book looks at the man behind the transformation of the world's largest market, but, <b>Gary LaMoshi</b> notes, some major questions remain unanswered - perpetuating the mystery of the Chinese economic renaissance. <br> <br>    <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0">Brahm interview: <a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EB22Ad02.html">'There are no non-reformers'</a><br> </font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2"> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/zhu-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB15Df02.html"><strong><font size="2">A soulful journey<br> </font></strong></a><font size="2"><i>Beyond Time. The Ageless Music of Jagjit Singh</i>, edited by Asharani Mathur<br> <br> Jagjit Singh, who almost single-handedly revived romantic Urdu poetry as an art form in song, now aims to popularize Hindi across multi-lingual India as a connecting language. This book traces his rise from obscurity to fame. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2"><br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/beyond-time.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB08Df03.html"><strong>A resounding voice<br> </strong></a><i>The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces</i>, by Amitav Ghosh<br> <br> Ghosh the novelist has a formidable reputation and following, but he is also the author of myriad essays, travelogues and genre-defying pieces written for magazines and journals. Many of these are collated in the <i>Iman</i>, and they serve to entrench the writer as a voice to the heard. <strong>- Shailaja Neelakantan</strong><br> </font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/ghosh-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB06Df02.html"><strong>Picture imperfect<br> </strong></a><i>Jihadis in Jammu and Kashmir: A Portrait Gallery</i> by K Santhanam, Sreedhar, Sudhir Saxena and Manish<br> <br> This book provides an invaluable, detailed compilation of the organizations involved in the struggle in Jammu and Kashmir. Unfortunately, though, it is little more than this, with minimal analysis of the data, and the authors have mistakenly lumped every dissenting Kashmiri into the category of a terrorist or a jihadi. - <b>Sudha Ramachandran</b></font></font><br></font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/kashmir-book-1.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EB01Dg01.html"><strong>A Korean exit strategy for the US</strong></a> <br> <i>Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement,</i> by Selig Harrison<br> <br> At a time when too many Western commentators have taken a myopic view of North Korea, an American foreign-policy analyst who has written on Korean politics for three decades reminds that the ball is in the US court to promote progress toward a unified, de-nuclearized and peaceful Korea. <b>- Sreeram Chaulia </b></font> <br> </font></font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/korea-book.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/EA18Dk01.html "><strong><font size="2">Asia's great and good in trying times</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><em>Recreating Asia: Visions for a New Century</em>, by Frank-Jurgen Richter and Pamela C M Mar<br> <br> Compiled by the World Economic Forum, best known for its annual Davos conference, this work tries to take a look at what's ahead for Asian business through a series of essays by leading figures in government and industry. That's both the book's greatest strength and weakness. <b>- Gary LaMoshi</b> <br> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"> </font></font></font></font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801073754im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/lamoshi-book-graphic.gif" border="0"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030801073754/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EA11Aa01.html"><font size="2"><strong>Master strategist or master crook?<br> </strong></font></a><font size="2"><font color="#000000"><em>The Trial of Henry Kissinger,</em> by Christopher Hitchens<br> <br> </font>Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? 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