Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries (Michell George)(Pevná vazba)

Temples of Deccan India: Hindu and Jain, 7th to 13th Centuries (Michell George)(Pevná vazba)

A visual exploration of the Deccan Indian architectural history. Contains maps guiding would-be travellers to these temple

Islamic Architecture of Deccan India (Michell George)(Pevná vazba)

Embraces the visual diversity of a rare subject, architecture of the Deccan, without sacrificing the vigour of academic

Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy (Jaffrelot Christophe)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls,

India: UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Jain Shikha)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning photographic survey of India's thirty-eight World Heritage Sites. UNESCO's World Heritage sites program aims to promote awareness and preservation of cultural heritage around the world. UNESCO chooses sites that have outstanding cultural value for all of humanity and has dedicated

Temple (Herbert George)(Pevná vazba)

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate

Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry (Fukagawa Hidetoshi)(Pevná vazba)

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West by imperial decree. During that time, a unique brand of homegrown mathematics flourished, one that was completely uninfluenced by developments in Western mathematics. People from all walks of life--samurai,

More than Real (Shulman)(Pevná vazba)

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our

The Partition of India (Talbot Ian)(Pevná vazba)

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and

Temple Alley Summer (Kashiwaba Sachiko)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder AwardA July/August 2021 Kids' Indie Next PickA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionWinner of a 2022 SCBWI Crystal Kite AwardFrom renowned Japanese children's author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer is a fantastical and mysterious adventure

Return to Sender: Revisiting John Hinde's Ireland (Kelly Paul)(Pevná vazba)

John Hinde was a pioneer of colour photography and one of the most successful postcard publishers in the world. His largest collection of postcards celebrated Ireland. He portrayed an island brightened by his imagination, a place where children were red-haired and freckled, the sun always shining,

Northeast India: A Place of Relations (Saikia Yasmin)(Pevná vazba)

Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search

Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister (Dimeo Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness of the European correspondence network now

Manual of Fertility Enhancing Hysteroscopy (Jain Shikha)(Pevná vazba)

This book is an illustrated and comprehensive compilation by experts in the field of fertility enhancing endoscopic surgery and assisted reproduction. This book catalogues full spectrum of diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy in the infertile

Life and Work of George Studdy, Bonzo (Babb Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (Conrad Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Across four centuries, Apache (Nd ) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their

Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health (Jain Shamini)(Pevná vazba)

A leading mind-body researcher provides an invaluable resource of solid scientific evidence for consciousness-based healing--along with practices anyone can use. Spontaneous remission, the placebo effect, and energy healing--these phenomena have baffled the medical community for decades. What do

India as a Pioneer of Innovation (Singh Harbir)(Pevná vazba)

What does innovation mean to and in India? What are the predominant sites of activity where Indians innovate, and under what situations do they work or fail? This book addresses these all-important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business

Under the Whispering Door (Klune Tj)(Pevná vazba)

A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND INDIE BESTSELLEROne of Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2022!An Indie Next Pick!A Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist for Fantasy NovelA Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and

Saint George and the Dragon (Hodges Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

A Caldecott Medal-winning tale of bravery, perseverance, and peace. Saint George and the Dragon retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings joy to the land

Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India (Matthews Roderick)(Pevná vazba)

How can we explain the establishment and longevity of British rule in India without recourse to the clich�s of imperial versus nationalist interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews offers a more nuanced view: one of oblige and rule, the foundation of common purpose between

Poems from the Satsai (Biharilal)(Pevná vazba)

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows. In his Satsai, or Seven Hundred Poems, the seventeenth-century poet Biharilal draws on a rich vernacular tradition, blending amorous narratives about the god

Bracelets for Bina's Brothers (Larocca Rajani)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling For the Hindu holiday of Raksha Bandhan, Bina is determined to make beaded bracelets for her brothers all by herself. She finds out which colors her brothers like and dislike and sets to work. Working with her every-other-one beading pattern

Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307 (Pilling David)(Pevná vazba)

The late 13th century witnessed the conquest of Wales after two hundred years of conflict between Welsh princes and the English crown. In 1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the only native Prince of Wales to be formally acknowledged by a King of England, was slain by English forces. His brother Dafydd

Curious George and the Firefighters (Rey H. A.)(Pevná vazba)

George and the man with the yellow hat take a trip to the firehouse where George finds all sorts of new things to explore. When one curious monkey meets a company of unsuspecting firefighters, a big adventure is sure to