| Weight | 0.3 kg |
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| ISBN | D7709 |
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| Publication Date | 1995 |
| Pages | 144 |
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RED QUEEN’S RACETOWARD HIGHER STATES OF BRAIN ORGANIZATION
TOWARD HIGHER STATES OF BRAIN ORGANIZATION
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₨ 150
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| Weight | 0.3 kg |
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| ISBN | D7709 |
| Format | |
| Publication Date | 1995 |
| Pages | 144 |
| Author | |
| Author Description | |
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‘A post pandemic story written way before the pandemic. A haunting little book about second chances, last days and human relations that survive the unsurvivable.’ Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes ‘Any culture’s science fiction is its dream of what its future could be. Now we live in a global culture, and Faraz Talat’s Seventy Four shoots right to the heart of all our current fears and hopes. It’s an intense experience, poignant and memorable.’ Kim Stan Robinson, author of Blue Mars ‘Scientists become saviors in times of plague, but their attempts to exert control over pathogens and politics go awry in Faraz Talat’s science fiction novella Seventy Four. Razia Ntikoladze, eminent scientist and Pakistani emigree, is locked in a race against a deadly new contagion and her own mortality; before she can save the world, she has to escape the colloquium’s merciless eugenics project. A daringly brilliant literary experiment which pits humanity against its own worst enemy—itself.’ Bina Shah, author of Before She Sleeps
The Night Watch is the extraordinary story of four Londoners: Kay, who wandethe streets in mannish clothes, restless and searching . . . Helen, who harboa troubling secret. . . Viv, glamour girl, recklessly loyal to her soldier lover… and Duncan, an apparent innocent, struggling with demons of his own.
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked- out streets, illicit liaisons and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is an astonishing novel.
The Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with vast landholdings and resources. It has deep roots in the colonial armed forces and relies heavily on certain regions to supply its soldiers, especially parts of rural Punjab, where men have served in the army for generations. These men, their wives and mothers, and the military culture surrounding them are the focus of Maria Rashid’s Dying to Serve, which innovatively and sensitively addresses the question: how does the military thrive when so much of its work results in injury, debility, and death? Taking ritual commemorations of fallen soldiers as one critical site of study, Rashid argues that these “spectacles of mourning” are careful manipulations of affect, gendered and structured by the military to reinforce its omnipotence in the lives of its subjects. Grounding her study in the famed martial district of Chakwal, Rashid finds affect similarly deployed in recruitment and training practices, as well as management of death and compensation to families. She contends that understanding these affective technologies is crucial to challenging the appeal of the military institution globally.
