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This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and...

Brilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate's debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures, takes the form--visually and metaphorically--of an accessible art museum. Through nine sections that act as...

"Us V them: The age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014) is a look at the music and social history of 10 unlikely years in Bloomberg's New York, of a generation that was living through...

The classic guide to the birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti—now fully revised and updatedField Guide to the Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti is the essential guide to birdwatching in...

Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession. After moving with her family from New York City to suburban Pennsylvania, Edith's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her trapped...

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more. California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned...

#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain)A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the...

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with...

Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the...

From the beloved and bestselling Sir Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld fantasy series."In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet." That’s the old story...

Stories of the thrills and hardships faced by modern expeditions that continue to enhance our understanding of the world around us, now in a compact edition.This book profiles forty modern explorers...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh...

When Jens Stoltenberg took office as secretary general of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape...

January 2019 marked the centenary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish-German revolutionary whose actions provided long-lasting contributions to political philosophy and whose ideas on citizen...

Marking the fortieth anniversary of Please, the duo's first album release, the instant Sunday Times bestseller Pet Shop Boys Volume presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary...

Critical Path marks the masterwork of one of the finest minds and most significant thinkers of the modern ageR. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th...

From acclaimed scholar Willis Barnstone, The Restored New Testament -- newly translated from the Greek and informed by Semitic sources. In his monumental new translation and restructuring of the New...

A revised edition of the classic Led Zeppelin biography, featuring rich and substantial new materialRock writer Mick Wall draws on insider access, as former confidante to both Plant and Page, to...

A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual editionPoet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious...

Based on papers delivered at the 1976 meeting of the American Ethnological Society, American Indian Intellectuals of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries offers biographical sketches of major...