The Year Of Sound And Heat
by Zain SaeedAvailable
“The Year of Sound and Heat” is a love letter to Karachi in one of its most violent years, as well as a rumination on activism, belonging, and the suppressed trauma of the people of the city,...
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The Pillars of Civilization (Sapiens: A Graphic History #2)
by Yuval Noah HarariAvailable
Volume 2 of Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Pillars of Civilization explores a crucial chapter in human development: the Agricultural Revolution. This is the story of how wheat took over the world;...
In Quest of Jinnah: Diary, Notes, and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho
by Hector BolithoAvailable
In 1953, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write the biography of Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the...
Ruttie Jinnah: The Story, Told And Untold
by Khawaja Razi HaiderAvailable
The biography of Ruttie Jinnaḥ, wife of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. The book focuses on Jinnah’s conjugal relationship with his wife, Rattenbai, popularly known as Ruttie. The author...
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
by Steve InskeepAvailable
From the host of NPR's Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In...
The Collaborator
by Mirza WaheedAvailable
It is Kashmir, in the early 1990s, and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam, close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear, as if from nowhere, to hunt for militants on the...
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert FiskAvailable
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for...
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
by Rebecca Wragg SykesAvailable
In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy...
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
by Huw LemmeyAvailable
Part revisionist history, part historical biography and based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ...
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi KleinAvailable
New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Longlist Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political...
Sex and Lies
by Leila SlimaniAvailable
In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and...
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngeloAvailable
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt and by behaviors including argumentation...
