"In the wake of the warriors came the priests. First the Franciscans, then the Jesuits, then the Dominicans, and lastl…"

"Just like the mullahs who had marched into Goa two hundred years before with the Bahamani sultans, these Catholic cle…"

"The first of these special powers arrived in 1540 when the viceroy received authority to ‘destroy all Hindu temples, …"

"Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in front of their parents, whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sur…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"I used to be a crime reporter for a newspaper in a midsize Canadian city. We liked to say we had a population of a mi…"

"2. , , Paris, France has been running what he calls "a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore" for 50 years. Hi…"

"is the anti-Paris. Lodged among the rocky cliffs on France's southern coast, it is a brash and sun-scoured city. Inst…"

"During my four months at the bookstore, I read over one hundred and fifty books. ... That's the biggest luxury in lif…"

"! The old enmities imprinted into my mind by hearsay and history lessons were not so easily eradicated. Russia, the m…"