Gay & Lesbian

This book, divided into two parts, is an attempt at understanding the inter-play ofsocio-cultural ideas in the development of India life through the ages of itsexistence. The first part explains how, after 56 years of independence, Indian society is adapting itself to the changed environment. T... More

This book presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and modern fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same-sex love in various forms sin... More

"Parmesh Shahani is an original...This book will inspire and provoke many interested in understanding the intersections between sexuality, globalization, and new media."-Henry Jenkins, Author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide"Gay Bombay is a must-read! Shifting seamlessly throu... More

What is research and what is the best approach to research for development? What are the different ways in which research is used in development work? This handbook answers these questions with tremendous ease and, in the process, helps to do away with the myth that research is only meant for resear... More

This book makes a psycho-social study of HIV/AIDS. Tracing the origin and spread of this deadliest disease across the world, it critically analyses pre-and post-psyche of AIDS patients, with special emphasis on faulty sexual exercise-co-marital sex swinging, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, pedophil... More

While mainstream society tends to marginalize men who have sex with men, there has been, side by side, a growing recognition of the need to protect the rights and freedom of individuals and groups like these. This work analyzes extensive data collected through formal networks of men who have sex wit... More

This book explores the matrix of ideas and ideologies that paved the way for the intense intellectual, social and political ferment of post-revolutionary Europe. Its focus on the texts of Jacobin women novelists such as Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and Charlotte Smith strongly ... More

It is a stealthy silence that is challenged in an inspiring volume on sexuality in contemporary Indian culture. This anthology is a timely intervention that not only attempts to locate sex as a tangible truth in an Indian context but also inspires a hundred questions regarding hidden contours.... More

While mainstream society tends to marginalize men who have sex with men, there has been, side by side, a growing recognition of the need to protect the rights and freedom of individuals and groups like these. This work analyzes extensive data collected through formal networks of men who have sex wit... More

Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It's a love story too.... More

The Universe: A Biography tells the life story of the entire universe as it actually happened, from the very beginning.Here John Gribbin makes cosmology accessible to everyone, answering the most fundamental questions in science in the most exciting and appealing way possible. He reveals the secrets... More

Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another winner--a sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores some of today's toughest and most controversial issues.Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another sexy, shocking, and immensely satisfying novel that explores som... More

Oh, that delicious, unforgettable first time. These lusty, passionate, exciting stories recount all kinds of sexy, sweaty firsts between women: first-time strap-ons, spankings, and role-playing, first loves and first affairs. This collection gathers the best true stories inspired by the most memorab... More

Raised by a loving family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder is sheltered from the worst of the Victorian underworld until it becomes her turn to make the clan's fortune. She must help a professional rogue named Gentleman marry an heiress and then steal the girl's inheritance by declaring her insane. Su... More

This sequel to Sanchez's critically acclaimed "Rainbow Boys" is a captivating and honest depiction that goes straight to the heart of what it means to be young and gay in America.Jason Carrillo, the best-looking athlete in school, has had his eyes on the prize from day one: a scholarship for college... More

With personal stories from addicts and their significant others, this updated essential resource offers realistic healing strategies for anyone experiencing the devastating impact of Internet pornography and sex addiction on intimacy, relationships, career, health, and self-respect.... More

Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict--a tweaker-- chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psychorobbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God.So begins Patrick Mo... More

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, burea... More