Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her countrymen. But she continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than ever, since she knew that time was running out - for the future of her nation, and for her life. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping derail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. With extremist Islam on the rise throughout the world, the peaceful, pluralistic message of Islam has been exploited and manipulated by fanatics. Bhutto persuasively argues that America and Britain are fueling this turn toward radicalization by supporting groups that serve only short-term interests.
Making the Future is the sequel to Chomsky’s Interventions. Both these books are drawn from the articles the author has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate. This book offers fierce and accessible political writing by one of America's foremost political commentator and activist. In Making the Future, the collection of essays by Chomsky presents a powerful narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the world in the last four years. He writes about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the elections in the U.S. and Israel's invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements in Jerusalem, among others. This book will make for an ideal read for those interested in the events that have made the future since 2007.
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward - in the so-called democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements which suggest 'real progress towards freedom and justice'. Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race and is wondering where to find a ray of hope.
‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism, and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence, and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism. Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China’s national myths mold its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedeviled its relationship with the modern West. ‘Lively, erudite and meticulously researched’ Literary Review ‘An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow.’ Sunday Times
Around the beginning of the year 2010, author Arundhati Roy received an envelope that confirmed her appointment with “India’s single biggest security challenge”. She had been waiting for months to hear from them. She got a chance to travel into the homeland of many indigenous people.These lands were dreamlands to people who headed some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. This book is a powerful record of her experience.
Jack Harmon finds a cell phone on the school bus. As soon as he raises the phone to his ear he hears a girl’s voice. This creepy voice seems to know Jack very well and wants to be his new friend. Jack brushes it off as a practical joke and tries to end the call. He turns the phone off, but the girl’s voice won’t go away. A puzzled, confused and scared Jack has no other option but to obey her every wish. She appears in all kinds of electronic devices and he is unable to escape her. The voice forces him to do dangerous things like stealing a laptop from school. Will jack be able outwit the voice and overcome his fear?
The Politics Book provides the readers a deep insight into the world of politics, which is explained with the help of over hundred quotations and ideas of ancient politicians, statesman and philosophers of the 21st century. All the important and essential political theories are covered in the book. The book comes with a reference section with a glossary of political terms and biographies of renowned thinkers including Plato, John Locke, and Karl Marx. To understand the difficult concepts of various political theories can be daunting, but this book makes it much simpler and easier for the readers. The Politics Book comes with summaries, illustrations and quotations to make it an interesting and fascinating read.
An impressionistic account of the last Shah of Iran by a Polish journalist, this brilliant book captures the irony, force and power of the revolution that toppled the Shah. Kapuscinski has written an equally compelling book on another autocrat, Haile Selassie, the Emperor.
Kautilya: The Arthashastra, published in 2000 by Penguin Classics is the English edition of the classic treatise on classical economics and political science by the ancient Indian philosopher Kautilya. The text of this great book includes 15 books, each addressing one topic pertaining to the state and its economy. The books include topics like the law, the king, foreign policy, discipline, capturing a fortress, and the duties of the government rulers. Kautilya explains in detail the duties and virtues of an ideal king. The descriptions include a break up of what the ideal king should do during the course of the day and how the king should behave in typical situations. The Arthashashtra also includes detailed strategies like gift, bribery, illusion, and strength to deal with the neighbouring countries. The other important sections of the book include maintenance of law and order in the state, forests and wildlife, and economic ideas. The book discusses how the Mauryans protected forest wealth, including trees and animals. The importance of maintaining law and order for smooth functioning of the state is also given importance.
The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume One of Moore's authorized biography gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, taking us up to the zenith of her power: victory in the Falklands.
The product of over 10 hours of interviews, Narendra Modi: A Political Biography takes the BJP's prime ministerial candidate and gives readers a honest view. Readers will understand the inner workings of Mr. Modi's methods of governance. In its pages one is introduced to the childhood and the young man who grew up to become one of India's most powerful and controversial driving forces.
The book puts something new across the popular belief that Latin Americam Magic Realism refers directly to Marquez. The book rejects this popular belief and discusses in detail the development of magic realism in Latin America and then specially assesses the contribution of Rulfo in the development of this mode of realism which later writers like Marquez popularised all over the world.
Articles in Part I discuss the general Political situation in Pakistan, the various political and constitutional developments and also the democratic movements of the people of this region. These discussions reveal the character and state of the society during the last phase of Pakistan in East Bengal. The articles in part I, therefore, provide a sort of introduction to the discussions contained in part II. They may also be helpful in making a comparative assessment of the situation before and after the emergence of Bangladesh as a new state.
Through the last five decades, Nayantara Sahgal has constantly responded to the changes that enveloped India and the world through her wide-ranging works of fiction and non-fiction. This book collects her writings and lectures on subjects ranging from literature and the arts to international relations and imperialism, written through some of Indias most turbulent phases- Independence, the Emergency, globalization, terrorism. Her astute social commentary is laced with personal wisdom that comes from first-hand knowledge of Indian politics and diplomacy. Known for her refusal to compromise with attempts to subvert modern India's democratic and multicultural tradition, Sahgal has watched some of Indias most historic moments unfold in her own backyard and has always appraised the situation with a critical eye and analytical acumen. The Political Imagination draws from Sahgals rich body of work and includes letters and commendations written to her that have never been published before. Combining public history with personal reflections, Sahgal reveals the politics of her own imagination in this collection of her most culturally insightful and socially conscious writings.
Based on thorough research and exploration into the past, Rizvi brings out the political, societal, economical, religious, art and architectural and other facets of India under the Islamic rule. The span of time in India from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries has seen the advent of the Arabs, Afghans, Turks and the Mughals. More than a billion people’s lives changed due to endless exchange of culture and other ideas in all spheres of life. This work, along with A. L. Basham's book, The Wonder That Was India, provides a comprehensive and riveting outlook of the pre-colonial times in the history of India.
While India is sometimes the most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of those longserving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians - peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians.
