The shocking true story of a brutal kidnapping high in the mountains of Kashmir that marked the beginning of modern terrorism.In July 1995, ten backpackers journeyed into the foothills of the Himalayas, trekking to an idyllic campsite known as the Meadow. But their search for tranquillity was savagely interrupted when they were taken hostage by Islamic extremists.Using diaries, letters, classified police reports and interviews with the jihadis themselves, The Meadow traces ...

Winner of the CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and many more had bee...

The Siege by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark - a searing account of the 2005 terrorist attacks at Mumbai's famous Taj HotelOn 26th November 2008 the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai is besieged by Pakistani Islamists, armed with explosives and machine guns.For three days, guests and staff of the hotel are trapped as the terrorists run amok.On 29th November commandos launch Operation Black Tornado. The world holds its breath.The Siege is a h...

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and m...

Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory.Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a much-feared...

Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned investigative journalists. In Deception, they reveal the decades-long story of Pakistan's nuclear program-and how the United States has been complicit in the spread of nuclear arms. Based on hundreds of interviews from around the world, this work will force Americans to reexamine national priorities.

Financial (unofficial) dollarization is widely seen as a critical source of financial fragility in both developing and emerging economies. This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the monetary and prudential frameworks, the development of local-currency substitutes, and the scope for limiting dollarization through administrative restrictions. For more informat...

Soon to be a major BBC drama starring Tamara Lawrance, Hayley Atwell and Lenny Henry, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, The Long Song is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave.'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publ...

Das Wassermann-Evangelium von Jesus dem Christus entwirft eine alternative Biographie Jesu von der Geburt bis zur Himmelfahrt und füllt die "verschwiegenen Jahre" als Lehr- und Wanderzeit in Ägypten und Indien aus. In bibelnaher, versartiger Prosa verknüpft der Text Evangelienstoff mit theosophischen Motiven: universale Brüderlichkeit, Karma, Seelenwanderung, eine Ethik der Barmherzigkeit und eine kosmische Christus-Lehre für das heraufziehende Wassermannzeitalter. Stilistisch didaktisch u...

Prinzen, die sich in Schwäne verwandeln, ein Elementargeist, der zum Menschen wird, und eine junge Frau, die im Moor ihre wahre Stärke findet ... Verwandlungen spielen in Märchen seit jeher eine große Rolle. Manchmal ist die Transformation magischer Natur und kostet einen hohen Preis. Ein anderes Mal hilft ein schlichtes Stück Stoff, um unerkannt zu bleiben. Was musst du wagen, um wirklich frei zu sein? Wie heiß kann Liebe brennen? Oder Wut, Zorn und Verzweiflung? Wie sehr musst du dich ve...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Love and Sex with Robots, LSR 2017, held in December 2017, in London, UK.The 12 revised papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 83 submissions.One of the biggest challenges of the Love and Sex with Robots conference is to engage a wider scientific community in the discussions of the multifaceted topic, which has only recently establis...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Love and Sex with Robots 2016 in December 2016, in London, UK.The 12 revised papers presented together with 1 keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 38 submissions.The papers of the Second International Conference have been accepted and reviewed in 2015 but could not be presented as there was no conference in 2015 but at the conference in 2016.The topics of...