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डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर हे नाव आज सर्वांत आदरणीय भारतीयांच्या नामावलीत घेतलं जातं आणि देशभरातील त्यांच्या पुतळ्यांची संख्या महात्मा गांधींच्या पुतळ्यांखालोखाल असेल. किंबहुना, आधुनिक काळातील 'सर्वांत थोर भारतीय' ठरवण्यासाठी अलीकडे एक मतचाचणी घेण्यात आली, त्यात दोन कोटींहून अधिक मतं नोंदवली गेली आणि त्यात आंबेडकरांना गांधींपेक्षा जास्त मतं मिळाली होती.

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the agency's history.

आजादी के बाद देश में अक्सर ये माना जाता था कि नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस का निधन विमान हादसे में नहीं हुआ है. वो जल्द अज्ञातवास से वापस स्वदेश लौटेंगे और तब देश में आमूलचूल बदलाव आएगा. ये तो चर्चाओं की बात थी लेकिन नेताजी आजादी की लड़ाई के दौरान आजाद हिंद फौज के सहयोगियों से एक खास इच्छा जाहिर करते थे.

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar: A Complete Biography by Pankaj Kishore highlights the life, struggles, and achievements of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and a champion of Dalit rights and social justice.

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.

Alexander the Great-one of the most renowned figures in antiquity-has inspired everything from medieval romances to blockbuster movies, and military leaders from Julius Caesar to Napoleon to the U.S. general Norman Schwarzkopf. But who was this great king of Macedon? And why is he so legendary? These 36 spellbinding lectures take you deep inside the world of Alexander to witness the astonishing feats of military genius that made his name renowned for millennia after his death.

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana: W.E.B. DuBois. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through Du Bois’s revolutionary life.

Éxodo y poder es la jugosa crónica de la historia de medio siglo de vida del Partido Popular y, por tanto, de muchos momentos decisivos de la política española en las últimas décadas. En sus páginas, nos acerca de primera mano a la personalidad de quienes han pilotado el devenir del centroderecha en España, con sus convicciones y sus complejos, en medio de pugnas internas o frente a sus rivales de los otros partidos.

Narrated by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro himself, this audiobook offers a grounded and intimate portrait of life in public service. Where We Keep the Light is the story of public service and personal faith. From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up...

Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a guidebook on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for the revolutionary movement. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change.

Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later. The posthumous publication of his Prison Notebooks established him as a major thinker whose influence continues to increase. Fiori’s biography enlarges upon the facts of Gramsci’s life through personal accounts, and through Gramsci’s own writings to relatives and friends.

A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailes—the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR When Rupert Murdoch enlisted...

New York Times Bestselling Author Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the unique lessons that shaped his life and career It Worked for Me is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin...

Discover the extraordinary life of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph of Islam whose leadership transformed the early Muslim world. From his dramatic conversion to Islam to his decade of revolutionary rule, this definitive biography explores how Umar expanded the Islamic empire, established groundbreaking administrative systems, and lived with legendary justice and humility.

આ 'પ્રતિનાયક' પુસ્તક માં ઇતિહાસની એક જબરદસ્ત કરુણાતિકા છે કે ચુસ્ત રાષ્ટ્રવાદી તરીકે રાજકીય કારકેદીનો આરંભ કરનાર ઝીણા કારકેડીના છેલ્લા દશકામાં સાવ સામા છેડે જઈને હિંદુ-મુસ્લિમ વચ્ચે દ્વેષ, ધિક્કાર અને વૈમનસ્યની લાગણી ખુબ ઊંડે સુધી ઉતારી શકવાનું નિમિત બન્યા હતા. આ પુસ્તક માં હિન્દુસ્તાનના અને પાકિસ્તાન વિષે એતિહાસિક વાતો લખવામાં આવી છે.

No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. To this day they remain one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the world. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life.

In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document...

For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.

This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom. It is a story that shocked the world with its first-hand account of the horrors of slavery. The book was an incredible success. It sold over 30,000 copies and was an international best seller.

കേരള രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ ഇതിഹാസമായി മാറിയ എം.വി. രാഘവന്റെ ആത്മകഥ. ജനങ്ങളിലേക്കും അണികളിലേക്കും ആവേശമായി പടർന്നേറിയ കർനിരതനായ ജനകീയനായകന്റെ സമരോത്സുക മായ ജീവിതകഥ നമുക്ക് ഇതിലൂടെ ലഭിക്കുന്നു. പാർട്ടിയുടെ യാഥാ സ്ഥിതിക നിലപാടുകൾക്കെതിരെ പാർട്ടിക്കുള്ളിൽ നിന്നുകൊണ്ടു തന്നെ സമരം നയിക്കുകയും കാലോചിതമായ നയരൂപീകരണ ങ്ങൾക്കായി രേഖ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തതിനാൽ പാർട്ടിയിൽ നിന്നുതന്നെ പുറത്താക്കപ്പെട്ടപ്പോഴും തളരാതെ കേരളരാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ സജീവസാന്നിധ്യമായി നിലകൊണ്ട് ധീരനായ ഒരു പോരാളിയെ അടുത്തറിയുക.