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Reducere. A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist t...

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India's musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the cult...

Reducere. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company's gunboat Diana went ...

DescriptionParamahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual cla...

Contributor(s): Author: Georges Didi-HubermanAuthor: Shane B. LillisAby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media as...

Reducere. DescriptionPio Gama Pinto was born in Kenya on March 31, 1927. He was assassinated in Nairobi on February 24, 1965. In his short life, he became a ...

Reducere. Christian Book AwardA 2007 ECPA Christian Book Award Winner Taking a narrative approach, The IVP Atlas of Bible History draws you into the rich res...

"From beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia My worshippers, My dispersed ones, Will bring My offerings." - Zephaniah 3: 10 Modern Jewry has been looking fo...

India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and u...

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

Reducere. Over the past 60 years high-income countries have invested over 4000 billion euros in development aid. With varying degrees of success, these inves...

This book presents the development and operational use of the Soviet/Russian Mikoyan MiG-29. The MiG-29 was the Soviet response to the new generati...

Reducere. At 18: 25 on 21st November 1963, a rocket launched into space from India. It heralded the start of the Indian Space program. The news of this achie...

Reducere. This is a condensed version of a long Purana of 18, 000 verses. By means of stories from the lives of avatars, sages, and kings, it popularized the...

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the mos...

For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ronald Dalton Jr"From beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia My worshippers, My dispersed ones, Will bring My offerings." - Zephania...

Reducere. During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic a...

Reducere. A model for designers of mass housing anywhere: how homes can be built in one of the world's densest citiesThis volume focuses on one of Mumbai's a...

What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations S...

This is the latest edition of Charmaine Solomon's influential and iconic The Complete Asian Cookbook. Instantly heralded as a classic when it was f...

DescriptionThe empire of scent: explore the realm of perfumes, smells, and aromatic incense to reveal the enduring allure of fragrance. Scents are ...

Asia has been the greatest show on earth since Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II, accompanied in successive decades with the emergence of...

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia...

By producing the A300--the first twin-jet, wide-body airliner in the world--the European Airbus consortium succeeded in joining the league of leadi...

DescriptionThe clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna i...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe f...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

Reducere. A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of internat...

DescriptionHackers, cyber-criminals, Dark Web users, and techno-terrorists beware This book should make you think twice about attempting to do your...

Reducere. Rounds barns are architectural phenomena that have graced rural America for over a century. Today the few that survive stand as symbols of another ...

According to early Sanskrit texts the ancients had several types of airships called vimanas. Like aircraft of today, vimanas were used to fly throu...

Reducere. In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than eighty...

DescriptionHow our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom,...

This stunning and witty collection of contemporary art maps from artist Adam Dant offers a unique view of British history and society today. Award-...

DescriptionHans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discov...

Reducere. Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity.Global demand f...

One of the greatest fallacies of the 'modern world' is the notion of 'progress'. We imagine the entirety of history as culminating in a Darwinian m...

Reducere. Shri Vallabhacharya (1479-1531) is the beloved founder and teacher (acharya) of the path of grace (pushtimarg) and proponent of the philosophy of p...

Reducere. Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader's great conquests, is the latest addition...

The imbalance of Pakistan's civil-military relations has caused misperceptions about the changing role of intelligence in politics. The country mai...

DescriptionWhile America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremis...

DescriptionThe horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking. Throug...

Reducere. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians a...

According to Dom Gregory Dix, the basic shape of the Christian liturgy has remained the same "ever since thirteen men met for supper in an upper ro...

Reducere. The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the "Western Regions, " tha...

DescriptionOver the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status...

Pilgrimage, a global ritual embraced by nearly all faiths, is one of civilization's most enduring traditions. In this compelling book, author and j...

DescriptionThe Reader Art and Its Global Histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerp...

Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natur...

A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today Nationalism is the iss...

Reducere. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; ...

Reducere. DescriptionVYMAANIKA-SAASTRA is a text book whose compilation is essentially attributed to the Indian Master Maharaschi Bharadwaja. Maharaschi is a...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Dutch East India Company, then keep reading..Huge international companies and corporations a...

Reducere. In 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three emplo...

Reducere. One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark Amaru PinkhamThe origin, history, and rites of the enlightened masters of many ancient countries worldwide who were kn...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Reducere. This book provides evidence which makes it clear that most religious history is not what we think it is. It lets you see the true heritage that has...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the British Raj, then keep reading...The British presence in India lasted for nearly 350 years, ...

Reducere. India. For many, the word brings visions of ancient traditions and deep mysteries: India, a land that even the British Empire at its zenith could n...

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable vi...

Reducere. DescriptionIndia is a most resilient country and is presently becoming a great economic power in the world. It also has one of the oldest and dynam...

Reducere. DescriptionThe analysis asks one question and has one answer: Can India fight a two-front war against China and Pakistan? The answer is it cannot. ...

Reducere. Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a states...

Reducere. For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a ...

Reducere. The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, The Prajnaparamita, is a collection of about forty texts. They were composed in India between approximately 100 BC...

Reducere. DescriptionFor a brief period in the mid-1960s, the whole world went spy crazy. From Sri Lanka to Poland, from the US to India, cinemas were filled...

Reducere. DescriptionClaims of Reincarnationis one of the foremost works to have been published in India during the latter part of the twentieth century. Dr....

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...