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The Rays Before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
Chandak Sengoopta
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• Author(s): Chandak Sengoopta • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAlthough the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the dive...
View full detailsThe Making of Early Medieval India
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
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• Author(s): Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume explores the processes and nature of change in Indian society over a per...
View full detailsThe Early Medieval in South India
Kesavan Veluthat
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• Author(s): Kesavan Veluthat • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralWritten over two decades, this distinctive volume explores-for the first time- the notion of 'early medieval' in...
View full detailsCreating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self
Ashis Nandy
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• Author(s): Ashis Nandy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 was a watershed in the politics ...
View full detailsAncient Cities
Gates, Charles
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• Author(s): Gates | Charles • Publisher: T&F • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the ...
View full detailsThe Holy Bible in the Hindi Language: Translated from the Hebrew; 1
Anonymous
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• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base o...
View full detailsThe Second [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: Asia - South - GeneralThe Second Oxford India Illustrated Corbett is another collection of Corbett's best-loved writings complem...
View full detailsThe Hunger of the Republic – Our Present in Retrospect
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
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• Author(s): Ashish Rajadhyaksha • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect is the first of a series of...
View full detailsThe Delhi College : Traditional Elites, the Colonial State and Education Before 1857
Pernau Margrit
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• Author(s): Pernau Margrit • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe Delhi College has been widely acclaimed as the centre of a Delhi Renaissance. This institution was the m...
View full detailsTHE DELHI OMNIBUS :
Spear Percival, Gupta Narayani (Edited By Frykenburg R. E.)
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• Author(s): Spear Percival | Gupta Narayani (Edited By Frykenburg R. E.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis Omnibus edition puts together four classic works on the history of Delhi through t...
View full detailsThe Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change
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• Publisher: Haymarket Books • Publisher Imprint: Haymarket Books • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis important book critically engages with the dynamics of caste in the politics of West Bengal, which unlike other parts of India has remained relati...
View full detailsScotland (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Rab Houston
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• Author(s): Rab Houston • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralScotland's past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Intr...
View full detailsNavigation (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jim Bennett
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• Author(s): Jim Bennett • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Maritime History & PiracyFrom the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navi...
View full detailsKaavad Tradition Of Rajasthan: A Portable Pilgrimage
Nina Sabnani
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• Author(s): Nina Sabnani • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book leads us on a journey to uncover the myths and mysteries of the unique oral-storytelling tradition o...
View full detailsHandbook on Small Bore Rifle Shooting - Equipment, Marksmanship, Target Shooting, Practical Shootin
Whelen, Colonel Townsend
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• Author(s): Whelen, Colonel Townsend • Publisher: Nelson Press • Publisher Imprint: Nelson Press • BISAC: GeneralThis vintage text contains a comprehensive handbook on small bore rifle shooting, with information on equipment, marksmanship, targe...
View full detailsGenocide: Key Themes
Donald Bloxham
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• Author(s): Donald Bloxham • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: World - GeneralThe growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all i...
View full detailsDo You Remember Kunan-Poshpora?
Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq
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• Author(s): Essar Batool | Ifrah Butt | Samreena Mushtaq • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralOn a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of t...
View full detailsCommunist Movement In India 1920-1933: The Early Years Of Communism: Communist Party Of India Ideol
Cotman, Arnold
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• Author(s): Cotman, Arnold • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Revolutionary
Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (1760-1799)
Vikram Sampath
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• Author(s): Vikram Sampath • Publisher: Vintage Books • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaOver two centuries have passed since his death on 4 May 1799, yet Tipu Sultan's contested legacy continues to perplex India and...
View full detailsTextual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History
Prathama Banerjee
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• Author(s): Prathama Banerjee • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaThe essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqu...
View full detailsPlagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
Kyle Harper
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• Author(s): Kyle Harper • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryA sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues Upon the Earth is a monum...
View full detailsPanjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines
Amandeep Sandhu
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• Author(s): Amandeep Sandhu • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaUnlike people born in Panjab who have a direct connection with, and hence a memory of the land, I have no liminal or ta...
View full detailsNotes by the Editor: Beyond the Confines of Lunacy, 120 Years of Wisden Opinion
Jonathan Rice
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• Author(s): Jonathan Rice • Publisher: Wisden • Publisher Imprint: Wisden • BISAC: Social HistoryA selection from Wisden's Notes By The Editor--the forthright opinions that changed cricket, its laws, its players and its history. "The Editor of W...
View full detailsMasters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
Barry Strauss
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• Author(s): Barry Strauss • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster • BISAC: Military - StrategyBestselling author and historian Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world wa...
View full detailsMakers of Modern Dalit History
Sudarshan Ramabadran
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• Author(s): Sudarshan Ramabadran • Publisher: India Penguin • Publisher Imprint: India Penguin • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFeaturing original research and analysis on historical and contemporary figures such as B.R. Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Ra...
View full detailsJahan Ara Begum 1614-1681: A Biographical Study
Nausheen Jaffery
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• Author(s): Nausheen Jaffery • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaAn Indian princess left behind a contribution to a varied legacy which is still a vibrant part of our ...
View full detailsIndus Basin Uninterrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru
Uttam Kumar Sinha
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• Author(s): Uttam Kumar Sinha • Publisher: Vintage Books • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIndus Basin Uninterrupted, with an easy narration and rich archival material, brings alive a meandering journey of peace, ...
View full detailsCourage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
James B. Stockdale
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• Author(s): James B. Stockdale • Publisher: Hoover Institution Press • Publisher Imprint: Hoover Institution Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaWhen physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from mili...
View full detailsA Letter To Hindu
Leo Tolstoy
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• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Sanage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Sanage Publishing • BISAC: Asia - South - General
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy
John Romer
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• Author(s): John Romer • Publisher: Penguin Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Group • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetim...
View full detailsKa-50 and Ka-52 Hokum
Piotr Butowski
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• Author(s): Piotr Butowski • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe Ka-50 (NATO reporting name: Hokum A) helicopter made its maiden flight 40 years ago on 17 June 1982. After und...
View full detailsWar Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942
Robert J. Kershaw
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• Author(s): Robert J. Kershaw • Publisher: Goodall Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Goodall Publications Ltd • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - Eastern FrontIn the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Brita...
View full detailsRommel's Afrika Korps in Colour: Rare German Photographs from World War II
Ian Spring
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• Author(s): Ian Spring • Publisher: Greenhill Books • Publisher Imprint: Greenhill Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General"A marvellous collection of original wartime colour photos...For both historians and modellers, the va...
View full detailsThe Great Arab Conquests How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. Hugh Kennedy
Hugh Kennedy
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• Author(s): Hugh Kennedy • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalWhereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Af...
View full detailsThe Worst Military Leaders in History
John M. Jennings
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• Author(s): John M. Jennings • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: Military - GeneralSpanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in h...
View full detailsThe Russian Revolution
Sheila Fitzpatrick
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• Author(s): Sheila Fitzpatrick • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the year...
View full detailsParadise Lost and Paradise Regained
John Milton
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• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: William Collins • Publisher Imprint: William Collins • BISAC: GeneralHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not ea...
View full detailsHow the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War
Philipp Ther
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• Author(s): Philipp Ther • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralWhen the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole...
View full detailsHistory of the World: From the Stone Age to the Tech Revolution
Michael Kerrigan
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• Author(s): Michael Kerrigan • Publisher: Amber Books • Publisher Imprint: Amber Books • BISAC: World - GeneralHistory of the World provides a sumptuous, pictorial guide to the most significant events in human history, from the Bronze Age to the...
View full detailsMade in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
Brian Groom
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• Author(s): Brian Groom • Publisher: Harpernorth • Publisher Imprint: Harpernorth • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 21st CenturyA rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year ...
View full detailsThe Anatomy of Melancholy: A Selection
Robert Burton
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• Author(s): Robert Burton • Publisher: Carcanet Press • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor ...
View full detailsIf All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi
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• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaHow do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this...
View full detailsDiaspora: A Very Short Introduction
Kevin Kenny
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• Author(s): Kevin Kenny • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Social HistoryWhat does diaspora mean? Until quite recently, the word had a specific and restricted meaning, referring p...
View full detailsPartition Voices: Untold British Stories - Updated for the 75th Anniversary of Partition
Kavita Puri
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• Author(s): Kavita Puri • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralUPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narrative...
View full detailsThe Barbarians: Lost Civilizations
Peter Bogucki
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• Author(s): Peter Bogucki • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralBeginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing c...
View full detailsMilitary Aircraft: World's Greatest Fighters, Bombers and Transport Aircraft from World War I to the Present
Thomas Newdick
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• Author(s): Thomas Newdick • Publisher: Amber Books • Publisher Imprint: Amber Books • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceMilitary Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years. The book includes all ...
View full detailsThe World Encyclopedia of Pistols, Revolvers and Submachine Guns: An Illustrated Historical Guide to Over 500 Military, Law Enforcement and Antique Fi
Will Fowler
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• Author(s): Will Fowler • Publisher: Lorenz Books • Publisher Imprint: Lorenz Books • BISAC: Military - WeaponsAn illustrated historical guide to over 500 military, law enforcement and antique firearms. This fully updated encyclopedia of small ...
View full detailsGames Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
Tamim Ansary
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• Author(s): Tamim Ansary • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showi...
View full details'their Infantry and Guns Will Astonish You': The Army of Hindustan and European Mercenaries in Maratha Service 1780-1803
Andy Copestake
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• Author(s): Andy Copestake • Publisher: Helion & Company • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralBy the middle of the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire in India was in serious decline. The rulers ...
View full detailsUseful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
Noel Malcolm
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• Author(s): Noel Malcolm • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers...
View full detailsThe Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
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• Author(s): Thucydides • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his...
View full detailsPlague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Peter Furtado
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• Author(s): Peter Furtado • Publisher: Thames & Hudson • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson • BISAC: EssaysPlague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writin...
View full detailsThe Secret Horsepower Race: Western Fighter Engine Development
Calum E. Douglas
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• Author(s): Calum E. Douglas • Publisher: HarperTempest • Publisher Imprint: HarperTempest • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence ...
View full detailsBlack AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot
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• Author(s): Michael Harriot • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin • Publisher Imprint: Houghton Mifflin • BISAC: Social HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HI...
View full detailsTen Myths about Israel
Ilan Pappe
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• Author(s): Ilan Pappe • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & Palestine"The most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" reveals the myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestin...
View full detailsBritish Airfields WWII
Stuart Hadaway
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• Author(s): Stuart Hadaway • Publisher: Shire Publications • Publisher Imprint: Shire Publications • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceAn illustrated introduction to the military airfields of Britain and the essential roles they played in th...
View full detailsHistories
Herodotus
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• Author(s): Herodotus • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions • Publisher Imprint: Wordsworth Editions • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralTranslated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of His...
View full detailsLives of the Eminent Philosophers: By Diogenes Laertius
Pamela Mensch
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• Author(s): Pamela Mensch • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PhilosophersEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step ...
View full detailsB. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India's Dispossessed
Shashi Tharoor
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• Author(s): Shashi Tharoor • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures,...
View full detailsThe Histories
Herodotus
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• Author(s): Herodotus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormo...
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