Arts & Photography

This engaging, entertaining book reveals all the secrets about this wildly gifted man, from his prescient inventions and his lost art to his animal rights activism--not to mention his enemies and allies in the dark, turbulent world of his time. Young Adult.Thanks To The international bestseller The ... More

Monuments, Objects, Histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, ... More

The book showcases India's fifty finest heritage hotels, spread across the subcontinent. The hotels featured cater to all pocketbooks -- budget, mid-price and luxury. With an elegant layout and lavishly illustrated with high quality photographs, this book also provides useful information about the ... More

This updated guide to video production features tips on all aspects of filming from camera operation and placement to digital postproduction techniques. New material stresses the fine points of cutting-edge video techniques such as digital effects, the HOTstudio, and posting video on the Internet. C... More

Rarely has the subject of erotica come under the serious purview of Indian art. Grossly under-represented and misused as a source of titillation by some; a marketing principle by others-erotica has finally found the focus it deserves with this book. From the earliest terracotta images of the Mother ... More

Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts w... More

Book DescriptionThis book takes an original approach to engineering design communication by combining traditional engineering graphical communication with design modeling, and incorporating the assistance of a CAD tool. Through the use of practical examples and a straightforward writing style, Engin... More

The extraordinary photographs of Johnathan Watts allow us to witness the richness of the Hindu rituals of Kerala and perfectly portray the diversity of peoples and customs in this colourful southern Indian state. The contrasts here are many: light and dark, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, fire a... More

His wife lay sleeping, their son by her side. For a moment, he hesitated: should he wake her up? He decided otherwise, fearing that their parting would be made harder. He called for his charioteer, asked for his horse and left palace life behind forever. He was the Buddha.... More

Tucked away between India and Tibet lies the legendary kingdom of Bhutan. Stunning photographs document the traditions, customes and architecture of this ancient land.... More

Jane Eyre is an orphan who is ill-treated by her rich aunt and sent off to a badly-managed boarding school. Her only friends are Helen Burns, a fellow student and Miss Temple,her teacher. Jane completes her studies and then becomes a teacher in the same school. Tired of leading a dreary life, she se... More

This is a collection of 51 stories, some from Sufi sources, charmingly narrated by the author, Mirza Yawar Baig. These stories are essentially parables. While they have excellent entertainment value what is more important are the messages they convey of brotherhood, understanding of one’s being an... More

Ajanta & Ellora enclose grand, mysterious and awe-inspiring cave temples, located in a horseshoe-shaped hillside in the state of Maharastra in India. Some of the world's most beautiful frescos and sculptures encompassing Buddhist, Hindu and Jain beliefs have been found here. Beautiful photographs ca... More

This richly illustrated text reproduces some of the finest examples of Indian sculpture, with an extensive commentary on the importance of the art of carving, modeling, and casting in the Indian civilization for over 4,000 years.... More

Sacred Buddhist Painting is a lucid and readable account of thangka painting - a form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. Tibetans were often advised by their religious preceptors to commission a painting for the 'removal' of physical or mental obstacles, or to create the prereq... More