{"title":"History, Geography \u0026 Geopolitics","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore our History, Geography and Geopolitics books collection at Bookshelf.pk. From ancient civilisations and world wars to modern borders and global power shifts, find titles that help you understand how the world was shaped and where it is headed. 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Such generalized usage ignores the fact that geopolitics as a method of understanding international relations has a history that includes a common vocabulary, well-established if sometimes conflicting concepts, an extensive body of thought, and a recognized group of theorists and scholars. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGeopolitics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Francis P. Sempa presents a history of geopolitical thought and applies its classical analyses to Cold War and post-Cold War international relations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile mindful of the impact of such concepts as \"globalization\" and the \"information revolution\" on our understanding of contemporary events, Sempa emphasizes traditional geopolitical theories in explaining the outcome of the Cold War. He shows that, the struggle between the Western allies and the Soviet empire was unique in its ideological component and nuclear standoff, the Cold War fits into a recurring geopolitical pattern. It can be seen as a consequence of competition between land powers and sea powers, and between a potential Eurasian hegemonic power and a coalition of states opposed to that would-be hegemony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collapse of the Soviet empire ended the most recent threat to global stability. Acting as a successor to the British Empire, the United States organized, funded, and led a grand coalition that successfully countered the Soviet quest for domination. No power or alliance posed an immediate threat to the global balance of power. Indeed, the end of the Cold War generated hopes for a \"new world order\" and predictions that economics would replace geopolitics as the driving force in international politics. 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The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. 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Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia.\u003cbr\u003eYet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. 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Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll leaders of nations are constrained by geography. In “one of the best books about geopolitics” (\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c\/span\u003e), now updated to include 2016 geopolitical developments, journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering “a fresh way of looking at maps” (\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e), Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe. Why is Putin so obsessed with Crimea? Why was the US destined to become a global superpower? Why does China’s power base continue to expand? Why is Tibet destined to lose its autonomy? Why will Europe never be united? The answers are geographical. “In an ever more complex, chaotic, and interlinked world, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePrisoners of Geography\u003c\/span\u003e is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics” (\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e) and a critical guide to one of the major determining factors in world affairs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshelf.pk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056761717058,"sku":"","price":740.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8314\/2466\/files\/prisoners-of-geography-by-tim-marshall-bookshelfpk-pakistan-4337703.jpg?v=1763057878"},{"product_id":"peoples-history-of-the-united-states-by-howard-zinn","title":"People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProduct Description:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover quality= 260 gsm card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDigitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Synopsis:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.\" –Howard Fast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHistorian Howard Zinn’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003echronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnown for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles—the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality—were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCovering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA People's History of the United States\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efeatures insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. This edition also includes an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe People Speak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoices of a People’s History of the United States\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshelf.pk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428827513154,"sku":"","price":1980.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8314\/2466\/files\/peoples-history-of-the-united-states-by-howard-zinn-bookshelfpk-pakistan-3418346.jpg?v=1763057538"},{"product_id":"the-33-strategies-of-war-by-robert-greene","title":"The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eProduct Description:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover quality= 260 gsm card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDigitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBook Synopsis:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBrilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe 48 Laws of Power \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Laws of Human Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe 48 Laws of Power\u003c\/span\u003e,\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Art of Seduction\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMastery\u003c\/span\u003e, espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy, ensnare an unsuspecting victim, or become the greatest in your field. In \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe 33 Strategies of War\u003c\/span\u003e, Greene has crafted an important addition to this ruthless and unique series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe 33 Strategies of War\u003c\/span\u003e is the I-Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu’s \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art of War\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbundantly illustrated with examples from history, including the folly and genius of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher, Shaka the Zulu to Lord Nelson, Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as movie moguls, Samurai swordsmen, and diplomats, each of the thirty-three chapters outlines a strategy that will help you win life’s wars. Learn the offensive strategies that require you to maintain the initiative and negotiate from a position of strength, or the defensive strategies designed to help you respond to dangerous situations and avoid unwinnable wars. The great warriors of battlefields and drawing rooms alike demonstrate prudence, agility, balance, and calm, and a keen understanding that the rational, resourceful, and intuitive always defeat the panicked, the uncreative, and the stupid. An indispensable book, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe 33 Strategies of War\u003c\/span\u003e provides all the psychological ammunition you need to overcome patterns of failure and forever gain the upper hand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshelf.pk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47456611369282,"sku":"","price":1590.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8314\/2466\/files\/the-33-strategies-of-war-by-robert-greene-bookshelfpk-pakistan-2184244.jpg?v=1763059113"},{"product_id":"secret-societies-and-clubs-in-american-history-by-david-luhrssen","title":"Secret Societies and Clubs in American History by David Luhrssen","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProduct Description:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover quality= 260 gsm card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDigitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Synopsis:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGrounded in extensive historical research, this eye-opening survey reveals the long-undervalued role secret societies have played in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmericans are fascinated by secret societies and have devoured exaggerated claims for their influence. At the same time, scholarly assessments of covert groups that have shaped American social, cultural, and political history have often undervalued their role or even questioned their existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis survey challenges both the exaggerators and the deniers. Freemasons? They may not be the hidden rulers of the world, but a significant number of America's founders were Masons. The Know Nothings? Two American presidents joined the movement. The Bohemian Grove? Republican politicians and corporate leaders really did engage in strange behavior under the redwood trees through the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealing fascinating facts about some of the most talked-about covert societies, including the Mafia, the Skull and Bones and the Ku Klux Klan, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSecret Societies and Clubs in American History\u003c\/span\u003e exposes the truth about the subcultures that made their mark on some of the most important events in the nation's history and contributed to the shaping of the country itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshelf.pk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48092560752962,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8314\/2466\/files\/secret-societies-and-clubs-in-american-history-by-david-luhrssen-bookshelfpk-pakistan-7584143.jpg?v=1763057545"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-caesar-by-barry-strauss","title":"The Death of Caesar by Barry Strauss","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProduct Description:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover quality= 260 gsm card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDigitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook Synopsis:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJulius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman calendar. 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The killers left the body in the Senate and Caesar’s allies held a public funeral. Mark Antony made a brilliant speech—not “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” as Shakespeare had it, but something inflammatory that caused a riot. The conspirators fled Rome. 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He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members―mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists―\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine\u003c\/span\u003e upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. 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William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions.  At the center of it all was Lawrence.  In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert.  Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East.  Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost.  Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil.  And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBased on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.  Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present. 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Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's Franco-Prussian War describes the war that followed in thrilling detail. While the armies mobilized in July 1870, the conflict appeared \"too close to call.\" Prussia and its German allies had twice as many troops as the French. But Marshal Achille Bazaine's grognards (\"old grumblers\") were the stuff of legend, the most resourceful, battle-hardened, sharp-shooting troops in Europe, and they carried the best rifle in the world. From the political intrigues that began and ended the war to the bloody battles at Gravelotte and Sedan and the last murderous fights on the Loire and in Paris, this is the definitive history of the Franco-Prussian War. 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Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Degeneration\u003c\/span\u003e, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepresentative government, the free market, the rule of law, and civil society—these are the four pillars of West European and North American societies. It was these institutions, rather than any geographical or climatic advantages, that set the West on the path to global dominance beginning around 1500. In our time, however, these institutions have deteriorated in disturbing ways. Our democracies have broken the contract between the generations by heaping IOUs on our children and grandchildren. Our markets are hindered by overcomplex regulations that debilitate the political and economic processes they were created to support; the rule of law has become the rule of lawyers. And civil society has degenerated into uncivil society, where we lazily expect all of our problems to be solved by the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is institutional degeneration, in other words, that lies behind economic stagnation and the geopolitical decline that comes with it. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes not only the causes of this stagnation but also its profound consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Degeneration \u003c\/span\u003eis an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy and China struggles to move from economic liberalization to the rule of law, our society is squandering the institutional inheritance of centuries. 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An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Events since the publication of the book have proved the wisdom of that analysis. The 9\/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat of civilizations but have also shown how vital international cross-civilization cooperation is to restoring peace. 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Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, muliticivilizational world. 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There is no more timely book than this one.”—Janet Reitman, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInside Scientology\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did so many evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer with questionable conservative credentials who seems to defy Christian values with his every utterance? To a reporter like Sarah Posner, who has been covering the religious right for decades, the answer turns out to be far more intuitive than one might think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement’s core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda–and are actively using the erosion of democratic norms to roll back civil rights advances, stock the judiciary with hard-right judges, defang and deregulate federal agencies, and undermine the credibility of the free press. Increasingly, this formidable bloc is also forging ties with European far right groups, giving momentum to a truly global movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevelatory and engrossing, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnholy\u003c\/span\u003e offers a deeper understanding of the ideological underpinnings and forces influencing the course of Republican politics. This is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy. Order your book in Pakistan from Bookshelf.pk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshelf.pk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375354216770,"sku":null,"price":820.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8314\/2466\/files\/unholy-by-sarah-posner-bookshelfpk-pakistan-1544865.jpg?v=1763055725"},{"product_id":"civilized-to-death-by-christopher-ryan","title":"Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eProduct Description:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCover quality= 260 gsm card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDigitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBook Synopsis:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling coauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCivilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. \u003c\/span\u003eWell, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCivilized to Death\u003c\/span\u003e counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Ryan argues, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? At a time when our ecology, our society, and our own sense of selves feels increasingly imperiled, an accurate understanding of our species’ long prelude to civilization is vital to a clear sense of the ultimate value of civilization—and its costs. In \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCivilized to Death\u003c\/span\u003e, Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future. 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In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHegemony or Survival\u003c\/span\u003e, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed states―suffering from a severe \"democratic deficit,\" eschewing domestic and international law, and adopting policies that increasingly endanger its own citizens and the world. Exploring the developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Chomsky reveals Washington's plans to further militarize the planet, greatly increasing the risks of nuclear war. He also assesses the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; documents Washington's self-exemption from international norms, including the Geneva conventions and the Kyoto Protocol; and examines how the U.S. electoral system is designed to eliminate genuine political alternatives, impeding any meaningful democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFailed States\u003c\/span\u003e offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis. Systematically dismantling the United States' pretense of being the world's arbiter of democracy, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFailed States\u003c\/span\u003e is Chomsky's most focused―and urgent―critique to date. 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He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn immediate national bestseller, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHegemony or Survival demonstrates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e how the United States has pursued a grand imperial strategy to stake out the globe. 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Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. 'Progressive legislation and social welfare', writes Chomsky, 'have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always to create a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace. \"Making the Future\" offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of the world's foremost intellectual and political dissidents. 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He develops a forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's empty promises to the poor. 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Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Democracies Die\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEzra Klein, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow Democracies Die. . . .\u003c\/span\u003eThis is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . 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