{"title":"Politics \u0026 Current Affairs","description":"\u003cp\u003e Stay informed and engaged with our Politics \u0026amp; Current Affairs collection. These books provide in-depth analysis and perspectives on contemporary issues, political dynamics, and global events, offering valuable insights into the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-house-of-islam-a-global-history","title":"The House of Islam a global history","description":"\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies of Islam and the inner psyche of the Muslim world from the bestselling author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Islamist.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd Husain is a British writer and political advisor who has worked with leaders and governments across the world. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC and has held senior fellowships at think tanks in London and New York, including at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Ed is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Islamist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (2007) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe House of Islam: A Global\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (2008). His writing has been shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize. 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Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People’s Liberation Army to the doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by youth protesters with their ‘Be water!’ philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this leaderless, technology-driven protest movement defied a global superpower and changed Hong Kong, perhaps forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCity on Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Antony Dapiran provides the first detailed analysis of the protests, and reveals the protesters’ unique tactics. He explains how the movement fits into the city’s long history of dissent, examines the cultural aspects of the movement, and looks at what the protests will mean for the future of Hong Kong, China, and China’s place in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCity on Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will be seen as the definitive account of an historic upheaval.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORIGINAL BOOKS PAKISTAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036223086870,"sku":"","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0858\/6372\/7382\/files\/51TvwKP8xAL.-SY780_FMwebp.webp?v=1725145904"},{"product_id":"out-of-the-ordinary-how-everyday-life-inspired-a-nation-and-how-it-can-again","title":"Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an age of polarization. It’s us vs. them. The battle lines are clear, and compromise is surrender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOut of the Ordinary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reminds us, we have been here before. From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, Barbara Jones, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee, and Bill Brandt, had no formal connection to one another. But they each worked to forge a politics that resisted the empty idealisms and totalizing abstractions of their time. Instead they were convinced that people going about their daily lives possess all the insight, virtue, and determination required to build a good society. In poems, novels, essays, films, paintings, and photographs, they gave witness to everyday people’s ability to overcome the supposedly insoluble contradictions between tradition and progress, patriotism and diversity, rights and duties, nationalism and internationalism, conservatism and radicalism. It was this humble vision that animated the great Festival of Britain in 1951 and put everyday citizens at the heart of a new vision of national regeneration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA leading political theorist and a veteran of British politics, Stears writes with unusual passion and clarity about the achievements of these apostles of the ordinary. They helped Britain through an age of crisis. Their ideas might do so again, in the United Kingdom and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORIGINAL BOOKS PAKISTAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49639478657302,"sku":"","price":2180.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0858\/6372\/7382\/files\/61qsd-QQdkL._SL1000.jpg?v=1736629625"},{"product_id":"woman-the-american-history-of-an-idea-1","title":"Woman: The American History of an Idea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Exhaustively researched and finely written.”—Alexandra Jacobs,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand the historical patterns that misogyny has etched across every era of American culture.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, starred review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to be a “woman” in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of “woman” has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORIGINAL BOOKS PAKISTAN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49639512899862,"sku":"","price":2450.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0858\/6372\/7382\/files\/71n3GdlOP2L._SY425.jpg?v=1736630924"},{"product_id":"the-periodic-table-of-feminism","title":"The Periodic Table of Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA quirky, intelligent, and stylish review of the feminist movement, told through the stories of standout figures who have shaped it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Periodic Table of Feminism\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echarts the impact of female leaders from Betty Friedan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Michelle Obama and Oprah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the periodic table as a categorical device, the featured women are divided into \"chemical\" groups to show how the women and the battles they fought speak to each other across time and geography:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePrecious Metals:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the face of the movements, like Simone De Beauvoir and Gloria Steinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCatalysts:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePioneers and fire-starters, like Susan B. 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