The worth of the child cannot be measured in terms of "Per Cent" alone. The home life of the child is an important part of the whole life. The teacher's judgment will be a much better one if the home will kindly co-operate. Parents...

The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday TelegraphWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he...

The writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer, and a major inspiration for Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling novel The Signature of All Things John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic...

The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles...

The year is 1659. Idris, a Somalian trader, is in Kerala to attend the Mamagam festivities. By a strange twist of fate, he meets his nine-year-old son whose existence he had been unaware of. In an attempt to keep his son close to him,...

The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the British/American war...

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the...

Their threat perceptions are different, being informed by their unique historical experience. These geo-strategic particularities have molded their security postures. Both these regions are distinguished by the presence of adersarial dyads-North Korea-South Korea and Pakistan-India. These countries have single-mindedly pursued their quest for nuclear...

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There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of...

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show calledand Magnum P.I.and Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own...

There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. Each cell possesses a mysterious beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinising them for decades, yet...

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. --Teek saying The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and...

There are several studies on Pakistan's external relations but none of them paint the picture on as wide a canvas as the one chosen for this work. Most studies deal with bilateral relations, however, the scope of this work is much wider. This book...

There is a certain amount of romanticism that is still attached to socialism and communism - by people who make their money by milking capitalism for all its worth. Communism is still attempted to be projected as the silver bullet for all of India's...

There is a need to reassess the ground realities for a fresh and a comprehensive Kashmir policy of Pakistan in order to real­ size prompt resolution of this issue.Although, there already exists a huge body of l literature and publications on this issue considering...

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its...

There is a vast cultural movement emerging from the Global South and sweeping all before it. India's Shah Rukh Khan, after all, is the most popular actor in the world. Bollywood, Turkish soap operas called dizi, K-pop and other aspects of Eastern pop culture...

There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for...

There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, nor any evidences of Saddam Hussein s links with Osama bin Laden. The masquerade can no longer deceive the international community. The UN, which should have been the arbitrator, was reduced to a bystander, or...

'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockdown was declared, Mike...

There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic and conclusive. I slump silently on to my knees and topple forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads have seen enough death to assume mine is instantaneous. The...

These are the memoirs of Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan (1891-1980), a civil engineer in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP; now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), during the British Indian period. A member of the Imperial Service of Royal Engineers, his memoirs provide a riveting account...

These bite-sized satirical stories give an insight into the values and priorities that motivate and drive the desi community.Highlighting many actual incidents through fictional characters, they offer a snapshot of the lives of ordinary people.It's funny how a few comments can change one's way...

These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for...

These pages are not written for any scholar but for general readers. These pages very briefly tell the story of the rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its kingdom and the greatness and decline of this kingdom. Hopefully this brief history...

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They arrived, conquered and left behind a stardust that never settled. Discover fifteen Muslim heroes who mesmerize us even today.What was so incredible about them?They had no followers or likes on social media, yet their name lives on!Make a wise choice for yourself today....

They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand the complete dismantling of the secular state; their followers have been roused to a fever pitch of resentment and despair. Describing themselves as true...

They insist they're just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they're not Christians, but simply...

They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them?Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of...

They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in strange or suspicious circumstances. One...

Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity' Martin Luther King, Jr, in Nobel...

Think Bollywood villain and one of the first names that comes to mind is that of Prem Chopra. One of the few actors to have been working in the industry for more than five decades, from the black-and-white era to the new millennium, and...

THIRTEEN HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. This is the story, told in incredible, spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground--in the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound and...

Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations....

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace which has a production base here for supply of critical components to the space and defence industries, will focus on volumes rather than margins as it embarks on its ambitious growth plans. "It is our policy to satisfy...

This accessible biography treats Al-Ma'mum (786-833) as the product of his age, which was a formative period in the development of Islamic law and theology. It presents him in his many facets: rebel, rationalist, scientist, poet, politician, warrior, inquisitor, and self-proclaimed defender of the...

This annual summit invites leaders from politics and business, entertainment and academics, writers and actors, to engage in issues central to our common humanity. In a rapidly changing world where yesterday's assumptions might not hold true today, how does one keep pace with a...

This attractive series reveals the VandA's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Modern British Designers traces the past 50 years of creative genius and innovation in British design, highlighting such designers as...

This book "does not claim to be a history of Pakistan-. Its less ambitious format is defined as being "a part of that history namely- the ideological and geographical changes in Pakistan" The author maintains that the Quaid-i-Azam never used the words "ideology of...

This book argues that the Arab states in the Middle East have failed to provide security for their citizens or define themselves along the lines of traditional nation states. Due to continuous war, they have been unable to foster development and prosperity. The author...

This book celebrates the thriving world of Islamic arts and crafts, as well as presenting the rich cultural, philosophical and historical heritage that contemporary artists and craftspeople still draw on today. Based on decades of research and expertise, and written by tutors at The...

This book comprises eighteen articles written Mr. Zamir Niazi. Author of press in chains. The press under Siege and Press in chains. The press Under siege and The Web of Censorship, Zamir Niazi wrote extensively on the condition of Pakistani Press, successive governments' policies...

This book contains a selection from the poems of Mir Ghulam Bhik Nairang (1876-1952), a poet politician, who apart from a natural lyrical cadence to his diction, had been involved in a number of political movements, beginning with the Civil Disobedience Movement (1918-1922) to...

This book deals with Muslim nationalism in Imperial India in its different aspects.

This book explores the history and ethnography of the Chandala of classical literature, now known as Punjabi Christians. Mapping their history of conquest and religiously-endorsed degradation, it discusses their subversive counter-narrative through genealogies, wedding songs, litanies and epic poetry; with its defiant proclamation of...

This book features 250 of the most significant milestones in the history of scientific discovery.

This book gathers together leading scholars in the field to examine the impact of the First World War on the Middle East, so crucial to understanding the conflicts unfolding in the region today. In addition to recounting the international politics of the Great Powers...