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About the Book Written primarily for a nonspecialist audience, these essays describe contributions made by some of the University of Cambridge's mo...

About the Book It takes more than raw talent and passion to make it in today's global apparel and accessories markets-excellent computer-aided desi...

About the Book In the era of e-books and online shops, when the classic book trade has come under increasing pressure, the success of a bookshop is...

Block Printed Textiles of India: Imprints of Culture describes how one of the subcontinent’s foremost crafts has played a key role in the creation ...

Filmmaker goutam Ghose was part of the central Asian expedition organised by major H.Br.S Ahluwalia in 1994, The first of its kind. They undertook ...

About the Book With the help of two oncologists and a nutritionist, this cookbook tackles the challenge of eating while undergoing cancer treatment...

About the Book In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a poisonous...

About the Book Learn statistical reasoning and problem solving from a best--selling author who uses a wealth of examples from the social and behavi...

About the Book This biography is set back in 1961, with swinging London and The Beatles about to break upon the world, in rural Ireland.

About the Book Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. This book is the first comprehensive li...

About the Book More than 600 experts -- from architects to horticulturists to race car drivers -- offer advice on more than 300 subjects. Packed wi...

This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey to the Andaman Islands, a captivating archipelago that has been shrouded in mystery because of ...

About the Book A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain. Northern Spain is the only part of Western Eur...

This self-portrait of the iconic Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) represents more than a life. For this book in two volumes, Amrita's ext...

About the Book This extraordinary guide documents over 750 exciting examples of the ultimate in graphic design excellence.

About the Book The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story....

About the Book A Practical Approach to Merchandising Mathematics , Revised 1st Edition, is dedicated to helping students master the mathematical co...

Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. “His presence,” she writes, “gave me the sensation of...

An engrossing novel about love and grief that introduces an important francophone author to English-speaking readers. Rome, 2014, late summer. Whi...

Four classical Greek myths retold with unexpected twists by an East German dissident. Franz Fühmann’s subversive retellings of four Greek legends ...

A poignant memoir about cultural differences told by an international rights veteran in the book publishing industry. Traveling from the Silicon V...

A genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of...

A brief, evocative memoir from one of India’s greatest writers. “Like a dazzling feather that has fluttered down from some unknown place. . . . Ho...

A novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany. What is it like to be young and broken in a ...

An approachable guide to sustainable options trading, minimal luck needed. Traders who are successful long-term do not rely on luck, but rather th...

During the early decades post India's independence, Moosa Raza, a young IAS officer hailing from a small village in Tamil Nadu, was tasked with gov...

A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch’s innovative notebooks.Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist ...

Homewards is a multi-genre anthology that challenges presumptions of home, the idea of homeland and the nation. Writing about home, whether one’s o...

An experimental novel that pushes the constraints of language to bear witness to the history of both Germany and the individual.

One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol...

One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B. (H.B)

Dust of the Caravan is a selection of writings by anis Kidwai sketching the personal and political journey of a Muslim woman through the first eigh...

In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside withi...

Winner, 2022 Printed Book of the Year (English), Publishing Next In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to perfor...

Never have financial markets been subjected to a period of change as rapid and extensive as took place from the 1970s onwards. In the 1970s global ...

Mirroring romania’s drastic transition from totalitarianism to Western-style freedom in the late 1980s, Mr. K released captures the disturbingly su...

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconven...

Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in love? Forty-six-year-ol...

A novel in five parts, only a lodger... And hardly that puts Vesna main’s power of beautiful observation on full display as she explores how writin...

“Those who know me call me old he, and they also know that I've worked in a crematorium for my entirely.” here begins mu cao’s novel in the face of...

Textiles Of Rajasthan At The Jaipur Court (H.B)

On The Trail of Buddha: A Journey To The East