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The Oxford Handbook

of The Sociology

Of Religion

Rs. 3,750.00

This work draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world.

Notebooks

Leonardo da Vinci,

Rs. 245.00

This selection offers a cross section of his writings, organised around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a preface by martin kemp, one of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo.

Oxford Anthology of

The Brazilian Short Story

Rs. 2,640.00

This anthology contains a selection of short stories by the best known authors in Brazilian literature from the late 19th century to the present. English translations of these stories that were often published in obscure journals, many years apart, are here united in a coherent tradition representing Brazil’s modern, vibrant literary culture.

Taming The Infinite

Ian Stewart, Rs. 1,188.00

A captivating guide for non-mathematicians, this work is packed with dazzling ideas and fascinating asides, and contains over 100 illustrations and diagrams to illuminate a subject many dread, but which has made our world what it is today.

Studio And Cube

Brian O’Doherty,

Rs. 1,255.00

A follow-up to his seminal 1976 essays that critically dissected the abstract white space of the modern art gallery, this work turns its attention to the moment of art’s creation, exploring the mystique of the artist’s studio as the fecund space where inspiration occurs and the artwork is born.


The Penguin Book

of Schooldays: Recess

Rs. 399.00

This book brings together over fifty moving and human accounts of school, covering a period of 200 years, as seen through the eyes of some of the finest minds India has produced – from Lal Behari Dey and Dayananda Saraswati, to Vikram Seth and Amit Chaudhuri.

The Country Under

My Skin

Gioconda Belli,

Rs. 650.00

This memoir of the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer is a unique account of the Nicaraguan revolution, of meetings with Fidel Castro and exile in Costa Rica, and is the tale of political and romantic awakening as Belli learnt to fight against the shackles of society.

Genesis

Bernard Beckett,

Rs. 425.00

The island Republic has emerged from a ruined world. Its citizens live in enforced isolation – safe but not free. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues a girl from the sea…

Chaplin: The Tramp’s

Odyssey

Simon Louvish,

Rs. 1,295.00

This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who revelled in the clown’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes.


The Indian Clerk

David Leavitt, Rs. 399.00

A loving exploration of one of the greatest collaborations of the past century, this is a novel that brilliantly orchestrates questions of colonialism, sexual identity and the nature of genius.

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