The author of the acclaimed "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" takes readers to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency in Nepal challenges the old way of life--and opens up a grasping world of conflicting desires.
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Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCITP Exam 70-623 and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to ...
Dimple, a 17-year-old girl living in New Jersey feels torn between the world occupied by her traditional, Indian-born parents and that of the America she calls home. Dimple is appalled when her parents set her up with a "suitable" Indian boy named Karsh, a boy whom she immediately rejects as too soft-spoken. Then, when Dimple sees Karsh in another ...
"The Ayurvedic Cookbook" gives a fresh new perspective on this ancient art of self-healing. Over 250 taste-tested recipes are specifically designed to balance each constitution, with an emphasis on simplicity, ease and sound nutrition.
"The Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine" provides a unique approach to laboratory test interpretation that is not readily available in standard textbooks. This reference leads the healthcare professional from abnormal lab test result to diagnosis through a series of logical steps, within the context of the patient's clinical presentation. By ...
Uma is the eldest and plainest child in an Indian family and, well into middle age, she is still single, caring for her aging parents. Her privileged, American-educated brother becomes involved with a Massachusetts family whose luxurious lifestyle contrasts starkly with the life of Uma and her parents back in India. Told first from Uma's point of ...
Sampath Chawla is a failure--at school, at work, at life in general. Then, quite unexpectedly, he achieves fame and recognition as a holy man. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set forth on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in the cycles of ...
Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a ...
The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought together to present a comprehensive overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Building on the success of the first ...
A Calcutta native explores the multiple paradoxes of the city, giving personal insight into its unique history and modern identity as reflected in literature, cinema, and music. Illustrations. Maps.
As a child, Hugo Baumgartner lost his family to the Nazis. Growing up in India, he is unsure of his identity, and unable to commit himself to either culture.
The 2nd Edition includes four Study Guides: "MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2003 Network Environment Management and Maintenance Study Guide (70290)", "MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Implementation, Management, and Maintenance Study Guide (70291)", "MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Planning and Maintenance Study ...
The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty ...
Ezra Pound was a major figure in the American and European literary world in the last century. He was also notoriously indicted for treason in a US court - but judged unfit to stand trial and incarcerated in a mental hospital for thirteen years. His anti-semitic and fascist views are well-known. But he also wrote a great deal of economics. He ...
This title is an introduction to the magnificent world of the Khajuraho temples; their history, patronage, court culture, religion, iconography, and distinctive features of the sculptures and architecture. Addressed to the general reader by an expert on the subject, this book systematically describes the twenty-two temples and the three museums at ...
Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women working in their communities for change. The essays examine ...
This collection of stories (translated from Urdu by Tahita Naqvi and Syeda S. Hameed) ably fleshes out the intimacies of middle-class Indian women's lives with wit and irony.
Asked to interview India's greatest poet, Nur, Deven sees a way to escape the miseries of life as a small-town scholar. But the old man he finds deep in the bazaars of Old Delhi bears no resemblance to the idol of his youth. Deven is fooled, bullied and cheated, and drawn into a new captivity.
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