Empire, Power, and Poppy investigates the moral, economic, and political forces that shaped the British Empire’s approach to opium production and control in India’s Native States. Although colonial authorities framed eradication as a civilizing, moral project, Kawal Deep Kour’s innovative book argues that interventions were driven by fiscal imperatives and political consolidation. It shows how moral rhetoric obscured the colonial state’s dependence on opium revenue and its determination to discipline and absorb indigenous economies.

Poppies and Perseverance explores India’s opium poppy cultivation as an agricultural practice shaped by beauty, legality, and survival. Tracing poppy’s journey from colonial entanglements to contemporary realities, Kawal Deep Kour’s stimulating new book shows how this delicate flower has influenced livelihoods, policies, and identities across generations. Blending historical analysis with ethnographic insights and philosophical reflections, it moves beyond statistics and regulation to foreground the voices of farmers who live this reality daily.

In this vividly written, politically-oriented travelogue, Tomáš Klvaňa offers a stark narrative of his decade-long travels to Cuba, interweaving a political analysis of the country's current state with a critical assessment of the ideology that has shaped its development. Cuba: A Brief History of the End reveals an immersive tableau of tropical landscapes that set the stage for the human stories that have unfolded in the shadow of the communist regime.

Steel Workers in India discusses the factors that determine organizational climate and employee job satisfaction in the Salem Steel Plant. In this study, job satisfaction is delineated by twelve distinct dimensions, namely human resources policies and welfare measures, work stress, employee promotion, communication, pay and operations circumstances, nature of work, rewards system, safety measures, appraisal systems. Organizational climate is approach in four dimensions: humanistic climate, autonomous climate, flexible climate, and job dimension climate.

We are living through extraordinary times – a startling civilizational shift in which the tables are being turned on the West and all it stands for. The baby boomers tracked the beginning of this great historical arc, their children are watching it accelerate, and their grandchildren may witness its completion. The rise of the Third World is rooted in social transfers, welfare, and redistribution of wealth in the name of justice. The failing heart of the West is the market.