Writing India

Reducere. (With a preface by W. Y. Evans-Wentz) Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramhansa Yogananda and his encounters with spi...

It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colorful and exotic periods in British cultural history. He unrolls an insider's tale o...

Reducere. This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the uncon...

Reducere. A remarkable collection of deeply felt writings on the experience of studying the embodied spiritual discipline of Bharata Natyam, the Classical Da...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2019SHORT-LISTED FOR THE NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE, 2019A 2018 New Statesman Book of...

Reducere. 'A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity.' Sarah WatersA sudden death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of love le...

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European langu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vic DicaraWith: Vraja Kishor DasOver a decade of dedicated researchOver a year of writing and editingWith the blessings and...

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Cond , however, cooking implies creativity and personal i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga med...

Reducere. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

Reducere. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The ...

Reducere. Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, wher...

To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival ...

Reducere. As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) was possessed by an enormous subject--India--an...

"Exemplary for its organization and writing, this work is likely to become the standard single-volume text on Buddhism for the student, whether wit...

Reducere. B.R. Ambedkar's 'Annihilation of Caste' is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is ...

"Armed with wit, insight, and truly astonishing research, Geoffrey Falk utterly demolishes the notion of the enlightened guru who can lead devotees...

DescriptionFocusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. Ant...

Akbarnāma, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose a...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursio...

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

- For the first time, a lavishly illustrated book shows how traditional handmade rugs and carpets have become vehicles for contemporary trends and ...

Reducere. Working in Mumbai is a critical reflection on thirty years of the practice of RMA Architects. Rahul Mehrotra weaves a narrative to connect his mult...

The success of the first edition of Econometrics by Example, from best-selling author Damodar Gujarati, can be attributed to the example-led, learn...