142 results for '"Gupta, Anita'

Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type."Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted...

"The most promising debut I've read in decades." --Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country FriendsFrom brilliant new voice in fiction Bindu Bansinath, a darkly funny and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about...

Do the worlds religious traditions possess authentic, sexism-transcending, yet concrete, life-giving elements? Are they redeemable from structures of patriarchal domination that cause many women to...

The classic and contemporary readings in this collection represent the four most influential theories of truth – correspondence, pragmatist, coherence, and deflationary theories. A collection of...

The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present―following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines.In the summer of...

" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." ―Back Stage / Shoot"Mellencamp's ease of...

How do we know whether there are other minds besides our own? The problem of other minds raises many questions which are at the root of all philosophical investigations - how it is we know, what is...

A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875–1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for...

From legendary author and illustrator duo Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram comes the delightful sequel to the heartwarming picture book classic Guess How Much I Love You.Little Nutbrown Hare is out...

Group theory and topology are closely related. The region of their interaction, combining the logical clarity of algebra with the depths of geometric intuition, is the subject of Combinatorial Group...

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize“Dizzyingly...

From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting...

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of...

When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast...

A New York Times BestsellerA decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent.Her name is Dinah. In the...

Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a few bets at the track, when he gets picked up by a...

A woman's ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secrets and self-discovery by the bestselling author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave. Raised by her...

A highly illustrated, accessible guide to political art in the twenty-first century, including some of the most daring and ambitious artworks of recent timesWhy have so many artists turned to...

A classic anthology of writings on the legal status and lived experiences of women of colorNow in its second edition, the acclaimed anthology Critical Race Feminism presents over 40 readings on the...