'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit...

The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British imperialism, have arisen and...

The Girl Who Wanted to Belong is the fifth book from well-loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. A true story that shares the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. Angela's stories show the...

The giving of gifts has been associated with diplomacy from ancient times to the present. Press coverage tends to focus on examples which highlight cultural differences between giver; where a gift is perceived as excessive, sometimes with connotations of bribery; or where the gift...

The glorious history of Frontier Corps Khayber Pakhtunkhwa is marked by the brave sons of the soil, who are born to this inhospitable terrain, liver a soldier's rugged life, and fade away through martyrdom while inscribing the untold stories of traditional.

The Glory of India: An anthology of Urdu Poetry in English translation, with its English and Hindi translations,and and brings out vividly how Urdu poetry has professed and practised down the ages the lofty ideals of nation building, patriotism, peaceful co-existence and catholocity of...

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life by the story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky and ended with the fiery destruction of theand Hindenburg.At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an...

The Golden Treasuryand is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.It is arranged chronologically in four books which...

The granddaughter of both Gandhiji and Rajaji, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee s childhood was peopled by freedom fighters and leaders who laid the foundation for an independent India. She is seventy-eight now, but there was a time when, as a sprightly little girl growing up...

The graphic novel is a popular genre of literature in English and many other languages. However, so far there were no graphic novels in Urdu (or Pakistan's regional languages). Graphic stories are a good way to encourage towards reading children and young adults who...

The graphic photographs of U.S. military personnel grinning over abused Arab and Muslim prisoners shocked the world community. That the United States was systematically torturing inmates at prisons run by its military and civilian leaders divided the nation and brought deep shame to many....

The great city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war over a stolen woman. In the Greek camp, another woman is watching and waiting- Briseis. She was a queen of this land until Achilles sacked her city...

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damage“The greatest danger of another catastrophic attack in the United States will materialize if the world's most dangerous terrorists acquire the world's most dangerous weapons. -The 9/11 Commission ReportThe bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of...

The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in...

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly...

The gripping story of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.Following Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's defeat of the conspirators who killed...

The gripping, heartwrenching story of a girl gone missing and an innocent, accused woman who holds the key to a family secret, from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE LETTER. 'Spellbindingly good! Heartbreak, intrigue, mystery *****' Real reader 'One of the best...

The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced mobile phones are now all being made outside Europe and the United States. Countries that...

The growth of terrorism has been accompanied by a steady escalation in the means of violence, from small arms used to assassinate individuals, to automatic weapons used to mow down groups, to car bombs now capable of bringing down entire buildings, to lethal chemicals...

Theand hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam, is a religious duty to be performed once in a lifetime by all Muslims who are able. The Prophet Muhammad set out the rituals ofand hajjand when he led what became known as the Farewelland Hajjand in...

The handsome coffee-table book Pottery Traditions of Pakistan is an endorsement on all those claims and more. Its author, Nabahat Lotia, a celebrated Karachi-based studio potter and ceramist, whose roots trace back to Lahore and Delhi, talks about the traditions of pottery, as also...

The hero of Dark Diamond is Lord Shayista Khan, the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal, who in 1685, during Aurangzeb's rule, was the most powerful man on Earth. Under Lord Khan's governance, Bengal became the epicenter of commerce and culture - a veritable treasure chest...

The History Bookand explains and explores the biggest ideas, themes, moments, events, and periods in Earth's history.Get set to see history as never before. You'll step back in time to see the origins of Homo Sapiens, the Space Race, the French Revolution, the arrival...

The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, labourers and others from Europe, Asia and...

The Hour of Peril Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of "The Beautiful Cigar Girl," uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. Over a period of 13 days...

The hunt for Ernesto “Che Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured-a mission later duplicated...

The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too...

The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith and ethics, yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosoph-ical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today...

The Impulse to Adorn Studies in Traditional Indian Architecture

The Indian subcontinent of 1947 became the necropolis of the British Raj. The struggle for freedom and independence had finally culminated in the creation of two new and sovereign states, India and Pakistan. The dawn of liberty, however, brought in its wake a human...

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The Indus Delta Country: A Memoir, Chiefly on Its Ancient Geography, History, and Topography.

The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and CamusWriting under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in...

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself. Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since...

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE EPIC TURNAROUND OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CEO ALAN MULALLY. At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered...

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT TV SERIES STARRING ELIZA SCANLEN AND JULIANNE NICHOLSON27 November 1918, London. Just days after the end of the Great War, rising star Billie Carleton took to the stage for the last time. She was found dead the next day;...

The instantand New York Timesand bestseller.A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.“Captivating and compelling. -Theand New York Times"Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant...

THE INSTANTand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERA fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous cold wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Valdimir Putin's Russia.New Cold Warsand - the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author ofand The Perfect Weaponand...

THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTELLER!From the podcast legends who brought youand The Rest is Historyand comesand The Rest is History Returns!This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth...

THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER -and A SUNDAY TIMESand FILM andamp; TV BOOK OF THE YEAR'Razor-sharpand and as funny asand I May Destroy Youand ...and A gifted writer'and Sunday Timesand | 'A remarkable talent'and Guardianand | 'Aand perfect truth-tellerand of our time'and ELLEand |...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president.and Killer in the Kremlinand traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses.' -and THE TIMESA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir...

THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERBEST BOOKS OF 2023: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * FINANCIAL TIMES * INDEPENDENT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd'One of the...

THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world. Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading'and Peter Frankopan An absolute masterpiece'and James...

THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE,and WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR ANDand LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZEAand MAIL ON SUNDAY, THEand TIMES,and THEand ECONOMIST,and GUARDIAN,and THE SPECTATOR,and TIME, ANDand DAILY EXPRESS/DAILY MIRRORand BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thrilling'and...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAand Guardian,and Daily Telegraph,and New Statesmanand andand Daily Expressand Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'and Stephen Fry'You should readand Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race'and Tim Harford'Made...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year,and GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang...

The international best-selling author explores the revolutions, past and present, that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live.Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of “illiberal democracy two decades ago. Now comesand Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600...

The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in...

The Islamic Sciences are concerned with the world in nature, of the psyche and of mathematics. At the same time, they are intimately related to metaphysics and art.Its extensive influence upon the Renaissance West has science 18th century. Caused numerous studies in European language...