Month: October 2015

Authors: Martin Davies and David W. Snyder Publisher: Oxford University Press – 478 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In the world of international commerce, there are bound to be conflicts. Most of these are resolved amicably between buyer and seller. But when there are severe losses, written claims are made. Sometimes the claims are settled, while at other times, they remain unsettled and persist for a long time. In such instances, international trade laws are consulted, and the parties to the transaction, in order to save time, effort and money, settle between themselves. But when there is absolutely...

Author: William C. Taylor Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 252 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar On December 17, 2010, at around 11:30 a.m., a 26-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, a highly corrupt rural town with 30 percent unemployment, in Tunisia. He had started his workday that morning at about 8 a.m. About two hours later, the local police began harassing him, as they had done before, asking him for a vendor’s permit. According to the head of Sidi Bouzid’s state office for employment and independent work, no permit is needed to...

Editor: Peter C. Kunze   Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 226 pages Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi Wes Anderson is an independent film maker who has won many awards, even though he may not be a household name such as Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg. Wes Anderson’s most recent and popular film The Grand Budapest Hotel won the Best Original Screenplay award at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) in 2014. It also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in the same year. It has also been nominated in 2015 for Academy Awards...

Editors: Douglas Cumming, Michael Firth, Wenxuan Hou, and Edward lee Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 191 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram China today is the fastest-growing (and perhaps the second largest) economy in the world, with hundreds of millions of its 1.2 billion people in the country lifted out of poverty, and the economic outlook very bright for those who are not yet enjoying prosperity borne of broad-based development. The Chinese people’s progress is due mainly to the remarkable public-private partnership that has emerged in the last few decades. The entrepreneurial thinking, ingenuity, and innovation of its people and...