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As the danger of nuclear war remains imminent, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nuclear Age\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e diagnoses our era of rearmament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935910891556,"sku":"9780241582862","price":6115.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9780241582862.webp?v=1763964170"},{"product_id":"the-power-of-creative-destruction","title":"THE POWER OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHayek Book Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEconomist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Summer Reading Favorite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sweeping, authoritative and―for the times―strikingly upbeat…The overall argument is compelling and…it carries a trace of Schumpeterian subversion.”\u003cbr\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] important book…Lucid, empirically grounded, wide-ranging, and well-argued.”\u003cbr\u003e―Martin Wolf, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Offers…much needed insight into the sources of economic growth and the kinds of policies that will promote it…All in Washington would do well to read this volume carefully.”\u003cbr\u003e―Milton Ezrati, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eForbes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInequality is on the rise, growth stagnant, the environment in crisis. Covid seems to have exposed every crack in the system. We hear calls for radical change, but the answer is not to junk our economic system but to create a better form of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious reappraisal of the foundations of economic success that shows a fair and prosperous future is ours to make, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Power of Creative Destruction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws on cutting-edge theory and hard evidence to examine today’s most fundamental economic questions: what powers growth, competition, globalization, and middle-income traps; the roots of inequality and climate change; the impact of technology; and how to recover from economic shocks. 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For two decades, Munir Ahmed Khan worked behind a thick veil of secrecy, building key nuclear structures in a race against time, sanctions and a smear campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Beyond the Bomb, Farhatullah Babar, who served in the PAEC then and later as a Senator on the Senate's Defence Committee, details in graphic detail the untold story of the unsung architect of Pakistan's atomic programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending public-domain information with deep insight, the book is a gripping account of the events behind the headlines and a profound exploration of nuclear command and control, inviting readers to ponder beyond the bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the backdrop of nuclear brinkmanship in the subcontinent and the Defence Agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in September 2025, with hints of bringing Pakistan's nuclear umbrella into the region's security calculus, Farhatullah Babar's memoirs are essential reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096264245284,"sku":null,"price":4050.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9789697163175.jpg?v=1766473679"},{"product_id":"waiting-in-the-wings","title":"WAITING IN THE WINGS","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarch 1947.\u003cbr\u003eA four-year-old Salima Hashmi is witness to the Sikh leader, Master Tara Singh and his many followers denouncing the demand for Pakistan.\u003cbr\u003eSoon, the sub-continent is partitioned and Salima, her sister Moneeza, her English mother Alys, and her father, the renowned Urdu poet and leftist intellectual, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, are citizens of the nascent Pakistan.\u003cbr\u003eLife in the newly formed nation is full of ups and downs, the lowest points being Faiz’s imprisonment in 1951 on charges of sedition and his subsequent self-exile from Pakistan in 1960. 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