The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
By: Owen Bennett-Jones
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the co…
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
3. Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more
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- politics
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4. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
By: Firas Alkhateeb
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
By: William Dalrymple
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more
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6. Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court
By: Rumer Godden , None
1.00
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Beautifully illustrated with miniature Indian and Persian paintings, this is the vivid life story o… read more
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7. Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Fatima Bhutto
3.93
Format: None pages,
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding h… read more
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8. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more
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- asia
9. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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10. The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan
By: K.K. Aziz
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this volume, Aziz sets out to correct the injustice that has been committed in Pakistan ever sin… read more
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11. پیر کامل (Peer-e-Kamil, #1)
By: Umera Ahmed
3.97
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Peer-e-Kamil(English: The Perfect Mentor) is a story focusing on a deviational sect which violates … read more
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- pakistan
12. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
By: Karen Armstrong
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascina… read more
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13. Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
By: Laurent Gayer
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in th… read more
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14. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independenc… read more
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15. In the City by the Sea
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Hasan is 11 years old and has an idyllic life which is shattered when his uncle, a dissenting polit… read more
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16. Maktub
By: Paulo Coelho
4.60
Format: None pages,
Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more
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17. Nehru and Bose
By: None
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru,' wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had rela… read more
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18. Basti
By: Intizar Husain , Asif Farrukhi , None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bastiis the great Pakistani novel, a beautifully written, brilliantly inventive reckoning with the … read more
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19. Shah of Shahs
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Shah of ShahsKapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear… read more
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20. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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21. Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of ISI and RAW
By: Adrian Levy
3.55
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From 9/11 to 26/11, Burhan Wani to Kulbhushan Jadhav – the India–Pakistan relationship told from th… read more
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22. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
23. Seventeen (Last Man Standing #1)
By: John Brownlow
4.01
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
You'll never know my name.But you won't forget my number.Behind the events you know are the killers… read more
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24. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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25. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
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"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
26. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
27. 1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
By: Anam Zakaria
4.14
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral … read more
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28. Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It
By: Jake Wallis Simons
4.25
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualifi… read more
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29. The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
By: Owen Bennett-Jones
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the co… read more
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30. Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
By: Samira Shackle
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Karachi. The capital of Pakistan is a sprawling mega-city of 20 million people. It is a place of po… read more
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31. Pakistan: At the Helm
By: Tilak Devasher
3.86
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
Fascinating vignettes about the men and woman who ruled PakistanWhat did Muhammad Ali Jinnah say wh… read more
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