555 results for '"Gupta, Ashin Das'

Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators, and concubines...

Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and LondonThe Sassoons were prosperous as...

Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to...

DISCOVER THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, WITH MORE THAN 85 MILLION COPIES SOLD—AND DON’T MISS DAN BROWN’S NEW THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS!“Blockbuster perfection . . . a gleefully...

"Das Ordnen der Zeit"--Was heißt das? Zuerst: Die doppelte Natur der Zeit. Denn die Zeit ordnet von sich aus, durch sich als, Zeit', unterwirft die Menschen unter ihre Maße, Rhythmen. Die...

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters.  Yet he had a hard time finishing things,...

The Buddhist monk Upagupta, who preached and taught meditative practices in Northwest India over two thousand years ago, is venerated today by the laity in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos as a...

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career – from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the...

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life,...

Bernd Roecks Buch ist eine grundlegende, problemorientierte Einführung in den Umgang mit Kunstwerken als historische Quellen. Geschichtsschreibung ist bis heute weit überwiegend auf schriftliche...

From a prizewinning writer, a sweeping global history of the birth of nation-states and the consequences of their failure, for readers of Thomas Piketty and Timothy SnyderThe system of nation-states...

Das von Platon in einem seiner Meisterdialoge inszenierte Trinkgelage handelt vom Eros. Es ist die ideale Gelegenheit für inspirierte Reden über die Liebe: über die sinnliche ebenso wie über die...

A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India―the world’s largest democracy at a moment of transition.Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning...

Few things require a finer blend of practical knowledge and creative imagination than the invention of new technologies. Great innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Ford...

A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference.Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even...

**Winner of the 2017 Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage****Short-listed for the Orwell Prize and for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize**An extraordinary portrait of the...