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Environmental Ethics (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Robin Attfield
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• Author(s): Robin Attfield • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyEnvironmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and...
View full detailsWickedness: A Philosophical Essay
Dr Mary Midgley
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• Author(s): Dr Mary Midgley • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Good & EvilTo look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midg...
View full detailsThe World'S Great Philosophers
Robert L. Arrington
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• Author(s): Robert L. Arrington • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe World's Great Philosophers provides an introduction to and overview of some of the m...
View full detailsOne-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse
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• Author(s): Herbert Marcuse • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyOne of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional ma...
View full detailsThe Dhammapada: Sutta-nipata
F. Max Muller
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• Author(s): F. Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThis is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-...
View full detailsS. Radhakrishnan: His Life and Works
Mamta Anand
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• Author(s): Mamta Anand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe First Edition of the book, S. Radhakrishnan: His Life and Works (2006) received an overwhelming response from the readers. This Sec...
View full detailsMan And Superman
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMan and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written...
View full detailsJourney To The Centre Of The Earth
Jules Verne
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• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJourney to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-...
View full detailsLearning To Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
Stephen Greenblatt
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• Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralStephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could onl...
View full detailsAesop'S Fables
Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones
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• Author(s): Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece betwee...
View full detailsThe Assassination
Tariq Ali
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• Author(s): Tariq Ali • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingAbout the Book Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In th...
View full detailsRamkrishna: His life and Sayings
F. Max Muller
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• Author(s): F. Max Muller • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyRamakrishna Paramahamsa (1833–86) was perhaps the most popularly known saint of 19th century India and an important figure in B...
View full detailsAdolescence (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Peter K Smith
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• Author(s): Peter K Smith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Developmental - AdolescentAdolescence is a turbulent period to live through and a time of importance and concern to pa...
View full detailsLinguistics (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Mathews
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• Author(s): Mathews • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries a...
View full detailsJacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for t...
View full detailsAristotle's Politics
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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• Author(s): Translated by Benjamin Jowett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePolitics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the p...
View full detailsKing Solomon'S Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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• Author(s): H. Rider Haggard • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of...
View full detailsJust So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJust So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fancif...
View full detailsEnglish Language Teaching
Meenakshi Raman
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• Author(s): Meenakshi Raman • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English Literaturenvention of new classroom practices and innovative approaches to designing language programmes and materials reflect a commitment to fin...
View full detailsEnglish Fairy Tales
Flora Annie Steel
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• Author(s): Flora Annie Steel • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains 41 stories written by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The stories are very interesting to read a...
View full detailsThe German Ideology
Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Engels
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• Author(s): Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology“Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.” The German Ideology by ...
View full detailsA Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
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• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.” Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a groun...
View full detailsThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many critics to be the last play that ...
View full detailsSwatantrata Ke Liye Paridhan: Gandhi ke Swadeshi Andolan ka Sampreshan Vishleshan
Peter Gonsalves
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• Author(s): Peter Gonsalves • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGEBhasha • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: GeneralThis is the first analysis of Gandhi's dressing style in terms of communication theory and an explor...
View full detailsOn Modern Art
Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAbout the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short bu...
View full detailsIslamic Extremism: Causes, Diversity & Challenges
Monte Palmer, Princess Palmer
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• Author(s): Monte Palmer | Princess Palmer • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Foundation • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIslamic Extremism : Causes, Diversity, & Challenges is a deeply informed book which examines the threat th...
View full detailsThe Republic
Plato
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• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC regarding the definition of justice, the order and character of the just ...
View full detailsUnpopular Essays
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyUnpopular Essays, [Paperback] Bertrand Russell
Marriage And Morals
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyMarriage and Morals is a compelling cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitude...
View full detailsEthics And The Limits Of Philosophy
Bernard Williams
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• Author(s): Bernard Williams • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyWith a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...
View full detailsSri Amarnatha Cave: The Abode of Shiva
F.M. Hassnain, Yoshiaki Miura, Vijay Pandita
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• Author(s): F.M. Hassnain | Yoshiaki Miura | Vijay Pandita • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyEach year between July and August, when the moon is full, thousands of devotees gather before the Ab...
View full detailsThe Iliad
Homer
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• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHomer's The Iliad, an ancient epic of unparalleled significance, transports readers to the heart of the Trojan War, an epoch-defining conflict betw...
View full detailsThe Alchemist
Ben Jonson
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• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Alchemist is considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by King’s Men. Samuel Taylor Coleridg...
View full detailsCandide
Voltaire
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• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his ...
View full detailsA Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a ...
View full detailsTwo Treatises Of Government
John Locke
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• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwo Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing cr...
View full detailsThe Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
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• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers ...
View full detailsThe Return Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 ...
View full detailsBrain Robber And New Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease
Jane George
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• Author(s): Jane George • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health SciencesNeuropsychologists are trained to assess Alzheimer’s disease and make differential diagnosis, especially differentiating b...
View full detailsEthics (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Simon Blackburn
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• Author(s): Simon Blackburn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-beh...
View full detailsThe English Language (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Simon Horobin
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• Author(s): Simon Horobin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. B...
View full detailsTranslation (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Matthew Reynolds
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• Author(s): Matthew Reynolds • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingTranslation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign...
View full detailsThe History Of Doing: An Illustrated Account Of Movements For Women’S Rights And Feminism In India, 1800-1990
Radha Kumar
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• Author(s): Radha Kumar • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyUsing old photographs, old and new documents, excerpts from letters, books and informal writings, the author documents the growing invol...
View full detailsThe Philosophy Of Guru Nanak (Vol. 2)
Ishar Singh
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• Author(s): Ishar Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySardar Ishar Singh is a well-known authority on religion and philosophy. He has made a deep and elaborate study of all religions from a...
View full detailsTwelfth Night
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment fo...
View full detailsThe Vicar Of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
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• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental morali...
View full detailsThe Essays
Francis Bacon
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• Author(s): Francis Bacon • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Essays, first published in 1597, contains essays written in a wide range of styles—from the plain and unadorned—to the epigrammatic and...
View full detailsFundamentals of Linguistics
Raj Kumar Sharma
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• Author(s): Raj Kumar Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world ...
View full detailsFar From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simu...
View full detailsBest Ghost Stories: Author
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureInterest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test th...
View full detailsThe Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'
Joseph Conrad
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• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that t...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, G...
View full detailsHow to Write :
Fowler
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• Author(s): Fowler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralAbout the Book How to Write is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who thin...
View full detailsEthics And Epics : The Collected Essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal
Bimal Krishna Matilal, Jornardon Ganeri
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• Author(s): Bimal Krishna Matilal | Jornardon Ganeri • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: EasternThe unifying motif of Bimal Krishna Matilal's work is the study of rational traditio...
View full detailsA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful : ENQUIRY SUBLIME BEAUT 2E OWC
Burke Edited By Paul Guyer
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• Author(s): Burke Edited By Paul Guyer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: AestheticsPain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.'In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses...
View full detailsArt History (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Dana Arnold
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• Author(s): Dana Arnold • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: European - GeneralArt history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introd...
View full detailsThe Sexual Night
Pascal Quignard
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• Author(s): Pascal Quignard • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralIn The Sexual Night, renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkab...
View full detailsThe Oxford India Illustrated Corbett :
Corbett Jim
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• Author(s): Corbett Jim • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: HuntingThis is a richly illustrated anthology of the great hunter and conservationist's best writing, selected from his many po...
View full detailsMarx Durkheim Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought
Ken Morrison
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• Author(s): Ken Morrison • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage South Asia • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThoroughly revised and expanded, this bestselling student text provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the thre...
View full detailsMyths and Places: New Perspectives in Indian Cultural Geography
Shonaleeka Kaul
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• Author(s): Shonaleeka Kaul • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: HistoryThis volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally dive...
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