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Karachi Vice

Author : Samira Shackle
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199429
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Karachi Vice written by Samira Shackle and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, hair-raising journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Karachi. Pakistan’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, who to trust, and what makes Karachi tick. In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother’s birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Among them is Safdar the ambulance driver, who knows the city’s streets and shortcuts intimately and will stop at nothing to help his fellow citizens. There is Parveen, the activist whose outspoken views on injustice repeatedly lead her towards danger. And there is Zille, the hardened journalist whose commitment to getting the best scoops puts him at increasing risk. Their individual experiences unfold and converge, as Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade as it endures a terrifying crime wave: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to the daily perils for its residents and pushing their city into the international spotlight. Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful, as dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power.

Instant City

Author : Steve Inskeep
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143122169
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Instant City written by Steve Inskeep and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morning Edition" cohost Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that sheds light on the constant tensions in Karachi, Pakistan--when a bomb blast ripped through a religious procession.

The Book of Tokyo

Author : Hideo Furukawa
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Tokyo written by Hideo Furukawa and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’

War in the Indian Ocean

Author : Mihir K. Roy
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781897829110
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book War in the Indian Ocean written by Mihir K. Roy and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi

Author : Nichola Khan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019086978X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi written by Nichola Khan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of this great metropolis. By commenting in different ways on the trials and tribulations of Karachi and Pakistan, the contributors to this innovative book on the city build on past writings to say something new or different -- to make their reader re-think how they understand the processes at work in this vast urban space. They scrutinise Karachi's diverse neighborhoods to show how violence is manifested locally and citywide into protest drinking, social and religious movements, class and cosmopolitanism, gang wars, and how it affects the fractured lives of militants and journalists, among others. Oral history and memoir feature strongly in the volume as do insights gleaned from anthropology and political science

MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Author : Ryan Vice
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1849683433
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF written by Ryan Vice and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliminate unnecessary code by taking advantage of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight and WPF using this book and eBook ? less code, fewer bugs

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

Author : Declan Walsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249921
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State written by Declan Walsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.

Husband of a Fanatic

Author : Amitava Kumar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143031895
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Husband of a Fanatic written by Amitava Kumar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Summer Of 1999, While The Kargil War Was Being Fought, Amitava Kumar Married A Pakistani Muslim. That Event Led To A Process Of Discovery That Made Kumar Examine The Relationship Not Only Between India And Pakistan But Also Between Hindus And Muslims Inside India. The Result Is This Fiercely Personal Essay On The Idea Of The Enemy. Written With Complete Honesty And With No Claims To Journalistic Detachment, This Book Chronicles The Complicity That Binds The Writer To The Rioter. Unlike Both The Fundamentalists And The Secularists, Kumar Finds Or Makes Utterly Human Those Whom He Opposes. More Than A Travelogue Which Takes The Reader To Wagah, Patna, Bhagalpur, Karachi, Kashmir, And Even Johannesburg, This Book, Then, Becomes A Portrait Of The People The Author Meets In These Places, People Dealing With The Consequences Of The Politics Of Faith. With A Writer'S Eye For Detail, Kumar Has Drawn A Map Of Violence. Informed More By A Traveller'S Sense Of Observation Than A Safe, Academic Moralism, Husband Of A Fanatic Refuses To Monumentalize Suffering Instead, It Presents Tragedy As Ordinary, And Hence, More Difficult To Accept Easily. In A Village Beside The Ganges Near Bhagalpur, In A Psychiatric Ward In Srinagar, In A Classroom In Ahmedabad ... Everywhere That The Author Goes, The Reader Is Compelled To Accompany Him On A Journey To The Heart Of Hatred.

English as a Global Language

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107611806
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

In the Line of Fire

Author : Pervez Musharraf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847395961
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book In the Line of Fire written by Pervez Musharraf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost unprecedented for a head of state to publish a memoir while still in office. But Pervez Musharraf is no ordinary head of state. As President of Pakistan since 1999, his is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and he continues to play a crucial role in the global war on terror. A one-time supporter of the Taliban, a general who fought in several wars, President Musharraf took a decisive turn against militant Islam in 2001. Since then he has survived two assassination attempts; rooted out militants in his own government; helped direct countless raids against al-Qaeda both in his cities and in the mountains; and tracked Osama bin Laden with technical and human intelligence. IN THE LINE OF FIRE is astonishingly revealing and honest about dozens of topics of intense interest to the world. Among its many revelations: exactly how Pakistani authorities tracked down and smashed three major al-Qaeda control centres in the mountains; how al-Qaeda's many-layered structure was revealed after the assassination attempts; Bin Laden's current position within the al-Qaeda hierarchy; what it has been like to deal with Bush and Blair; how Pakistan and India have avoided nuclear confrontation; and much more. The terrible earthquake of 2005, killing nearly 40,000 Pakistanis, is just one chapter in a life and career that has been filled with danger and drama. The worldwide launch of President Musharraf's memoir promises to be a sensation.

Escape from Pakistan

Author : Deborah Shea
Publisher : India Penguin Enterprise
ISBN 13 : 9780670096206
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Pakistan written by Deborah Shea and published by India Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story about a Naval Officer located in Pakistan during the 1965 Indo Pak war. The nerve wracking events that took place in Karachi, a brave and valiant attempt to extradite a wanted Diplomat and his family safely out of Pakistan. The consequences that played out as a result, at a great personal cost .

Karachi Vice

Author : Samira Shackle
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199429
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Samira Surfs

Author : Rukhsanna Guidroz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984816209
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Samira Surfs written by Rukhsanna Guidroz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle grade novel in verse about Samira, an eleven-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds strength and sisterhood in a local surf club for girls. Samira thinks of her life as before and after: before the burning and violence in her village in Burma, when she and her best friend would play in the fields, and after, when her family was forced to flee. There's before the uncertain journey to Bangladesh by river, and after, when the river swallowed her nana and nani whole. And now, months after rebuilding a life in Bangladesh with her mama, baba, and brother, there's before Samira saw the Bengali surfer girls of Cox's Bazar, and after, when she decides she'll become one. Samira Surfs, written by Rukhsanna Guidroz with illustrations by Fahmida Azim, is a tender novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power.

Courting Disaster

Author : Marc Thiessen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596981377
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Courting Disaster written by Marc Thiessen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush’s 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen. In his new book, Courting Disaster, Thiessen documents just how effective the CIA’s interrogations were in foiling attacks on America, penetrating al-Qaeda’s high command, and providing our military with actionable intelligence.

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Author : Samira Ahmed
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616959908
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know written by Samira Ahmed and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories. Smash the patriarchy. Eat all the pastries. It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French, Indian, Muslim—is at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light. Two hundred years before Khayyam’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has “gifted” her with favored status in his harem. In the present day—and with the company of Alex, a très charmant teen descendant of Alexandre Dumas—Khayyam searches for a rumored lost painting, uncovering a connection between Leila and Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron that may have been erased from history. Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam’s lives intertwine, and as one woman’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another’s is transformed.

Rainbow Vice

Author : Ted Leggett
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842771358
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Vice written by Ted Leggett and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing drug culture in the new South Africa is tightly linked to the world of commercial sex and in conflict with a profoundly Christian population. Here, Ted Leggett shows how varied the drug scene is.

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Author : Atta-ur- Rahman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444595155
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Natural Products Chemistry written by Atta-ur- Rahman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural products play an integral and ongoing role in promoting numerous aspects of scientific advancement, and many aspects of basic research programs are intimately related to natural products. With articles written by leading authorities in their respective fields of research, Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 37 presents current frontiers and future guidelines for research based on important discoveries made in the field of bioactive natural products. It is a valuable source for researchers and engineers working in natural products and medicinal chemistry. Describes the chemistry of bioactive natural products Contains contributions by leading authorities in the field A valuable source for researchers and engineers working in natural product and medicinal chemistry