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Ghalib: his life and Persian poetry/ by Gilani, Arifshah C. Sayyid

Mathurā : the cultural heritage /

Tyranny : a new interpretation / by Newell, Waller R. (Waller Randy), 1952-

Problems and policies of the British in India, 1885-1898 / by Singh, Hira Lal

The origins of modern leftism / by Gombin, Richard, 1939-

Philosophers on film from Bergson to Badiou : a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- The film and the new psychology, 1945 / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- On contemporary alienation or the end of the pact with the devil, 1970 / Jean Baudrillard -- The looking glass, from the other side, 1977 / Luce Irigaray -- Acinema, 1978 / Jean-François Lyotard -- Cinema I the movement-image, 1983 / Gilles Deleuze -- Cinema II the time-image, 1985 / Gilles Deleuze -- The malady of grief: Duras, 1987 / Julia Kristeva -- Notes on gesture, 1992 / Giorgio Agamben -- "In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large", 1992 / Slavoj Žižek -- And life goes on: life and nothing more, 1995 / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Contesting tears, the Hollywood melodrama of the unknown woman, 1996 / Stanley Cavell -- From one manhunt to another: Fritz Lang between two ages, 2001 / Jacques Rancière -- Cinema as philosophical experimentation, 2003 / Alain Badiou -- Cinematic time, 2011 / Bernard Stiegler -- The analogy of photography, or the history of photography, part 1, 2015 / Kaja Silverman.…”

Indian political thought : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Menon -- In search of integration and identity: Indian Muslims since independence / Mushirul Hasan -- Sikh fundamentalism: translating history into theory / Harjot Oberoi -- Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami -- Scientific temper: arguments for an Indian Enlightenment / Meera Nanda -- Outline of a revisionist theory of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Reconstructing childhood: a critique of the ideology of adulthood / Ashis Nandy -- Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism / Gyan Prakash -- The commitment to theory / Homi Bhabha -- The justice of human rights in Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi -- Emancipatory feminist theory in postcolonial India: unmasking the ruse of liberal internationalism / Ratna Kapur -- Righting wrongs / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The poverty of Western political theory: concluding remarks on concepts like 'community' East and West / Partha Chatterjee.…”

The dawn watch : Joseph Conrad in a global world / by Jasanoff, Maya, 1974-

The Right to have rights / by DeGooyer, Stephanie, Hunt, Alastair, Maxwell, Lida, Moyn, Samuel

Defining digital humanities : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…: metaphors and stories for humanities computing / Willard McCarty -- The history and definition of digital humanities computing / Edward Vanhoutte -- Humanities computing as digital humanities / Patrick Svensson -- Something called digital humanities / Wendell Piez -- What is digital humanities and what's it doing in English departments? …”

Mercantilism reimagined : political economy in early modern Britain and its empire /

Table of Contents: “…Population : modes of seventeenth-century demographic thought / Ted McCormick -- Labor : employment, colonial servitude, and slavery in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Abigail Swingen -- Money : Hartlibian political economy and the new culture of credit / Carl Wennerlind -- Epistemology : expertise and knowledge in the world of commerce / Thomas Leng -- Natural history and improvement : the case of tobacco / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson -- Cameralism : a german alternative to mercantilism / Andre Wakefield -- Corporations : humanism and Elizabethan political economy / Henry S. …”

The Congress of Vienna: a study in allied unity: 1812-1822/ by Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968

Democracy, the courts, and the liberal state : a comparative analysis of American and German constitutionalism / by Miles, David (Mediation lawyer)

Drama for development : cultural translation and social change /

Table of Contents: “…Re-framing drama for development / Andrew Skuse -- Great expectations and creative evolution : the history of drama for development at the bbc world service trust / Caroline Sugg and Gerry Power -- Audience research in drama for development : a contact zone of translation and transnational knowledge production / Gerry Power -- "Creative tensions" : audience research and the representational challenge of dramatising opium substitution in afghanistan / Andrew Skuse -- Considering men, masculinity, and drama / Charlotte Lapsansky and Joyee S. …”

The Cambridge companion to Rabindranath Tagore /

Table of Contents: “…Siva Kumar -- Women, gender, and the family in Tagore / Himani Bannerji -- On the seashore of endless worlds : Rabindranath and the child / Sibaji Bandyopadhyay -- Tagore's view of history / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya -- Tagore's view of politics and the contemporary world / Sobhanlal Datta Gupta -- Tagore's Santiniketan : learning associated with life / Kathleen M. …”

Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Newell -- "I dearly loved that machine" : women and the objects of home sewing in the 1940s / Marcia McLean -- Turn-of-the-century quilts : embodied objects in a web of relationships / Beverly Gordon and Laurel Horton -- Crazy quilts and controlled lives : consumer culture and the meaning of women's domestic work in the American Far West / Cynthia Culver Prescott -- Native quiltmaking : history, traditions, and studies / Marsha MacDowell -- Mundillo and identity : the revival and transformation of handmade lace in Puerto Rico / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco -- Invisible seamstresses : feminine works in Venetian convents from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century / Isabella Campagnol -- Textile mills and the political economy of domestic womanhood in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The silent partner / Laura A. …”

End of empire and the English novel since 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence to Tim Parks: Suzanne Hobson; 9. Queer histories and postcolonial intimacies in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty: Sarah Brophy. 10. …”

Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India / by Lelyveld, Joseph

Political trouble in India, 1907-1917: by Ker, James Campbell, 1878-1961