An Enchanting Portrait of an Inimitable  Himalayan Woman in Her Seventies Whose Life and Wisdom  Illustrate the Strength and Resilience of the Human  Spirit. In 1973 Broughton Coburn Lived and Taught  School in a Subsistence Farming Village on the Edge  of Nepal's Himalayan Mountains. It Was There That  He Met and Deve..

Centred Around the Bold Voices of Millennials and Gen Zs, Smashing the Patriarchy Explores How Young Indian Women From Diverse Backgrounds Ingeniously Overcome the Patriarchy in Their Everyday Lives.From Beauty, Body Politics, and Sexuality, to Caste, Power, and the Paradox of Choice, the Book Explores a Wide Range of Women’s Issues and Draws Impor..

Data Is Fundamental to the Modern World. From Economic Development, to Healthcare, to Education and Public Policy, We Rely on Numbers to Allocate Resources and Make Crucial Decisions. But Because So Much Data Fails to Take Into Account Gender, Because It Treats Men as the Default and Women as Atypical, Bias and Discrimination Are Baked Into Our Sys..

Find Out How a Forest Is Made in This Beautiful Picture Book Written by Waterstones Award-winning Sally Nicholls and Illustrated by Rising Star Carolina Rabei.Who Makes a Forest? A Wizard, a Giant, an Emperor?Come on a Walk With Grandpa to Discover How a Forest Is Made, and See How a Thousand Tiny Things Can Come Together to Change the Face of the ..

An Inventor Since Childhood, Tesla's Patents Encompassed Everything From Radar and Remote-control Technology to Wireless Communications. But His Greatest Invention Was the Ac Induction Motor, Which Used Alternating Currents ( Ac) to Distribute Electricity and Which Remains the Standard for Electric Distribution Today.Tesla's Love of Animals Also Re..

A Parisian Pigeon Passionate About People Makes a New Friend – With Gentle Themes of Community and Inclusivity.Hugo the Pigeon Has an Important Job. He Looks After the Park and Everyone Who Lives There. Everyone Except for the Somebody Whose Curtains Are Never Open. But One Day, Hugo Is So Busy Doing His Showing-off Dance That He Doesn't See the Do..

Its Vast Infrastructure Projects Now Extend From the Ocean Floor to Outer Space, and From Africa's Megacities Into Rural America. China Is Wiring the World, and, in Doing So, Rewriting the Global Order.As Things Stand, the Rest of the World Still Has a Choice. But the Battle for Tomorrow Will Require America and Its Allies to Take Daring Risks in U..

Tendöl Namling Turned 60 in March 2019. She Was Born at the Time When the Dalai Lama Fled From Lhasa and the Uprising of His People by the Chinese People's Army Was Brutally Suppressed. She Has Lived for 22 Years Under Chinese Rule. As the Daughter of a High Government Official, She Underwent the Ordeal of 're-education' With Full Force. All She Ha..

Years Ago, When House of Leaves Was First Being Passed Around, It Was Nothing More Than a Badly Bundled Heap of Paper, Parts of Which Would Occasionally Surface on the Internet. No One Could Have Anticipated the Small but Devoted Following This Terrifying Story Would Soon Command. Starting With an Odd Assortment of Marginalized Youth -- Musicians, ..

Amy Chua's Remarkable and Provocative Book Explores the Tensions of the Post-cold War Globalising World. As Global Markets Open, Ethnic Conflict Worsens and Democracy in Developing Nations Can Turn Ugly and Violent. Chua Shows How Free Markets Have Concentrated Disproportionate, Often Spectacular Wealth in the Hands of Resented Ethnic Minorities - ..

The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It Was Always Difficult Being Harry Potter and It Isn't Much Easier Now That He Is an Overworked Employee of the Ministry of Magic, a Husband, and Father of Three School-age Children. While Harry Grapples With a Past That Refuses to Stay Where It Belon..

From We Need Diverse Books Fifteen Award-winning and Celebrated Diverse Authors Deliver Stories About a Princess Without Need of a Prince, a Monster Long Misunderstood, Memories That Vanish With a Spell, and Voices That Refuse to Stay Silent in the Face of Injustice.Alucard and Prince Rhy's Relationship in V.e. Schwab's Shades of Magic Series Is Fi..

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a rema..

A Turn in the South Is a Reflective Journey by V. S. Naipaul in the Late 1980s Through the American South.Naipaul Writes of His Encounters With Politicians, Rednecks, Farmers, Writers and Ordinary Men and Women, Both Black and White, With the Insight and Originality We Expect From One of Our Best Travel Writers. Fascinating and Poetic, This Is a Re..

Primo Levi Was One of the Most Astonishing Voices to Emerge From the Twentieth Century. This Landmark Selection of His Short Stories Opens Up a World of Wonder, Love, Cruelty and Curious Twists of Fate, Where Nothing Is as It Seems. In "the Fugitive" an Office Worker Composes the Most Beautiful Poem Ever With Unforeseen Consequences, While "Magic P..

Who Is an Indian? Who Is a Nationalist? Who Is Antinational? This Selection of Speeches, From 1930 to 1956, Shows Dr B.R. Ambedkar as the Most Original Among the Architects of Modern India as He Asks and Answers Such Difficult Questions. Whether He Was Dealing With the British or the Congress, His Commitment to Equality and Justice for Minorities R..

He Was Not Himself Because His Wife Was Not Herself, Because in Marriage You Acted and Reacted One Upon the Other, However Much You Wished It Otherwise, and Whether You Wanted to or No' Dandekar Is a Routine-bound Government Clerk Who Is Able to Provide His Family With a Comfortable Life but His Ordered Existence Is Thrown Off Course When, One Day,..

Myths and Legends Jostle With the Contemporary in These Stories Where Social Issues of Our Times Resonate With the Inevitability of the Past.The Lyricism of Carnatic Ragas Permeate the Pages of This Quiet and Powerful Book in Which Love Is Rendered in All Its Immeasurable Avatars—parental, Carnal, Platonic, Romantic, Divine. There Is the Woman Who ..

A Nights Drama : A Collection of Short Stories is written by the author Ammaraj Joshi...

A New Dawn Is a Story of Hope, Faith and Belief. Life Is Not Always a Basket of Ripe Cherries. Things Can Go Beyond the Control of Human Ability as the Unpredictability of Life Can Stir Chaos, Creating Frustration, Depression and Feelings of Unworthiness. However, No Matter What Life Has to Bring, There Is Always Hope, Giving Each Individual the Co..

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 Books for Penguin's 80th Birthday. Little Black Classics Celebrate the Huge Range and Diversity of Penguin Classics, With Books From Around the World and Across Many Centuries. They Take Us From a Balloon Ride Over Victorian London to a Garden of Blossom in Japan, From Tierra Del Fuego to 16th Century Californi..

On the Day That Jacob, an Anglo-dutch Trader, Agrees to Accept a Slave in Lieu of Payment for a Debt From a Plantation Owner, Little Florens's Life Changes Irrevocably.With Her Keen Intelligence and Passion for Wearing the Cast-off Shoes of Her Mistress, Florens Has Never Blurred Into the Background and Now at the Age of Eight She Is Uprooted From ..

A Poignant Novel About the Triumph of the Human Spirit Over Poverty’s Privations and Predicaments Ravi, the Son of a Peasant, Joins in the General Exodus Away From Destitution the Indifferent and Harsh Streets of the City Lead Him to the Underworld of Petty Criminals a Chance Misdeed Acquaints Him With Apu, a Tailor Ravi Begins Working as Apu’s App..

In the Spring of 1971, Rehana Haque Is Throwing a Party for Her Two Children. What She Does Not Know Is That, After Today, Their Lives Will Change Forever. For This Is East Pakistan, a Country Erupting Into War. As She Struggles to Keep Her Children Safe, Rehana Will Find Herself Faced With a Heartbreaking Dilemma. Set Against the Backdrop of the B..

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov Is Deemed an Unrepentant Aristocrat by a Bolshevik Tribunal, and Is Sentenced to House Arrest in the Metropol, a Grand Hotel Across the Street From the Kremlin. Rostov, an Indomitable Man of Erudition and Wit, Has Never Worked a Day in His Life, and Must Now Live in an Attic Room While Some of the Most Tumultuous Dec..