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Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy" lurks the specter of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature co... More

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY U. C. KNOEPFLMACHER"I have never concealed the fact that I regarded [George MacDonald] as my master.... The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic ... More

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling an... More

This book explains in a simple manner the electric and magnetic environment of our planet. It fits into the Space Science Education Programme being promoted by ISRO. It also deals with the effect of the near-space environment on our satellite and technical programmes. It is enhanced by a number of i... More

The Lal Kitab, a rare book in urdu, was popular in north-west India, Pakistan, Iran and many other countries. This English version has added new dimensions to make it more lucid and easier to understand.... More

The Yi Jing, I Ching, or Book of Change or Fortune Telling, is an ancient Chinese oracle that has been consulted in times of trouble for thousands of years. It was used as a guide and source of wisdom by the emperors, helping them decide the difficult issues of statecraft; and later on by Sages and ... More

This book happens to score over many other books on this topic – Astrology – because of its very presentation in a simple and straightforward style. The volume has a unique format, making extensive use of tables, point-by-point elucidation, explanatory notes and analysis.... More