The Crash of '79
9 best books like The Crash of '79 (Paul Emil Erdman): A Fraction of the Whole, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't, Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, The Eye of the Prophet, Jinnah of Pakistan, Pakistan: A Personal History, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan, Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence, JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
| Author | Steve Toltz |
| ISBN | 0385521723 |
An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other and against the world.
For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything...
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012
New York Times Bestseller
"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion...
| Author | Ayesha Siddiqa |
| ISBN | 0745325459 |
Pakistan occupies a paradoxical, even contradictory place in American foreign policy. Nominally a strategic ally in the war on terror, it is the third-largest recipient of US aid in the world. At the same time, it is run by its military and intelligence service—whose goals certainly do not always...
| Author | Kahlil Gibran |
| ISBN | 1883319404 |
The Eye of the Prophet is a startling new collection of Gribran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now to English. Here Gibran is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, questing for the best in humanity, refusing to separate man from the...
| Author | Stanley Wolpert |
| ISBN | 0195678591 |
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” Stanley Wolpert
These are the opening lines of the preface of Stanley Wolpert’s book,...
Pakistan: A Personal History
| Author | Imran Khan |
| ISBN | 0593067746 |
Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling elite hungry for money and power, Pakistan now stands alone as the only Islamic country with a nuclear bomb, yet it is unable to protect its people from the carnage of regular bombings...
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
| Author | Ayesha Jalal |
| ISBN | 0521458501 |
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman...
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence
| Author | Jaswant Singh |
| ISBN | 8129113783 |
The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible - Jinnah? The Congress...
JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
| Author | Bruce Riedel |
| ISBN | 0815726996 |
Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights over Kennedy’s forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But the same week the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United...
