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At the tipping point This book provides information on world population and the global economy. It documents the trends that shape our future, where humanity is heading and what is needed to change...		EXCERPTS: Picture perfect This book is a set of 30 of Mazhar ul Islam’s best stories, mini-stories, elegant prologues, essays on folklore and literature, and two prose poems...
AUTHOR: Slave of his thoughts He was the last of the Titans who ruled over the vast territory of Urdu literature for well over half a century. Unlike some of his better-placed contemporaries, he did not roll in riches....		AUTHOR: An epoch-making humanist Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi was not only a poet par excellence but also a gifted short story writer, a discerning critic and columnist with a distinct style and an established editor....
ARTICLE: A mirror to every child’s life I call myself a pessimistic optimist. My mantra tends to be “onwards and upwards — or at any rate, onwards!” I certainly don’t believe in living in the past...		REVIEWS: Mossad ex-chief speaks Unlike run-of-the-mill books on the Mossad which read like spy thrillers, this one from a man who himself was once chief of Israel’s dreaded secret agency contains no juicy details...
REVIEWS: Journey to the edge of sanity THE cover picture of Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi’s debut novel may not be as compelling as her story. Beware — it will betray you, but one must persevere to find the diamond in the rough....		REVIEWS: Above and beyond IT would be easy to dismiss Pakistani-American author Shaila Abdullah and her collection of short stories on the lives of ordinary Pakistani women. Abdullah is an expatriate after all....
REVIEWS: Survivors of the deep SEA Phoenix is a true story about a tiny submarine of the Pakistan Navy, the men who sailed her, the men who rescued her and one chicken bone....		REVIEWS: Backstage brilliance? “WHEN CEOs in the United States go to play golf, they hear that if you’re not in India, you haven’t arrived.” The world, it seems, is finally realising the economic potential of India....
In brief THIS book deals extensively with the present-day energy crisis and the importance of finding cleaner and cost-effective alternate sources of energy, one of which is the biofuel already...		REVIEWS: Arrested development The Right to Development or RTD is one of the most debated and controversial concepts in the field of human rights and as well as in development. The idea has its genesis in the demands voiced....
REVIEWS: At the gates of knowledge “I believe in God” and “I love you” are the two most difficult things to say and if they are delivered without sincerity, they bring about ruin. In our mystical terms these lines respectively....