Who can foretell India’s future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum
in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions.
When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi’s parrot declared that
India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime
Minister Nare..
The true story of a woman torn between two worlds.
Michelle Nouri was born in Prague but grew up in vibrant pre-war
Baghdad. Her privileged Iraqi childhood was like a fable; full of sun
and games with her sisters and cousins in the crowded house of Bibi,
matriarch of the powerful Nouri family..
The internationally bestselling guide to
"mind-reading" by influencing those around you via non-verbal
communication, from human psychology expert Henrik Fexeus.How
would you like to know what the people around you are thinking? Do you
want to network like a pro, persuade your boss to give y..
Helen Keller’s triumph over her blindness and deafness has
become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book
first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller’s own
story—complex, poignant, and filled with love.With
unforgettable immediacy, Helen’s own words revea..
There are several studies on Pakistan’s external relations but none of
them paint the picture on as wide a canvas as the one chosen for this
work. Most studies deal with bilateral relations, however, the scope of
this work is much wider. This book examines Pakistan’s relations with
India, Ch..
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
was for Pakistan what Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru combined were
for modern India—inspirational father and first head of state. Jinnah
began his career as the Indian National Congress’s ‘Ambassador of
Hindu-Muslim Unity’ but ended it forty years later as the archit..
This book reviews the recent internal security challenges facing
Pakistan. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on the
subject of governance and the rule of law. It is based upon the author’s
approximately four decades (1973–2011) of creditable public service and
provides s..
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was
originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a
story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who
recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The
story told is of his early lif..
From the author of the bestselling The Patient and Making the Cut
comes the compelling story of two doctors on the front line. When old
friends Jack and Tom volunteer for the army medical corps, both men are
unaware that their lives are about to change forever. Jack is a
first-class vascular..
This book analyzes the paradox that despite being a national security
state, Pakistan has become even more insecure in the post-Cold War era.
It provides an in-depth analysis of Pakistan’s foreign and security
policies and their implications for the overall state and society.
The book ident..
The true story of the Taliban’s remarkable
resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after
the U.S. military’s post-9/11 incursion In autumn
2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the
Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who h..
Negotiated under the World Bank auspices, the Indus Waters Treaty
(signed in 1960) settled the water dispute by dividing the Indus Rivers,
allocating three Eastern Rivers to India and three Western Rivers to
Pakistan. The Treaty worked well for some time but has run into
difficulties in rece..
From
Omaha Beach on D-Day and the French Resistance to the tragedy of
Huertgen Forest and the Liberation of Paris, this is the story of Ernest
Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II.In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World War II f..
During last decade’s upsurge in the fortunes of populist politics in
numerous countries, Imran Khan emerged as its central figure in
Pakistan. Globally, Khan never became as prominent in this context as
his populist contemporaries such as Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro,
Narendra Modi, Boris Jo..
Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Transylvania, Romania, to help Dracula, a local count, buy a house in London. It does not take him long to find out that his client is a vampire. Harker escapes. Dracula, anyhow, reaches England and, then, begins a series of uncanny occurrences of a new ..
In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player on the
world stage – both as a potential rogue state armed with nuclear weapons
and as an American ally in the war against terrorism. But our
understanding of this country is superficial.
To probe beyond the headlines, Stephen Cohen, ..
“Because Pakistan is marinated in crisis, attention is riveted on the
latest outrage, disaster, or calamity to occur in the country. The
often-asked question following such events is whether they will push
Pakistan over the edge, ‘edge’ being variously defined-at the minimum,
as another mili..
Calling all fans of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me, the third and fourth novellas in the series, both in print for the first time ever. In Shadow Me,
Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal, and..
The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.Juliette
and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for
all. Life in the aftermath isn’t easy, as t..
Destroy Me tells the events between Shatter Me
and Unravel Me from Warner's point of view. Even though Juliette shot
him in order to escape, Warner can't stop thinking about her--and he'll
do anything to get her back. But when the Supreme Commander of The
Reestablishment arrives, he has much..
The Corporate Governance Landscape of Pakistan is a story told by the pioneers of corporate governance in the country for the benefit of those who will take it to the next level
of policy advocacy and enforcement. It provides a comprehensive guide
to the policy frameworks, principles, and practi..
Karachi
is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it
criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception
also dominates literary, cinematic, and scholarly representations and
discussions of this great metropolis.
By commenting in different ways on the tr..
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest
thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in
accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars.From
the “Hundred Best Books” to the “Ten Greatest Thinkers” to the “Ten
Greatest Poets,” here is a concise coll..
In the interwar years there arose a Muslim movement in the North-West
Frontier (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), the Khudai Khidmatgar (‘Servants of
God’), which drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of
non-violence. The movement was dedicated to Indian nationalism rather
than communal separatis..