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  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    von Liza Weinstein …
    Serien series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 17,04

  • The God of Small Things

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    von Arundhati Roy …
    ‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,99

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    von William Dalrymple …
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    von Sathnam Sanghera …
    EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWWINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times___________________... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Pakistan

    A Personal History

    von Imran Khan …
    "A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister.Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,99

  • Pakistan: A Hard Country

    von Anatol Lieven …
    DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,49

  • Delta Force

    A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit

    von Donald Knox, Charlie A. Beckwith …
    "Absolutely compelling... Nations without men like Beckwith simply don't survive." — Wall Street JournalWanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both.The definitive insider's account of the U.S. Army's most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commanding officer of Delta ForceWhen Charlie Beckwith issued this call … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

    Identity, Society and Conflict

    Bearbeitet von Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta …
    Serien series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this collection of essays critically explores the many paradoxes and complexities of modernity and politics in the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 70,96

  • Die Augen des ewigen Bruders. Eine Legende (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Inspiriert von den heiligen indischen Texten der Bhagavad-Gita erzählt Stefan Zweig von der Erleuchtung Viratas

    von Stefan Zweig, Benedikt Rausch …
    Stefan Zweigs Die Augen des ewigen Bruders. Eine Legende entfaltet in der Form einer kunstvoll stilisierten orientalischen Parabel die Geschichte des Kriegers Virata, der nach einem nächtlichen Sieg im Gesicht eines Getöteten den eigenen Bruder erkennt. Aus diesem Schockerlebnis erwächst eine radikale Prüfung von Schuld, Verantwortung und Gewalt. In knapper, rhythmischer Prosa verbindet Zweig … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 1,99

  • The Many Lives of Syeda X

    A People’s History of Invisible India

    von Neha Dixit …
    'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial TimesWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,24

  • East of the Sun

    A Richard and Judy bestseller

    von Julia Gregson …
    The captivating million copy bestseller of three young women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India.India 1928. A land of heat, dust and dreams, and the promise of love ...Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 3,99

  • The Good Girls

    An Ordinary Killing

    von Sonia Faleiro …
    **Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger****Longlisted for t****he Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022**'Haunting … lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating' Financial Times'Transfixing' New York Times'A powerful, unflinching account of misogyny, fe... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,24

  • Thug

    The True Story Of India's Murderous Cult

    von Mike Dash …
    Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,76

  • The Corporation That Changed the World

    How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

    von Nick Robins …
    This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. … Lesen Sie mehr

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  • No Beast So Fierce

    The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist

    von Dane Huckelbridge …
    The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course.In Champawat, India, circa 1900, a Bengal tigress was wounded by a poacher in the forests of the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,89

  • India: A Wounded Civilization

    von Sir V.S. Naipaul …
    ‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ – The TimesIn 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization.In this work, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,20

  • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

    von Mary Lutyens …
    J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time. Discovered by the Theosophist as a boy in India, he was groomed by them as the new Messiah, a role he rejected when he set out independently on his own spiritual quest. Travelling the world, lecturing and teaching, he acquired an enormous following, including many eminent statesmen and intellectuals.As one of … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,99

  • Moth

    The powerful story of a family attempting to hold themselves together through the heartbreak of Partition

    von Melody Razak …
    Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel AwardHarper's Bazaar's 'Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer''Powerful and heartbreaking'Observer'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private language... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,49

  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    von William Dalrymple …
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empirepodcast'Richly woven, highl... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • The Pashtun Question

    The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan

    von Abubakar Siddique …
    Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,98

  • The Patient Assassin

    A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

    von Anita Anand …
    **WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE'Reads like something from a thriller**…colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times‘Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsHundreds of peaceful civilians were slaughtered in the Amritsar Massacre of 13 April 1919, after British troops opened fire without warning. According to legend, Udham Singh was among … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,95

  • Friedrich der Große (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte des Preußenkönigs Friedrich II.

    von Franz Kugler, Leonie Harms …
    Franz Kuglers "Friedrich der Große" entfaltet das Leben des preußischen Königs als historische Charakterstudie und als Panorama des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Text verbindet erzählende Geschichtsschreibung mit prägnanter politischer Analyse: Aufstieg, Kriege, Reformen, Hofkultur und geistige Selbstinszenierung Friedrichs werden in einem Stil dargestellt, der Anschaulichkeit mit gelehrter Ordnung … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 0,49

  • Dust on the Throne

    The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

    von Douglas Ober …
    Serien series South Asia in Motion
    Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 27,27

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    von Suketu Mehta …
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,23