Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future
By: Pervez Hoodbhoy
4.19
Format: 454 pages, ebook
This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state …
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1. Sophie’s World
By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller
3.96
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more
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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
2. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
3. Naulakhi Kothi / نولکھی کوٹھی
By: Ali Akbar Natiq
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- pakistan
4. 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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- history
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5. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
6. The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption, and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
By: James Astill
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
To understand modern India, one must look at the business of cricket within the country. When Lalit… read more
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- history
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7. 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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8. 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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- nonfiction
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9. The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
By: Lesley Hazleton
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited--and remade. Muhamm… read more
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10. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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12. 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
13. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantas… read more
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14. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
15. 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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- history
- nonfiction
16. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
17. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
18. The Year of the Locust
By: Terry Hayes
3.57
Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more
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19. War Minus the Shooting
By: Mike Marqusee
4.50
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more
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20. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
By: Héctor García
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
3 Books Collection Set: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life The people of Ja… read more
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"Walk slowly and you’ll go far"-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
"Keep going; don’t change your path."-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
"Happiness is always determined by your heart."-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
"when you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you."-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
21. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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22. Azadi
By: Arundhati Roy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more
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- nonfiction
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"-Arundhati Roy, Azadi
23. Sultan: A Memoir
By: Wasim Akram
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bo… read more
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"In fact, I was shortly to be chosen for my first tour to New Zealand. Again, I had Javed, now restored to captaincy, to thank. I was immediately anxious. I could not drive. I had neither money of my …"-Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir
24. 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
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. 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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27. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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28. After Messiah
By: Aakar Patel
3.65
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
'Everyone bowed to the Big Man. He was glorified, deified even, with temples raised to him, as the … read more
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29. Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
By: Charles Allen
3.85
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more… read more
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30. 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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31. Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future
By: Pervez Hoodbhoy
4.19
Format: 454 pages, ebook
This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state … read more
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