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THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING
pposite worlds collide in this supernatural tale of forbidden love and good-versus-evil when 17-year-old Zoe, who is still coping with the death of her father, crosses paths with X, a pale boy of the supernatural variety. Zoe and X’s love affair is doomed from the start, because X is a prisoner from the Lowlands a supernatural, hellish landscape where he acts as a bounty hunter, collecting the souls of bad people on behalf of a mysterious higher power. With her witty dialogue and banter, Zoe is positioned as a funny and likable character, but X doesn’t have enough substance to set him apart from other brooding young men within the genre. In an apparent effort to charm teen readers, the book is brimming with pop-culture and social media references
ISBN: 9781408897324
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
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Author: JEFF GILES -
ACCIDENTALLY ISTANBUL
Nancy Knudsen never meant to go to Istanbul. Maybe she might have included it as part of a holiday along with other dazzling European cities such as Venice, Paris or Salzburg. But the idea of actually living in a Muslim country as an ordinary citizen rather than tourist or expat corporate executive, would never have occurred to her. Knudsen’s story is vivid, lively and sometimes hilarious, full of insights into things she wished she’d known before she arrived in an all-black apartment above a sports field, with not a word of Turkish. She found almost nothing in guidebooks or histories to help her understand what seemed at first an inexplicable culture. In the course of her tale, she sets out to decipher many of the intricacies of Turkey and its lifestyle, and of Istanbul in particular. Both new and experienced visitors will find her observations invaluable and her personal love affair with this ancient yet totally modern city and its culture may well act as a springboard for others.
ISBN: 9780994509307
AUTHOR: NANCY KNUDSEN
ISBN: 9780994509307
Publisher: TAMEJIN PUBLISHING AUSTRALIA
Subtitle: DECODING TURKEY FOR THE ENQUIRING WESTERN TRAVELLER
Author: NANCY KNUDSEN -
STABBED EGO
“It makes for hair-raising reading.” – The Daily Telegraph.’I’m thinking it’s a punctured lung . . . Who did this to you?’ The paramedic looked hard into my flickering eyes. As I lay dying in the back of a screaming ambulance, my main concerns should have been about life and death. But while I did want to live, it wasn’t because I loved life, but because I wanted to be around to hear the story of my survival. Life wasn’t as important to me as my ego. This was all just a popularity contest. The fights, the crews and the leadership were all just tools to be talked about. To be heard, to be seen – that was my life. To be stabbed and survive was, in my crazy world, a badge of honor. It was a story that would, of course, be spoken about.My father had always told me that the smart ones go unheard. I grew up believing that, but the feelings I gained from this popularity contest – a contest I felt I was winning – were unmatched.Struggling to stay alive with a gaping wound across my back, I desperately wondered how I got to this point. My knife-wielding opponent was not the attacker; it had been an act of self-defense. He’d been defending himself against an ego-driven, menacing thug who was intent on hurting him. That thug was me. With my breaths getting shorter from my pierced lung, I closed my eyes . . .In a hole of anxiety and depression, Luke Kennedy resorted to drugs, alcohol and fighting in a desperate bid to silence his frantic mind. Soon he was leading a street-fighting crew, and constantly coming close to killing others or being killed. Tortured by the voices in his head, Luke began looking for an out. Eventually he found it.
ISBN: 9780992516604
AUTHOR: LUKE S. KENNEDY
ISBN: 9780992516604
Publisher: DP DANIEL PRESS
Subtitle: A THUG’S JOURNEY TO ENLIGHTENMENT
Author: LUKE S. KENNEDY -
BEYOND SHANGRI-LA
Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when the Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. The distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and the direction of their country. In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. As an operations officer working from India, Colorado, and Washington, D.C for the next seven years., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized American assistance to contest Chinese domination and attain international recognition as an independent entity.
Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese occupation have made Tibet’s political and cultural status a pressing issue in international affairs. So has the realization by nations, including the United States, that their geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.
ISBN: 9780822352341
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: AMERICA AND TIBET’S MOVE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Author: JOHN KENNETH KNAUS -
BADIOU AND POLITICS
Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou’s deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic. Bosteels draws on all of Badiou’s writings, from the philosopher’s student days in the 1960s to the present, as well as on Badiou’s exchanges with other thinkers, from his avowed “masters” Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan to interlocutors including Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Bensaïd, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Judith Butler. Bosteels tracks the philosopher’s political activities from the events of May 1968 through his embrace of Maoism and his work since the 1980s, helping to mobilize France’s illegal immigrants or sans-papiers. Ultimately, Bosteels argues for understanding Badiou’s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and he illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present.
ISBN: 9780822350767
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: BRUNO BOSTEELS -
A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIA
The “Brief History” series introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world’s countries. Each engaging volume covers a specific country and offers a concise history of the struggles and triumphs of the peoples and cultures that have called that country home. Touching on factors as diverse as the development of the economy to the role of women in society to changes in the political landscape, these comprehensive volumes provide the key background information readers need to put current global events in historical perspective.
ISBN: 9780816056583
AUTHOR: JUDITH E. WALSH
ISBN: 9780816056583
Publisher: FACTS ON FILE
Subtitle:
Author: JUDITH E. WALSH -
JIHADISM IN PAKISTAN
Pakistan is host to the largest concentration of jihadist groups in the world. Since the 1980s, the Pakistani state has been accused of sponsoring local jihadist groups and sending Pakistani volunteers to support them.
This book is based on almost 114 interviews, conducted mainly in Urdu and Pashto, from within Al-Qaeda and affiliated jihadist groups. It examines the relationship between the Pakistani security agencies and Al-Qaeda, and how they both became entangled and used by the local jihadists they were themselves trying to exploit. The interviews paint a picture of the shifting strategies and priorities of the different jihadi groups in the early 21st century, covering their ideological objectives, their agreements and disagreements over tactics, as well as pressure from rival militant groups and internal factionalism.
The book is the most in-depth study of jihadism in Pakistan, and Antonio Giustozzi highlights the strategies global jihadists deployed after 9/11 and how Al-Qaeda tried to manage the largest jihadist group in Pakistan, the Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The book also covers other key issues in South Asian security, such as the impact of the Islamic State on Al Qaeda’s power after 2014, why Al-Qaeda continues to back the TTP, and what is happening with the groups focused on taking jihad to Kashmir and India.
ISBN: 9780755647385
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle: AL-QAEDA, ISLAMIC STATE AND THE LOCAL MILITANTS
Author: ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI -
THE EMPEROR JAHANGIR
Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his reputation marred by rebellion against his father, once enthroned the Emperor Jahangir proved to be an adept politician. He was also a thoughtful and reflective memoirist and a generous patron of the arts, responsible for an innovative golden age in Mughal painting.
Through a close study of the seventeenth century Mughal court chronicles, The Emperor Jahangir sheds new light on this remarkable historical figure, exploring Jahangir’s struggle for power and defense of kingship, his addictions and insecurities, his relationship with his favourite wife, the Empress Nur Jahan, and with his sons, whose own failed rebellions bookended his reign.
ISBN: 9780755640553
AUTHOR: LISA BALABANLILAR
ISBN: 9780755640553
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Subtitle: POWER AND KINGSHIP IN MUGHAL INDIA
Author: LISA BALABANLILAR -
THE SLEEP REVOLUTION
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, with profound consequences to our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What we need is nothing short of a sleep revolution: only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.
The result is a sweeping, scientifically rigorous, and deeply personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the new golden age of sleep science that reveals the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health–from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important and elusive than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
ISBN: 9780753557204
AUTHOR: ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
ISBN: 9780753557204
Publisher: WH ALLEN
Subtitle: TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE, ONE NIGHT AT A TIME
Author: ARIANNA HUFFINGTON -
SHADOWLAND
Enter the realm of the Immortals the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Alyson Noel that’s been acclaimed as breathtaking, mesmerizing, flawless and extraordinary.
Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world’s darkest enemies so they could be together forever. But just when their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen… one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death plunging Damen into the Shadowland. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses herself in magick and gets help from an unexpected source… a surfer named Jude.
Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. She’s always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love and she still believes it to be true. But as Damen pulls away to save them, Ever’s connection with Jude grows stronger and tests her love for Damen like never before…
ISBN: 9780312590444
AUTHOR: ALYSON NOEL
ISBN: 9780312590444
Publisher: ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN
Subtitle: THE IMMORTALS
Author: ALYSON NOEL -
THE RULES OF LOVE
Strong, loving relationships are what life is all about. And some people are really good at them. They find a partner who makes them happy and they know instinctively how to handle tricky times while keeping things fresh and rewarding. They have partnerships that stand the test of time and they make it look effortless.
Is there something these people know that we don’t? Is it something we can all benefit from? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of love.
These Rules are the guiding principles that will help you form strong and enduring relationships, and support you when things aren’t going the way that you wanted them to. In this new edition, Richard Templar has added 10 brand new Rules to help make your relationships even more rewarding. You’ll feel the benefits, and so will everybody around you.
For a life of fulfilling and rewarding relationships, you need The Rules of Love.
ISBN: 9780137149964
AUTHOR: RICHARD TEMPLAR
ISBN: 9780137149964
Publisher: PEARSON
Subtitle: A PERSONAL CODE FOR HAPPIER, MORE FULFILLING RELATIONSHIPS
Author: RICHARD TEMPLAR -
CRUSHING IT!
Four-time New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands. In his 2009 international bestseller Crush It, Gary insisted that a vibrant personal brand was crucial to entrepreneurial success, In Crushing It!, Gary explains why that?s even more true today, offering his unique perspective on what has changed and what principles remain timeless.
ISBN: 9780062674678
AUTHOR: GARY VAYNERCHUK
ISBN: 9780062674678
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Subtitle:
Author: GARY VAYNERCHUK -
REVIVE YOUR HEART
Revive Your Heart is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a conversation with one of the world’s most recognizable voices on Islam, Nouman Ali Khan.
This collection of essays is disarmingly simple, yet it challenges us to change. To revise our actions, our assumptions and our beliefs so we can be transformed from within, as well as externally.
It aims to help modern Muslims maintain a spiritual connection with Allah and to address the challenges facing believers today: the disunity in the Muslim community, terrorists acting in the name of Islam, and the disconnection with Allah.
These challenges and more are tackled by Nouman Ali Khan, with his profound engagement with the Qur’an, in his trademark voice that is sought out by millions of Muslims on a daily basis.
ISBN: 9789692218009
AUTHOR: NOUMAN ALI KHAN
ISBN: 9789692218009
Publisher: KUBE PUBLISHING
Subtitle: PUTTING LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE
Author: NOUMAN ALI KHAN NOUMAN ALI KHAN -
ATTACK ON THE BLACK CAT TRACK
Seven Australians and one New Zealander set out on an epic adventure to trek Papua New Guinea’s remote Black Cat Track. As they make their first steps toward the track, they have no inkling of the disaster that will enfold them. Situated to the north of the Kokoda Track, the Black Cat Track is reputed to be much more demanding than its more famous neighbour, and these intrepid trekkers are keen to test themselves against its gruelling terrain. They share an avid interest in WWII military history, and with some excitement they learn that the Black Cat Track is littered with evidence of the savage battles between Australian and Japanese forces. The trekkers are also keen to experience the culture of the local people. Suddenly, events take a violent turn. Tribal tension erupts around them, and the trekking party is subjected to a horrifying attack. In its blood-stained aftermath a strong bond develops between the trekkers and the PNG porters. Ultimately, this is a story about culture shock, tragedy, heroism, generosity, and of an unlikely yet enduring bond of friendship that has develop out of a shared traumatic experience.ed traumatic experience.
ISBN: 9781925556018
AUTHOR: MAX CARMICHAEL
ISBN: 9781925556018
Publisher: MELBOURNE BOOKS
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Author: MAX CARMICHAEL -
SO YOU WANT TO BE A LEADER
We ask much of our leaders and blame them for ay failure to order the world to our liking. Yet many of us are reluctant to engage, preferring to disparage leaders as a class apart, a quarrelsome lot and overpaid to boot-the useful butt of barbecue humour. Will we engage better with the next generation of leaders? Will they conduct a kinder, gentler national conversation? In this book, 36 Australian voices-both early achievers and the venerable from across the political and social landscape-offer fresh ideas and timeless wisdom for people entering public life.
Whether you are a budding politician, advisor, lobbyist, advocate, local councillor, NGO leader, social activist, blogger, philanthropist, sporting administrator or the representative of an industry, the arts, a profession or a trade-you are in public life. This book will deepen your understanding of what you must know, do, say and be to succeedISBN: 9781925000986
AUTHOR: PHILIP CRISP
ISBN: 9781925000986
Publisher: HYBRID PUBLISHERS
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Author: PHILIP CRISP -
REFUGEE TO RESIDENT
This book is timely, given the confusion in Australian policy regarding the so-called illegal refugees. Mark Blows, Clinical Psychologist
An educated girl from a prosperous family in Iraq finds her world turned upside down by circumstances arising from the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein. With her young husband she flees first to Iran, then Turkey, experiencing the humiliation, discomfort, and powerlessness of being a refugee.Ibtihal gives birth to a baby boy, lives in a tiny hut with no electricity or running water, tries to protect her baby from hungry rats, and attempts again and again to get approval from the UN to migrate. After years of hardship and persistence, Ibtihal and her small family arrive in Australia, where her youthful ambition leads her to study and later teach art as therapy for trauma.
The book includes photos of the author’s story and artwork.
‘Refugee to Resident’ captures the indignity and hopelessness associated with being a refugee, but also the indomitable spirit of which humans are capable, even when suffering extreme duress. I challenge anyone, whatever their current views might be, to read this story and remain unchanged.’ Professor Terry Lovat, The University of Newcastle, Australia
‘Refugee to Resident is a humanist plea for understanding the plight, the frustrations, the misunderstanding, and the lack of sympathy given to refugees from all over the world.’ Bruce McCalmont, Senior Lecturer TAFE
ISBN: 9781921665424
Publisher: HYBRID PUBLISHERS
Subtitle:
Author: IBTIHAL SAMARAYI -
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN
The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.
In this shocking expose, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.
EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China’s EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy whether executed by the United States or China will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take action toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States and China’s EHM strategies for good.
ISBN: 9781523001897
Publisher: BERRETT KOEHIER PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: 3RD ED
Author: JOHN PERKINS -
ONE TRUE LOVES
n her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.
On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.
Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.
That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiance, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves.
Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?
Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.
ISBN: 9781476776903
AUTHOR: TAYLOR JENKINS REID
ISBN: 9781476776903
Publisher: WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: TAYLOR JENKINS REID -
AYESHA’S GIFT
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of suicide, but why would Ayesha’s happy, gentle father kill himself? Ayesha’s quest to find the truth takes her right away from her safe London existence. She meets with threats, intimidation and smiling perjurers who resent her intrusion into their world. She is warned that her life is in danger; powerful, ruthless men have reasons to want her silenced. But there are things she needs to know, that compel her to press on with her search for the truth. Was her father an innocent victim? Can she continue to revere the image of him she grew up with, that of a good, loving parent? Or will she be forced to accept that her father was not the person she thought he was? Ayesha decides that the only way forward is to fly to Pakistan and confront his killers. When she goes, Martin Sixsmith goes with her. The denouement of their journey together is extraordinarily moving, with unforeseen repercussions for them both.
ISBN: 9781471149764
AUTHOR: MARTIN SIXSMITH
ISBN: 9781471149764
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Subtitle: A DAUGHTER’S SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT HER FATHER
Author: MARTIN SIXSMITH -
PHILOSOPHY 101
Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and instead, gives you a lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition.
From Aristotle and Heidegger to free will and metaphysics, Philosophy 101 is packed with hundreds of entertaining philosophical tidbits, illustrations, and thought puzzles that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
So whether you’re looking to unravel the mysteries of existentialism, or just want to find out what made Voltaire tick, Philosophy 101 has all the answers–even the ones you didn’t know you were looking for.
ISBN: 9781440567674
AUTHOR: PAUL KLEINMAN
ISBN: 9781440567674
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Subtitle: FROM PLATO AND SOCRATES TO ETHICS AND METAPHYSICS, AN ESSENTIAL PRIMER ON THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT
Author: PAUL KLEINMAN