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Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in m...

New Delhi Down the Decades

Computer aided design is at the forefront of the patternmaking business today. Computer Aided Design Using Gerber Technology provides clear, step-b...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes politics, economics, religion, society not fr...

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamrud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terroris...

Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn’t telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house ...

The dancing other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in ...

After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead with all their mysteries will no longer have any claim on him....

The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, ...

Cosmos is a new series of social studies for classes 1 to 5.

In these three short books—Servabo: A Fin De Siècle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collected in one volume in English for the firs...

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth science...

Fashion Fibers: Designing for Sustainability is an accessible reference tool for fashion students and designers who want to learn how to make decis...

Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points...

During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th?...

Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer...

Daniell Comes to Judgment: New and Vintage Daruwalla is a collection of short stories by Keki N. Daruwalla, the acclaimed poet-cum-novelist of our ...

Across lives, cities and continents, melancholy and its tentacles inhabit spaces that are often left unexplored. Through ten stories and ten main p...

Chikankari is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs of Awadh. Chikanka...

This book will enable to become a competent and safe gun owner. In addition, you will dramatically increase your shooting scores.

Guide to Fashion Career Planning: Job Search, Resumes, and Strategies for Success, 2nd Edition, helps both students and individuals interested in e...

Eat. Sleep. Work. Repeat. A teenager’s life, in short. Health. Who cares? Junk Food. Oh, yes! One of the many problems faced by today’s teenagers i...

The Kangra Valley Rail is a wonderful way to explore the rustic charms of Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. The journey from Pathankot to Joginder Nagar ...

The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to th...

Inspired by the first cultural expedition into the Western Himalayas by August Hermann France in 1909 which resulted in the region's Denomination a...

Offers a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through different phases of author's life: from his early adventures in drawing to his ...

Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations ab...

Sujoy Banerjee has been a man ‘untouched by sin'. There was a time when his hands were dedicated to a life with paint, canvas and brush. But then, ...

An all-encompassing look at three forces that shape human history, from the Stone Age to the present day.

Boundaries Undermind: The Ruins Of Progress On The Bangladesh-India Border [Hardcover] DELWAR HUSSAIN

Of the many countries Rabindranath Tagore visited in his lifetime, his Italian sojourns of 1925 and 1926, at the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini'...

China's technological catch-up industrial development strategy is leading to lower energy use and less CO2 emissions in several of China's energy i...

Flavours of Avadh: journey from the royal banquet to the corner kitchen is the story of food and cooking from the palaces to the pavement of the Av...

Urban Development in Howrah is the first comprehensive effort to understand and analyse the various aspects of the urban development of the distric...

Sharbari Datta is the first designer to have revived and brought to the forefront men's ethnic wear in India Sharbari Datta has given kantha tradit...

Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, t...

Water, Peace and War

A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threat...

Bangalore: Roots and Beyond

Television plays a very important role in constructing and presenting images of Indian modernity. Channeling Cultures brings together scholars from...

Sipra Das fulfilled her dream in this book capturing lives of the visually impaired, evoking awe and empathy instead of sympathy and pity among rea...

Chai: The Experience of Indian Tea is a journey into the heartlands of tea production, across the length and breadth of India, offering a glimpse i...

“Why am I writing this book? . . . Will all of this make sense to my readers? I do not know, but I have to get this off my chest. I have to present...

A set of four book Intruing India Series:The Alluring NorthThe Vibrant WestThe Historic SouthThe Colorful East

Other Lives, Other Fragments is a tale of fragmented identities, of lives broken and destroyed during violent times. It looks at the human story be...

A timely update to the book on using the Market Profile method to trade Emerging over twenty years ago, Market Profile analysis continues to realiz...

One of the fundamental myths is that of the lost paradise; the past as a Golden Age. In certain spiritual traditions, the lost paradise is imagined...