Ahmed Rashid: 9 books
Pakistan on the Brink
The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.
What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both...
Descent into Chaos
The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West.
Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex...
The Resurgence of Central Asia
Islam or Nationalism?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever.
The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the...
A Fragile Future
An Update to Descent into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillip*s
Descent into Chaos* is Ahmed Rashid's sweeping, brilliant exploration of the failure of the United States to secure peace and nourish democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan...
by Ahmed Rashid
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Afghanistan Revealed
Beyond the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Afghanistan Revealed offers the reader an incisive view into a country that has held the world’s attention for more than a decade. Hardly a day goes by without Afghanistan making news in the media – but behind the headlines, what do we really know about this complex and enigmatic country, its...
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
The Unofficial Guide to Radiology
100 Practice Chest X-Rays, with Full Colour Annotations and Full X-Ray Reports
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"The Unofficial Guide to Radiology: 100 Practice Chest X Rays" is the sequel to the Unofficial Guide to Radiology, which has sold 1500 copies in just eight months. This book teaches systematic analysis of Chest X Rays. The layout is designed to make the book as relevant to clinical practice...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...