61 results for 'chandra mukherje'

In this book Chandra attempts to better understand the dominant structure of social consciousness in modern India through a study of various literary and social texts written in Hindi, Bengali,...

An internationally celebrated poet and critic brings Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication to English readers for the first time Jagadish Chandra Bose...

"If you avoid cooking plant-based meals at home because they seems like a lot of work and/or an investment of time, Isa Chandra Moskowitz is here to say: Nope. These are more than 100 crazy-easy,...

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically...

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States...

Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American Ethnological...

Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the stories of women of color from the Global South, weaving together cross-generational histories of feminist activism across national borders. These engaging...

"The articles published in this book cover crucial issues of a world order in transition from the paradigm of the nation-state - culminating in the hegemony of the only remaining superpower - to that...

“An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past...

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history...

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah...

A unique Pocket Classics collection of short stories from all of the major cultures and languages of IndiaIndia has a long tradition of storytelling. To use Salman Rushdie’s phrase it is “an ocean of...

A State of Freedom wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances--from a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant...

In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India—what he calls radiant infrastructures—creates environmental...

Why did affirmative action programs implemented during the sixties and seventies suffer vicious assaults in the nineties? How were culturally resonant appeals to individualism and colorblindness...