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Introduction to Logic [Paperback] Irving M Copi

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a cur...

Awaara, Sholay, Deewar, Hum Apke Hain Koun. . !, 3 Idiots. The success stories of these cult films are not only well known, but have also benchmark...

This book is a tribute to the image-makers of Kumortuli, as well as a social and cultural account of Durga Puja—the most important religious festiv...

Hari Ram Meena opens a forgotten chapter of Indian history – a movement culminating into an occasion of supreme sacrifice by Adivasi's in Rajasthan...

Vandana Singh's first book, Younguncle Comes to Town, was an instant classic of children's literature. Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up, Y...

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the Fr...

David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world—what Bornstein ...

In a small North Indian town one night, a nurse disappears while visiting a patient. The police smells abduction, but there is no demand for ransom...

Mohammed Albakry is professor of English and applied linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. Rebekah Maggor is assistant professor in the...

Anupam, a middle-aged professor with a meagre income, is taking a vacation with his family in a little-known mining town where his student has arra...

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and fil...

Matira Manisha (‘The Man of the Soil’) is one of those uncommon artistic creations which prove that good art does not have to be convoluted or obsc...

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp—a ...

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between...

For years, Nepal was ravaged by a civil war. On one side were the King and the democratically elected government, on the other side were brutal Mao...

Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975–7. Suto...

‘[T]his is no fiction. I have scars on my body and my soul to prove this.’ Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early ...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

This work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. Itoffers a n...

Present-day militaries are often microcosms of the societies that maintain them. Unsurprising then that the armed forces have to come to terms with...

Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contr...

An engineer by profession, an active Communist Party member, and an influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925–2011) penned sever...

The earliest cases of farmers’ suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emer...

Contemporary social activism in India manifests itself in disparate ways. While displacement of tribals in one location in India could trigger prot...

Toby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always ta...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the ...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Love is divine, love is pristine. Love could be agony, love could be bliss. It’s God’s wonderful gift. All are not ordained to be smitten by the lo...

Before Mohammed Rafi there can only be a Zero and after him there can be only Two. That should succinctly describe the legendary singer of four dec...

Originally published in Italian in 1965, a test of powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the tim...

The ten stories in this collection explore the unspoken dimensions of human experience, moving fluidly across the real, the seemingly unreal and th...

Kashmir is a distinct region yet to be explored fully. The authors ‘tell’ human stories against an awe-inspiring, natural backdrop. Their compellin...

This is the story of self-realisation of five musician friends—Rahul, Imran, Jessy, Keya, British-born Hazel, and the swashbuckling Bhombol—all fre...

Cadence And Counterpoint:: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions

Published to accompany the 2014 art exhibits at Museum of Sacred Art, Belgium.

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the wor...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson sheds light on the philosophical ideas that emerged in the Islamic world. From the beginnings of the...

in this very short introduction robert segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. these approaches hail from di...

This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of...

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This landmark classic marks the beginning of a new approach to Indian philosophy. While older approaches were born from the assumption that critica...

Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introducti...

Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus and Shakespea...

A tribute to its namesake, The Naxalites draws inspiration from the Naxalite movement that spread like wildfire in the Calcutta of the seventies, d...

This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, T...

When little Pinky Chaddha flunks the nursery entrance exams of Bangalore's snootiest school, her hyper ambitious parents hire the one man who can s...