With the extraordinary chocolate tycoon Willy Wonka as your host,
join Roald Dahl's best-loved characters for a bumper activity book that
will keep boredom at bay and chiddlers at play.Stuffed full of 365
marvellous activities, puzzles and more that will keep entertainment
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The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand Magazine before their publication in book form in 1892. Having appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes was already very popular but their publication immortalized him. "A Scandal in..
Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” (1893), the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. However, he succumbed to the public pressure and resurrected him after a gap of nearly ten years in “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903), the first story in this volume. It must h..
Mole had no idea that the Wild Wood would be a place full of friends. Well, not many but a few at least who he could frolic with! One day, he beats his fear to hop out of his burrow and, lo and behold, he is among the best of friends: Rat, Badger and Mr Toad. But, then, the Wild Wood is full of enem..
Dr. Benish Khan, a historian of adept expertise, delves deeply into Pakistan's constitutional, political, and historical landscapes. Her profound understanding also extends to Pakistan's external relations with the Middle Eastern region. Evidenced by her doctoral dissertation, which explores the his..
Lahore: A Sentimental Journey was first published in 1993, in Pran Nevile s tribute to the land of his birth. This revised edition includes a chapter about his experiences at Government College, an epilogue and an afterword. Grounded in memory and redolent with nostalgia, Nevile s reminiscences tran..
This book explores
institutional development in British India which encompassed both the
modernization of existing practices and arrangements (such as the
bureaucracy and the military) and the importation of alien practices
(such as the rule of law, representation, and mass politics). During..
This book
chronicles the author’s account of his public service of over forty
years while serving at the highest levels of civil governments in
different provinces of Pakistan, including the Tribal Areas,
Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir. The author records his account from
his own disti..
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck
and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny,
family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali
Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury
Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father'..
Originally
published in 1944 by Hosali Press, Bangalore, this book is believed to
be one of the first full-length English language novel by an Indian
Muslim woman in the pre-Partition era. It has clear links with the
biting criticism in the feminist Urdu fiction of writers such as Ismat
Ch..
This book offers a
unique historiography of the phenomenon of Muslim separatism as it
affected and shaped modern South Asia. It describes the journeys of six
prominent Muslim leaders of British India: Syed Ahmad Khan, who laid the
foundation of the Muslim separatist political movement; Sulta..
The 1971 East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military but also a collapse of civil society in the West Wing. The few voices raised against the military action were too feeble to make the army change its course, a course that lead to military defeat and the break-up of the country. At..
The book
contributes to the critical debate of exogenous state- and
democracy-building experiments pursued in the aftermath of Western-led
intervention in war-torn societies. The mistakes committed by the
principal intervener, the United States, at the zero hour of
state-building in Afghan..
This book
introduces several historical sources relevant to Sindh, with a
particular emphasis on the eighteenth century. It examines the general
set of values of the Sindhi society during the Kalhora period
(1701-1783) which determined the historiographic outlook of that era. It
also analy..
Introducing International Relations
explores the development of the IR ‘discipline’ through three major
essentials: concepts, theories, and practices. Each chapter is
structurally organised with respect to detailing concepts, moving
thereon to theory, and animated with relevant empirical exa..
30 Positive elements of the unique Pakistani national identity. The book precisely identifies the elements that contribute to the unique
national identity of the Pakistani people. Each element represents what
makes Pakistanis different from all other nations. Author: Javed Jabbar..
PAKISTAN needs to
produce enough electricity to meet its requirements but usually doesn’t.
Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms
shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in
Chinese Belt and Road investments, Pakistan’s power sector co..
This is a first history of Pakistani literature written in English. It
includes those authors who either migrated to Pakistan or whose work is
highly relevant to the themes engaging the writers of the new country in
the years immediately before and after Partition. It contains a
historical a..
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,
Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for
reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive
political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We
need to belong to groups. ..
Diplomatic Footprints by Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry: A Memoir
Foreign policy decision-making entails making difficult choices; sometimes they fare well, and sometimes not. Where and why did Pakistan succeed in its foreign policy decisions, and where and why did it not? How effectively did the Foreign Ser..
Tiddlywinks-obsessed Awful Aunt Alberta and her pet owl, Wagner, are on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance – Saxby Hall. But with mischievous and irrepressible Soot, the cockney ghost of a chimney sweep, alongside her, Stella is determined to fight back ... and som..
Forgotten by the evolution of the centuries and
indifferent to the advances of the twentieth century, Thul, a tiny
fishing village not far from Bombay, continues to follow those rhythms
of the seasons that have always been handed down. Hari and Lila were
born and raised in the village, but n..
It was a dark and stormy night.Out
of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and
beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin
O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will
threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 19..
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