Celebrate Ravi's birthday this year with selected Defective Detectives adventures where Rahul and Ravi try to solve cases with their Bunkum Trunkum gadgets. 1. Snigger at the Defective Detectives as they try to find who stole their batteries and chargers in Power Trip. 2. The Defective Detectives have found a new case of missing milk! Tag along with them in Milk Wars to find out what bizarre turn this will take! 3. The Defective Detectives have a whacky new case to solve! Help them find the pot thief and laugh out loud along the way in Something’s Stirring. Read this stories and many more!
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Half down-and-dirty adventure and half inspirational memoir, this title documents an unusual pilgrimage taken by earthy scientist Nick Scott and fastidious Buddhist monk Ajahn Sucitto, who together retraced the Buddha's footsteps through India.
This is a book for cinephiles, pure and simple. Author and filmmaker, Jim Piper, shares his vast knowledge of film and analyzes the most striking components of the best movies ever made. From directing to cinematography, from editing and music to symbolism and plot development, The Film Appreciation Book covers hundreds of the greatest works in cinema, combining history, technical knowledge, and the art of enjoyment to explain why some movies have become the most treasured and entertaining works ever available to the public, and why these movies continue to amaze viewers after decades of notoriety. Read about such classic cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane, Gandhi, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, True Grit, Gone With the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz, as well as more recent accomplishments in feature films, such as Requiem for a Dream, Munich, The King’s Speech, and The Hurt Locker. Piper breaks down his analysis for you and points out aspects of production that movie-lovers (even the devoted ones) would never recognize on their own. This book will endlessly fascinate, and by the time you get to the last chapter, you’re ready to start all over again. In-depth analysis and thoughtful and wide-ranging film choices from every period of cinema history will ensure that you never tire of this reading companion to film. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
This meticulously edited Rabindranath Tagore collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Poetry: My Golden Bengal (Amar Shonar Bangla) The Morning Song of India (Jana Gana Mana) Gitanjali The Gardener Fruit-Gathering The Crescent Moon: The Home On The Seashore The Source Baby's Way The Unheeded Pageant Sleep-Stealer The Beginning Baby's World When And Why Defamation The Judge Playthings The Astronomer Clouds And Waves The Champa Flower Fairyland The Land Of The Exile The Rainy Day Paper Boats The Sailor The Further Bank The Flower-School The Merchant Sympathy Vocation Superior The Little Big Man Twelve O'clock Authorship The Wicked Postman The Hero The End The Recall The First Jasmines The Banyan Tree Benediction The Gift My Song The Child-Angel The Last Bargain Stray Birds Lover's Gift and Crossing The Fugitive: Kacha and Devayani Ama and Vinayaka The Mother's Prayer Somaka and Ritvik Karna and Kunti The Child Songs of Kabir Novels & Short Stories: The Home and the World The Hungry Stones The Victory Once There Was a King The Home-Coming My Lord, The Baby The Kingdom of Cards The Devotee Vision The Babus of Nayanjore Living or Dead? "We Crown Thee King" The Renunciation The Cabuliwallah Mashi The Skeleton The Auspicious Vision The Supreme Night Raja and Rani The Trust Property The Riddle Solved The Elder Sister Subha The Postmaster The River Stairs The Castaway Saved My Fair Neighbour Master Mashai The Son of Rashmani Plays: The Post Office Chitra The Cycle of Spring The King of the Dark Chamber Sanyasi, or the Ascetic Malini Sacrifice The King and the Queen Essays & Lectures: Sadhana: The Realisation of Life Personality Nationalism The Centre of Indian Culture Thought Relics The Spirit of Japan Creative Unity Oriental and Occidental Music Letters: Glimpses of Bengal Letters of Tagore My Reminiscences – Autobiography
An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore’s pleasure district The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha’s daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of one Lahori courtesan. Beautifully understated, it turns a novelist’s eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, at fourteen a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to the Sultan of Dubai; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the Sultan come calling once more.
