Minhaj's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:39:19 -0800 60 Minhaj's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.90 1808 Faust
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Minhaj 4 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
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]]> চাঁদের পাহাড় 13498508 চাঁদের পাহাড় সে� রিখটারস্ভেল্� পর্বতে গিয়� জীবনমৃত্যু নিয়� শঙ্করক� যে রোমাঞ্চক� ছিনিমিনি খেলত� হল তা� আশ্চর্� বিবর� যে-কোনো বয়সের কল্পনাকে উত্তেজিত করবে �
বিখ্যা� ভ্রমনকারীদে� অভিঞ্জতা অনুসরণ� আফ্রিকার বিভিন্� অঞ্চলে� ভৌগোলি� সংস্থা� এব� প্রাকৃতি� দৃশ্যাদি� যথায� বর্ণনা দিয়েছেন লেখক � এব� গল্পের পাশাপাশি হুবহ� আফ্রিকান পরিবেশের যে-সব নিপু� ছব� আঁকা হয়েছে তা বাংল� বইয়ের জগতে আদর্� স্থানীয় � বিভূতিভূষণের হাতে তরুণদে� জন্য� লেখা �-বই ক্লাসি� হিসেবে পরিগনি� হবার যোগ্� ।]]> 96 Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Minhaj 5 4.62 1937 চাঁদের পাহাড়
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]]> Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) 32307358 This an alternate cover for B01LY7FD0D

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement--the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon's first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.

As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch's precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.

Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain's Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch's shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is stunningly inventive--Dan Brown's most brilliant and entertaining novel to date]]> 482 Dan Brown Minhaj 2 3.87 2017 Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
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]]> Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Minhaj 0 to-read 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Minhaj 4 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire]]> 42972023
In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.

The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.]]> 544 William Dalrymple 1635573955 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.18 2019 The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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]]> বাঙালী� জাতীয়তাবা� 18277630 472 Serajul Islam Choudhury Minhaj 0 to-read 4.24 2000 বাঙালীর জাতীয়তাবাদ
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]]> <![CDATA[Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail]]> 52962238
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.

In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle� that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. He reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.]]> 576 Ray Dalio 1982160276 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.26 2021 Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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]]> <![CDATA[Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent]]> 187149
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.

Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.

This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende’s inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.]]> 317 Eduardo Galeano 0853459916 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.31 1971 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]> 53054943 The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.]]> 320 Vincent Bevins 1541742400 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.62 2020 The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism]]> 1237300 The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.]]> 558 Naomi Klein 0805079831 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.27 2007 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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]]> <![CDATA[Civilization: The West and the Rest]]> 10475421
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.


Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.]]> 402 Niall Ferguson 1846142733 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.84 2011 Civilization: The West and the Rest
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]]> <![CDATA[After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400-2000]]> 1677496 574 John Darwin 0141010223 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.94 2007 After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400-2000
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]]> Propaganda 493212 168 Edward L. Bernays 0970312598 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.75 1928 Propaganda
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]]> <![CDATA[The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve]]> 66499 608 G. Edward Griffin 0912986395 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.29 1994 The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
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]]> <![CDATA[When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation]]> 8567383 When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy.Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved.Germany’s finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake.

Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous quantities of 1923.However, “quantitative easing,� that modern euphemism for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an assault on monetary discipline.Whatever the reason for a country’s deficit necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax or blindness to expenditure it is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper recession.What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale.

]]> 288 Adam Fergusson 1906964440 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.74 1975 When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation
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]]> ক্রাচে� কর্নেল 17448353 350 Shahaduz Zaman Minhaj 3 4.47 2009 ক্রাচের কর্নেল
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]]> <![CDATA[The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA]]> 9945237
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.

In The Triple Agent , Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in half a century—but he was not at all what he seemed. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side , Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.]]> 272 Joby Warrick 0385534183 Minhaj 2 4.09 2011 The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
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]]> পরার্থপরতা� অর্থনীতি 18001726 220 Akbar Ali Khan 9848815317 Minhaj 2 4.35 2000 পরার্থপরতার অর্থনীতি
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]]> একাত্তরে� দিনগুল� 8998388 একাত্তরে� দিনগুল� বাংলাদেশ� কথাসাহিত্যিক জাহানারা ইমাম রচিত একটি মুক্তিযুদ্ধভিত্তিক বই� এট� প্রথ� প্রকাশিত হয� ১৯৮৬ সালে� ফেব্রুয়ার� মাসে�

বইটি ব্যক্তিগ� দিনলিপ� আকার� লেখা, যা� শুরু ১৯৭১ সালে� � মার্� এব� সমাপ্ত� সে� বছরে� ১৭ ডিসেম্বর� মুক্তিযুদ্� চলাকাল� ঢাকা শহরে� অবস্থা � গেরিলা তৎপরতা� বাস্তব চিত্� এত� উঠ� এসেছে। বইটিতে তা� সন্তান শফ� ইমাম রুমী অন্যতম প্রধান চরিত্র হিসেবে দেখা দেয়।]]> 270 Jahanara Imam 9844800005 Minhaj 3 4.60 1986 একাত্তরের দিনগুলি
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average rating: 4.60
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]]> অসমাপ্� আত্মজীবনী 17235655 328 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 9845060595 Minhaj 3 4.28 2012 অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনী
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]]> সংগঠ� � বাঙালি 22031596
-আনিসুল হক]]> 80 Abdullah Abu Sayeed Minhaj 3 4.09 2003 সংগঠন ও বাঙালি
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]]> Why Liberalism Failed 34746473 is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.]]> 248 Patrick J. Deneen 0300223447 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.82 2018 Why Liberalism Failed
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]]> Islam in Liberalism 20948689
Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism explores what Islam has become in today’s world, with full attention to the multiplication of its meanings and interpretations. He seeks to understand how anxieties about tyranny, intolerance, misogyny, and homophobia, seen in the politics of the Middle East, are projected onto Islam itself. Massad shows that through this projection Europe emerges as democratic and tolerant, feminist, and pro-LGBT rights—or, in short, Islam-free. Massad documents the Christian and liberal idea that we should missionize democracy, women’s rights, sexual rights, tolerance, equality, and even therapies to cure Muslims of their un-European, un-Christian, and illiberal ways. Along the way he sheds light on a variety of controversial topics, including the meanings of democracy—and the ideological assumption that Islam is not compatible with it while Christianity is—women in Islam, sexuality and sexual freedom, and the idea of Abrahamic religions valorizing an interfaith agenda. Islam in Liberalism is an unflinching critique of Western assumptions and of the liberalism that Europe and Euro-America blindly present as a type of salvation to an assumingly unenlightened Islam.]]> 384 Joseph A. Massad 022620622X Minhaj 0 to-read 4.02 2015 Islam in Liberalism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time]]> 53981 360 Karl Polanyi 080705643X Minhaj 0 to-read 4.21 1944 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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]]> <![CDATA[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]> 12617
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy� versus “unworthy� victims, “legitimizing� and “meaningless� Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.]]> 412 Edward S. Herman 0375714499 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.25 1988 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000]]> 840043 THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY.

"A work of almost Toynbeean sweep... When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemporary issues to reexamine the great processes of the past, the result can only be an enhancement of our historical understanding.... When the study is written as simply and attractively as this work is, its publication may have a great and beneficient impact. It is to be hoped that Mr. Kennedy's will have one, at a potentially decisive moment in America's history."
Michael Howard, The New York Times Book Review

"Important, learned, and lucid... Paul Kennedy's great achievement is that he makes us see our current international problems against a background of empires that have gone under because they were unaible to sustain the material cost of greatness; and he does so in a universal historical perspective of which Ranke would surely have approved."
James Joll, The New York Review of Books

"His strategic-economic approach provides him with the context for a shapely narrative....Professor Kennedy not only exploits his framework eloquently, he also makes use of it to dig deeper and explore the historical contexts in which some 'power centers' prospered....But the most commanding purpose of his project...is the lesson he draws from 15 centuries of statecraft to apply to the present scene....[The book's] final section is for everyone concerned with the contemporary political scene."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

"Kennedy gives epic meaning to the nation's relative economic and industrial decline."
Newsweek ]]> 677 Paul Kennedy 0679720197 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.13 1987 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed]]> 475 Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?]]> 608 Jared Diamond 0143036556 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.93 2004 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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]]> The Prince 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.85 1513 The Prince
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]]> <![CDATA[Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization]]> 60971 A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.]]> 495 Derrick Jensen 158322730X Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.11 2006 Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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]]> The Discovery of India 154126 In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects. Describing himself as "a dabbler in many things," he committed his life not only to politics but also to nature and wild life, drama, poetry, history, and science, as well as many other fields. These two volumes help to illuminate the depth of his interests and knowledge and the skill and elegance with which he treated the written word!!

]]> 656 Jawaharlal Nehru 0143031031 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.09 1946 The Discovery of India
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]]> <![CDATA[Industrial Society and Its Future]]> 225468 149 Theodore John Kaczynski Minhaj 0 to-read 3.88 1995 Industrial Society and Its Future
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]]> America: The Farewell Tour 36373497
America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.

Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct� ( Publishers Weekly ) The Farewell Tour , Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With a trademark blend of…sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream� ( Kirkus Reviews ) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.]]> 400 Chris Hedges 150115267X Minhaj 0 to-read 4.23 2018 America: The Farewell Tour
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]]> <![CDATA[The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization]]> 66668
This is a groundbreaking, essential book for our times. Thomas Homer-Dixon brings to bear his formidable understanding of the urgent problems that confront our world to clarify their scope and deep causes. The Upside of Down provides a vivid picture of the immense stresses that are simultaneously converging on our societies and threatening a breakdown that would profoundly shake civilization. It shows, too, how we can choose a better route into the future.

With the immediacy that characterized his award-winning international bestseller, The Ingenuity Gap , Homer-Dixon takes us on a remarkable journey � from the fall of the Roman empire to the devastation of the 9/11 attacks in New York, from Toronto in the 2003 blackout to the ancient temples of Lebanon and the wildfires of California. Incorporating the newest findings from an astonishing array of disciplines, he argues that the great stresses our world is experiencing � global warming, energy scarcity, population imbalances, and widening gaps between rich and poor � can’t be looked at independently. As these stresses combine and converge, the risk of breakdown rises. The first signs are appearing in the wastelands of the Arctic, the mud-clogged streets of Gonaïves, Haiti, and the volatile regions of the Middle East and Asia. But while the consequences of denial in our more perilous world are dire, Homer-Dixon makes clear that we can use our emerging understanding of the complex systems in which we live to avoid catastrophic collapse in a way the Roman empire could not.

This vitally important new book shows how, in the face of breakdown, we can still provide for the renewal of our global civilization. We are creating the conditions for catastrophe, but by understanding the underlying principles that make human and natural systems resilient � and by working together to put those principles into effect � we can still limit the severity of collapse and foster regeneration, innovation, and renewal.]]> 448 Thomas Homer-Dixon 0676977227 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.85 2006 The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)]]> 76620 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.

Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.]]> 478 Richard Adams 038039586X Minhaj 5 4.08 1972 Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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]]> A message to every youth 20876426 28 عبد الله یوسف عزام Minhaj 0 4.44 A message to every youth
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 119322
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.]]> 399 Philip Pullman 0679879242 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.02 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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]]> And Then There Were None 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 Minhaj 5 4.28 1939 And Then There Were None
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Minhaj 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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]]> <![CDATA[Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order]]> 62659 Profit Over People, Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies that vastly increase private wealth, often with complete disregard for social and ecological consequences. Combining detailed historical examples and uncompromising criticism, Chomsky offers a profound sense of hope that social activism can reclaim people's rights as citizens rather than as consumers, redefining democracy as a global movement, not a global market.]]> 175 Noam Chomsky 1888363827 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.05 1998 Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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]]> <![CDATA[Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance]]> 12612 Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how, for more than half a century the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing-as in the Cuban missile crisis-to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this perilous moment and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species.

With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control-from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism-cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our existence. Lucidly written, thoroughly documented, and featuring a new afterword by the author, Hegemony or Survival is a definitive statement from one of today's most influential thinkers.]]> 304 Noam Chomsky 0805076883 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.98 2003 Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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]]> The War of Art 1319 168 Steven Pressfield 0446691437 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.95 2002 The War of Art
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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Minhaj 4 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
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]]> <![CDATA[All Quiet on the Western Front]]> 355697
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war�. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier� experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.]]> 296 Erich Maria Remarque 0449213943 Minhaj 5 4.04 1928 All Quiet on the Western Front
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]]> <![CDATA[Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die]]> 69242 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the "fake news" era.

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists--struggle to make them "stick."

In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits.

Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It's a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.

Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas--and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.]]> 291 Chip Heath 1400064287 Minhaj 5 3.98 2006 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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]]> আদর্� হিন্দু হোটে� 14741940 146 Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 8172934408 Minhaj 4 4.48 1940 আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল
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]]> <![CDATA[Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike]]> 27220736
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.

But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.

Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.]]> 400 Phil Knight 1501135910 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.45 2016 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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]]> <![CDATA[Marriage - The Making & Living of it]]> 17457290 54 Mirza Yawar Baig 148027853X Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.56 2012 Marriage - The Making & Living of it
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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
-Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
-Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Minhaj 5 4.34 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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]]> The Art of Thinking Clearly 16248196
Have you ever:
� Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
� Overpayed in an Ebay auction?
� Continued doing something you knew was bad for you?
� Sold stocks too late, or too early?
� Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
� Backed the wrong horse?

These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better choices-whether dealing with a personal problem or a business negotiation; trying to save money or make money; working out what we do or don't want in life: and how best to get it.

Simple, clear and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making-work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.]]> 384 Rolf Dobelli 0062219685 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.83 2011 The Art of Thinking Clearly
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sealed Necter: The Biography of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)]]> 25425011 Arab tribes prior to Islam as well as the circumstantial environment that enwrapped the Prophet’s mission.
LOCATION OF THE ARABS:
Linguistically, the word “Arab� means deserts and waste barren land well-nigh water-less and treeless.
Ever since the dawn of history, the Arabian Peninsula and its people have been called as such.
The Arabian Peninsula is enclosed in the west by the Red Sea and Sinai, in the east by the Arabian
Gulf, in the south by the Arabian Sea, which is an extension of the Indian Ocean, and in the north by old
Syria and part of Iraq. The area is estimated between a million and a million and a quarter square miles.
Thanks to its geographical position, the peninsula has always maintained great importance..
Considering its internal setting, it is mostly deserts and sandy places, which has rendered it inaccessible to foreigners and invaders, and allowed its people complete liberty and independence through the ages, despite the presence of two neighboring great empires.]]> 614 Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri 1312190620 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.76 1976 The Sealed Necter: The Biography of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
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]]> The Elements of Style 33514 105 William Strunk Jr. Minhaj 5 4.15 1918 The Elements of Style
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]]> <![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]> 1842
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal]]> 498 Jared Diamond 0739467352 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.04 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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]]> <![CDATA[The Five Dysfunctions of a Team]]> 21343 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.

Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.

Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.]]> 228 Patrick Lencioni 0787960756 Minhaj 4 4.09 2002 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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]]> <![CDATA[The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith]]> 42835527 412 Mahmudur Rahman 152751935X Minhaj 0 to-read 3.89 The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith
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]]> যদ্যপি আমার গুরু 17564619
সকলে� একবাক্যে স্বীকা� করেন অধ্যাপ� আবদু� রাজ্জা� একজন প্রবাদতুল্� পুরুষ। কিন্তু তাঁর জ্ঞানচর্চা� পরিধ� কতদূ� বিস্তৃ�, আর তিনি ব্যক্ত� মানুষট� কেমন সে বিষয়ে� মুষ্টিমেয় �'জনের বাইর� খু� বেশি মানুষে� সম্য� ধারণ� নেই। যদ্যপি আমার গুরু বইটি পাঠক-সাধারণের মন� অধ্যাপ� আবদু� রাজ্জাকে� মনীষা এব� মানু� আবদু� রাজ্জা� সম্পর্কে একটি ধারণ� গঠ� করতে অনেকখানি সাহায্� করবে।]]> 110 Ahmed Sofa Minhaj 4 4.39 1998 যদ্যপি আমার গুরু
author: Ahmed Sofa
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)]]> 8695 alternate edition for ISBN 0345418921/9780345418920

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.

Source: douglasadams.com]]> 250 Douglas Adams Minhaj 0 to-read 4.22 1980 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mindset: The New Psychology of Success]]> 40745 A newer edition of this book can be found here.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset � those who believe that abilities are fixed � are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset � those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love � to transform their lives and your own.]]> 276 Carol S. Dweck Minhaj 0 to-read 4.09 2006 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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]]> The E-myth Revisited 81948 Small business coaching. 269 Michael E. Gerber 0887307280 Minhaj 4 4.06 1985 The E-myth Revisited
author: Michael E. Gerber
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury Minhaj 5 3.97 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization]]> 2741559 Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.�
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.

“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.�
�Inc.

Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop—and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.
]]> 320 Dave Logan 0061251305 Minhaj 4 3.96 2008 Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action]]> 7108725 Why do you do what you do?

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way—and it's the complete opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be lead, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Any organization can explain what it does; some can explain how they do it; but very few can clearly articulate why. WHY is not money or profit—those are always results. WHY does your organization exist? WHY does it do the things it does? WHY do customers really buy from one company or another? WHY are people loyal to some leaders, but not others?

Starting with WHY works in big business and small business, in the nonprofit world and in politics. Those who start with WHY never manipulate, they inspire. And the people who follow them don't do so because they have to; they follow because they want to.

Drawing on a wide range of real-life stories, Sinek weaves together a clear vision of what it truly takes to lead and inspire. This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others or who wants to find someone to inspire them.]]> 256 Simon Sinek 1591842808 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.10 2009 Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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]]> <![CDATA[The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk]]> 33449 143 Al Ries 0887306667 Minhaj 4 4.05 1993 The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
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]]> A Short History of Aurangzib 12359754 424 Jadunath Sarkar 8125036903 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.21 2009 A Short History of Aurangzib
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]]> <![CDATA[রাসূলে� চোখে দুনিয়া (কিতাবু� যুহদ)]]> 35618033
দুনিয়ার সাথে আমাদের সত্যিকার সম্পর্� কী? দুনিয়ার ব্যাপারে আমাদের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গ� কেমন হওয়� উচিত? প্রকৃত সফলত� কিসে? নবী রাসূলদের জীবন � বক্তব্� থেকে এস� প্রশ্নের উত্ত� জানত� পড়ু� ইমাম আহমদ ইবনে হাম্বল (রহ�) রচিত এক কালজয়ী গ্রন্থ 'কিতা� যুহুদে�' অনুবাদ এই 'রাসূলে� চোখে দুনিয়�']]> 209 Ahmad ibn Hanbal Minhaj 0 to-read 4.58 রাসূলের চোখে দুনিয়া (কিতাবুয যুহদ)
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]]> Middlemarch 19089 "People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".]]> 912 George Eliot 0451529170 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.00 1872 Middlemarch
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]]> আরণ্যক 3084276 168 Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 8172931190 Minhaj 5 4.66 1939 আরণ্যক
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average rating: 4.66
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rating: 5
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]]> গোরা 15989094 Rabindranath Tagore Minhaj 0 4.41 1910 গোরা
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]]> Rework 6732019
Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition.The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses.

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.]]> 279 Jason Fried 0307463745 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.97 2010 Rework
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]]> <![CDATA[E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality]]> 15814383 E-Squared could best be described as a lab manual with simple experiments to prove once and for all that reality is malleable, that consciousness trumps matter, and that you shape your life with your mind. Rather than take it on faith, you are invited to conduct nine 48-hour experiments to prove there really is a positive, loving, totally hip force in the universe. Yes, you read that right. It says prove.
The experiments, each of which can be conducted with absolutely no money and very little time expenditure, demonstrate that spiritual principles are as dependable as gravity, as consistent as Newton’slaws of motion. For years, you’ve been hoping and praying that spiritual principles are true. Now, you can know.

E-Squared proves the following:1. There is an invisible energy force or field of infinite possibilities. 2. You impact the field and draw from it according to your beliefs and expectations.3. You, too, are a field of energy.4. Whatever you focus on expands. 5. Your connection to the field provides accurate and unlimited guidance.6. Your thoughts and consciousness impact matter.7. Your thoughts and consciousness provide the scaffolding for your physical body.8. You are connected to everything and everyone else in the universe. 9. The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.]]> 163 Pam Grout 1401938906 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.86 2013 E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
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]]> The Lean Startup 10127019 Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.



The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.]]> 299 Eric Ries 0307887898 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.11 2011 The Lean Startup
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]]> Do the Work 10645233
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.

The enemy is resistance.

The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why he can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do.

Start before you're ready.]]> 109 Steven Pressfield 1455820997 Minhaj 4 3.93 2011 Do the Work
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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Minhaj 5 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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]]> Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood 17259516
The book is written in an engaging style, and treats the coups/assassinations and their plotters in great detail. A section of black-and-white photographs depict the slain Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the slain General Ziaur Rahman, plotters behind various coups, politicians and some photocopies of documents and an official gazette related to the many coups this South Asian country has suffered.

In its jacket, the book promises that it has "revealed" issues like who killed Mujib (the first prime minister of Bangladesh), who was responsible for the jail killings in Bangladesh, and how General Zia was assassinated. Written in 13 chapters and an index, the book also contains a list of officers convicted by General Court Martial and hanged for the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman.

In a November 1985 preface to the book, Mascarenhas writes: "This is a true story; in many ways a text book of Third World disenchantment. On the 16th of December, 1971, the state of Bangladesh (population 70,000,000) was born at the end of a nine-month liberation struggle in which more than a million Bengalis of the erstwhile East Pakistan died at the hands of the Pakistan army. But one of the 20th century's great man-made disasters is also among the greatest of its human triumphs in terms of a people's will for self-determination."

Mascarenhas describes his own book thus: "This book is the unvarnished story of their (the early leaders of Bangladesh) times, essentially the sad history of the first 10 years of Bangladesh. It is based on my close personal knowledge of the main protagonists; on more than 120 separate interviews with the men and women involved in the dramatic events; and on official archives and documents which I had the privilege to inspect personally. The dialogue, whenever used, is a faithful reproduction of the words which my informants said they actually used during the events in which they were involved."

David Taylor, a South Asia expert, praises the book's "attention to detail and narrative" although he suggests that it is short on interpretation and treats certain episodes of lesser importance in "excessive length".

Mascarenhas is a veteran journalist, associated with Bangladesh from the start of its freedom struggle. In 1971, he left Pakistan to expose in The Sunday Times the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army in the region now known as Bangladesh. He continued as a reporter for The Sunday Times for 14 years and subsequently as a freelancer. He was born in Goa, educated in Karachi and worked for many years as a journalist in India, Pakistan and the UK. He died in 1986 at the age of 58.[2]

This book was published in 1986 by Hodder and Stoughton, with a coverprice of UKP 4.95 net in the UK. There may be an earlier printing in 1985. It is devoted "to Yvonne and our children -- who have also paid the price". A Bengali language translation of the book was released in the late 1990s in Bangladesh, with the title Bangladesh: Rokter Rin (বাংলাদেশ� রক্তের ঋণ)]]> 192 Anthony Mascarenhas 034039420X Minhaj 5 4.17 1986 Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time]]> 84699
Climb the ladder to personal success?

The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.

In Never Eat Alone , Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.

The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.

Ferrazzi's form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with “networking.� He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. Among them:

Don’t keep score: It’s never simply about getting what you want. It’s about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too.

“Ping� constantly: The Ins and Outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time—not just when you need something.

Never eat alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you’re working at a corporation or attending a society event� “invisibility� is a fate worse than failure.

In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Katherine Graham to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama.

Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a “conference commando,� and more, Never Eat Alone is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People as an inspirational classic.]]> 309 Keith Ferrazzi 0385512058 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.84 Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
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]]> <![CDATA[সানজাক-� উসমা�: অটোমানদে� দুনিয়ায়]]> 39989064
‘সানজা�-� উসমান� আপনাকে তা� সাথে দেখা করিয়ে দিতে চলেছে। তাকে দেখত� হল� আমাদের উঁকি দিতে হব� আট � বছ� আগের পৃথিবীতে�

ত্রয়োদশ শতাব্দির শুরুতে� মঙ্গোলিয়া� স্তে� থেকে যে� স্বয়ং আজরাঈল হয়ে নেমে এলেন চেঙ্গি� খা� এব� তা� মোঙ্গল বাহিনী� মাত্� কুড়� বছরে� ভেতর যে� নরকে পরিণ� হল� সারা পৃথিবী� প্রথমে চী� তারপ� তুর্কিস্থা�, খোরাসা� হয়ে মোঙ্গল ঝড� ধেয়� এল ককেশাস, আনাতোলিয়া দিয়� রাশিয়� আর হিন্দুস্থানে� দিকে� মর� সা� হয়ে গে� কোটি কোটি মানুষ। মোঙ্গলদে� হা� থেকে কোনোমত� প্রা� বাঁচিয়ে ইরান-তুর্কিস্থা� থেকে আনাতোলিয়া� দিকে রওনা দি� কিছু মানুষ।

তারপ� কী হল�? কী কর� তারা গড়ে তুলল বিশা� এক সালতানাত? মোঙ্গলদে� হা� থেকে কারা বাঁচাল� মক্ক�-মদীনাকে?

এট� কোনো নিয়মি� ইতিহাসের বই বা কোনো ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যা� নয়। এট� এক� সাথে ইতিহাস, ফিকশ� আর থ্রিলার। আজকে� পৃথিবী কী কর� নির্মা� হল�, তা জানত� এই বই আপনাকে দারু� সহযোগিতা করবে ইনশা আল্লাহ�

This is a time travel.

Start your Journey!]]> 432 প্রিন্� মুহাম্মা� সজ� Minhaj 5 4.29 2018 সানজাক-ই উসমান: অটোমানদের দুনিয়ায়
author: প্রিন্� মুহাম্মা� সজ�
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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date added: 2018/07/18
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]]> After Dark 17803 In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.]]> 191 Haruki Murakami 0307265838 Minhaj 0 3.75 2004 After Dark
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Minhaj
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> নিহত নক্ষত্� 17800150 �) নিহত নক্ষত্�, �) গন্তব্�, �) পদাঘাতের পটভূমি, �) আস্বাদ, �) প্রতিপক্�, �) কব�, �) হা�, �) পাগল� ঘন্ট� , �) কাজলী।।]]> 111 Ahmed Sofa Minhaj 0 4.17 1969 নিহত নক্ষত্র
author: Ahmed Sofa
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/04/06
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]]> চিলেকোঠা� সেপা� 15980556
গ্রন্থের প্রধান তিনট� চরিত্র ওসমা�, আনোয়া� এব� হাড্ডি খিজির। চিলেকোঠা� সেপা� ১৯৮০-এর দশকে� শুরুতে রোববার নামীয় সাপ্তাহি� পত্রিকায� ধারাবাহিকভাব� প্রকাশিত হয� এব� ১৯৮৭ খ্রিস্টাব্দে গ্রন্থাকার� প্রকাশিত হয়। এর অভিন� কাঠামো এব� নতুন ভাষাভঙ্গিম� পরবর্তী প্রজন্মে� নতুন লেখকদে� বিশেষভাব� অনুপ্রাণিত � প্রভাবান্বিত কর� যা� উল্লেখযোগ্� উদাহরণ শহীদু� জহির�

এই উপন্যাসে একদিকে হাড্ডি খিজি� যেমন মহাজনে� বিরুদ্ধে শ্লোগা� দিয়� উঠতি আওয়ামী লীগে� নেতা আলাউদ্দী� মিয়ার ধম� খায়, গ্রামে গ্রামে গরুচোরদে� রক্ষাকর্তা জোতদারদে� রক্ষায� রাষ্ট্�, সামরিক বাহিনী, আওয়ামী রাজনীতি একাকার হয়ে যায়� ঢাকা ক্লা� থেকে আইয়ুব-বিরোধী মিছিলে গুলিবর্ষ� কর� হল� উত্তেজিত জনতা ক্লাবটিত� আগুন ধরাত� যায়, আর বাঙালি-বাঙালি ভা� ভা� আওয়াজ তুলে তাদেরক� রক্ষ� কর� হয়। গ্রামে জোতদারদে� বিরুদ্ধে স্বতঃস্ফূর্ত মানুষে� গণআদালতে� আইয়ুবের দালালর� রক্ষ� পায় জাতীয়তাবাদী রাজনীতি� ছায়ায়। এই দালালদের বুদ্ধিমা� অং� অচিরেই যো� দিয়� জাতীয়তাবাদী রাজনীতিকে আর� পুষ্� করে। ওদিক� ওসমা� তা� মধ্যবিত্� দোদুল্যমানতা আর জনগণের সাথে মিলনের আকাঙ্ক্ষায� মাঝে দো� খায়, এ্‌ই দোলাচল তাকে পরিণ� কর� সিজোফ্রেনিয়ার রোগীতে� মধ্যবিত্� বামপন্থী আনোয়া� গ্রামে যায় কৃষিবিপ্লব সাধন করতে, এব� নতুন কো� উপলদ্ধ� ছাড়াই এই প্রক্রিয়া� ভেতর তা� ভূমিকা পালন কর� যায়।]]> 304 Akhteruzzaman Elias 9845060528 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.43 1986 চিলেকোঠার সেপাই
author: Akhteruzzaman Elias
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[ডক্ট� ইউনূসে� দারিদ্র্� বাণিজ্য]]> 23163275
ডক্ট� ইউনূ� ক্ষুদ্� ঋণের মাধ্যম� গ্রামী� ব্যাংকের ঋণগ্রহীতাদেরক� ঋণমুক্� কর� তাঁদের দারিদ্র্� মোচন করবে� এব� এই ঋণ গ্রহীতাদে� সংখ্যা বৃদ্ধি করতে করতে সারা দে� থেকে দারিদ্র্� দূ� করেই দারিদ্র্যক� জাদুঘর� পাঠাবে�, � ধরনে� অবাস্ত� এব� আবোল-তাবো� বক্তব্যে� স্বরূপ উদ্‌ঘাট� কর� আগ� যা লেখা হয়েছি� তা� ধারাবাহিকত� রক্ষ� করেই সংযোজি� নতুন প্রবন্ধগুল� লেখা হয়েছে�

আশ� কর� এগুল� মনোযোগ সহকারে পড়ল� পাঠকরা ডক্ট� ইউনূসে� সমগ্� কর্মকাণ্ডে� একটা সত্যনিষ্� মূল্যায়� করতে সক্ষ� হবেন এব� সাম্রাজ্যবাদের অর্থায়ন� � ধরনে� সফ� উদ্যোগ যে আমাদের দেশে� গরীবদের স্বার্থে নয�, তাদে� দুশম� সাম্রাজ্যবাদের স্বার্থে� নেওয়া হয়েছে এব� সাম্রাজ্যবাদের স্বার্থে� ব্যবহা� কর� হচ্ছ� � বিষয়ে তাঁদের পক্ষ� একটা সঠিক ধারণায� উপনী� হওয়� সম্ভব।

- বদরুদ্দী� উমর]]> 112 Badruddin Umar Minhaj 0 to-read 3.50 2006 ডক্টর ইউনূসের দারিদ্র্য বাণিজ্য
author: Badruddin Umar
name: Minhaj
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> প্রদোষ� প্রাকৃতজ� 17335793 197 Shawkat Ali 984506163X Minhaj 5 4.44 1984 প্রদোষে প্রাকৃতজন
author: Shawkat Ali
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1984
rating: 5
read at: 2018/03/02
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]]> প্যারাডক্সিক্যাল সাজি� 34321798 গল্প� গল্প� যুক্তি খন্ড�, পাল্টা যুক্তি ছুঁড়ে দেওয়া, পর� মমতায় অবিশ্বাসের অন্ধকা� দূরীকরণে � যে� এক বিশ্বস্ত শিল্পী।]]> 160 Arif Azad 9849295902 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 3.84 2017 প্যারাডক্সিক্যাল সাজিদ
author: Arif Azad
name: Minhaj
average rating: 3.84
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rating: 0
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]]> পুষ্�, বৃক্� এব� বিহঙ্গ পুরা� 17564625 70 Ahmed Sofa Minhaj 0 to-read 4.32 1996 পুষ্প, বৃক্ষ এবং বিহঙ্গ পুরাণ
author: Ahmed Sofa
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> অর্ধেক নারী অর্ধেক ঈশ্বরী 17669690
প্রেমে পড়া� জন্য যেমন সঙ, একনিষ্� হৃদয়বৃত্তির প্রয়োজন, তেমন� প্রয়োজন প্রে� কথ� বয়া� করার জন্য আরেক ধরনে� নিষ্ঠা এব� সততার। শক্তির সঙ্গ� সততা� সম্মিল� সচরাচর ঘট� না� আহমদ ছফ� এই অনুপ� রচনাটিতে সে� আপাত অসম্ভবকে সম্ভ� কর� তুলেছেন।

অসাধার� লিপি-কুশল লেখকের এই ধ্রুপদধর্মী উপন্যাসটিত� মানব-মানবী� প্রে� যে � নতুনতর� ব্যঞ্জনায় দেদীপ্যমান হয়ে উঠেছ�, সে কথ� বলার অপেক্ষ� রাখে না�

দ্বিতীয় খন্ড অপ্রকাশিত।]]> 125 Ahmed Sofa Minhaj 0 3.97 1996 অর্ধেক নারী অর্ধেক ঈশ্বরী
author: Ahmed Sofa
name: Minhaj
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements]]> 182136
Jewish policy was aimed at developing an America charcaterized by cultural pluralism and populated by groups of people from all parts of the world rather than by a homogeneous White Christian culture populated largely by people of European descent.]]> 544 Kevin B. MacDonald 0759672229 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.23 1998 The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
author: Kevin B. MacDonald
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1998
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2007
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.05 1815 Emma
author: Jane Austen
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1815
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]]> <![CDATA[Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant]]> 4898 240 W. Chan Kim 1591396190 Minhaj 0 currently-reading 4.01 2004 Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
author: W. Chan Kim
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Sometimes a Great Notion 529626 The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.]]> 628 Ken Kesey 0140045295 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.26 1964 Sometimes a Great Notion
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name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1964
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change]]> 36072 372 Stephen R. Covey 0743269519 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.16 1989 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
author: Stephen R. Covey
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking]]> 8520610 The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.]]> 333 Susan Cain 0307352145 Minhaj 0 to-read 4.07 2012 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> Rich Dad, Poor Dad 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Minhaj 4 4.10 1997 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> Think and Grow Rich 30186948 233 Napoleon Hill Minhaj 4 4.19 1937 Think and Grow Rich
author: Napoleon Hill
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1937
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future]]> 18050143
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.]]> 195 Peter Thiel 0804139296 Minhaj 5 4.15 2014 Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
author: Peter Thiel
name: Minhaj
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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লেখক মাসুদু� হক অন্যান্য লেখকদে� মত নিজস্ব মনগড়া তথ্য � মতাম� পরিবেশ� করেন নি� পুস্তক � যথার্থ সূত্রে� উল্লেখ কর� প্রমাণ খাড়� করেছেন বক্তব্যে� অনুকূলে। লেখককে ধন্যবা� যে তিনি আমাদের স্বাধীনতার নেপথ্য� অতিগুরুত্বপূর্� অধ্যায়গুল� গ্রন্থাকার� আমাদের সামন� তুলে ধরেছেন�
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দৈনি� ইনকিলাব।]]> 176 মাসুদু� হক Minhaj 5 3.79 1990 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধে 'র' এবং সিআইএ
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average rating: 3.79
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rating: 5
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]]> The Silmarillion 7332 386 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618391118 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.99 1977 The Silmarillion
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name: Minhaj
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]]> Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem 1268536 220 Rabindranath Tagore 8129109379 Minhaj 0 4.25 1928 Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem
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]]> The 4-Hour Workweek 368593
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"?
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?
- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office]]> 308 Timothy Ferriss 0307353133 Minhaj 0 to-read 3.93 2007 The 4-Hour Workweek
author: Timothy Ferriss
name: Minhaj
average rating: 3.93
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