I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors.In theand Histories, Tacitus brings to life the events of one of the most tumultuous periods of the...

I had no intention of writing this book. I was of the opinion that, if the gist of a book is objective and factual, then the general public will feel that the writer is trying to exaggerate his involvement. However, my daughters, Sabah Khan...

'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem...

I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you.' Natalie Haynes'Huge fun!' Tom Holland'Gorgeous illustrations bring the whole pantheon to life.' Emily Wilson***EXPLORE THE MYTHICAL PAST, MEET THE ANCIENTand GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES AND DISCOVERand WHY THEIR STORIES ARE STILL SOand ENTHRALLING TODAY...Have you ever...

I thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent...

I tried, while writing this book, to follow the method of Faiz himself-that of locating a person, their life and all of its many facets within their era. To make the person's life a part of the larger life of their times. This is...

I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity, writes Amin Maalouf. Identity is the crucible out of which we come: our background, our race, our gender, our tribal affiliations, our religion (or lack thereof), all...

I was riveted byand Sweatand and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda'Doesand what all good history books should do: take the past and make it vastly more human'and The Times_________________________From the author ofand Insomniac Cityand 'who...

I will not let you kill any more. Shantos voice was firm, confident no longer that of a timid fourteen-year-old boy. Shanto has managed the impossible. He has escaped from the heavily fortified Lalgarh police station in the heart of Jangal mahal. Few outsiders...

'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of picture-making and the relationship between painters and photography in a way that no other contemporary artists...

I would learn that when families tell stories, what they leave out re-defines what they keep in. With my family, these were not secrets intentionally withheld. Just truths too painful to confront.In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had...

 A gorgeous, sweeping epic'and ANN NAPOLITANO'A master of prose'WASHINGTON POST One of my favourite writers'and ROXANE GAY Spectacular'and JOANNE SEFTON I didn't want it to end'and SARA SHERIDANA breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on...

Iblees is a short novel composed by Nimra Ahmed. Nimra Ahmed has composed numerousand accounts which areand affectionately perused by the perusers. Iblees is a little unique story. It's anything but a sentimental story which depends on a kid and a young lady and...

Ideology Of Pakistan Author: Justice Rtd. Dr Javed Iqbal ISBN: 9693516826 Subject: HISTORY

If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about those who hold them as they do about the rising power itself. It focuses not on the usual trope...

If depression has made inroads into your life, this book tells you not to lose hope. Drawing from real-life experience and meticulous research, Shubhrata Prakash shares her expert knowledge on what it means to have depression, how to identify your particular strain and overcome...

If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, thenand Dominionand is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very...

If I Am Assassinated byand Zulifikar Ali Bhutto

If India is described in conflicting and exaggerated terms - a growth miracle, yet a poverty sticken country - breaking through creates a more nuanced portrait of the nation. It presents an India that is at the cusp of change, attempting to emerge from...

If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in...

If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing...

Iftikhar's work combines labour history with details of deregulation and privatization in the recent decades and provides a riveting account of (lack of) tripartism not only in Pakistan but also in India. While the public sector unions were able to sign an accord with...

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Ilija Trojanow's journey from Mumbai to Mecca is told in the tradition of the rihla, one of the oldest genres of classical Arabic literature and describes the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam. 'From the very first moment they realise that...

Illuminating'and TIM MARSHALL'Refreshing'and THOMAS HALLIDAYA mind-expanding, revolutionary journey across time that shows how our biology has determined human history for the first time. This book will change how you see the world.We're a wonder of evolution, capable of incredible feats. But we're also deeply...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Technical Guide: Modern Military Aircraft is an extensively researched review of the military aircraft deployed by the world's air forces in recent conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus,...

I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite...

Imagine a world withoutand Principia Mathematica,and Rights of Man,and the Bible, Shakespeare, or theand Mahabharata.Books that Changed Historyand features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - fromand The Art of Warand toand Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact.Books are the...

Imagine the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people displaced and in danger. Families separated and unsure where to go or what to do. A government in chaos, unable (at least initially) to be of any assistance. Then imagine that this chaos had lasted...

Imagine The India That Can Be

Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and...

Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority'and New StatesmanThe story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolutionThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major...

In "A World on Fire" Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded Britain's support. British volunteers fought on both sides; British guns and bullets littered the...

In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They...

In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron : one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million...

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside...

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities...

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist,...

In 1883 Paul Gauguin abandons his prominent banking career and decides that »from now on I will pai nt every day«. The co - founder of Synthetism and trailblazer of Expressionism turns his back on the bourgeois world, leaves his wife and children, and,...

In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed the map of the Middle East. Pro-Israel lobbies convinced British and American...

In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan's Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab's glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce...

In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance. I'm no Hercule Poirot. I'm her husband's mistress. Agatha Christie's world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O'Dea's world is...

In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six...

In 1940 the AllIndia Muslim League first voiced its demand for independent Muslim states in the northwest and the northeast of India. Commonly known as the demand for Pakistan', it led seven years later to the partition of India in one of the most...

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph.Inand Manhattan '45,...

In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of...

In 1953, Usha Bhagat, a young kindergarten teacher, left her job to become secretary to Indira Gandhi. It was an association that would continue, with some breaks, for thirty-one years, until Mrs Gandhi's death in 1984. During those years, Usha Bhagat assisted Mrs Gandhi...

In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was...

In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol....

In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience, examining China's...