The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence, Hardcover - Faisal Devji

Reducere. The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...

Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam share in common with global movements.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Faisal DevjiPakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment ...

Reducere. Jesus Christ came to us to suffer temptation, to suffer our fate with regard to God, and to become our brother. Let us go to him in the desert to s...

USA Today bestselling author Ella Quinn's bachelors in The Marriage Game series are charming and cunning when it comes to the ways of love--until t...

Publisher: 186 PublishingAuthor(s): Vivien FreemanNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. There is nothing I love better than a heroine who stands toe-to-toe with her hero, and Ella Quinn gives us that in The Temptation of Lady Serena. -...

Reducere. The biblical book of Genesis is a violent masterpiece. Deception. Treachery. Murder. But it is also a book of redemption, forgiveness, and reconcil...

Reducere. From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as b...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Temptation of Saint Anthony is a historical novel. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in...

Reducere. DescriptionThe memorable characters and Venetian drama that have long captivated Donna Leon's many readers are on full display in The Temptation of...

Reducere. In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon's bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longsta...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Massimo RecalcatiTranslator: Alice KilgarriffNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 12C...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was ov...

Gregory knew he was different from a very early age. They say that experiencing certain factors, while growing up, can affect us in a positive or n...

Reducere. This edition presents the life and legacy of the legendary Indian Political Leader written by Romain Rolland, French novelist and Nobel Prize winne...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Chris MortensenIllustration(s): 65 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 164Collection: Special Publicatio...

Reducere. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the heart of the Middle East and merge in the area of Mesopotamia known as the cradle of civilization. ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Agnieszka KoscianskaTranslator: Marta RozmyslowiczNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

Reducere. This is the extended edition of Mahatma Gandhi's original and unabridged autobiography titledThe Story of My Experiments with Truth, with a new For...

The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his Department's involvement in Afghanistan from...

Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

Reducere. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German state-funded tel...

This story is not like any others. It depcits the story of two intrepid men that set out to become the most powerful men of all times. The adventur...

Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human ...

Reducere. An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In The Bomber Mafia, M...

How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing--and often unsettling--insights into the mysteries of the human mind.What do we see when we wa...

Reducere. A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every presid...

Reducere. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook, and changed, the world, in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads ...

Reducere. Discover the life of Gandhi--a story for kids ages 6 to 9 about building bridges to peace Gandhi was one of the most important leaders in history. ...

Reducere. "My purpose, " Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha,...

Reducere. Your best intentions are not enough. Learn to scientifically engineer a disciplined life, become relentless, and never give up. Whatever you want i...

Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer ...

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Moving through past, present and future, this is a family history that journeys between America, Pakistan, ...

DescriptionThis is the extended edition of Mahatma Gandhi's original and unabridged autobiography titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, co...

Reducere. In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the h...