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Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price....

India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protected by a vulture from a pack of wolves....

Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years....

From victims to victims to victors, this collection of stories contains intricate details of 13 women who went on to leave their permanent mark on the face of the Mumbai Mafiosi....

The author, Devdutt Pattanaik, introduces listeners to the varied aspects and representations of Shiva, and then sets about interpreting them....

Returning to Kyoto, where temple bells announce the New Year, a grave and penitent Oki is drawn to a haunting obsession from his past....

Connect the Dots is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without MBAs who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves....

Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking and smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her....

Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, king of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest....

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women entered Bastar in 1980 and created a powerful movement....

No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar...

Taken literally, stories, symbols and rituals of Hindu mythology have much to say about gender relationships. Taken symbolically, they reveal many more things....

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

Do Kadam Aur Sahi is an excellent compilation of selected poems by the renowned Urdu poet Rahat Indoori. The compiler, Sachin Chaudhary, has named the collection as ‘selected pearls of the ocean’. The magic that flows from the pen of Rahat Indauri gives a different feeling....

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism....

Naraz has many references that reflect the resenting virtue of Rahat Indori. A lyricist of films par excellence, and a master of literature in college, he is a famous poet loved by all - who also accomplishes in playing with colours and lines....

Dr. Bashir Badra is considered an Urdu poet of such stature, who has not only transcended into his readers' hearts and minds through the fame of his published couplets but also into the literary hall of fame of well-received Urdu poets....

Ajay is fighting demons in his mind after losing his wife. Ten years of togetherness and a harsh twist of fate have thrown him into the pit of depression. With medication and therapy helping him fight his immense grief, there is only one ray of hope for him–he wants to immortalize his wife....

In India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination....

Khushwant Singh's Big Book of Malice brings together some of his nastiest and most irreverent pieces. Witty, sharp, and brutally honest, this collection is certain to delight and provoke listeners of all ages....

Arise, Awake is the story of young entrepreneurs who started a business while studying in college or right after graduation, turning their backs on lucrative placements to pursue dreams....

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road....

The goals of the budo - the martial arts and ways of Japan - lie in refining the body and spirit. These goals are not always the obvious ones - and are learned only through the guidance and direction of great teachers....

This volume offers a complete translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon....

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued....

Hojoki is an introspective poem written in the 13th century by the enigmatic Japanese hermit Kamo no Chomei, who as a young man served in the capital as official court poet, but later in life withdrew from society.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

Ein humorvoller und einfühlsamer Roman über Menschen auf der Suche nach dem kleinen und großen Glück – der Millionen-Bestseller aus Südkorea zum Wohlfühlen! In einer schmalen Gasse eines alten Stadtteils von Seoul befindet sich Frau Yeoms kleiner Gemischtwarenladen. Täglich kreuzen sich hier die Wege ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen. Der obdachlose Dok-go versucht sein Leben neu zu ordnen, und fängt als Nachtschichtarbeiter in dem Laden an. Schnell merkt er, dass er nicht der einzige ist, den Sorgen und Nöte umtreiben.

人間・孔子が生きている　青年は「礼」のみを携え　乱世に飛び込んだ

Your book is a compilation of speeches of research papers on essays written in different contexts. These include linguistics, dialect philosophy, folk grammar, and folk wisdom.

Vietnam, 1969: Die Schwestern Trang und Quỳnh wachsen in einem Dorf auf, wo sie die Reisfelder ihrer verarmten Eltern bestellen. Als sie hören, in Saigon wäre es leicht, Arbeit zu finden, machen sich die jungen Frauen auf den Weg. In Saigon lernt Trang einen amerikanischen Soldaten kennen und stürzt sich in den Wirren des Krieges in eine Affäre, die nicht ohne Folgen bleibt.

Giappone. È la sera di Capodanno e Miho e Maho, ancora bambine, ricevono dalla nonna Kotoko una prima paghetta tutta per loro, accompagnata da queste parole: "Il modo in cui spenderete i soldi può decidere la vostra vita". Le due sorelle sono troppo piccole per capire, e si comportano in modo opposto: Miho li spende subito per qualcosa di futile; Maho invece compra un borsellino per custodire quelli che guadagnerà in futuro. A vent’anni di distanza, Miho ripensa a quell’episodio quando scopre che il fidanzato vorrebbe che lei smettesse di lavorare dopo il matrimonio.

Un romanzo sull'amore, la perdita e la forza del destino. Un libro imperdibile per chi ha amato Mille splendidi soli e Le pagine della nostra vita. Roya e Bahman si incontrano in una piccola libreria di Teheran. Giovani e pieni di ideali, decidono di sposarsi. Ma la Storia ha altri piani: è il 1953, l'anno del colpo di Stato che cambiò l'Iran per sempre e Bahman scompare durante i tumulti cittadini. Roya, distrutta dal dolore, si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti per ricominciare da zero. Dopo oltre sessant'anni, ritrova Bahman e – con lui – tutte le risposte che cercava da una vita intera.

A Izumi, trentacinquenne separata che ogni sera alla stessa ora rientra dal suo lavoro part-time, quando vede una ragazza pronta a lanciarsi sui binari. Chiyoko, così si chiama la ragazza, ha sul viso l’aria apatica di chi non ha ormai alcun rimpianto, eppure esercita un’inspiegabile attrazione su Izumi. A bordo di un vecchio pulmino Volkswagen, Izumi decide perciò di raggiungere insieme a lei un posto che ha la fama di possedere il cielo e le stelle più belli di tutto il Giappone.

Художественная манера Сайкаку замечательна своей неоднозначностью. На глазах у читателя постоянно происходят метаморфозы и чудеса: автор без устали меняет маски, превращаясь из моралиста и бытописателя в лукавого, неистощимого на выдумки и шутки рассказчика. "Смех, – писал Сайкаку, – бывает двух видов: пустой и тот, что идет из глубины сердца. Человек же подобен сосуду, вмещающему в себя ложь или правду". Ирония, сарказм, пародийный гротеск – излюбленные приемы автора, но в смехе его слышна печаль о превратности жизни и человеческой судьбы.

Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah’s poems reach for divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure. These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, intergenerational suffering, and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.

The "Stories of Poems by Famous Tang and Song Dynasty Poets" series, specifically the "Tang Poetry" section, carefully selects over a hundred well-known poems from 35 Tang Dynasty poets. By explaining the poets' life experiences and anecdotes, it vividly portrays the social environment and cultural atmosphere of that era. With a balance of informative content and storytelling, it's easy to understand and convenient for children to enhance their learning interests!

Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa, was born of the Sioux Nation, the Lakota tribe. Here as no where else is described the sacred and beautiful life of the American Indian before the appearance of the white man and afterwards.

Nel quartiere di Yotsuya, a Tokyo, c’è un piccolo locale, uno shokudo, specializzato in oden, tipiche zuppe giapponesi, e stuzzichini a base di ingredienti di stagione: dal cavolo fermentato servito a dicembre ai fichi al vapore in salsa di miso a luglio. Rinfrancati dal borbottio dei pentoloni fumanti e dalle novità dei piatti del giorno, gli avventori si stringono lungo il bancone a L per condividere storie e sapori perduti, davanti a un boccale di birra alla spina o a un bicchierino di sakè, mentre Tamazaka Megumi, la proprietaria, si destreggia da sola tra i fornelli e la sala.

Le storie che compongono ArtifiCina – terza raccolta di racconti di fantascienza cinese in doppia lingua - esplorano il rapporto tra la natura “naturale” e quella “artificiale”, che rappresenta ormai uno dei tratti salienti della cultura cinese contemporanea.