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Tinderbox

The Past and Future of Pakistan

By: M.J. Akbar

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Tinderbox

The Past and Future of Pakistan

By: M.J. Akbar

“Among many recent books on Pakistan, Mr. Akbar’s stands out….A fine and detailed history of Indian Muslim anger and insecurity.” —The Economist In Tinderbox, India’s leading journalist delivers a fascinating narrative history of Pakistan, chronicling the conflict between Muslim and Hindu cultures in South Asia and describing the role that their relationship has played in defining both the country and the region. Editorial director of India Today and editor of the Sunday Guardian, M. J. Akbar gives readers an unprecedented look at Pakistan past and present. Panoramic in scope but specific in detail, with rich portraits of the central figures and events that have defined the nation’s history, Ackbar’s Tinderbox tells the Pakistanian story from the Middle Ages to the present, puts the Taliban and its place within modern Islam into a meaningful context, and diagnoses where the country is headed in the 21st century.

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Harper Collins

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0062131850

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A Mirror to Power

Notes on a Fractured Decade

By: M J Akbar

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A Mirror to Power

Notes on a Fractured Decade

By: M J Akbar

A Mirror to Power takes a sharp look across the wide horizon of the past decade, a time when reputations were wrecked on a high-velocity rollercoaster and events became a jamboree instead of a procession. This tumbledown history of corruption, terrorism, justice delayed, rights denied and governance betrayed still left enough gaps for celebration of laughter in areas outside politics. The cast is extraordinary: from the founding fathers of our partitioned subcontinent to those shaping its future today. This book is especially distinctive because of M.J. Akbar's unerring eye for underlying causes and potential consequences that bookend current events and a prose style that conveys serious thought in lucid sentences and succinct paragraphs. The pieces are on subjects as diverse as politics, cricket, cinema stars, the lost art of reading and the joys of trash, besides long, elegant essays on the history of a community seen through the genius of its poets and the trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar. This is an indispensable introduction to what promises to be an Indian century.

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9350296845

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9789350296844

Byline

By: M.J. Akbar

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Byline

By: M.J. Akbar

Byline anthologises M.J. Akbar's finest writings over the last decade, bringing together essays that reflect the author's versatility and range. The book is divided into five seamless sections, each with its own identity, woven together by M.J. Akbar's delectably informal prose. 'Travel' is the first section in which the author shares his passion for history and the occasional fable, the obscure detail, the glorious and the ludicrous. This is followed by 'Politics and History' in which the reader is provided a view of some events and people in the recent past with all the quirks and whims that characterise the great as well as the mundane. The reader then moves on to 'Sidelines' (those delightfully off-centre pieces). M.J. Akbar says in an essay in this section: "The train of thought has moved. But that is the way with trains. They must travel." 'Memories' is the most personal and autobiographical part of the entire selection, mixing regret, nostalgia and deeply felt sorrow for the friends and times gone forever. Byline ends with a short section entitled 'On a Personal Note' in which James Bond must live to die another day, The Telegraph has to learn to live beyond the age of twenty and Dev Anand remains young forever.

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9351940470

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Byline

By: M.J. Akbar

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Byline

By: M.J. Akbar

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Gandhi

By: M. J. Akbar,K Natwar Singh

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Gandhi

By: M. J. Akbar,K Natwar Singh

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, justly venerated as a Mahatma, dismantled the mightiest empire in world history through the inspirational power of three pivotal mass campaigns across two decades. In 1920 Gandhi liberated Indians from fear through the unprecedented mass mobilization of the non-cooperation movement. In 1930 he turned a pinch of salt into a metaphor for the punitive, heartless colonial exploitation of the impoverished. The 1942 call to 'Quit India' sent a final, unambiguous message to foreign overlords: Indians would prefer to die rather than live in British fetters. Once Gandhi had unchained India, history could no longer remain dormant. Akbar draws on historical archives and contemporary narratives to vividly depict the mass ferment and individual protest that swept across the subcontinent. The combination of meticulous scholarship with riveting storytelling, make Gandhi in Three Campaigns an unmissable fresh portrait of an icon and a time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9356404089

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India: The Seige Within

By: MJ Akbar

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India: The Seige Within

By: MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976 and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian. MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993 and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the party’s national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi. His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: India: The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; Kashmir: Behind the Vale; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays.

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8193600975

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Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

By: M. J. Akbar

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Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

By: M. J. Akbar

In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: 'I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, bureaucrats, officials, officers and the occasional bishop, Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar is a chronicle of racial relations between Indians and their last foreign invaders, sometimes infuriating but always compelling. A multitude of vignettes, combined with insight and analysis, reveal the deeply ingrained conviction of 'white superiority' that shaped this history. How deep this conviction was is best illustrated by the fact that the British abandoned a large community of their own children because they were born of Indian mothers. The British took pride in being outsiders, even as their exploitative revenue policy turned periodic drought and famine into horrific catastrophes, killing impoverished Indians in millions. There were also marvellous and heart-warming exceptions in this extraordinary panorama, people who transcended racial prejudice and served as a reminder of what might have been had the British made India a second home and merged with its culture instead of treating it as a fortune-hunter's turf. The power was indisputable-the British had lost just one out of 18 wars between 1757 and 1857. Defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, Indians found innovative and amusing ways of giving expression to resentment in household skirmishes, social mores and economic subversion. When Indians tried to imitate the sahibs, they turned into caricatures; when they absorbed the best that the British brought with them, the confluence was positive and productive. But for the most part, subject and ruler lived parallel lives. From the celebrated writer of the bestselling Gandhi's Hinduism: the Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam comes this extensively researched and utterly engrossing book, which is easy to pick up and difficult to put down.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9354355285

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Shi'ism, Resistance, And Revolution

By: Martin Kramer,Shaul Bakhash,Clinton Bailey,Michael M J Fischer

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Shi'ism, Resistance, And Revolution

By: Martin Kramer,Shaul Bakhash,Clinton Bailey,Michael M J Fischer

The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political strategies that have

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1000311430

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Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

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Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his broad command of critical theory, Michael M. J. Fischer argues that the widespread appeal of Iranian cinema is based in a poetics that speaks not only to Iran’s domestic cultural politics but also to the more general ethical dilemmas of a world simultaneously torn apart and pushed together. Approaching film as a tool for anthropological analysis, he illuminates how Iranian filmmakers have incorporated and remade the rich traditions of oral, literary, and visual media in Persian culture. Fischer reveals how the distinctive expressive idiom emerging in contemporary Iranian film reworks Persian imagery that has itself been in dialogue with other cultures since the time of Zoroaster and ancient Greece. He examines a range of narrative influences on this expressive idiom and imagery, including Zoroastrian ritual as it is practiced in Iran, North America, and India; the mythic stories, moral lessons, and historical figures written about in Iran’s national epic, the Shahnameh; the dreamlike allegorical world of Persian surrealism exemplified in Sadeq Hedayat’s 1939 novella The Blind Owl; and the politically charged films of the 1960s and 1970s. Fischer contends that by combining Persian traditions with cosmopolitan influences, contemporary Iranian filmmakers—many of whom studied in Europe and America—provide audiences around the world with new modes of accessing ethical and political experiences.

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Duke University Press

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0822385511

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Kashmir: Behind the Vale

By: MJ Akbar

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Kashmir: Behind the Vale

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8193600967

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The Shade of Swords

Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity

By: M.J Akbar

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The Shade of Swords

Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity

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From Muhammed to the Ottoman empires and the modern struggle for Palestine, Akbar's story explains how Jihad thrives on complex and shifting notions of persecution, victory and sacrifice and the Muslim control over this phenomenon.

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1134452594

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New National Framework Mathematics 8 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

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New National Framework Mathematics 8 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

This series for Key Stage 3 mathematics has been written to match the Framework for teaching mathematics. Comprising parallel resources for each year and covering all ability levels, it provides a consistent but fully differentiated approach.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748767533

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Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam

By: M.J. Kister

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Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam

By: M.J. Kister

This book deals with the history of pre-Islamic Arab society and the emergence of Islam, as reflected in hadith, adab, historical, genealogical and exegetical literature. Among the themes discussed are the ethnic composition of the population of Mecca, the evolving relationship between the nascent state in Medina and Muslim religious ideas, as well as some aspects of early Muslim expansion. Other articles deal with Jahili tribal groups and their contribution to emerging Islam. An extensive article is devoted to Adam as a great herald and predecessor of Muhammad.

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1000585050

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Debating Muslims

Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition

By: Michael M. J. Fischer,Mehdi Abedi

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Debating Muslims

Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition

By: Michael M. J. Fischer,Mehdi Abedi

In a world of multinational commerce, satellite broadcasting, migration, terrorism, and global arms dealing, what is said and how it is said in one society can no longer be isolated from what is said and how it is said in another. Debating Muslims focuses on Iranian culture, Shi'ite Islam, and Iranians in the United States, offering an experiment in postmodern ethnography and an invitation to think in a multifaceted way about Islam in the contemporary world.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299124347

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9780299124342

Blood Brothers

By: M.J. Akbar

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Blood Brothers

By: M.J. Akbar

Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbar's amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family - based on his own - and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubik's Cube of migrant Bihari workers, Hindus and Muslims; Bengalis poor and 'bhadralok'; and Sahibs who live in the safe, 'foreign'world of the Victoria Jute Mill. Into this scattered inhabitation enters a child on the verge of starvation, Prayaag, who is saved and adopted by a Muslim family, converts to Islam and takes on the name of Rahmatullah. As Rahmatullah knits Telinipara into a community, friendship, love trust and faith are continually tested by the cancer of riots. Incidents - conversion, circumcision, the arrival of the plague of electricity - and a fascinating array of characters - the ultimate Brahmin, Rahmatullah's friend Girija Maharaj; the worker's leader, Bauna Sardar; the storyteller, Talat Mian; the poet- teacher, Syed Ashfaque; the smiling mendicant, Burha Deewana; the sincere Sahib, Simon Hogg; and then the questioning, demanding third generation of the author and his friend Kamala - interlink into a narrative of social history as well as a powerful memoir. Blood Brothers is a chronicle of its age, its canvas as enchanting as its narrative, a personal journey through change as tensions build, stretching the bonds of a lifetime to breaking point and demanding, in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its last chapters, written in a bare-bones, unemotional style, are the most moving as the author searches for hope amid raw wounds with a surgeon's scalpel.

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8174369309

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9788174369307

Iran

From Religious Dispute to Revolution

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

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Iran

From Religious Dispute to Revolution

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

Unlike much of the instant analysis that appeared at the time of the Iranian revolution, Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in Iran. Michael M. J. Fischer draws upon his rich experience with the mullahs and their students in the holy city of Qum, composing a picture of Iranian society from the inside—the lives of ordinary people, the way that each class interprets Islam, and the role of religion and religious education in the culture. Fischer’s book, with its new introduction updating arguments for the post-Revolutionary period, brings a dynamic view of a society undergoing metamorphosis, which remains fundamental to understanding Iranian society in the early twenty-first century.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299184730

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9780299184735

Have Pen, Will Travel

By: M.J. Akbar

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Have Pen, Will Travel

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Have Pen, Will Travel is a highly engaging collection of reportage and travel pieces that appeared originally in leading journalist and author M.J. Akbar’s column, Byline. The intrepid author ambles – or sometimes jogs – through Africa, America, Asia and of course the innumerable corners of India to record an engrossing mix of piquant observation, geography and history. With a keen eye, deft insight and wit, Akbar assembles a rich mosaic of a world that enlightens and entertains.

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8174369937

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9788174369932

Anthropological Futures

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

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Anthropological Futures

By: Michael M. J. Fischer

In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field’s broad analytical capacity and its attentiveness to emergent cultural systems. Fischer is particularly concerned with cultural anthropology’s interactions with science studies, and throughout the book he investigates how emerging knowledge formations in molecular biology, environmental studies, computer science, and bioengineering are transforming some of anthropology’s key concepts including nature, culture, personhood, and the body. In an essay on culture, he uses the science studies paradigm of “experimental systems” to consider how the social scientific notion of culture has evolved as an analytical tool since the nineteenth century. Charting anthropology’s role in understanding and analyzing the production of knowledge within the sciences since the 1990s, he highlights anthropology’s aptitude for tracing the transnational collaborations and multisited networks that constitute contemporary scientific practice. Fischer investigates changing ideas about cultural inscription on the human body in a world where genetic engineering, robotics, and cybernetics are constantly redefining our understanding of biology. In the final essay, Fischer turns to Kant’s philosophical anthropology to reassess the object of study for contemporary anthropology and to reassert the field’s primacy for answering the largest questions about human beings, societies, culture, and our interactions with the world around us. In Anthropological Futures, Fischer continues to advance what Clifford Geertz, in reviewing Fischer’s earlier book Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, called “a broad new agenda for cultural description and political critique.”

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Duke University Press

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0822390795

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9780822390794

Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam

By: M.J. Kister

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Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam

By: M.J. Kister

In this second collection of his articles, Professor Kister has continued his investigation into the social and religious history of Arabia. The papers are based essentially on a study of the traditions preserved in the early Arabic sources, many unpublished. As the author demonstrates, these sources represent an invaluable mine of information on the history and religious life of pre-Islamic Arabia and on the transformations that affected customs, law and beliefs after the coming of Islam. Particular articles also deal with such questions as the relations and confrontation between nascent Islam and Judaism and Christianity, the contacts between tribal society and sedentary population, and the emergence of new popular customs and beliefs. Dans ce second receuil d’articles, le professeur Kister, poursuit ses recherches sur l’histoire sociale et religieuse de l’Arabie. Les essais sont essentiellement basés sur une etude des traditions conservées par les premieres sources arabes, dont beaucoup n’ont jamais été publiées. Ainsi que l’auteur le démontre, ces sources représentent une mine d’information inestimable sur la vie religieuse et l’histoire de l’Arabie pré-islamique et sur les changements qui affectèrent coutumes,lois et croyances après l’avenement de l’Islam. Certains articles , traitent plus particulierement, de sujets, tels les rapports et les affrontements entre la force naissante de l’Islam et le Judaïsme et Christianisme pré-existants; ou encore des contacts entre société tribale et population sédentaire, ainsi que de l’emergence de nouvelles coutumes et croyances poulaires.

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Routledge

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1000585026

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9781000585025

Marcos Betrayal

The Secrets of the Orb

By: MJ Anand

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Marcos Betrayal

The Secrets of the Orb

By: MJ Anand

It is not the enemy you see but the one you don’t that frightens you more. Unlike the hot bullets that tear through the muscles, cold winds of spy-craft crawl under your skin and create wounds that eat you hollow. Before you realise, the walls are closing in on you and it’s already too late. Abhimanyu had found the lead that could help him uncover those wounds soon, or so he thought. It didn’t matter for the lead died before Abhimanyu could make his move. The Orbs have surrounded the Indians and they are yet to realise it. Meanwhile, the special forces have put everything on line to get their hands on another lead which could help them avert a deadly covert invasion. Lo and behold, they escape death and have their firm grip on the lead that can solve their problems, or so they think, again. In this cat-and-mouse game with a nameless enemy, the Indians struggle to keep up. Will they find the secrets of the Orbs or let the Orbs encircle them beyond rescue?

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Notion Press

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The Secret Voices

A gripping, fast-paced crime thriller that will have you hooked

By: MJ White

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The Secret Voices

A gripping, fast-paced crime thriller that will have you hooked

By: MJ White

BLOODY BRILLIANT. If you like your crime dark and twisty...The Secret Voices is all this and more.' Joanna Cannon, author of A Tidy Ending They said they’d keep me safe. They said, ‘It’s okay, Hannah. You know you can trust me.’ They lied. When eight-year-old Hannah Perry goes missing in the small Suffolk village of St Just, the community is rocked. Heading up the investigation is Acting DS Rob Minshull, but he’s out of his depth in an investigation full of dead ends. As the kidnapper taunts the police with deliveries of Hannah’s belongings and cryptic notes, her life hangs perilously in danger. Until Dr Cora Lael enters the picture. A psychologist with a unique ability, Cora’s rare gift allows her to sense emotions attached to discarded objects. When she is shown the first of Hannah’s belongings, she hears the child’s piercing scream. With few leads on the case, could Cora prove Hannah’s only hope? And as time runs out, can they find Hannah before an unimaginable tragedy occurs...? A twisty, original and utterly gripping detective thriller. Don’t miss the crime thriller debut from the bestselling women’s fiction author, Miranda Dickinson. Praise for The Secret Voices: ‘A superb crime debut from a massive talent. Cora is a character you won’t forget.’ Steve Cavanagh, author of Fifty-Fifty ‘Had me gripped from the moment I started reading it! One of the best thrillers of 2022.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘A corker of a debut with a brilliantly drawn main character.’ Simon Toyne, author of Solomon Creed ‘An unusual premise and an engaging cast of characters. What more could you want from a crime debut? I flew through it.’ Mari Hannah, author of Her Last Request and Without a Trace ‘Gripping, full of twists and unpredictability that had me guessing until the end. I couldn’t put it down.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘I was well and truly hooked...The writing was well researched, the storyline gripping, and the characters were spot on!...This was fantastic! Would definitely recommend!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘This was excellent... There were many twists and I loved the plot development...I will pick up anything by this author in the future!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘Wow! What a fantastic story...I read it in a day, just couldn’t put it down.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘Suspense, intrigue, great police work and a great storyline! It definitely had my heart pumping!’ Reader Review ‘Truly could not put this down... so many twists and turns... Great characters which are also believable’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘Touchingly compassionate, desperately exciting and achingly well-written...a superlative crime novel’ Rob Parker, author of Far From The Tree ‘I love a good police procedural and this one is an impossible-to-put-down one! With a cast of really interesting characters...it moves at a perfect pace.’ Fionnuala Kearney, author of You, Me and Other People and The Book of Love

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Hera books Ltd

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1912973871

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Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

White Lotus meets Lord of the Flies in this speculative comedy thriller about the end of the world

By: MJ Wassmer

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Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

White Lotus meets Lord of the Flies in this speculative comedy thriller about the end of the world

By: MJ Wassmer

What happens when you're on holiday and the sun explodes? **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Five Stars, Would Recommend' GRADY HENDRIX 'Lord of the Flies crashes headfirst into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' BENJAMIN STEVENSON Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a break. Sure, his life has been average at best and, yes, he has never has quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Bud Lights in paradise with his girlfriend Mara, things are starting to look up. Then the sun explodes. With the island suddenly plunged into darkness, the ultra-rich guests hijack the remaining supplies and declare themselves the new ruling class. Led by a fitness influencer turned ruthless dictator, martial law is declared and the hoi polloi are press-ganged into service. And it's just Dan's luck that he could land an even worse job while on holiday. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, Dan might have found a way for himself and Mara to escape the island. But sneaking away would also mean abandoning the burgeoning revolution that he might-have-kind-of-sort-of single-handedly started. 'A must-read' BOOKLIST 'Totally original' ALICE BELL 'Fresh, fun and completely brilliant' SARAH BONNER

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Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

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1804184594

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The Strangler Vine

By: M.J. Carter

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The Strangler Vine

By: M.J. Carter

In 1837 India, two young investigators get sucked into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its ominous suppression.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons

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0425280748

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9780425280744

Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

By: Waqar Ahmed,M. J. Jackson,Mark J Jackson

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Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing

By: Waqar Ahmed,M. J. Jackson,Mark J Jackson

Nanotechnology is a technology on the verge of commercialization. In this important work, an unrivalled team of international experts provides an exploration of the emerging nanotechnologies that are poised to make the nano-revolution a reality in the manufacturing sector. From their different perspectives, the contributors explore how developments in nanotechnology are transforming areas as diverse as medicine, advanced materials, energy, electronics and agriculture. Key topics covered include: Characterization of nanostructures Bionanotechnology Nanoelectronics Micro- and nanomachining Self-assembly techniques New applications of carbon nanotubes Environmental and health impacts This book provides an important and in-depth guide to the applications and impact of nanotechnology to different manufacturing sectors. As such, it will find a broad readership, from R&D scientists and engineers to venture capitalists. About the Authors Waqar Ahmed is Chair of Nanotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing and the Director of the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has contributed to the wider industrial adoption of surface coating solutions through fundamental research and modeling of gas phase processes in CVD and studies of tribological behavior. Mark J. Jackson is a Professor at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Center for Advanced Manufacturing, College of Technology at Purdue University. Dr Jackson is active in research work concerned with understanding the properties of materials in the field of microscale metal cutting, micro- and nanoabrasive machining, and laser micromachining. He is also involved in developing next generation manufacturing processes and biomedical engineering. Explains how to use biological pathways to produce nanoelectric devices Presents data on new, experimental designs Discusses the history of carbon nanotubes and how they are synthesized to fabricate novel nanostructures (incl. data on laser ablation) Extensive use of illustrations, tables, and figures throughout

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William Andrew

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New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,K. M. Vickers

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New National Framework Mathematics 7 Core Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,K. M. Vickers

This series for Key Stage 3 mathematics has been written to exactly match the Framework for teaching mathematics. Comprising parallel resources for each year and covering all ability levels, it takes a consistent but fully differentiated approach.

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Nelson Thornes

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New National Framework Mathematics 8* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,Jocelyn Douglas

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New National Framework Mathematics 8* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler,Jocelyn Douglas

This resource is aimed at lower ability pupils targeting National Curriculum Levels 3-5. Running parallel to the New National Framework Mathematics Core and Plus Books, this pupil book and accompanying Teacher Support File have been designed to be highly accessible to pupils attaining these levels.

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New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

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New National Framework Mathematics 7* Pupil's Book

By: M. J. Tipler

These resources have been created for lower-ability students targeting National Curriculum Levels 2-4. Running parallel to the New National Framework Mathematics Core and Plus Books, the pupil book and accompanying Teacher Support File have been designed to be highly accessible to pupils attaining these levels.

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Nelson Thornes

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The Taliban

Ascent to Power

By: M. J. Gohari

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The Taliban

Ascent to Power

By: M. J. Gohari

A 1999 overview of Taliban rule in Afghanistan that describes the country's history; mujahideen; the Taliban's theological and political infrastructure; the economy, social order, and human rights; relations with neighboring countries; and the background and beliefs of Osama bin Laden.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195795601

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Gandhi

By: M. J. Akbar,K Natwar Singh

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Gandhi

By: M. J. Akbar,K Natwar Singh

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Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam

By: M. J. Akbar

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Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam

By: M. J. Akbar

Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the 'August Offer' of 1940. Gandhi's strength lay in ideological commitment which was, in the end, ravaged by the communal violence that engineered partition. The price of this epic confrontation, paid by the people, has stretched into generations. M.J. Akbar's book, meticulously researched from original sources, reveals the astonishing blunders, lapses and conscious chicanery that permeated the politics of seven explosive years between 1940 and 1947. Facts from the archives challenge the conventional narrative, and disturb the conspiratorial silence used to protect the image of famous icons. Gandhi's Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam delves into both the ideology and the personality of those who shaped the fate of a region between Iran and Burma. It is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Indian history, and the past as a prelude to the future.

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