Penguasa Hindustan, Shah Jahan, mengalami mahaduka setelah istrinya, Mumtaz Mahal, meninggal saat melahirkan bayi sungsang di tenda perang. Pada tahun 1632 ia menitahkan penciptaan istana pualam - yang dirancang berdasarkan citra tentang surga dalam Al-Quran - sebagai jejak terakhir raga istrinya. Dengan bantuan Isa, arsitek berdarah Persia, ditambah dua puluh dua ribu pekerja dan ratusan gajah…
Iran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth-century history. A finalist for the PEN/West Award, Blood and Oil tells the epic inside story of the battle for Iranian oil. A prominent member of one of Iran's most powerful aristocratic families--so feared by Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted--Prince Manuc…
Two FBI agents examine the private world of the late Mafia boss, Paul Castellano, and relate the downfall of his crime family.
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time. The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesia's…
Israel Weissbrem, whose complex themes were taken from the lives of educated and wealthy Jews of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, and whose writings all but disappeared in the twentieth, wrote in a vein of melodrama and fantasy, with an ironic and frequently savage wit. His cast of characters is extraordinarily diverse and appears to reflect attitudes - toward the religious,…
Simbolog Robert Langdon menerima telepon misterius yang mengundangnya ke Museum Louvre Paris pada tengah malam. Sesampai di sana, yang ditemui Langdon adalah mayat telanjang sang kurator museum dengan posisi dan tato aneh di perutnya. Langdon terkejut ketika menyadari bahwa teka-teki itu mengarah ke misteri terbesar sepanjang sejarah yang petunjuknya tersembunyi dalam karya-karya Da Vinci. Mist…
This book provides a concise analysis of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the whole period of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. It explains the rise of the two superpowers immediately after World War II. The author describes the growing confrontation between East and West in Europe dating from the announcement of the Truman Doctrine in 1949 to the construction of th…
This book deals with advent of Islam in Bangladesh, during the Muslim and British rules, Muslim society and Muslim renaissance in Bangladesh, development of traditional Islamic education in Bangladesh and contribution of Bangladesh to art and architecture. The book is the outcome of research conducted by a board of researchers of Bangladesh.
Bringing together the essays contributed by Dr. Javid Iqbal, Mr. Mushahid Hussain, Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, M. Niaz A. Naik, Air Marshal (Retd) Ayaz Ahmad Khan, Ms. Sibtain Tahira, Dr. S. M. Haider and Col. (Retd) Ghulam Sarwar, this analysis of Kashmir dispute in the context of South Asian security combines the subtle insights of scholars, journalists and defence strategists. With an introduc…
Nuclear Pakistan is virtually, Pakistan's Islamic Nuclear Decoction. After the cession of Islamic States and the disintegration of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the destablishing process in the region has started. Pakistan's ambition to fill the void created by Weakening of Iraq and Iran and to emerge as the leader of the conglomeration of Islamic nations is a great threat to peace and s…