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AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED
₨ 1,995
ISBN: 9781408842423
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: KHALED HOSSEINI -
THE SILK ROADS
₨ 3,795The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east
For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture – and is shaping the modern world.This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won – and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.
A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political renaissance in the re-emerging east.
ISBN: 9781408839997
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Author: PETER FRANKOPAN -
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CONTEMPORARY MILITARY STRATEGY AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
₨ 31,845Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before interrogating its application in the Global War on Terror. The book provides detailed insights into the formulation of military plans by political and military elites in the United States and the United Kingdom for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Alastair Finlan highlights the challenges posed by each of these unique theatres of operation, the nature of the diverse enemies faced by coalition forces, and the shortcomings in strategic thinking about these campaigns. This fresh perspective on strategy in the West and how it has been applied in recent military campaigns facilitates a deep understanding of how wars have been and will be fought.
Including key terms, concepts, and discussion questions for each chapter, Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror is a crucial text in strategic studies and required reading for anyone interested in the new realities of transnational terrorism and twenty-first-century warfare.
ISBN: 9781628927955
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: US AND UK ARMED FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ 2001-2012
Author: ALASTAIR FINLAN -
RED BIRDS
₨ 1,995A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy ? Red Birds is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America’s role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical traditions in thrilling way’ Guardian
American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there’s room for him at the very refugee camp he was supposed to bomb. Teenage Momo doesn’t see it that way: the camp is a trap, not a refuge. His brother’s missing, his parents are in a rage, and an aid worker won’t stop trying to interview him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Savage, irreverent and deliciously dark, Red Birds is a masterful unravelling of intertwined fates in a forgotten war-scape ‘ and a brilliant satire about satire about the absurdity of war and the impossibility of peace.
ISBN: 9781408897164
AUTHOR: MOHAMMAD HANIF
ISBN: 9781408897164
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: MOHAMMED HANIF -
THE ANARCHY
₨ 2,495In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.
William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.Author: William Dalrymple
ISBN: 9781408864395
ISBN: 9781408864395
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: THE RELENTLESS RISE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
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BURNT SHADOW
₨ 2,395August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty-one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost.
In search of new beginnings, Hiroko travels to Delhi to find Konrad’s relatives and falls in love with their employee, Sajjad Ashraf. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history – personal, political – are cast over the entwined worlds of different families as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel’s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11.
ISBN: 9781526607829
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: KAMILA SHAMSIE -
A GOD IN EVERY STONE
₨ 2,245Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives ? one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again
ISBN: 9781526607782
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: KAMILA SHAMSIE -
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
₨ 1,995
ISBN: 9780747585893
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: KHALED HOSSEINI -
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OUR LADY OF THE FOREST
₨ 1,295
ISBN: 9780747568216
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: DAVID GUTERSON -
MORE SHERLOCK HOLMES PUZZLES
₨ 185
ISBN: 8122202594
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
Author: J.M. FALKNER -
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DICTIONARY OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
₨ 925
ISBN: 0747566232
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: OVER 7,000 TERMS CLERLY DEFINED – 3RD ED
Author: A. IVANOVIE -
GODS MONGRELS & DEMONS
₨ 899
ISBN: 1582344310
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: 101 BRIEF BUT ESSENTIAL LIVES
Author: ANGUS CALDER -
HARRY POTTER
₨ 1,345
ISBN: 0747551006
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
Author: J. K. ROWLING₨ 6,765 -
WHEREABOUTS
₨ 1,545‘If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A rare kind of literary celebrity’ VOGUE
‘A hypnotic disappearing act’ OBSERVER
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city
The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.
She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square.
Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while.
But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will change forever.
A rare work of fiction, Whereabouts – first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself – brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of life’s thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and rage, what may lie ahead.
ISBN: 9781526629968
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: JHUMPA LAHIRI -
THE NINE LIVES OF PAKISTAN
₨ 2,595All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book – Pankaj Mishra
The demise of Pakistan – a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam – is regularly predicted. But things rarely turn out as expected, as renowned journalist Declan Walsh knows well. Over a decade covering the country, his travels took him from the raucous port of Karachi to the gilded salons of Lahore to the lawless frontier of Waziristan, encountering Pakistanis whose lives offer a compelling portrait of this land of contradictions.
He meets a crusading lawyer who risks her life to fight for society s most marginalised, taking on everyone including the powerful military establishment; an imperious chieftain spouting poetry at his desert fort; a roguish politician waging a mini-war against the Taliban; and a charismatic business tycoon who moves into politics and seems to be riding high – till he takes up the wrong cause. Lastly, Walsh meets a spy whose orders once involved following him, and who might finally be able to answer the question that haunts him: why the Pakistanis suddenly expelled him from their country.
Intimate and complex, unravelling the many mysteries of state and religion, this formidable book offers an arresting account of life in a country that, often as not, seems to be at war with itself.
Thrilling, big-hearted – Memphis Barker, Daily Telegraph
Sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan – William Dalrymple
ISBN: 9781408868478
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: DISPATCHES FROM A DIVIDED NATION
Author: DECLAN WALSH -
A WOMAN LIKE HER : THE SHORT LIFE OF QANDEEL BALOCH
₨ 1,695
ISBN: 9781526607591
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle:
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