Rabia is growing up in a conservative community in southern India. One day, she and her friends sneak off to the pictures. Caught on her return home, Rabia gets a beating from her mother, Zohra, who cries as she beats her daughter into submission. Firdaus is beautiful and of marriageable age. A groom is found […]
After September 11, 2001, Pakistans president, Pervez Musharraf, vowed to fight extremism in his country and has since established himself as a key ally in Americas “global war on terror.” But as veteran Pakistani journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain reveals in this book, Musharraf is in an impossible position. The Pakistani army and intelligence services […]
Scholarly and research-based, Psychology, now with sixteen chapters, is filled with relevant applications and information for all readers. Providing a broad-based, balanced presentation of psychology, this edition covers all the core topics, while continuing to introduce cutting-edge research and applications.
For a woman in a male-dominated society, ??choice is an alien word. And inequality, violence, injustice, abuse, and discrimination a daily living reality. A God Who Hates Women is an emotional journey through a labyrinth of violence and civil war. It??s a journey through a battlefield riddled with archaic cultural demands and explosive emotions . […]
This is a history of India upto 1300 AD, introducing the beginnings of Indias cultural dynamics.
Revisiting Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia – the countries he visited for Among the Believers (1981), Naipaul reviews his impressions of the Islamic world. He explores the life and culture, and the current ferment which exists inside the nations of Islam.
As 2012 came to a close, news of the gang rape of a young woman in India s capital generated headlines around the world. Her assault on a moving bus with a metal rod, and her death two weeks later from her injuries, focused attention on the dark side of the world s largest democracy: […]
It was a bizarre situation. The negotiators were in position in Iraq. The kidnappers and the kidnapped were in Iraq. At the crucial moment, the transport company in Kuwait expressed reservations about the ransom.?? In July 2004, a convoy of KGL trucks drove into Iraq from Kuwait carrying eledronic equipment for the American occupiers, when […]
The innovative program described in this book revolutionizes the the treatment of sexual dysfunction. During eleven years of daily clinical work, more than five hundred couples have been treated at Masters and Johnsons Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis. Here the relationship itself is the patient. The authors stress that there is no uninvolved […]