The Battle for Pakistan : The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood
By: Shuja Nawaz
3.93
Format: 400 pages, hardcover
The Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relations…
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1. Kargil War: From Surprise to Victory
By: V.P. Malik , Malik V. P. General
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
Offers a first person account of the 1999 Kargil war - its rationale, planning, conduct and impact … read more
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2. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
3. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
4. Muhammad
By: Karen Armstrong
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fresh, evenhanded biography of the founder of Islam by the author of "A History of God." "Portray… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
By: Husain Haqqani
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either f… read more
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6. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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7. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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8. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
By: Lee Kuan Yew , Henry Kissinger
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it… read more
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9. Dozakhnama
By: Arunava Sinha , Rabisankar Bal
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Who tells the greatest story -- God or Manto? Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell is an extraordinary… 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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- pakistan
11. Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State'
By: Maleeha Lodhi
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bringing together an extraordinary array of experts, including renowned Pakistani journalist Ahmed … read more
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12. What Is Populism?
By: Jan-Werner Müller
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo ChAvez--populists are on the rise across the g… read more
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13. Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
By: Ayesha Siddiqa
4.29
Format: 176 pages,
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14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
15. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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16. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
17. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
By: Martin Lings
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritati… read more
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18. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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19. 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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20. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
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- history
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
21. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
22. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
23. 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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- pakistan
"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
24. Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
By: Husain Haqqani
3.84
Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition
Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a ‘poorly imagined country’. Indeed, Pakistan has meant d… read more
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- nonfiction
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- pakistan
"In one way, it was. After the ‘Objectives Resolution’ there was no turning back from Pakistan’s status as an Islamic ideological state."-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
"Pakistan has been unfortunate that its leaders and rulers have repeatedly chosen ideological wooden-headedness over pursuit of reasonable and viable options."-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
"Most Pakistanis would rather gloss over inconvenient truths or be content with blaming different villains for their country’s plight when confronted with unpleasant facts."-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
"In popular sentiment, just as conspiracies have made Pakistan weak and vulnerable, its destined economic greatness has been thwarted by corruption, not poor policy choices."-Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
25. Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan (Dislocations Book 29)
By: Rosita Armytage
3.96
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marr… read more
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26. Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
By: Mohamad Jebara
4.47
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"An accessible biography of Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet, tracing his development from orphan… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I have lived with Muhammad my entire life: I was given his name the day I was born, yet for years knew nothing about him."-Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
"Shining the spotlight on a sacred figure like Muhammad can seem intimidating. Examination might lead to the desecration of a venerated relic, and exploring the unknown might shatter established belie…"-Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
"Each time we use our cell phones, snap pictures with a camera, or use a search engine’s algorithms, we benefit from the legacy of Muhammad’s modern mindset. His mindset is not tied to Mecca or Medina…"-Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
"Key to his success was the mindset he championed. An optimist, Muhammad constantly sought new solutions to surmount obstacles and promote yusr (flow). He also insisted that people make the most of th…"-Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
27. Operation X: The Untold Story of Indias Covert Naval War in Bangladesh
By: Captain MNR Samant Sandeep Unnithan
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
1971. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in East Pakistan has just won an electoral mandate to become the prime … read more
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- history
28. How Democracy Ends
By: David Runciman
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the pas… read more
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29. The Battle for Pakistan : The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood
By: Shuja Nawaz
3.93
Format: 400 pages, hardcover
The Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relations… read more
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30. Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
By: Maria Rashid
3.42
Format: 290 pages, Unknown Binding
The Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with vast landholdings and re… read more
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31. Covert : The Psychology of War and Peace
By: A.S. Dulat
3.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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