5 Best history books like A Brief History of Pakistan by James Wynbrandt

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A Brief History of Pakistan

By: James Wynbrandt

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pakistan has assumed strategic importance on the world stage, acting as both a linchpin in the glob…

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1. A History of Nigeria

By: Toyin Falola , Matthew M. Heaton

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its succ… read more

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2. Pakistan: A Hard Country

By: Anatol Lieven

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United St… read more

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  • pakistan
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3. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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4. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

5. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

3.36

Format: 96 pages,

From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, co… read more

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6. Half of a Yellow Sun

By: None

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more

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7. Three Daughters of Eve

By: Elif Shafak

3.82

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside man… read more

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"How women could be expected to keep their heads down and simultaneously have their eyes open in all directions was beyond Peri."

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"«Dov’è che ti senti a casa?» domandò Peri. «A casa?» Shirin fece una smorfia sprezzante. «Ti svelo una regola universale: casa è dove sta tua nonna.»"

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"I think God comes in many pieces and colors. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry God, punishing. Or maybe I'll build nothing. God is a Lego set."

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"Believers favour answers over questions, clarity over uncertainty. Athiests, more or less the same. Funny, when it comes to God, Whom we know next to nothing about, very few of us actually say, 'I do…"

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

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8. Such a Fun Age

By: Kiley Reid

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turn… read more

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"Family means no favorites."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"I don't mess with the internet, so give it."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"New York was like an ex who had worked out all summer."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"I've been to middle school so you can't really hurt me."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

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9. Pakistans Foreign Policy 1947-2019: A Concise History

By: Abdul Sattar

3.89

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Written with the express purpose of providing a reference book for students of history, political s… read more

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  • pakistan
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10. A Brief History of Pakistan

By: James Wynbrandt

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pakistan has assumed strategic importance on the world stage, acting as both a linchpin in the glob… read more

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  • pakistan

17 must-read history books like Pakistans Foreign Policy 1947-2019: A Concise History by Abdul Sattar

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

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Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

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