Amitav Ghosh, Queen s College, CUNY, author of The Glass Palace and In an Antique Land This is a quirky and fascinating book brilliant and exasperating in equal measure which gives one a unique insight into theexperience of an Indian ...

Will Durant, Ariel Durant. 3 C provincial ear ; we are like the philosophical poodle Riquet , who says of M. Bergeret ... in author , praetor , rhetor ) , ic , al , and ly ( = like ) . Again , the Sanskrit root ar , to plough ...

Schmidtberger's tales span the decades with a clear-eyed gaze, reflecting a cultural legacy that laid the foundation for a life well-lived, and illustrating the deep cultural changes in America between the 1930s and today.

With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

This edition also includes drawings by the famous illustrator, Howard Pyle, making it a beautiful book as well as a book that will fascinate anyone who is interested in the stories of King Arthur and wants to learn more about them.

The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the ...

Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.

According to the prophecy of "the last Pope" takes from St. Malachy's "Prophecy of the Popes, " the Pope who follow Pope Benedict XVI will be the false prophet who leads the world's religious communities into embracing the political leader ...

... in author Karachi of a when viciously I first anti-India heard the book ... Durant's lifetime achievement is his eleven volume series The Story of Civilisation a monumental set of volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel ...