15 results for 'jain slisti'

The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory pieces from two American icons "Your heart and world will be opened by reading The Brass Notebook, the...

Injury offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. The book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture, rather than as a tool...

Injury offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. The book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture, rather than as a tool...

Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of...

Discover the pleasure and deliciousness of vegan versions of favorite Indian foods—part of Workman’s new series of passionate plant-based cookbooks.Whether new to the world of plant-based cooking or...

"Lively text and heartwarming artwork show young readers how fun and exciting it can be to share one's culture with friends. This book introduces children to Diwali, also known as the Festival of...

This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old...

India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a...

"Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's 'The Communist Manifesto'. Taking the intertwined development of...

Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India,...

Trees don’t grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest.What can one person do in the face of global environmental degradation? Jadav Payeng is just a boy in northeast India when the...

Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from...