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Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply...

A history of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century bridges and the engineers that built them covers James Eads and the Mississippi River bridge, Othman Ammann and the George Washington bridge,...

Family Matters - 9780375703423Author: Rohinton MistryPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: Nov 18, 2003Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 037570342XISBN-13:...

Giovanni's RoomAuthor: James BaldwinPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: January 01, 2013Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0345806565ISBN-13: 9780345806567

Surprisingly little is known about the siege of Kohima, considered a game-changing event that altered the course of world history during the Second World War. His Majesty's Headhunters adds to our...

Invisible ManAuthor: Ralph EllisonPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: January 01, 1995Number of Pages: 581 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0679732764ISBN-13: 9780679732761

A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was...

...unmatched in its meticulous and careful research into the wellsprings of a truly unique relationship between two neighbouring states.' SHYAM SARAN 'Ranjit Rae's portrayal of India-Nepal relations...

Spiritual diary of a former United Nations Secretary-General.Author: Dag HammarskjoldPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: October 10, 2006Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Mumbai was almost submerged on the fatal noon of 26 July 2005, when the merciless downpour and cloudburst had spread utter darkness and horror in the heart of the city. River Mithi was inundated, and...

Surrender Or Starve: Travels In Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, And EritreaAuthor: Robert D. KaplanPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: Nov 11, 2003Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You AreAuthor: Alan WattsPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: August 28, 1989Number of Pages: 163 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Three individuals--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reprint...

A man's confessions reveal his perception of justice and his own downfallAuthor: Albert CamusPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: May 07, 1991Number of Pages: 147 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The great poet Ghalib, part of a long tradition of eclectic liberalism, found Benaras so compelling that he wrote his longest poem on the holy city, 'Chiragh-e-Dair' (Mandir Ka Diya or Lamp in the...

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of AnxietyAuthor: Alan W. WattsPublisher: Vintage BooksPublication Date: February 08, 2011Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...