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The Indian sub-continent has long been involved in global capitalism. While some parts of India are like the Global North in terms of lifestyle and wealth, the majority is clearly part of the poor and exploited Global South. As the state and the market became key actors in the economy, GDP growth has emerged as the central policy goal. Presently, as a rapidly growing economy with widening inequality and huge environmental problems, India needs...

Writing on the lives of the Mahars of Maharashtra, Baby Kamble reclaims memory to locate Mahar society before the impact of Babasaheb Ambedkar, and tells a powerful tale of redemption wrought by a fiery brand of individual and collective self-awareness. The Prisons We Broke is a graphic revelation of the inner world of Mahars, and the oppressive caste and patriarchal tenets of Indian society but nowhere does the writing descend into self-pity....

We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further complicated in a post-fact world, where our identities and perception have become the final judges of truth. Sociology/social anthropology, in contrast, rests on a fundamental distinction between commonsense and theoretically informed knowledge. It teaches us to get rid of perceptions and alerts us t...

Marrying in South Asia looks closely at the changing notions and practices of marriage in Bangladeshi, Pakistani and south Indian Muslims, Bhutanese ethnic groups, Nepali widows, the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, south Asian gays and lesbians, middle class and urban, working class communities, and many other groups. With the globalising world as the backdrop, the essays in this volume examine the processes that make a marriage, the implications o...

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Aideen O'Rourke has overhead a murder and runs for her life. Sent to the town of Elmton by a contact, she is greeted by Samuel Harding. Soon both of them are involved in the mystery of why someone wants to Aideen kidnapped for knowledge she doesn't understand she has. Kidnappings, assaults and attempted murder fill their lives as they and their friends as well as Samuel's PI father struggle to determine who is behind it all and bring them to j...

The Dreamer - The Beginning is the first in a series of novels that follows the life of Tris (the Dreamer), his father Tor, and their friend and neighbor, Black Wolf. At the time of Earth's last Great Glacial Period, Europe was inhabited by at least two peoples: the Neanderthal and the Cro-Magnon. Although this primitive world was filled with a harsh and stunning beauty, it was also a brutally difficult period in mankind's history. Humans stru...

In a world of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a series unlike any you've ever read before. With Age of Mystics, Chris Walters has begun a genuine masterpiece, bringing the modern world into the world of mystical power and conflict. A blend of intrigue, adventure, battle, and romance fill the pages of this landmark saga, the first volume in an epic series which will delight fantasy fans everywhere. Age of Mystics Book One of the ...

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Marie Antoinette and her best friend Babette overcome the dangers of baton twirling through an exciting trip to see the local veterinarian. Be ready to laugh, giggle, or guffaw as these two experience the silliness of ahistorical life together.

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I had everything under control…until I hired Alice. My mother's death shattered my family and I was left to raise my brothers. Now I run an empire and nothing will stand in my way as I expand Stag Law. And then Alice Peterson came along. The new corporate chef is supposed to give my company an edge, but Alice Peterson is anything but corporate. Wild and spicy as her food, Alice sweeps into Stag Law and drives me to distraction. I don't l...

Como ya es habitual en los textos de René Rodríguez Soriano, la musicalidad de su prosa y ese ritmo sutil y vertiginoso con el que va envolviéndolo todo, en No les guardo rencor, papá, de nuevo nos invita a vivir momentos y lugares que, aunque por circunstancias de la vida, estuvieran lejos en el tiempo y el espacio terminarían pareciéndonos tan cercanos y tan nuestros, como si hubiéramos estado allí. Como en un fresco coral y a viva voz, u...

This volume represents the initiation of the author as a publishing poet.

This is the second poetry book by Thomas Cory Myers including songs, stories and quotes.

Het boekje bevat een selectie van columns die de auteur schreef naar aanleiding van de reizen die hij samen met zijn echtgenote en dochter maakte en columns over hedendaagse onderwerpen die hij grappig of interessant genoeg vond om over te schrijven.

IRDA EDIZIONI Cos'è la Fede se non quel suono di pace che invade completamente l'anima e nutre il cuore di tutto quel canto che è il respiro Dio. Vivere la Fede, sentirla, sentirsi rinati nel silenzio del Cielo, è forse l'esperienza più incredibile che un uomo possa sperimentare. Perché quando tutto è scontato, quando al di là del vetro il mondo non è altro che lotta, paura, violenza, intolleranza ci si accorge che c'è qualcosa che va oltr...

A collection of short stories, reminiscences, poems, personal letters, recollections, prose, observations, anecdotes, remembrances, experiences, tributes, quotes and appreciations. There's comedy, tragedy, beauty, inclemency, matters of significnce and of nothingness, and this book is one man's view of the building blocks of love, life, and time. There have been more interesting lives lived, more dramatic, more daring, intriguing... but ...