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Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a crucial role in defining it, Idioms of love have a long history, and within every society there is always more than one discourse, be it prescriptive, religious or gender-specific, availabl... More

Rails is one of the leading frameworks for developing the new generation of Web 2.0 applications using the increasingly popular Ruby scripting language. This title is for all web developers, regardless of experience, who want to learn about the fastest growing web application framework on the market... More

In this fascinating book, Francesca Orsini documents the creation and development of a public sphere that shaped literature, language, and religious nationalism during the nationalist movement in India.... More

This book offers a variety of scholarly studies in the idea, situation and defination-including the self-defination- of women in Indian society, from the earliest historical period upto the present day. Hardbound... More

Premchand (1880-1936) was a pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature. This omnibus edition of his works gathers together two distinguished novels (Nirmala and Gaban) and two short-story collections (The World of Premchand and Widows, Wives and Other Heroines). It also includes an introduction by... More

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

"Orsini has chosen an apt title for her books,"observes Robert Phillips in his foreword to the book, "because the world of her imagination contains much imperfection--imperfect family life, ...imperfect marriages, imperfect health." As a poet, Orsini is unsentimental and precise. As an illustrator s... More