The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
10 best books like The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (Tariq Ali): A Doll's House, Something Under the Bed is Drooling, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean, Chasing Redbird, Use of Weapons, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Conspirata, The Inheritors, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406914835 |
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
The Student Edition contains these exclusive...
Something Under the Bed is Drooling
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0833554549 |
Something Under the Bed Is Drooling contains some of Calvin's funniest moments, like when he is cast in a school play about nutrition:
...which doesn't help his relationship with Susie:
...as well as the first appearance of the Transmogrifier:
But...
Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
| Author | Alex von Tunzelmann |
| ISBN | 0805090673 |
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...
| Author | Sharon Creech |
| ISBN | 0330397826 |
To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's life - and her own. And while Zinny...
Prologue
Stars were barely visible through the tiny oval. The reader looked up from his novel, blinked. Checked his watch -- still hours to go. His wife sat slumped next to him, still asleep. Some people could sleep on planes. Some people couldn't.
"What are you reading?" asked the...
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
| Author | Arundhati Roy |
| ISBN | 1608463850 |
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation...
| Author | Robert Harris |
| ISBN | 0743266102 |
Cicero returns to continue his struggle to grasp supreme power in the state of Rome. Amidst treachery, vengeance, violence, and treason, this brilliant lawyer, orator, and philosopher finally reaches the summit of all his ambitions. Cicero becomes known as the world's first professional politician,...
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0156443791 |
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
| Author | Michael Korda |
| ISBN | 0061712612 |
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner...
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0670019704 |
Even more than a decade after its publication Descent Into Chaos is a must read for anyone interested in ongoing events in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the central Asian “stans” that make up one of the most politically volatile areas on earth. Rashid is both a journalist and a participant, having been...
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0300089023 |
Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy, and especially fear in both...
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0399592806 |
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and...
| Author | Stephen Philip Cohen |
Stephen Cohen updates his critically acclaimed book with a discerning view of significant recent events in the region, particularly the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and its after affects. The quake killed over 70,000 people and left another 3 million homeless in one of the most remote, inhospitable...
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
| Author | Seth G. Jones |
| ISBN | 0393068986 |
A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency.
Longtime Afghanistan expert and RAND analyst Seth G. Jones watched as American optimism evaporated after the Taliban defeat in 2001; by 2005, a new "war of a thousand...
| 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 | L.K. Advani |
| ISBN | 8129113635 |
My Country My Life is an autobiographical book by L. K. Advani, an Indian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha. The book was released on 19 March 2008 by Abdul Kalam, the eleventh President of India. The book...
| Author | Patty Schemel |
| ISBN | 0306825074 |
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel was a drummer at the epicenter of the Seattle grunge scene in the early '90s, best known for her work with the alternative rock band Hole.
Hit So Hard begins...
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
| Author | Husain Haqqani |
| ISBN | 0870032143 |
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence...
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...
| Author | Anatol Lieven |
| ISBN | 1610390210 |
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
| Author | Steve Coll |
| ISBN | 1594201641 |
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the family...
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.
In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales...
Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State'
| Author | Maleeha Lodhi |
| ISBN | 0231702442 |
Bringing together an extraordinary array of experts, including renowned Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani American sociologist and historian Ayesha Jalal, and Zahid Hussain, author of several books on Islamic militancy in Pakistan, "Pakistan: Beyond the "Crisis State" "takes unique...
| Author | Þóra Kristín Ásgeirsdóttir |
Sex ára indverskur strákur er settur aleinn upp í lest og endar sólarhring síðar í stórborg þar sem enginn tekur á móti honum og fólk talar framandi tungumál. Næstu árin er hann umkomulaus og einn í heiminum. Sumir eru honum góðir en hann verður líka fyrir ofbeldi og misnotkun.
Svo...
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 1508238332 |
From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.
Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0062285203 |
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.
Throughout...
Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism
| Author | Ellen Schrecker |
| ISBN | 1595580832 |
A dated, if consistently interesting work--similar to exploring past proctological visits as you're waiting for your first colonoscopy--the volume focuses on the inane reliance of American politicians and, increasingly, their constituents, on empty, vapid, and context-less abstractions.
"Patriotism",...
| Author | Judith Dupre |
| ISBN | 1579126596 |
From the ancient Lighthouse at Alexandria to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from the Empire State Building to the soon-to-be-completed 450-meter Petronas Towers in Malaysia, a comprehensive history of humankind's continuing urge to build ever higher. Fascinating and entertaining text and magnificent,...
| Author | Jimmy Carter |
| ISBN | 0743263332 |
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Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter presents a novel of the Revolutionary War that emphasizes the role of the South in the battle for America's independence. With a multitude of previous nonfiction works, ranging in topics from the Middle East...
HISTORY OF CUBA Biography of A People
| Author | Jose Canton Navarro |
| ISBN | 9597054752 |
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