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Long Walk to Freedom
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela’s destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.
Loom Of Time
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Kalidasa Is The Greatest Poet And Playwright In Classical Sanskrit Literature And One Of The Greatest In World Literature. Kalidasa Is Said To Have Lived And Composed His Work At The Close Of The First Millennium Bc Though His Dates Have Not Been Conclusively Established. In All, Seven Of His Works Have Survived: Three Plays, Three Long Poems And An Incomplete Epic. Of These, This Volume Offers, In A Brilliant New Translation, His Two Most Famous Works The Play Sakuntala, A Beautiful Blend Of Romance And Fairy Tale With Elements Of Comedy; And Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), The Many-Layered Poem Of Longing And Separation. Also Included Is Rtusamharam (The Gathering Of The Seasons), A Much-Neglected Poem That Celebrates The Fulfillment Of Love And Deserves To Be Known Better. Taken Together, These Works Provide A Window To The Remarkable World And Work Of A Poet Of Whom It Was Said: Once, When Poets Were Counted, Kalidasa Occupied The Little Finger; The Ring Finger Remains Unnamed True To Its Name; For His Second Has Not Been Found.
Lord of the Flies
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Originally published in 1954, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times. A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of grown-ups. Soon though, as the boys’ fragile sense of order begins to collapse, their fears start to take on a sinister, primitive significance. Suddenly, the world of cricket, homework and adventure stories seems a long way away. The boys are faced with a more pressing reality – survival – and the appearance of a terrifying beast who haunts their dreams.
Lords of the Horizons
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A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements–the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople–and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire’s longevity.
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
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A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements–the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople–and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire’s longevity.
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
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A history of the Ottoman Turks, founders of an empire lasting 600 years and stretching from the Persian Gulf to Hungary, to Algeria. The author describes the harems, the artistic and technological achievements–the cannon was first used by them in the siege of Constantinople–and the religious tolerance to which he attributes the empire’s longevity.
Lords of the Desert
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A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day
We usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East — that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Arab leaders led popular uprisings against colonial rule that forced the overstretched British from the region.
In Lords of the Desert, historian James Barr draws on newly declassified archives to argue instead that the US was the driving force behind the British exit. Though the two nations were allies, they found themselves at odds over just about every question, from who owned Saudi Arabia’s oil to who should control the Suez Canal. Encouraging and exploiting widespread opposition to the British, the US intrigued its way to power — ultimately becoming as resented as the British had been. As Barr shows, it is impossible to understand the region today without first grappling with this little-known prehistory.