| Weight | 0.26 kg |
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| ISBN | 0300103026 |
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| Publication Date | 2002 |
| Pages | 205 |
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₨ 3,814
ISBN: 0300103026
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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₨ 3,814
ISBN: 0300103026
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In stock
| Weight | 0.26 kg |
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| ISBN | 0300103026 |
| Format | |
| Publication Date | 2002 |
| Pages | 205 |
| Author | |
| Author Description | |
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This collection of profiles by Rina Saeed Khan was for The Friday Times, Pakistan’s most popular political weekly. They were written over a six-year period from 1992-1998 and include artists like Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq, intellectuals like Seyyed Hossein Nasr, filmstars like Neeli and war heroes like MM Alam. Lawyers like Dr Parvez Hassan, economists like Moeen Qureshi, politicians like Dr Noorjehan Panezai and global leaders like James Wolfensohn are also featured. Lucid pithy and insightful, these profiles are a valuable and interesting addition to the biographical literature of Pakistan.
ISBN: 969402319X
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
ISBN: 0521417104
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which, for him, the universe revolved–himself. For ten years, beginning in 1660, Samuel Pepys secretly kept one of the most remarkable records ever made of a human life. With astounding candor and perceptiveness he described his ambitions and speculations, his professional successes and failures, his pettinesses and meannesses, his tenderness toward his wife and the irritations and jealousies she provoked, his extramarital longings and fumblings, his coolly critical attitude toward the king he served and his watchful adaptation to the corrupt and treacherous life of the court. Pepys’s diary is a magnificent creation. But there is more to Samuel Pepys than his diary, as Claire Tomalin makes clear in this profoundly original biography. Buttressing it with less familiar sources and other contemporary material, she is able to illuminate his entire life–as a poor London tailor’s son, as a schoolboy rejoicing at the execution of Charles I, as an aspiring clerk with good connections who transforms himself into a royalist, escorting Charles II to England for the Restoration. Then there is the bureaucrat heroically working against the odds to create a modern navy, finding his way through the dangerous years of political and religious conflict (even, at one point, being charged with treason and jailed), peacefully retiring at last with his books and his music and his friends. It is Claire Tomalin’s unique skill as a biographer to achieve extraordinary intimacy with her subject, and Pepys is no exception. To the endlessly fascinating question of his relations with women, for example, she brings the same insight and freshness of approach that distinguished such highly praised books as Jane Austen and The Invisible Woman. At the same time, the historical context is never less than brilliantly evoked. The result is exemplary, by far the most revealing–and readable–portrait of the greatest diarist in the English language, a man of unmatched interest and importance.
ISBN: 0375411437
Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF
ISBN: W2819 – Hardback
Publisher: CHICAGO
ISBN: W2819
Publisher: CHICAGO
Myriam Annissimov’s major biography of Primo Levi delves deeply into the life and mind of the controversial writer, philosopher, and Holocaust witness. She explores with “direct and uncomlicated intelligence” (London Review of Books) the complex naturew of this troubled yet persevering man; a survivor who felt that future generations would forget and deny what many would call the central informing disaster of the century.
ISBN: 1585670200
Publisher: THE OVERLOOK PRESS
Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1830) was a remarkable Urdu poet of the sub-continent, who stands out as being distinct from the romantic or mystic mainstream of medieval Urdu poetry. He was a private tutor by profession but despite tempting offers never made poetry a trade. Nazir’s poetry is at once objective and large-hearted. Absorbed in the zest for life, its joys and sorrows are for him only passing shadows on the stage. It is this down-to-earth realism that makes him so relevant to society today. He adopted a new idiom which was firmly rooted in the soil and had direct links with the masses. This is the first time any Pakistani has attempted to shed light for the English reader on Nazir and his many moods.
ISBN: 9694024471
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
ISBN: 8185288321 – Paperback
Publisher: GOYAL SAAB
ISBN: 9780671682996
Publisher: A TOUCHSTONE BOOK
