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Author: Aiysha Sinclair
Publisher: Stranger Kids
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781939834300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn early readers prose book with spot illustrations. This book focuses on the magic of friendship with fairies of color and a little girl whose world is about to change forever. Even at a young age, we sometimes have to make difficult choices, and this book teaches a lesson of selflessness.
Author: Aiysha Sinclair
Publisher: Stranger Kids
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781939834300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn early readers prose book with spot illustrations. This book focuses on the magic of friendship with fairies of color and a little girl whose world is about to change forever. Even at a young age, we sometimes have to make difficult choices, and this book teaches a lesson of selflessness.
Author: Sebastian A. Jones
Publisher: Stranger Kids (An imprint of Stranger Comics)
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1939834147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes you Awesome? Whatever makes you... YOU! Join Jay, Nia, and their friends from the I Am Book Series to celebrate the things that make each child unique and special. I AM AWESOME engages the reader in subjects that include being brave, never giving up, and what it means to be a good friend. The book helps children discover identity through imagination, teaching kids to love themselves and enjoy what makes them Awesome! "I Am Awesome celebrates the innocent journey of self-discovery through imagination and creative wonder, and THAT is Awesome." Angie Harmon (from her foreword)
Author: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-06-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1400828651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
Author: Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 3030540960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.
Author: Joachim Küpper
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-12-20
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 3050064951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of “World Literature”, penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United States, India, Japan, the Middle East, England, France and Germany. The essays revolve around the question of what, specifically in today's rapidly globalizing world, may be the productive implications of the concept of World Literature, which was first developed in the 18th century and then elaborated on by Goethe. The discussions include problems such as different script systems with varying literary functions, as well as questions addressing the relationship between ethnic self-description and cultural belonging. The contributions result from a conference that took place at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, in 2012.
Author: Laxmi Narain
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRamana Maharshi, 1879-1950, Hindu philosopher and saint from Tamil Nadu, India.
Author: Guy Amirthanayagam
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-08-26
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1349049409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nanditha Krishna
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9351186911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.
Author: Saswati Sengupta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 3030267881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, and not as a moral or essential category, to examine some of the iconic disruptive women of Hindi cinema and to uncover the nexus between patriarchy and other hierarchies, such as class, caste and religion in these representations. The twenty-one essays examine the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s to the present day - both through in-depth analyses of single films and by tracing the typologies in multiple films. The essays are divided into five sections indicating the various gendered desires and rebellions that patriarchal society seeks to police, silence and domesticate.
