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Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

by Sachin Tendulkar

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Jennifer Lopez

by Kathleen Tracy (Goodreads Author)

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"Luv this book and Luv JLo too:)
Kindle version of this book is very easy to read and actually a pleasent experience!Due to font and the way book is written:)
Luv it!" — Oct 08, 2014 08:42AM

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Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

by Peter Townsend (Goodreads Author)

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Jennifer Jacobs said: " Whoa!A solid inquisitive book about Islam!Not Islamophobic!!It asks hard questions and delivers hard hitting answers!
Not a dull read,rather it's a fascinating book,very fast paced,packed with superb information!
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"Very entertaining,razor sharp book!" — Oct 05, 2014 05:58AM

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“Power is being told you are not loved... and not being destroyed by it.”
― Madonna

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“Weinbaum (1996) notes the reliance on conspiracy narratives in Pakistan and the resulting suspicions, which are “readily sustained in the absence of full, creditable information. [Conspiracy theories] offer disarmingly simple and not entirely implausible explanations, and no amount of evidence can refute them. … [The] more the evidence seems to disprove the theory, the deeper the conspiracy is conceived to be” (Weinbaum 1996, 649).”
― C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

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“The military cultivates civilians including scholars, journalists, and analysts, providing them selective access to the institution and punishing them—either with physical harm (or the threat of it) to the author or her family members or simply with the denial of future access—should they produce knowledge that harms the interests of the army. Since access is perhaps the most valuable currency among those who wish to be and remain experts on the military, the army uses this implied transaction to produce sympathetic assessments of the armed forces and their actions and goals.”
― C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

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“While the 1960s and 1970s were turbulent times for US–Pakistan ties, Pakistan again became closely allied with the United States in the 1980s, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Pakistan argued that US military assistance was required to expand the Pakistan Army, ostensibly because doing so would enable Pakistan to better counter the emerging Soviet threat, even though Pakistan sought this assistance to strengthen its position vis-à-vis India. Consequently, with US military and economic assistance, by 1989, the Pakistan Army had grown to nearly 450,000 and had become increasingly reliant upon US weapon systems.”
― C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

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“there is a persistent emphasis on religious themes, such as the nature of the Islamic warrior, the role of Islam in training, the importance of Islamic ideology for the army, and the salience of jihad. Pakistan’s military journals frequently take as their subjects famous Quranic battles, such as the Battle of Badr. Ironically, the varied Quranic battles are discussed in more analytical detail in Pakistan’s journals than are Pakistan’s own wars with India. A comparable focus on religion in the Indian army (which shares a common heritage with the Pakistan Army) would be quite scandalous. It is difficult to fathom that any Indian military journal would present an appraisal of the Kurukshetra War, which features the Hindu god Vishnu and is described in the Hindu Vedic epic poem the Mahabharata. Judging by the frequency with which articles on such topics appear in Pakistan’s professional publications, religion is clearly acceptable, and perhaps desirable, as a subject of discussion.”
― C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

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