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Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Product Description: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today. His unique knowledge of this complex, war-torn region gives him a panoramic vision and grasp of nuance that no Western writer can emulate. In Descent Into Chaos, Rashid reviews the regional conditions since 9/11 and the catastrophic aftermath of Americaâs failed war on terror...read more

By Arthur Morey (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9781501280016 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 11, 2015), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

9781455837434 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, March 15, 2012), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

9781455837458 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, March 15, 2012), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

9781423368090 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 3, 2008), cover price $44.25 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

The Islamic State: A Brief Introduction

Product Description: An authoritative guide to the rise of the Islamic State and its senior leadership.How did the Islamic State grow from regional terrorist group to a brutal multinational bureaucratic machine? What are its goals? How can it be stopped?In 2014 the Islamic State seemingly appeared out of nowhere, routing Iraqi forces, conquering Iraq's second-largest city, boldly announcing the establishment of a caliphate, and declaring itself the Islamic State (IS)...read more

By Charles R. Lister

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9780815726678 | Brookings Inst Pr, March 25, 2015, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An authoritative guide to the rise of the Islamic State and its senior leadership.

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Product Description: An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan—from the bestselling author of Descent Into Chaos and TalibanAhmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities—and hazards—facing the United States after the death of Osama bin Laden and as Operation Enduring Freedom winds down...read more

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780670023462 | Viking Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.

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9780143122838 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 26, 2013), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan—from the bestselling author of Descent Into Chaos and TalibanAhmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities—and hazards—facing the United States after the death of Osama bin Laden and as Operation Enduring Freedom winds down.

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9781455865062 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, March 15, 2012), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: What are the possibilitiesâand hazardsâfacing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan?

9781455865048, titled "Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, March 15, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: What are the possibilitiesâand hazardsâfacing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan?

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia: Library Edition

By Arthur Morey (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9781455837441 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 15, 2012), cover price $69.97 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Library Edition

Product Description: What are the possibilitiesâ and hazardsâfacing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are Americaâs choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed RashidâPakistanâs preeminent journalistâtakes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos...read more

By Arthur Morey (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9781455865055, titled "Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 15, 2012), cover price $79.97 | About this edition: What are the possibilitiesâ and hazardsâfacing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan?

9781455865079 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 15, 2012), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: What are the possibilitiesâ and hazardsâfacing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan?

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2nd Edition

Product Description: Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. Rashid offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English-language readers, explaining the Taliban’s rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban...read more

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780300163681, titled "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 13, 2010), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book.

Descent into Chaos: The U.s. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Product Description: After September 11th , Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to review the catastrophic aftermath of America's failed war on terror...read more

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780143115571 | Revised edition (Penguin USA, April 7, 2009), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: After September 11th , Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime.

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Cenral Asia

Product Description: 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)...read more

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780670019700 | Viking Pr, June 3, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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.

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghaistan, and Central Asia: Library Edition

By Arthur Morey (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9781423368076 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 3, 2008), cover price $132.25 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today.

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

Ahmed Rashid here turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan. In tracing the history of Central Asia and explaining the political climate, Rashid demonstrates that it is a region we ignore at our peril.

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780300093452 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines the rise of militant Islamic groups in five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, discussing the poverty, political corruption, and religious repression that have fueled their growth.

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9780300099508 | New edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 10, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Ahmed Rashid here turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.

9780142002605 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2003), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Examines the rise of militant Islamic groups in five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, discussing the poverty, political corruption, and religious repression that have fueled their growth.

9780070576476, titled "Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers" | 3rd edition (McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1995), cover price $17.50 | also contains Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers

Taliban

Product Description: Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the worldâs most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English language readers, explaining the Talibanâs rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban...read more

By Nadia May (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9780786122110 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the worldâs most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book.

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism. (view table of contents)

By Ahmed Rashid

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9780786239900 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

9780300083408, titled "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

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9780300089028, titled "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" | Yale Univ Pr, February 8, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

Taliban: Library Edition

Product Description: In this enormously insightful book, correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus. He explains the Taliban's rise to power; its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia; its role in oil and gas company decisions; and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban...read more

By Nadia May (narrator) and Ahmed Rashid

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9780786195473 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2002), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In this enormously insightful book, correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus.

9780786193110 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this enormously insightful book, correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus.

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9780786122028 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2002), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: This is a study of the geo-strategic implications of the Taliban.

The New Terrorism: Threat And Response

Product Description: Book by Laqueur, Walter, Lewis, Bernard, Carter, Ashton, Deutch, John, Zelikow, Philip, Rose, Gideon, Rashid, Ahmed, Flynn, Stephen E., Stern, Jessica, Ajami, Fouad, Bearden, Milton, Perry, William J., Doran, Michael Scott, Betts, Richard K.

By Fouad Ajami, Milton Bearden, Richard K. Betts, Ashton Carter, John Deutch, Michael Scott Doran, Stephen E. Flynn, Walter Laqueur, Bernard Lewis, William J. Perry, Ahmed Rashid, Gideon Rose, Jessica Stern and Philip Zelikow

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9780876092996 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Laqueur, Walter, Lewis, Bernard, Carter, Ashton, Deutch, John, Zelikow, Philip, Rose, Gideon, Rashid, Ahmed, Flynn, Stephen E.

Los Taliban/ The Taliban: El Islam, El Petroleo Y El Nuevo Gran Juego En Asia Central

Product Description: Poco se sabe sobre ellos debido al gran sigilo que rodea a la organizaciÃ³n, sus dirigentes y sus objetivos. Ahmed Rashid es uno de los pocos periodistas que ha entrevistado a dirigentes talibÃ¡n, y esta obra vierte nueva luz sobre un movimiento misterioso que supone una autÃ©ntica amenaza para la paz mundia...read more

By Jordi Fibla (trans) and Ahmed Rashid

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9788483073346 | Ediciones Peninsula, January 1, 2001, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Poco se sabe sobre ellos debido al gran sigilo que rodea a la organizaciÃ³n, sus dirigentes y sus objetivos.

The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?

Product Description: Kazakhstan, Kirgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have all become independent states in central Asia, following the break-up of the USSR. All have Muslim majorities and ancient histories, but are otherwise very different...read more

By Ahmed Rashid

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9781856491310 | Zed Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Kazakhstan, Kirgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have all become independent states in central Asia, following the break-up of the USSR.

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9781856491327 | Zed Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: 'Ahmed Rashid writes concisely, keeping up a rapid pace starting with the historical background of the region, looking in turn at its five republics - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - and finally at their common interests and rivalries.

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