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The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Rs. 295.00
This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focussing on the delicate balance between `career' and `legend.'
Chimes of Freedom
Mike Marqusee,
Rs. 395.00
Re-establishing Dylan's sixties' master works in their historical context, the book sheds new light on both the songs and the era that produced them. This work tells the story of an irascible individual artist in a period of great social upheaval, a mass movement for social change and the complex relationship between the two.
The Dating Game
Cherry Lewis, Rs. 795.00
This is the story of one man's vision of developing a geological timescale that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth. Arthur Holmes, a 20th century geologist fought to convince the establishment of an Earth of great antiquity.
The African Dream
Ernesto `Che' Guevara,
Rs. 484.00
The previously unpublished diaries of the revolutionary are presented in a full and honest form, so as to reveal the reasons, doubts, strategies and ultimate disappointments of Guevara's time in the Congo.
Politics of Friendship
Jacques Derrida,
Rs. 1,180.00
`O my friends, there is no friend.' This strange and provocative address, attributed to Aristotle and interrogated and re-inflected by many philosophers, provides the focus and keynote for the ten chapters of Derrida's long-awaited book.
Camera Obscura
of Ideology
Sarah Kofman,
Rs. 1,875.00
This is a tightly argued discussion of the camera obscura and the visual more generally, in learned and well-crafted essays that present a critique of metaphor and ideologies.
The Rajas of Cochin
Hugo K.s'Jacob,
Rs. 425.00
Based on the archives of the Dutch East India Company, this study shows how a special reading of these sources throws a new light on the history of the realm of Cochin in the period 1663-1720.
Aranyak: Of the Forest
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya, Rs. 425.00
Composed between 1937-39 this work was based on the author's long, arduous years in Bihar, where he came into contact with a part of the world that, even now, remains unknown to most of us.
The Color Purple
Alice Walker, Rs. 336.00
Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls `father,' she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her sister and is trapped into an ugly marriage...
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