book excerptise: a
book unexamined is a waste of trees
book excerptise : snatches of conversation with books
how this project started
i find it difficult to read a book without a pencil - (in recent years,
without a laptop). over the years, thousands of extracts and
quotations and reviews have accumulated in a huge file.
then one day, i
discovered i had more than one copy of several books.
it was a time for lists. that list swelled
with keywords linking them
to the shelf.
and then finally,
i brought out
these excerpts
and joined them
with an "emacs" script.
thus was born
book excerptise.
this is a list of my recently marked excerpts, followed by a topic-wise
list of books on my shelves...
i recently compiled
this list of Poetry Anthologies, with a "top ten" list
covering all genres, and sublists for
Indian poetry, World poetry, British/American poetry, Humour and Children's
poetry (nearly a hundred anthologies...).
Recently Added
a mermaid in a stream of moonlight by Namita Chaudhuri (2011)
Northern India according to the Shui-ching-chu by Luciano Petech and Daoyuan Li (1950)
Indian food: A Historical Companion by K. T. Achaya (1998)
dec 5, 2011
nov 17, 2011
- Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas by Romila Thapar (1973)
This inscription of Dhamma has been engraved so that any sons or great
grandsons that I may have should not think of gaining new conquests ... but
should only consider conquests by Dhamma
...
- Handbook of psycholinguistics by Matthew
J. Traxler and Morton Ann Gernsbacher (eds.) (2006)
thousands of languages in use around the world... most without writing
systems. in a survey of only 317 languages, Maddieson (1984) describes
558 different consonants, 260 different vowels, and 51 diphthongs
...
- A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism by Arshin Adib Moghaddam (2010)
- Emergence: contemporary readings in philosophy and science by Mark Bedau and Paul Humphreys (eds) (2008)
- The Oxford India Anthology of Bengali Literature v.2: 1941-1991 by Kalpana Bardhan (ed) (2010)
Through the day I keep meeting the cat;
In the shade of the tree, out in the sun,
Amidst the dense shade of the leaves
...
- Computational explorations in cognitive neuroscience: understanding the mind by simulating the brain by Randall C. O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata (2000)
- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie (2002)
The headman's teeth resembled a jagged mountain range. Three incisors
protruded from blackened inflamed gums like flames of prehistoric basalt
...
- A Cultural History of India by A. L. Basham (1998)
Clive, who was never able to give an order in any Indian language, spoke
Portuguese with fluency.
...
- Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda by Mohindar Singh Randhawa and Jayadeva (1958)
One cowherdess with heavy breasts embraces Hari lovingly
And celebrates him in a melody of love.
...
- Royal temples of Gupta period: excavations at Bhitari by Vidula Jayaswal (2001)
who, possessing strength of arm most abundantly in the world, is the
one hero of Gupta lineage; whose splendour is as profuse as renowned,
who is Skandagupta by name... (verse 2)
...
- Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: North India: foundations of North Indian style, c.250 B.C.-A.D.1100, v.2; part 1 by Michael W. Meister and Madhusudan A. Dhaky, Krishna Deva (1988)
- Fibonacci's De practica geometrie by Leonardo Fibonacci and Barnabas Hughes (tr) (2008)
"the issue is no longer moot: Fibonacci was proficient in Arabic. ...
[That Fibonacci] had complete fluency in Arabic, is now accepted as correct..."
...
- The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008 by Jayanta Mahapatra (2008)
Afterwards when the wars of Kalinga were over,
the fallow fields of Dhauli
hid the blood-spilt butchered bodies.
...
- Door Of Paper: Essays And Memoirs by Jayanta Mahapatra (2007)
There is a door in the heart of man which never opens. Or if it does at
times, we are not aware of its opening
...
- Words and the Mind: How words capture human experience by Barbara C. Malt and Phillip M. Wolff (eds) (2010)
are there “basic” body parts
that are recognized across cultures in how people talk about the body?
...
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (2001)
while the locales move across temples and other regions of nepal hover in
the background, the stories could just as well be anywhere.
...
- Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers by Charles Simic and Mark Strand (eds) (1976)
During the fourteenth charge
of the French cavalry
she mated
with the brown-eyed male fly
from Vadincourt.
...
- In their own voice: The Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian women poets by Arlene R. K. Zide (ed) (1993)
Who speaks of the green coconut uterus
the muscles sliding, a deeper undertow
...
- Collected Poems In English by Arun Kolatkar and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (ed.) (2011)
My loin has bared its teeth.
My thighs open like iron
Maidens. Guts whip out.
...
oct 31, 2011
- Massacre at Cawnpore by V. A. Stuart (1973)
the history is cliched, and even the storytelling is far from gripping.
...
- The number devil: a mathematical adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rotraut Susanne Berner and Rotraut Susanne Berner (ill.) (1998)
a historical quibble: the invention of zero is attributed to an ancient chinese
scholar. (p.245).
...
- Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry by Velcheru Narayana Rao (tr.) (2004)
When I was young
I was my father's daughter ...
I am a female thing.
...
- Lexical Semantics Without Thematic Roles by Yael Ravin (1990)
- No entry for the new Sun: translations from modern Marathi Dalit poetry by Arjun Dangle (ed) (1992)
How do we taste milk in this town
where trees are planted of venom?
...
- Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious by Arthur S. Reber (1996)
I want to make it clear from the outset that this will be, in large
measure, a book about learning. A decade or three ago that would not
have been particularly unusual; today it is a genuine rarity.
...
- Urban Voice-4 by Sunil K Poolani (ed) (2011)
I'm now on the other side of the earth though
I can touch you now
I can close the book that remains open on your bosom
...
- Losing My Way: Poems by Shiv K. Kumar (2008)
Sly are the ways of temptation.
Birds with grains, children with peppermints,
and brunettes with bracelets.
...
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold J. Mcgee (1984)
In the late 1800s, a NY importer claimed duty-free status for tomatoes, which
he argued were "fruit"... the US Supreme Court...
decided on the grounds of linguistic custom. Tomatoes, held the
majority, are "usually served in the main part of the dinner, and not
like fruits, generally as dessert." So our litigator had to cough up
the 10% as tax. pp. 124-5
...
- Making love: the Picador book of erotic verse by Alan Norman Bold (ed) (1978)
When his mouth faced my mouth, I turned aside...
But oh, what could I do, then, when I found
My bodice splitting of its own accord? - Amaru
...
august 20, 2011
- Kavi Kala by Madness Mandali (2010)
I run my finger down
My collar between my breasts to where the
Neckline should be. He looks away and
Increases my wishes by an inch.
...
- How to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry by Edward Hirsch (2000)
death is inside the bones,
like a barking where there are no dogs,
...
- East window: the Asian translations by William Stanley Merwin (1998)
A poet should learn with his eyes
the forms of leaves
...
- Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems by K. M. George (ed) (1992)
By mistake I had left my head in the office when I started home.
My hands are still hanging from the bus-strap.
...
- The true subject: selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Naomi Lazard (tr.) (1988)
critic Abdul Jabbar:
In Lazard's translation, the heartbeat one feels is that of Faiz
himself. Such an achievement is, indeed, rare in translations.
...
- Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren and Gerry Bothmer (tr) (1959)
[Pippi, about her grandmother]: If she was walking on the street and a brick
happened to fall on her head, she'd start to scream and make such a fuss
you'd think something terrible had happened. 16
...
- Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi and Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya (ed.) (2005)
[on sanskrit manuscripts:} the action of time, air, rain, white ants,
and all other vermin except scholars will surely destroy the greater number
that still survive the neglect and laziness of their possessors. p.574
...
- Women's eyes: being verses translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur William Ryder and Bhartrihari (1910)
Oh, fie on her and him and Love and HER and me!
...
- Bhartrihari: poems by Bhartrihari and Barbara Stoler Miller (tr.) (1967)
... a man distorted by trifling knowledge,
Brahma himself cannot sway.
...
- The Satakas: Or, Wise Sayings of Bhartrihari by John McFarland Kennedy (tr.) (1913)
The fundamentally ignorant man is easily led, and
the wise man still more easily ; but not even the
Almighty Himself can exercise any influence on
the smatterer.
...
- A Century of Indian Epigrams: Chiefly from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari by Paul Elmer More (1898)
...minds by half-way knowledge warped and bent,
Not Brahma's self their fury may assuage.
...
- Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective: a guide for teaching by Barbara Stoler Miller (ed.) (1994)
- Action meets word: how children learn verbs by Kathy Hirsh Pasek and Roberta M. Golinkoff (2006)
july 28, 2011
july 4, 2011
june 22, 2011
- Unforeseen affection and other love poems by Jayaprabha and Narasimha Rao, P. V. (tr.) (2005)
- An anthology of Sanskrit Court poetry Vidyakara's "Subhasitaratnakosa" by vidyAkara and Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (tr.) (1965)
592. When the anklet has grown still
the girdle's sound is heard.
It's ever when the lover tires,
the mistress plays the man.
...
- The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson (ill) (1984)
You may quarrel with centipedes, quibble with seals,
declaim to a duck in the park,
engage in disputes with cantankerous coots,
but never mince words with a shark.
...
- A bad case of the giggles : Kids pick the funniest poems, Book #2 by Bruce (ed) Lansky and Stephen Carpenter (ill.) (1994)
Rain, reign, rein,
English is a pain.
...
- The Oxford book of American light verse by William Harmon (ed) ()
David McCord : Epitaph on a Waiter p.412
By and by
God caught his eye.
...
- Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary and Martin Brown (ill) (2008)
A Bristol historian wrote:
Every brick in the city of Bristol is cemented with the blood of a
slave. [p.27]
...
- The Oxford book of American light verse by William Harmon (ed) ()
june 15, 2011
- The Open Door by Latifa Al-Zayyat and Marilyn Booth (tr.) (2002)
Mother: If everyone said whatever was on their mind the world would have
gone up in flames long ago.
Layla: So people should just lie, you mean.
...
- Only the soul knows how to sing by Kamala Das [Kamala Surayya] (1996)
perhaps we need to talk more about the problems faced by men poets writing
in indian english.
...
- Summer In Calcutta by Kamala Das (1965)
... My eyes lick at you like flames, my nerves
Consume ; and, when I finish with you, ... I spit
Out small heaps of ash, nothing else.
...
- One hundred poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth (tr.) (1956)
I dreamt only that one day she would come with me
On a trip like this, and now she is only dust.
...
- The Iron, the Switch and the Broom Cupboard: A Jiggy McCue story by Michael Lawrence (2007)
"No one in their right minds would care if their underpants are pressed."
"I care," said Mum.
"My point exactly". 17
...
- Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary and Martin Brown (ill) (2008)
A Bristol historian wrote:
Every brick in the city of Bristol is cemented with the blood of a
slave. [p.27]
...
june 9, 2011
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2003)
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in
and, inevitably, be contaminated
...
- French lover: a novel by Taslima Narin and Sreejata Guha (tr.) (2002)
- "Benoir, you don't love Pascale."
- "So who do I love?"
- "You love yourself, Benoir, your own self. No one else."
...
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared M Diamond (1991)
The genetic distance (1.6 per cent) separating us from pygmy or common
chimps is less than that between two species of gibbons (2.2 per cent),
or between closely related bird species as red-eyed vireos
...
- The Home and the World (ঘরে বাইরে, _ghare-bAire_, 1916) by Rabindranath Tagore and Surendranath Tagore (tr.) (1919)
Nature surrenders herself, but only to the robber. For she delights
in this forceful desire, this forceful abduction.
...
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (1997)
[QWERTY keyboard] designed to force typists to type as slowly as
possible, such as scattering the commonest letters over all
...
- Modern India: An Interpretive Anthology by Thomas R. Metcalf (ed.) (1971)
- Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani (2006)
At Pasha de Hautner’s office, it didn’t appear that anyone ever ate. All the
girls ... were mere slivers of womanhood.
...
- The tiger ladies: a memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul (2002)
"Real food can only be prepared in traditional equipment." old-timer
cook, Sudarshan, p. 42
...
- Hymns from the Rig-Veda by Jean L Mee and Ingbert Gruttner (photo) (1975)
june 2, 2011
- Ganga Observed: Foreign Accounts of the River by Jagmohan Mahajan (ed.) (1994)
Mark Twain: _Following the Equator_, 1897
Experiments on Ganges water: Mr. Henkin, govt scientist at Agra, went to
Benares and got water out of the mouths of the sewers : a cubic cm of it
contained millions of germs; at the end of six hours they were _all dead_.
...
- The Character of Logic in India by Bimal Krishna Matilal and Jonardon Ganeri (ed) and Heeraman Tiwari(ed) (2000)
- Jayadeva by Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1996)
particular emphasis on poems outside the gIta-govinda - a collection of
26 poems anthologized in sadukti-karNAmr^ta [saduktikarnamrita], as well as
...
- The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller (1968)
Miller's scripts are very detailed.
...
- Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State by Tariq Ali (1983)
In theory, Islam was an egalitarian religion which tolerated no caste
distinction. All muslims were equal before God. In one of [Sir Syed
Ahmed's] speeches opposing the elective principle, however, he
revealed his prejudices extremely clearly:
...
- World's Last Mysteries by Robert Davreau (1976)
- Umhu by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (2009)
may 27, 2011
- Dakater Bhaipo by sirShendu mukhopAdhyAy (2007)
sakaler nAk ek rakam DAke nA. kAr-o bAgher garjan to kAr-o shyAm-er
bnAshI, kAr-o bomA fATAr AoyAj to kAr-o gaRAgaRAr guRuk guRuk shabda. 89
...
- The Imperial Achievement: The Rise and Transformation of the British Empire by John Bowle (1977)
A sustained defence of imperial myths; the last gasp of an imperial tradition
going back to JS Mill's History of British India... what is fascinating
about this work is that it was written in the late 20th century, and not in
...
- An anthology of modern Hindi poetry by Kailash Vajpeyi (ed.) (2000)
Empty gunnysacks being darned... They
are the voids of my eyes. - Shamsher B Singh
[...]
may 2, 2011
- One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year by Kenneth Rexroth (tr.) (1970)
Think of the days
When we were happy together.
If I live I will come back.
...
- Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985)
Incongruous against this gory stereotypical background, the book has a
number of well-done translations from prominent bengali poets.
...
- A treatise on language: or, The relation which words bear to things, in four parts by Alexander Bryan Johnson (1836)
This book holds a number of insights for an 1836 author who was
doing philosophy on the side, as a successful banker.
...
- myth = mithya: a handbook of hindu mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik (2006)
i have been recently reading up on 1857, and was struck by how
much the construction of the mutiny in british eyes was
was essentially a mythological narrative - the
attempts to overdramatize - e.g. fantastic tales of sepoys
raping british women and skewering
babies... it is the grotesqueness of these stories, that like
a ten-headed demon, gives myths its staying power
...
- Confronting Love : Poems by Jerry (eds) Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam (2005)
The selections here are definitely on the fresher side. Even for the known
poets, the poems chosen, (Kolatkar's Lice, Ramanujan's Love 10) are among
the lesser known. Many poets are being anthologized for the first time, so
...
- Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire by Don Nardo (2010)
modern scholars have significantly re-evaluated and refurbished the image of
Genghis Khan. They do not dispute that he was a ruthless conqueror
...
- The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping (2010)
The midnight drum has sounded
and your horse may slip with the frost so heavy.
Better not to leave.
...
- A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry by J.P. Seaton and Dennis Maloney (1994)
- Beijing and Shanghai by Peter Neville Hadley (2007)
MARCO POLO: Whether Marco Polo ever visited China is much disputed. However,
according to the book he dictated to a ghost writer who embroidered it
...
- The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway and Richard Guy (1995)
- The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning by Bonnie Blackburn (2000)
- How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics by William Byers (2007)
the moment put my foot on the step the idea came to
me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the
way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the
Fuchsian functions were identical with those of non-Euclidean
geometry.
...
- A concise history of modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf (2006)
There was no law in the Panjab in those days. Our instructions
were to decide all cases by the light of common sense and our own sense
of what was just and right.
...
- The Invention of Tradition by Eric J. (ed) Hobsbawm and Terence O. Ranger (1992)
april 27, 2011
april 16, 2011
- The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India by Eric Stokes (1980)
No contrast could be more absolute than that between the ferocity of Jat
rebellion in western Meerut (which later spread north into Muzaffarnagar) and
the conspicuous 'loyalty' displayed by the Jats of eastern Meerut and
Bulandshahr. The only sufficient explanation, [was better _bhaichara_ organization]
...
- kAkAbAbu banAm chorAshikArI (কাকাবাবু বনাম চোরাশিকারি) by Sunil Gangopadhyaya (1995)
kAkAbAbu, jojo and santu are in kaziranga, where they run into a gang of
desperate rhino poachers, headed by a enigmatic bandit who announces his
...
- How languages are learned by Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada (1993)
At birthday party:
Father (raises stemmed glass w juice): I'd like to propose a toast.
After [some time], David (5,1) raises his glass and says:
I'd like to propose a piece of bread.
...
march 23, 2011
- The sound of the kiss, or the story that must never be told by Pingali Surana and Velcheru Narayana Rao [Vēlcēru NārāyaNarāvu] (tr.) and David Dean Shulman (tr.) (2002)
Writing poetry is like milking a cow.
You have to pause at the right moment.
You have to feel your way, gently, with a good heart,
[if you fail] you get kicked...
- Beer by Michael Jackson (2007)
IBU Acronym for International Bitterness Units, a standard scale of
measurement for determining the bitterness of beers.
...
- The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays by T.S. Eliot (1997)
Another essay, "Poets on
poetry", is mentioned in the blurb at the back but seems to have lost its
way during production; it's certainly not there in the edition I have.
...
- Literary theory: an introduction by Terry Eagleton (1996)
Nobody will penalize me heavily if I dislike a particular Donne poem,
but if I argue that Donne is not literature at all then in certain
circumstances I might risk losing my job.
[AM: a great example; but this still means "Donne = literature" is a shared
subjectivity rather than an objective fact.]
...
- Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction by Benjamin W. Fortson (2004)
[the picture of PIE has been in constant change over more than two centuries
of study, hence]
The account of linguistic history given in this book is not an immutable
truth.
...
march 7, 2011
march 1, 2011
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian and Mabel Lee (tr.) (2004)
I ask everywhere and search street after street and lane after lane. I feel
as if I'm rummaging through my pockets; I've taken out everything, but still
can't find what i want. In despair I drag along my weary legs, uncertain
whether they still belong to me. 73
...
- The mammoth book of literary anecdotes by Philip Gooden (2002)
Many of the stories are prefaced by notes that indicate that they are
unreliable. Interesting-ness prevails over truth; but aren't there enough
truly interesting situations as well?
...
february 25, 2011
- Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami and Alfred Birnbaum (tr.) (2003)
The autumn sky was as clear as if it had been made that very morning. Perfect
Duke Ellington weather.
...
- The mammoth book of literary anecdotes by Philip Gooden (2002)
Many of the stories are prefaced by notes that indicate that they are
unreliable. Interesting-ness prevails over truth; but aren't there enough
truly interesting situations as well?
...
- Mental floss presents Instant Knowledge by Will (eds) Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt and Mental Floss (pub) (2005)
Reno’s first escalator was installed at Coney Island, and 75,000 people
rode Reno’s “inclined elevator” during a two-week exhibition in 1896. Let’s
be clear: The escalator was not the means by which one traveled to a
ride. It was the ride itself...
...
- Mental floss presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits by Will (eds) Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt and Mental Floss (pub) (2005)
During the 13 years he spent on the [Cook County] bench, from
1977 to 1990, Maloney
“fixed” as many as six murder trials, taking bribes from $10,000 to
$100,000 from gangs to convict members of other gangs of murder or
...
february 17, 2011
- Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (1999)
I suppose it wasn't often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar
School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a
silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner. Gussie
...
- jhiler dhAre bARi (ঝিলের ধারে বাড়ি) by shIrShendu mukhopAdhyAy (1988)
sripati thinks a while and says: "these are village ghosts, you
know - may be they don't have the guts to scare those city honchos."
- p.23...
Despite the enid-blyton-esque plot, the background and characters are far
more intimately portrayed, and the stories of the bengal countryside
makes it a much more compelling read.
...
- Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana (1992)
translation depends on the Western philosophical notions of reality,
representation, and knowledge. Reality is seen as something
unproblematic, "out there"; knowledge involves a representation of
this reality; and representation provides direct, unmediated access
to a transparent reality.
...
- How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school by John Bransford and NRC Committee on Science of Learning (2003)
Constructivists assume that all knowledge is constructed from previous
knowledge, irrespective of how one is taught
— even listening to
a lecture involves active attempts to construct new knowledge.
...
- Semantics by Frank Robert Palmer (1981)
It is, or should be, clear that the study of semantics is not advanced by
being 'reduced' to logic. 113
...
- Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle-period Bengal by Ronald B. Inden (1976)
[Eurocentric distinctions] of clan rank,
"modified" to take into account Hindu concerns for purity and ritual
status, looked more and more like Ptolemy's attempt to account for the
motion of the heavenly bodies by adding epicycles. - p. 8
...
february 7, 2011
- The anti-Chomsky reader by Peter (eds) Collier and David Horowitz (2004)
Chomsky’s work manifests a deep disregard and contempt for the truth [1], a
monumental disdain for standards of inquiry, a relentless strain of
self-promotion, remarkable descents into incoherence[2] and a penchant for
verbally abusing those who disagree with him [3].
...
- Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie (2010)
When Haroun had been Luka's age he had travelled to the earth's second
moon, befriended fishes who spoke in rhyme and a gardene r made of lotus
roots, and helped to overthrow the evil Cultmaster Khattam-Shud who was
...
- Vision and the emergence of meaning: blind and sighted children's early language by Anne Dunlea (1989)
are both about the same. However,
senses are used more effectively, e.g. echolocation - bright blind children
spontaneously learn to clap and echolocate around age 1.5-2. 10
...
- The stuff of thought: language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker (2007)
Spam is not, as some people believe, an acronym for Short, Pointless, and
Annoying Messages. The word is related to the name of the luncheon meat sold
...
- Encyclopedia of Perception, v.1 and v.2 by E. Bruce Goldstein (2009)
january 2, 2011
december 7
- Chinese theories of reading and writing: a route to hermeneutics and open poetics by Ming Dong Gu (2006)
The words of ancient poets contain within themselves unlimited
implications. When posterity reads them, they will come to different
understandings, depending upon their dispositions, which may be shallow
...
- Syntax: an introduction, Volume 1 by Talmy Givon (2001)
Both the extravagantly abstract structures proposed by extreme formalists and
the obsessively concrete structures embraced by extreme functionalists are
due, in large measure, to pre-empirical philosophical predilections. For over
...
- Grammar by Frank Robert Palmer (1984)
What sets man apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is his ability to
speak; he is 'man the speaking animal' - homo loquens. [other creature
may make meaningful sounds, but they lack grammar.] Man is not merely homo loquens ;
he is homo grammaticus. p.9-10
...
- Granta 85 : Hidden Histories by Ian (ed.) Jack and Jeannie Erdal and Diana Athil and Orhan Pamuk (2004)
The literary treatment of sex is beset with vexed questions. First
there is the problem of getting the characters to take their clothes
off -- buttons and zips and hooks can be so awkward, and you couldn't
...
- A History of Modern Japan by Richard Storry (1969)
In the middle of the fourth century, an empress named Jingo organized,
and, it is said, took command of, a military expedition to Korea...
[not the etym < jingoism]
...
- Mughal and Rajput painting, New Cambridge history of India I.3 by Milo Cleveland Beach (1992)
november 9, 2010
october 20
- The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2003)
It is far more useful to view computational science as part of the
problem, rarher than the solution. The problem is understanding how
humans can have invented explicit, algorithmically driven machines
when our brains do not operate in this way. The solution, if it ever
...
- Moin and the Monster by Anushka Ravishankar and Anitha Balachandran (ill.) (2006)
"_Owowowowow!_ What have you done? What have you done?" wailed the monster.
"Why? What's the matter?"
"This is not how I should look," wept the monster. "I'm fearsome. You've
made me look funny!"
...
- An intimate history of humanity by Theodore Zeldin (1994)
It set me thinking about how my ancestors lived. Given that a large
percentage of humanity were serfs for most of history, Zeldin says that most
of our ancestors were slaves.
...
- The Poetry of Men's Lives: An International Anthology by Fred (ed.) Moramarco and Al Zolynas (ed.) (2004)
the uncollected man in converse with himself,
...
- Three Chinese Poets by Vikram (tr.) Seth and Wei Wang and Po Li and Fu Du (1997)
Empty hills, no man in sight
Just echoes of the voice of men.
...
september 26
- Thousand cranes by Yasunari Kawabata and Edward G. Seidensticker (tr) (1959)
He gazed at it for a time. In a gourd that had been handed down for three
centuries, a flower that would fade in the morning. 88
...
september 22
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (2001)
"What do you have there?" Sheetal said, pointing at his
nakedness and laughing.
...
- Indian literature, 227, May-June 2005 by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee and Sahitya Akademi (2006)
You should write when you can still laugh at yourself and the world, before
you give yourself up to despair.
...
september 14
september 1
- Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (1994)
WOLF: It's about thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
...
- The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (1970)
Cotton textiles (even words like 'calico', Chintz', 'dungaree', 'pyjamas',
'sash' and 'gingham' are of Indian origin) and sugar are India's specific
contribution to everyday life, just as paper, tea, porcelain, silk are
China's.
...
- The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh and Reeve Lindbergh (2003)
[Lindbergh's thoughts on seeing Paris]
There are thousands of lights along one side. They probably come from a
factory. Surely Le Bourget wouldn't have a factory that size right next
to it. [they are the headlights of people who have come in the night to see him land]
...
- The ghost of Gosain Bagan [orig: গোঁসাই বাগানের ভূত, 1972) by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Nirmal K Bhattacharjee (tr.) and Agantuk (ill) (2008)
An inconsistency in the story has to do with the fact that the ghosts are
very scared of the word "Ram" and disappear the moment it is uttered,
(e.g. Rambabu). Yet the leading ghosts name is Nidhuram.
...
- Sanskrit poetry, from Vidyākara's "Treasury" by vidyAkara and Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (tr.) (1968)
Like all compilers of verse, Vidyakara was a man of his times, and he liked
the poets and poetic taste flourishing around him. Thus, his choice of
...
- The Vintage Book of Marriage by Bel Mooney and Jonathan Dimbleby (1989)
august 24
- Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe (2004)
And the gentle butterfly offers
Itself in bright yellow sacrifice
Upon my hard silicon shield.
...
- Poems for the Millennium, The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (1998)
I don't believe the sky is blue;
I don't believe in thunder's echoes;
...
- Kamasutra by Vatsayana and Wendy Doniger (tr) and Sudhir Kakar (tr.) (2002)
It is not, as most people think, a book about the positions in sexual
intercourse. It is about the art of living -- about finding a
partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or
...
- Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk and Maureen Freely (tr.) (2007)
The seagull is standing on the roof, in the rain, as if nothing has
happened. It is as if it's not raining at all; the seagull is just standing
there, as still as ever. Or else the seagull is a great philosopher, too
...
- Old snow: poems by Bei Dao and Bonnie S. McDougall (tr) and Chen Maiping (tr.) (1991)
where is the pear
whose body shuts like a clam
where is the pre-doomsday carnival
where is the flag's victorious star
...
- Contemporary Indian poetry by Kaiser Haq (ed) (1990)
The white of the negro maid's eyeballs
is the only clean thing here,
...
- Commando 3-in-1 : Battle Stories by Commando comics (publ) (1989)
august 8
july 26
july 21
july 4
june 26, 2010
- I can, but why should I go by Sakti Chattopadhyay and Jayanta Mahapatra (tr) (1994)
এখন গঙ্গার তীরে ঘুমন্ত দাঁড়ালে Now, when I stand, drowsy on the Ganga's bank
চিতা কাঠ ডাকে আয়, আয়, আয়। The wood of the pyre calls: Come!
...
- padyasamagra 1 by Shakti Chattopadhyay (1989)
- Recipes worth their lack of salt by Michael E. deBakey and Antonio M. Gotto, Lynne W. Scott and John P. Foreyt (1984)
june 22
the past month i've been bicycling in the himalayas. had rented some rooms
in a village gazing at the snows across a vast valley - so wasn't
connected, and some patches of reading had accumulated... incidentally, we
rode a total of 890 km including some rather steep slopes
(birthi-kalamuni-munshiyari, joshimath-badrinath-mana, bageshwar-song,
gagas-ranikhet, kosi-almora, etc).
- The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India by Zaheer Baber (1996)
The dominant "colonialist" perspective was articulated by Grant, Mill, and
Macaulay... conceived the pre-British India as a veritable tabula rasa onto
which modern science and technology had to be inscribed as part of the
...
- The child language reader by Kate (eds) Trott and Sushie Dobbinson (eds) and Patrick Griffiths (eds) (2004)
Slobin, on the basis of Miket 1967, saw the possibility of
conceptual understanding prior to linguistic structure. Miket studied
...
- Science, technology, and medicine in colonial India by David Arnold (2000)
Although the history of science, technology and medicine continues to be
presented in general histories as a record of Western discovery and
dissemination, it has become more widely acknowledged than a generation or
two ago that not all such histories can be conflated into a single story of
European achievement or saga of European enterprise overseas. p.1
...
- A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup For the Indian Soul by Jack (eds) Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen and Raksha Bharadia (2010)
- The book of general ignorance by John Lloyd and and John Mitchinson (2006)
Most dangerous animal:
45 bn people - half the humans that ever lived - may have been killed by
diseases borne by mosquitoes. Today, one person dies every 12 seconds
...
- Learning Syntactic Structure by Yoav Seginer (2007)
While Amit was washing the dishes crashed to the floor.
...
- Introduction to Design by Morris Asimow (1962)
Engineering design is a purposeful activity directed toward the goal of
fulfilling human needs, particularly those that can be met by the
technological factors of our culture. p. 1
...
- From Scott to Fuchs by Gerald Bowman (1960)
- Great plays of Kalidasa by Kamlesh Pandey and D.H. Doongaji and AK Lavangia and Kamala Chandrakant and Anant Pai (ed.) and P.B. Kavadi (ill) and Pratap Mulick (ill.) ()
- Great Sanskrit plays: Swapna-Vasavadatta, Mrichchakatikam, Ratnavali by Kamala Chandrakant and Subba Rao and Anant Pai (ed.) and H.S. Chavan (ill) and G.R. Naik (ill.) and Pratap Mulick (ill.) ()
- The Sacred beetle and other great essays in science by Martin Gardner (ed.) (1986)
If physicists reduce all existence to a finite number of particles or
waves, one can always ask, "Why those particles?' or "Why those waves?'
There necessarily must remain a basic substratum-a "dark abyss," as
Santayana once described it, "before which intelligence must be silent for
fear of going mad." It is the Unknowable of Spencer, the Noumena of Kant,
...
- 60 Indian poets by Jeet Thayil (ed.) (2008)
Frost streamed the air. Our blood pulsed thin and shrill.
...
- The Oxford India Ramanujan by A. K. Ramanujan (2003)
It's terrible. I grow lean /
in loneliness,/
like a water lily /
gnawed by a beetle.
...
- Subtext: making body language work in the workplace by Julius Fast (1991)
how do you send out a subtext of confidence?
Smile, was his first suggestion.
...
- The Routledge companion to aesthetics by Berys Nigel (eds) Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (2001)
- How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years by Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies and Malcolm B. DeBevoise (tr.) (2001)
He would have responded the same if yes was uttered in the same tone. So
separating the phonetic component from the prosody remains a challenge for
studies of word recognition.
...
- ShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size by Maurice Sagoff and Roslyn Schwartz (ill.) (1980)
may 15
Last week I took some time out while at Delhi and visited the cavernous
warehouse cum bookshop called Swati which is the only place where Sahitya
Akademi books are available. Although the place is touted by all Akademi
people as their main bookshop, it is really a sad, musty, bureaucratic place,
difficult to find (on the backside of what seems like a women's hostel on
Mandir Marg), and a far cry from the canons of bookshop-hood.
Nonetheless, since the Akademi is by far the leading publisher of works
related to Indian literature, this vault is worth a visit by lovers of Indian
lit.
Got some 14 books, all at ridiculously low prices - total bill was 1000
Rs.
- The sky of words and other poems by Sitakant Mahapatra (1996)
On the hill's sloping ground
I asked you to give me love, dreams,
A touch, tobacco leaves.
...
- When poetry comes: a selection of poems by contemporary Bengali women poets in English translation by Marian Maddern (tr.) (1999)
This too is the night of danger
covered with lotus leaves or washed by tears
...
- Modern Indian drama: an anthology by G.P. Deshpande (ed.) (2004)
Leader: What is the purpose of staging the play?
Sutradhar: The purpose is to earn my bread, Sir.
L: Tchi! Tchi! What a petty concern!
...
- Contemporary Indian short stories v.II by Bhabani Bhattacharya (2006)
- A Certain Sense by Jibananda Das and Sukanta Chaudhuri (ed) and Sumita Chakrabarti (ed) (2006)
may 10
may 2, 2010
- Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story by Hatsuho Naito (1989)
I shall fall, smiling and singing songs. Please visit and worship
at Yasukuni Shrine this spring. There I shall be a cherry blossom
...
- Kalidaser granthAbalI, v.2 by Kalidasa and Rajendranath Vidyabhushan (ed.) (1929)
वर्णप्रकर्षे सति कर्णिकारं दुनोति निर्गन्धतया स्म चेतः ।
प्रायेण सामग्र्यविधौ गुणानां पराङ्मुखी विश्वसृजः प्रवृत्तिः॥३.२८
...
- Celebrating the best of Urdu Poetry by Khushwant (tr. ed.) Singh and Kamna Prasad (ed.) (2007)
When my beloved raised her arms to gather up her tresses
A million desires gathered in my heart and got tied up in a tangle
...
- The blacksmith and the carpenter by Sun Li and Sidney Shapiro (tr) and Gladys Yang (tr) and Yu Fanqin (tr) (1982)
- Ritusamhara by Kalidasa and Rajendra Tandon (tr.) (2008)
_na bhabati kimidAnIM yoShitAM manmathAya_
is there anything [about women] that does not excite amour? (6.33)
...
- Ideologies of the Raj, New Cambridge history of India III.4 by Thomas R. Metcalf (1995)
Sir Thomas Smith: God had given the English responsibility to 'inhabite
and reform' this 'barbarous' nation.
1740: 'God Save the King' was first sung in Britain, and the
same year brought the first publication of 'Rule Britannia'.
...
April 25
April 23
April 15
March 5
March 2, 2010
February 17
February 5
February 1
- How do you withstand, body by Gieve Patel (1976)
-- And the professors! O professors,
Stale, malodorous, with yesterday's coats
...
- bhojanshilpI bAMAlI by buddhadeb basu (2004)
There is nothing called "Indian literature," - as I have been saying in so
many forums - similarly, there is nothing called "Indian food". It would be
...
- A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food by Nilanjana S. Roy (2004)
her breasts were like used tea bags. As the weight loss progressed, the
sachets deflated gradually, becoming little more than flaps of skin.
...
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded Man by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson (1997)
Bela was married when she was 15 and Renuka at 10... although Rabindranath
was strongly opposed to child marriage.]
...
January 25
January 13, 2010
- Bicycle design: Towards the Perfect Machine by Mike Burrows and Tony Hadland (ed.) (2000)
Mike Burrows is among the best known bicycle designers today, with a wide
range of credits from the recumbent Windcheetah and Ratcatcher to the
...
January 7, 2010
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- Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (1984)
In Sri Lanka, a well told lie is worth a thousand truths.
...
- Representations of India, 1740-1840: The Creation of India in the Colonial Imagination by Amal Chatterjee (1998)
- Dreams: Mind Movies of the Night by Mary Herd Tull and Amy Ning and Amy Ning (ill.) (2000)
I interpret dreams, having the gods' mandate to do so.
[inscription on Egyptian temple door] 29
...
- It's not about the bike: my journey back to life by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins (2000)
I didn't love the bike before I got sick...
It was a means to an end, a way to get out of Plano, a potential source of
...
- Fooled by randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
[Wealth of a man should be measured not by his actual wealth, but by how he
would have done if things had turned out in some alternative ways. The
...
- A companion to twentieth-century poetry by Neil Roberts (ed.) (2003)
The phrase ‘in English’ is no mere neutral description, but signifies a
complex, violent and still bitterly felt political and cultural history: some
...
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov and Diana Lewis Burgin (tr) and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (tr) (1996)
This is the book that inspired Rushdie's Satanic Verses. It has had a
...
- Chand Bibi : The valorous princess who withstood the might of the Mughals by Toni Patel and Anant Pai (ed.) and Ram Waeerker (ill) ()
- The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales by Bruno Bettelheim (1976)
Reading it now, three decades later, many of the symbolisms uncovered by
Bettelheim seem way overboard, they could just as well have gone the other
...
December 5, 2009
- Traffic: why we drive the way we do by Tom Vanderbilt (2008)
Deaths by automobile were already, according to the New York Times [1903],
"every-day occurrences" with little "news value" unless they involved persons
of "exceptional social or business prominence."
...
- chhoToder AbrittikoSh by nIradbaraN hAjrA (2007)
bAbA Ar mA : sunIl gangopAdhyAy 80
bAbAo nAki chhoTTo chhilen, mA chhilen ek-ratti
...
- Ploughshares Spring 2008 by B.H. Fairchild (ed.) (2008)
November 15
- The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought by Jean Mandler (2004)
Infants are interpreters of the world around them from an early age.
We don't know how early, but Werner and Kaplan's (1963) estimate of 3
months as the onset of contemplation of the world cannot be much more
...
September 29
- Longman anthology of world literature by women, 1875-1975 by Marian (ed.) Arkin and Barbara Shollar (ed.) (1989)
Europeans called [Kanhoji Angray a] "pirate", and such in truth he was; but
... what chief, or ruler, or founder of a dynasty was not a robber or a pirate?
...
- A Tower for the Summer Heat by Li Yu and Patrick Hanan (trans.) (1992)
This story from China of the 17th c., is about the potential of the
telescope. It is among the earliest science fiction in the world, well
...
September 9
August 24
- The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa and Helen Lane (tr.) (1989)
Babies born with physical defects, lame, maimed, blind, with more or fewer
fingers than usual, or a harelip, were killed by their own mothers...
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman and Ralph Leighton (1985)
So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come to fix the radio, but you're
only walking back and forth!" I say, "I'm thinking!"
...
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist by Richard Phillips Feynman (1998)
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens
the gates of hell."
...
- Love stories from the Mahabharata by Subodh Ghosh and Pradip Bhattacharya (tr.) (2005)
To dress up as a mysterious, identity-less courtesan, is this a common
female fantasy? Especially, perhaps, in an era of immense strictures
...
- Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories tell us about rhe nature of thought by George Lakoff (1987)
2. '''Balan''': women, bandicoots, dogs, platypus, echidna, some snakes+fishes,
most birds, fireflies, scorpions, criekets, the hairy mary grub, anything
connected with water or fire, sun and stars, shields, some spears,
...
August 17
August 14
- The courtesan's arts: cross-cultural perspectives by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (2006)
In the Persian literature, early tawa'if are often assigned a regional
origin from Kashmir or other NW locations associated w fair-skinned beauty
...
- The Great Masters: Profiles in Hindustani Classical Vocal Music by Mohan Nadkarni (1999)
At age 16, her aunt threw Siddheshwari out after she turned out
to be more talented musically than her own daughter.
- Love stories from the Mahabharata by Subodh Ghosh and Pradip Bhattacharya (tr.) (2005)
Manduka princess Sushobhana has many secret lovers, whom she meets without
revealing her identity, and then fends them off from permanence by feigning
...
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel (1983)
"You're not a pretty girl, Lorraine," [mother] has been nice enough
to inform me on a few occasions, "but you don't have to walk about
stoop-shouldered and hunched." 9
...
August 3
- The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, v.2 Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani and Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair (2003)
my husband rejects the old type.
He is in love with a modern woman,
Who speaks English. - Okot p'Bitek (Uganda)
- Vice: An Anthology by Richard Davenport-Hines (1993)
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato -- the only good belonging to him is
underground. - Thomas Overbury
- Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor ()
did you know that the word "sine" is etymologically derived from Sanskrit
ardha-jya, the term used by Aryabhata for sine, meaning "half-chord"?
July 31
July 28
July 26
- Origins of human communication by Michael Tomasello (2008)
while chimpanzees have pointing gestures, they do not understand
that pointing is intended as an helpful signal. Thus, a
chimp who is hungry and searching for food may have a human caretaker point
towards a box, and it may even go to that box, but instead of turning over
that box, it may try some other one. ...
July 23
- India After Gandhi: The history of the world's largest democracy by Ramachandra Guha (2007)
On 19 October 1952, a man named Potti Sriramulu began a
fast-unto-death in AP
... 15 Dec: fifty-eight days into his fast, Potti Sriramulu died...
- The game in reverse: poems by Taslima Nasrin and Carolyne Wright (tr) with Farida Sarkar (tr) and Mohammad Nurul Huda (tr) and Subharanjan Dasgupta (tr) (1995)
This body of mine, known so long,
at times even I can't recognize it.
- If only the sea could sleep: love poems by Adonis and Kamal Boullata (tr) and Susan Einbinder (tr) and Mirene Ghossein (tr) (2003)
- Poetry for the Earth by Sara (ed.) Dunn and Alan Scholefield (ed) (1992)
The water-dazzle / lights up the plane tree, me, the cat, the sun, and our lives...
may 18
- Mathematics and the divine: a historical study by T. Koetsier and Luc Bergmans (2005)
Wilkinson felt that religious and scientific worldviews in Indian thought
were more or less natural enemies, and that adherents of the former had
caused, by their “superior address,” the “oblivion” of the latter.
...
- The palimpsest of Exile by Dipika Mukherjee (2009)
These words once knew the power of insousicance.
These words once danced in red jooties.
may 5
- Indian astronomy: an introduction by S. Balachandra Rao (2000)
Sometimes, the sun may remain in the same _rAshi_ for more than a lunar
month; in such situations, one has an extra month (_adhikamAsa_, chapters 5 & 6)
...
- bAMlA kabitA : sriShTi o sraShTA by subal sAmanta (ed.) (1999)
madhyadin pIchgalA. janashUnya saRake hAm~Tchhe
ekTi kumArI meye, dui chokhe udvigna pratyay
...
- Violent Volcanoes by Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips (ill.) (1999)
Toba, Sumatra, 75,000 BC - 8 - 2,800 km^3 ash spread all over the world
and caused frozen weather for years.
...
- Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto and Aatish Taseer (tr.) (2009)
‘Your grandfather was MD Taseer, the poet, and you
don’t know Urdu?’
...
may 2
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk and Maureen Freely (tr.) (2005)
I am very happy now. I have no desire to play the hero.
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. 316
...
- Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky and Thomas Nivison Haining (tr.) (1991)
History usually depicts GK as the destroyer of flourishing civilizations;
yet he was not opposed to culture. He grasped the importance of writing
...
- Words fail me by Philip Howard (1980)
Erudite and well-written essays on words and language, with a touch of
...
- New words for old by Philip Howard (1977)
From the artificial glare of the footlights it [the word "scenario"] has
stepped down into the commonplace gloom of the auditorium in the
...
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1997)
" a few cautious steps, and Tensing and I were on top." [May 29, 1953]
...
- Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda and Alistair Reid (tr.) (1976)
Aún la atmósfera tiembla | Still the atmosphere quivers
...
April 29
April 28
April 24
April 18
March 24
- What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins (1941)
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Elegant. Classic. All school children should do arithmetic in
non-decimal bases.
- Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire (2003)
-
overly verbose discussion of the riemann hypothesis.
March 21
- Way of Tibetan Buddhism by Jampa Thaye (2001)
- The simple, lucid story of Mahayana, and its Tibetan practice.
- Poems from the Sanskrit by John (trans.) Brough (1977)
- Excerpts include 53 Poems like this:
If a professor thinks what matters most
Is to have gained an academic post...
March 17
- The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food, and Ritual in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (2007)
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History and practice of bengali food, including how we learned to make _chhAnA_
from the Portuguese.
- An Eye for Excellence: Fifty innovative years of IIT Kanpur by E.C. Subbarao (2008)
- Mediocre writing, but the facts are interesting.
Added March 9, 2009
- sukAnta samagra সুকান্ত সমগ্র by sukAnta bhaTTachArya and subhASh mukhopAdhyAy (1967)
-
Despite his nephew being the Chief Minister of Bengal,
Sukanta Bhattacharya's image has eroded a lot.
Are his poems too overwrought with
emotion?
Added on March 6, 2009
Other recent additions not in index
Indexed by Keyword (earlier than March 2009)
Biography
- The man who knew infinity: A
life of the genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel (1991)
- An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family by Tariq Ali (1985)
- Nehru, the First Sixty Years: Presenting in His Own Words... by Jawaharlal Nehru and Dorothy Norman (ed.) (1965)
- Feroze Gandhi: A
Political Biography by Shashi Bhushan (1977)
- Gandhi: Maker of modern India? by Martin Deming Lewis (1965)
The superiority of the caste system to the class system was that in the
former, money, in the words of Gandhi "the greatest disruptive force in
the world," did not form the basis, whereas differences in wealth did
...
- The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell v.1 by Bertrand Russell (1951)
- Baksheesh and
Brahman: Asian Journals-India (Collected Works) by Joseph Campbell and
Robin Stephen Larsen (ed.) and Anthony van Couvering (ed.)
(2002)
- My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet by Dalai Lama; David Howarth (tr.); Sonam Topgay Kazi (tr.) (1983)
- A Mathematician's
Apology by Godfrey Harold Hardy (1992)
- The Four-Minute Mile by
Roger Bannister (1994)
- The
Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin and L. Jesse
Lemisch (ed.) (1961)
- New York Times Great Lives of
the Twentieth Century by Arthur Gelb and A M Rosenthal (photo) and Marvin
Siegel (1988)
- Family treasury of
great biographies, v. 2: George Washington / Gandhi / Einstein / Marie
Antoinette / Mark Twain by M. Cunliffe and V. Sheean and C.P. Snow and
S. Zweig and C. Neider and Reader's Digest (publ) (1970)
- Family treasury of great
biographies, v. 1: Rembrandt / Elizabeth & Robert Browning / Benjamin
Franklin / William Osler by Hendrik Willem van Loon and Frances Winwar
and Benjamin Franklin and Edith Gittings Reid and Reader's Digest (publ)
(1970)
- shilAidahe
rabIndranAth by pramathanAth bishI (1972)
- The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell and Christopher Hibbert (1979)
- Dictator Style:
Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots by Peter York
(2006)
- The Last Mughal: The
Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple (2008)
- Growing Up Black by Jay
(ed.) David (1969)
- Will: The Autobiography
of G. Gordon Liddy by G.Gordon Liddy (1981)
- Business Maharajas by
Gita Piramal (1996)
- A life less ordinary
(Bengali: Alo-AndhAri, Hindi Alo-AndhAri Prabodh by Baby Halder and
Urvashi Butalia (tr.) (2002)
- Our Scientists by Dilip
M. Salwi and Mrinal Mitra (ill) (1986)
- Indira Gandhi: My
Truth by Emmanuel Pouchpadass and Indira Gandhi (1980)
- Dear Mr. Tagore: Ninety-five
Letters Written to Rabindranath Tagore from Europe and America, 1912-1941
by A. (ed.) Aronson (2000)
- uttarAyaN : rabIndrabhavan by prashAntakumAr pAl and sushobhan adhikArI (ill) (2000)
- Mirrors of the Soul by
Kahlil Gibran and Joseph Sheban (tr.) (1965)
v
- Leonardo's
Inventions: Drawings and Models by Jean Mathé and David MacRae (tr.)
(1989)
- The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, with a New Introduction by the Author by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley and Francesca Pelizzoli (ill) (1987)
IITs
- The IITs: Slumping or
Soaring by Shashi K. Gulhati (2007)
- An Eye for
Excellence: Fifty innovative years of IIT Kanpur by E.C. Subbarao
(2008)
Biology
- The Mating Mind: How Sexual
Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
(2001)
- Eight Little Piggies:
Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (1993)
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's
Toes by Stephen Jay Gould (1983)
- The Mismeasure of Man by
Stephen Jay Gould (1983)
- The Lying Stones of
Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay
Gould (2000)
- The Medusa and the Snail:
More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas (1979)
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (1986)
- Brahma's hair by Maneka Gandhi
and Yasmin Singh (1989)
- To know a fly by Vincent Gaston
Dethier and Bill Clark (ill) (1962)
- The Flamingo's
Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
(1987)
- Shell by Alex Arthur (1989)
- The Meme Machine by Susan
J. Blackmore (2000)
- The Book of Indian Birds by
Salim Ali and J.C. Daniel (2002)
- Book of Indian Birds by Salim
Ali (1988)
- Pocket Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by Richard Grimmett and Carol Inskipp and Inskipp, Tim (1999)
collaborators: Sarath Kotagama and Shahid Ali...
Brain and Cognition
- The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science by Robert Pollack (1999)
- The Enchanted Loom:
Mind in the Universe by Robert Jastrow (1983)
- The Dragons of Eden:
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
(1977)
- The Brain: A Very Short
Introduction by Michael O'Shea (2002)
- How the Mind Works by Steven
Pinker (1998)
- Bright Air, Brilliant
Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman (1992)
- Apes, Language,
and the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Stuart G. Shanker and
Talbot J. Taylor (1998)
- The Computational
Brain by Patricia Smith Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski
(1994)
Business
- Poor Richard's Legacy: American Business Values from Benjamin Franklin to Michael Milken by Peter Baida (1990)
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is
slow. I'll ruin you.
Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1854 [p.63]
...
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
How well-managed, well-thought out, innovation strategies can fail
in the face of unforeseen changes in market segments that are initially
non-competing, (e.g. low-end players).
- Business Maharajas by
Gita Piramal (1996)
- Everybody's
Business: An Almanac : the Irreverent Guide to Corporate America by
Milton Moskowitz and Michael Katz and Robert Levering (1980)
- Striking it Rich.com: Profiles of 23 Incredibly Successful Websites You've Probably Never Heard of by Jaclyn Easton (1998)
As of April 2009, of the 23 websites, more than a third have folded (9),...
- Techno-Bandits :
How the Soviets are stealing America's High-tech Future by Linda Melvern
and Nick Annin and David Hebditch (1984)
- The American
Confidence Man by David W. Maurer (1974)
Children's books
- Excuse Me, Is This India?
by Anushka Ravishankar and Anita Leutwiler (ill.) (2003)
- My Mother's Sari by Sandhya Rao
and Nina Sabnani (ill.) (2006)
- The Ultimate Noah's Ark: A
Puzzle Book by Mike Wilks (1993)
Dictionaries
- Concise
English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary by Anthony Paul Cowie and
A. Evison and Yuan Zhu and Jingrong Wu and Liangbi Wang and Yongchang Ren
and Jing Zhu Wu and Ping Mei and Xiaoping Ren (1986)
- The Oxford
Chinese Minidictionary by Boping Yuan and Sally K. Church (2001)
- Thai phrase book and
dictionary by Berlitz Editors (Publ.) (1994)
- A Browser's
Dictionary: A Compendium of Curious Expressions & Intriguing Facts by
John Ciardi (1980)
- The Meaning of
Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon
Winchester (2003)
Plays (Theater)
- Waiting for Godot:
Tragicomedy in 2 Acts by Samuel Beckett (1956)
- Flamingo and Other
Plays by Bode Sowande (1986)
- Three plays:
Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika by Rabindranath Tagore and Marjorie
Sykes (tr.) (1950)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? by Edward Albee (1962)
- Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Play
(1894) by Bernard Shaw (1952)
- The complete works of Oscar
Wilde by Oscar Wilde (1977)
- Plays by Molière by Jean
Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1924)
- Becket: Or, The Honor of
God (French: Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu) by Jean Anouilh and Lucienne
Hill (1960)
- Four plays: The bold
soprano, The lesson, The chairs, Jack - or the Submission by Eugène
Ionesco and Donald M. Allen (tr.) (1958)
- Theater India no. 2 by
Rajinder (ed.) Nath (1999)
- Collected Plays by Wole
Soyinka (1973)
- Together in Dreamland:
Children's dramas from Asia and the Pacific by UNESCO (publ)
(1987)
- Five plays (Orphée,
Antigone, Intimate relations, The holy terrors, The eagle with two heads)
by Jean Cocteau (1961)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
by George Bernard Shaw and Clarence A. Andrews (ed.) (1966)
Sex and Erotica
- The Carnal Prayer Mat: Rou
Putuan [Ròu pútuán (肉蒲團), 1657] by Li Yu and Patrick Hanan (tr.)
(1990)
- Pleasures: Women
Write Erotica by Lonnie Garfield Barbach (1985)
- The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The
Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers by Margo Anand
(1989)
- Hot Sex: Pocket Edition by
Tracey Cox (2002)
Prose: Essays
- The Labyrinth of Solitude
; The Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the
United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre by Octavio Paz and Lysander Kemp
(tr.) (1985)
- Religion of Man by
Rabindranath Tagore (2002)
- A Book of English Essays
by W. E. Williams (1981)
- The Myth of Sisyphus and
Other Essays (Le Mythe de Sisyphe 1942 Librairie Gallimard) by Albert
Camus and Justin O'Brien (tr.) (1955)
- The Norton Reader:
An Anthology of Expository Prose (Shorter Edition, Revised) by Arthur
M. (ed.) Eastman (1969)
- Sel1913)
- India: A Mosaic by Robert
B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein (ed.) (2000)
- Stranger Shores:
Literary Essays, 1986-1999 by J. M. Coetzee (2001)
- Imaginary
Homelands: Essays and Crtiticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
(1991)
- Climate of Fear: The Quest
for Dignity in a Dehumanized World by Wole Soyinka (2005)
- The Collected Essays
of A. K. Ramanujan by A. K. Ramanujan and Vinay Dharwadker (ed.) and
Stuart H. Blackburn (ed.) (2004)
- Lectures and Addresses by
Rabindranath Tagore and Anthony Xavier Soares (ed) (1980)
Fiction
- Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
(1994)
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and
Carol Brown Janeway (tr.) (1998)
- One Hundred Years of
Solitude [Cien años de soledad, 1967] by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and
Gregory Rabassa (tr.) (1970)
- Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
(1998)
- Veronika Decides to Die
[Portuguese: Veronika decide morrer, 1998] by Paulo Coelho and Margaret
Jull Costa (tr.) (1999)
- The Voices of
Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit (from German) by Elias Canetti and
J.A. Underwood (tr.) (1982)
- Lord of the Flies: A Novel by
William Golding (1954)
- Great European Short
Novels, by (ed.) Winner, Anthony (1968)
- The Günter Grass reader
by Gunter Grass and Helmut Freilinghaus (ed.) and William Martin (tr.)
and Philip Boehm (tr.) and Charles Simic (tr.) (1993)
- Great Short Works by
Joseph Conrad (1966)
- Midaq Alley ; The Thief
and the Dogs ; Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz and various (tr.)
(1989)
- Lady's Maid: A
Historical Novel by Margaret Forster (1990)
- The Alchemist [O
Alquimista 1988] by Paulo Coelho and Alan R. Clarke (tr.) (1995)
- Brother Man by Roger Mais
(1954)
- Portrait in Sepia by
Isabel Allende and Margaret Sayers Peden (tr.) (2001)
- Excerpts from three
classical Chinese novels by Guanzhong Luo and Cheng'en Wu and Xianyi Yang
and Ruzhen Li and Yang Xiany (tr.) and Gladys Yang (tr.) (1981)
- Soul Mountain
(Chinese: Lingshan, Taipei 1990) by Gao Xingjian and Mabel Lee (tr.)
(2001)
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis
Stevenson and N. C. Wyeth (ill) (1989)
- Madame Bovary by Gustave
Flaubert and Eleanor Marx Aveling (tr.) and Richard Lindner (ill.)
(1948)
- War with the Newts (tr??) by Karel Capek ()
- The Man who Fell in Love
with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer (1992)
- I'M Gone: A Novel by Jean
Echenoz and Mark Polizzotti (tr.) (2004)
- The plague by Albert Camus and Stuart Gilbert (tr.) (1948)
- Nana by Emile Zola and George Holden
(tr.) (1972)
- The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel,
Hermann Luctherhand Verlag 1959) by Gunter / tr: Ralph Manheim Grass
(1962)
- If on a Winter's Night a
Traveler by Italo Calvino (1981)
- The Mysterious Flame of
Queen Loana (La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) by Umberto Eco and
Geoffrey Brock (tr.) (2004)
- Other People's Trades by
Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal (tr.) (1990)
- Totto-Chan: The
Little Girl at the Window [J: 窓ぎわのトットちゃん, Madogiwa no
Totto-chan, 1981] by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and Dorothy Briton (tr.)
(1984)
- Confessions of a Mask
(Japanese: Kamen no Kokuhaku) by Yukio Mishima and Meredith Weatherby
(tr.) (1958)
- Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima and Alfred H. Marks (tr.) (1969)
[after her old father-in-law makes love to her] The woman who
has been caressed by a skeleton can never forget that caress. It was a new
skin added to her skin - transparent, damp, thinner than the chrysalis a
butterfly is about to shed. 31
...
- Aleph and Other Stories
1933-1969, Together With Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay. by
Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni (tr.) (1978)
- Collected Fictions by
Jorge Luis Borges and Andrew Hurley (trans.) (1998)
- Selected Non-fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges and Eliot Weinberger (ed.,tr.) and Esther Allen
(tr.) and Suzanne Jill Levine (tr.) (2000)
- Ten Thousands Things
[Dutch: De tienduizend dingen, 1958] by Maria Dermout and Hans Koning
(tr.) (1984)
- Nobel prize library
v.6: Eucken, France, Galsworthy by Rudolf Eucken and Anatole France and
John Galsworthy (1971)
- Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway (1970)
- Nobel prize
library v.10: Hemingway, Hamsun, Hesse by Ernest Hemingway and Knut
Hamsun and Hermann Hesse (1971)
- The Reluctant
Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2008)
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
(2000)
- I Saw Ramallah by Mourid
Barghouti and Ahdaf Soueif (tr.) (2000)
- A Treasury of Asian
Literature by (ed.) Yohannan, John D. (1958)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and William Weaver (tr.) (1978)
You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well
never moving from here. (p.28)
...
- The works of Leo Tolstoi by
Leo Tolstoy (1928)
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Max Haywar (tr.) and Manya Hariri (tr.) (1957)
- The Disinherited by Michel
Del Castillo and Humphrey Hare (tr.) (1988)
- The Penguin New
Writing in Sri Lanka by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (1992)
- Rim of Fire: Short Stories from
the Pacific Rim by Trevor Carolan (1992)
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk and Maureen Freely (tr.) (2005)
I am very happy now. I have no desire to play the hero.
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. 316
...
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Edrag Goknar(tr:.) (2001)
In the lands of the infidel Franks, the so-called Europeans, every dog has an
owner. These poor animals are paraded on the streets with chains around
their necks, they're fettered like the most miserable of slaves and dragged
around in isolation. ... Dogs who roam the streets of Istanbul freely in
packs and communities, the way we do, dogs who threaten people if necessary,
who can curl up on a warm corner or stretch out in the shade and sleep
peacefully, and who can shit wherever they want and bite whomever they want,
...
- Memed, My Hawk [Turkish: Ince
Memed, 1955] by Yashar Kemal and Edouard Roditi (tr.) (1961)
- Four Bare Legs in a Bed and
other stories by Helen Simpson (1991)
- Does My Bum Look Big in This? by
Arabella Weir (1998)
- Rebecca (1938) by Daphne (du
Maurier) DuMaurier (1971)
- Guns of Navarone by
Alistair MacLean (2004)
- Thursday Afternoons by
Monica Dickens (1965)
- Travels with My Aunt by
Graham Greene (1969)
- Pastoral by Nevil Shute ()
- The loneliness of the
long distance runner (also included: "The Rats" poem) by Alan Sillitoe
(1963)
- The Affair by Charles Percy Snow
(1960)
- The Moon is Down by John
Steinbeck (1970)
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry
Miller and Anais Nin (intro) (1961)
- Goodbye, Columbus: and
five short stories by Philip Roth (1959)
- The Cat who Played Brahms by
Lilian Jackson Braun (1987)
- The Color Purple by Alice
Walker (1983)
- The Breast by Philip Roth
(1985)
- God's Little Acre by
Erskine Caldwell (1976)
- The Beans of Egypt, Maine by
Carolyn Chute (1985)
- The Sorrow of War: A Novel by
Bảo Ninh and Frank Palmos (tr.) (1994)
- Matilda, by Roald Dahl (1988)
- 30 Stories to Remember (1962)
- Modern Short Stories: the uses of imagination by Arthur Mizener ()
- The Hungry Stones and
Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore and C.F. Andrews (tr.)
(1916)
- English Writings of
Rabindranath Tagore, v.2: Plays, Stories, Essays by Rabindranath Tagore
and Sisir Kumar Das (ed.) (1994)
- The Best of Myles: A Selection
from 'Cruiskeen Lawn' by Myles and Kevin O. Nolan (1977)
- The most
pleasant and delectable questions of love [Filocolo] by Giovanni
Boccaccio and Alexander King (illus.) and H.G. (tr.) and Thomas Bell
(ed.) (1931)
- The Book of Virtues: A
Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William J. Bennett (1993)
- The death of Ivan Ilych and
other stories by afterword David Magarshack (tr.) Tolstoy, Leo; Aylmer
Maude, J.D. Duff (1960)
- The Return and Other
Stories by Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov and Robert Chandler (tr.) and
Elizabeth Chandler (tr.) and Angela Livingstone (tr.) (1999)
- Katha Prize Stories
by Geeta Dharmarajan and Rimli Bhattacharya (ed.) (2002)
- The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald
Dahl (1983)
- The Collected Short
Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl (1991)
- Granta 49: Money by Bill Buford
and Granta magazine (publ.) (1994)
- The Tenth Man [a novel] by
Graham Greene (1985)
- Under the Jaguar Sun by
Italo Calvino (1990)
- World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow
(1985)
- Four Novels : The Square;
Moderato Cantabile; 10:30 on a Summer Night; The Afternoon of
Mr. Andesmas by various (tr) Duras, Marguerite; (2000)
- Perfume: The Story of a
Murderer (german: Das Parfum) by Patrick Suskind and John E. Woods (tr.)
(2001)
Fiction:India
- The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai (2006)
- The Inner
Courtyard: Stories by Indian Women by Lakshmi (ed.) Holmstrom
(1990)
- The God of Small Things by
Arundhati Roy (1997)
- The shadow lines by Amitav Ghosh (1988)
- Granta 57: India by Ian Jack (1997)
- The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (1989)
- The Art of Dying and Other
Stories by Githa Hariharan (1993)
- Samskara: A Rite for a
Dead Man by U. R. Anantha Murthy and A. K. Ramanujan (tr.)
(1989)
- The Sword of Tipu Sultan: A
Historical Novel about the Life and Legend of Tipu Sultan of India by
Bhagwan S. Gidwani (1976)
- Yatra 1 by Alok Bhalla and Nirmal
Verma and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993)
- The hungry tide by Amitav Ghosh
(2004)
- Red earth and pouring
rain by Vikram Chandra (2006)
- Mirrorwork: 50 Years of
Indian Writing, 1947-1997 by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West
(1997)
- An Illustrated
History of Indian Literature in English by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
(2003)
- Indian Railway Stories
by Ruskin Bond (1994)
- Riot: A Novel by Shashi Tharoor (2001)
The West believes that love leads to marriage, which is why so many
marriages in the West end when love dies. . . . real love comes from
the commitment of marriage and the experience of sharing life's
challenges together. - 103
...
- Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
(2007)
- Baumgartner's Bombay by
Anita Desai (1989)
- In Custody by Anita Desai
(1997)
- The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal
Jha (1999)
- The Vendor of Sweets by
R. K. Narayan (1952)
- Under a Monsoon Cloud
by H. R. F. Keating (1987)
- Asking Questions by
H. R. F. Keating (1997)
- The Mystery of the Elephant
God: More Adventures of Feluda (Tintorettos Jesus, Criminals of
Kathmandu) by Satyajit Ray and Gopa Majumdar (tr.) (1994)
- Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
(1990)
- Contemporary Indian
Short Stories in English by Shiv K. (ed) Kumar (1991)
- Modern Hindi Short
Stories by Gordon C. (tr.) Roadarmel (1974)
- Selected Short Stories
by Mulk Raj Anand and Saros Cowasjee (ed.) (2006)
Fiction:Africa
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
(1999)
- Devil on the Cross (in
Kikuyu/Gikuyu, 1980, tr: author 1982) by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
(1982)
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
(1967)
- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (1988)
- The Bride Price by Buchi
Emecheta (1976)
- Ambiguous Adventure
(French: L'Aventure Ambigue, 1962) by Hamidou Kane and Katherine Woods
(tr.) (1972)
- Maru by Bessie Head (1995)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
- Waiting for the
Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (1980)
- A Soldier's
Embrace: Stories by Nadine Gordimer (1980)
Food
- A History of Beer and
Brewing by Ian Spencer Hornsey and Royal Society of Chemistry (publ))
(2003)
- The Barbarian's
Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe by Max Nelson
(2005)
- The Origins and
Ancient History of Wine by Patrick McGovern and Stuart James Fleming and
Solomon H. Katz (2000)
- Beer: An
Illustrated History by Brian Glover (2000)
- Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and
Culture by Marvin Harris (1986)
- Food in history by Reay
Tannahill (1989)
- James Beard's Theory and
Practice of Good Cooking by James Beard and Jose Wilson (1977)
- Chinese Cooking for
Everyone by Jackie Bennett (1984)
- Flavouring with Chillies by Clare Gordon-Smith and James Merrill (photo)
Sociology and Gender
- The perfect
wife [Sanskrit: _strIdharmapaddhati_] by Tryambakayajvan and Julia Leslie
(tr.) (1989)
- Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval, and modern India by Mandakranta Bose (2000)
- Women in early Indian societies
by Kumkum (ed.) Roy (1999)
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia
Woolf (1929)
- Speaking of Siva by A. K. Ramanujan and bAsavaNNa and devara dAsimayyA and mahAdeviyakka and allAma prabhu (1973)
- Intimate Relations by
Sudhir Kakar (1989)
- The Warrior Queens (UK:
Boadicea's Chariot) by Antonia Fraser (1988)
- Report from a Chinese
Village by Jan Myrdal (1972)
- Don't Marry Me to a Plowman!:
Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India by Patricia Jeffery and Roger
Jeffery (1996)
- Social Change in Modern
India by M. N. Srinivas (1966)
- Race and Science : The
race question in modern science by Unesco (publ.) and Juan Comas and
Kenneth Little and Michel Leiris and Harry L. Shapiro and Claude
Lévi-Strauss and L. C. Dunn and G. M. Morant and Arnold M. Rose and
Otto Klineberg and Marie Jahoda (1969)
History
- The Imperial
Achievement: The Rise and Transformation of the British Empire by John
Bowle (1977)
- The Great Arc: The Dramatic
Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named by John Keay
(2000)
- Great speeches of
modern India by Rudrangshu Mukherjee (2007)
- City of Gold: The Biography of
Bombay by Gillian Tindall (1982)
- Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres, by Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1998)
The 19th c. imperialist historians inscribed the story of Kanpur into their
grand narrative of Indian cruelty and inferiority and of British triumph.
...
- India Discovered:
The Recovery of a Lost Civilization by John Keay (1981)
- The Raj Syndrome: A
Study in Imperial Perceptions by Suhash Chakravarty (1991)
- The End of the World: A
History by Otto Friedrich (1986)
- Pages Stained with Blood
by Indira Goswami and Pradip Acharya (tr.) (2002)
- The Ascent of Man by Jacob
Bronowski (1973)
- An intimate history of
humanity, 1994 by Theodore Zeldin (1994)
- On the Shoulders of Giants:
The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen W. Hawking
(2003)
- The Penguin Book of Indian
Cartoons by Abu Abraham (1989)
- You said it by R. K. Laxman
(1981)
- The best of Laxman by
R. K. Laxman (1990)
- The Best of Laxman IV by
R.K. Laxman (1994)
- Reality Check by John Grimes
(1993)
- Yukon Ho!: A Calvin and
Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson (1989)
- The revenge of the
baby-sat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson
(1991)
- Scientific
Progress Goes "boink": A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson
(1991)
- Comrade Don Camillo
[Mondo piccolo,il compagno Don Camillo, Rizzoli, 1963] by Giovanni
Guareschi and Frances Frenaye (tr.) (1964)
- The Golden Calf (The Adventures
of Ostap Bender The Halarious Adventures of a Lovable Rouge."one of the
great comic figures of modern literature") (Russian: Золотой телёнок) by
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov (1973)
- Babies and Other Hazards
of Sex; How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You
Probably Have around the Home by Dave Barry (1999)
- Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave
Barry (1992)
- The Best of Modern Humor by
Mordecai (ed) Richler (1983)
- Dave Barry's Complete
Guide to Guys: A Fairly Short Book by Dave Barry (1995)
- Handbook of humor for
speakers by Maxwell Droke (1956)
- Truly Tasteless Jokes
by Blanche Knott (1982)
India
- The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food, and Ritual in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (2007)
- Early Civilizations
of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt, the Levant,
Mesopotamia by Charles Keith Maisels (2001)
- Bharata: The
Natyasastra by Kapila Vatsyayan (1996)
- Durga Puja:
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow by Sudeshna Banerjee (2004)
- Village Life in Northern
India: Studies in a Delhi Village by Oscar Lewis (1958)
- The Dance of Shiva: On
Indian art and culture by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1957)
- From the Archives of a
Centenarian by Nirad C Chaudhuri and Dhruva N. Chaudhuri (ed.)
(1997)
- Philosophies of India
by Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell (ed) (1969)
- The Wonder that was India :
A survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of
the Muslims by Arthur Llewellyn Basham (1954)
- This Fissured Land: An
Ecological History of India by Mahda Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha
(1992)
- Sources of Indian Tradition,
vol. 2 by Stephen N. Hay and William Theodore De Bary and Ishtiaq Husain
Qureshi (1991)
- India and Ceylon: Unity
and Diversity, A symposium by ed. Mason, Philip (1967)
- Martial India by
F. Yeats-Brown (1945)
- Myths and Symbols in Indian
Art and Civilization by Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell (ed.)
(1962)
- The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language by Bimal Krishna Matilal (2001)
Language Acquisition process: older adult commands 'Bring a cow,' and
the younger adult obeys by bringing a cow. The child as an onlooker
understands that the utterance (sound emitted by older adult) as a
whole means the activity. ... _AvApodvApa_: an
unconscious process of assimilation and elimination
...
- India 2000: The Next
Fifteen Years by James R. (ed.) Roach and UT
Austin Center for Asian Studies (1986)
- Sources of Indian Tradition:
From the Beginning to 1800 by William Theodore De Bary (1964)
- People Unlike Us: The India
that is Invisible by et al Jaleel, Muzamil (2001)
- Mughal India by Giles Henry
Rupert Tillotson (1991)
- The Baburnama: Memoirs
of Babur, Prince and Emperor by Babur and Wheeler M. Thackston (tr.)
(1996)
- Indian
Democracy: Its Major Imperatives by Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar
(1975)
- Mau'izah-i Jahangiri
(Advice on the art of governance : An Indo-Islamic Mirror for Princes),
Persian text w translation, by Muhammad BAqir Najm-i SAni and Sajida
Sultana Alvi (tr.) (1989)
- Folktales of India
(Folktales of the World) by Brenda E.F. Beck and Peter J. Claus and
Praphulladatta Goswami and Jawaharlal Handoo (1999)
- Ceylon (Series:
Modern Nations in historical perspective) by S. Arasaratnam
(1964)
- I Write what I Like by Steve Biko
(1986)
- A Flash of Lightning in
the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Tenzin
(Dalai Lama XIV) Gyatso and Śāntideva and Padmakara Translation Group
(tr.) (1994)
China, Japan, Far East
- The History of the
Mongol Conquests by J. J. Saunders (2001)
- Genghis Khan and the
Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (2004)
- Blue Wolf: Epic tale of life
and times of Genghis Khan by Frederic Dion and Will Hobson (tr.)
(1998)
- The Dragon Empress: Life
and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 by Marina
Warner (1972)
- The Burning Forest:
Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics by Simon Leys (1987)
- Silk Roads, China Ships:
An exhibition of East West trade by John Vollmer and Edward John Keall
and Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong (1983)
- Sources of Chinese Tradition
by William Theodore (ed.) de Bary and Wing-Tsit Chan and Burton Watson
(1964)
- Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth by Donald Keene ()
- Downfall: The End of the
Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank (2001)
- Japan: The New Superstate
by Nobutaka Ike (1974)
Africa
- The Forest People: A
study of the Pygmies of the Congo by Colin M. Turnbull (1962)
- The Race to Fashoda: European
Colonialism and African Resistance in the scramble for Africa by David
L. Lewis (1987)
- African Profiles by Ronald
Segal (1962)
- Black Africa; a
Comparative Handbook: A Comparative Handbook by Donald George Morrison
and RC Mitchell and JN Pae and HM Stevenson (1972)
Language
- How Children Learn the Meaning of Words by Paul Bloom (2000)
Learning words involves learning something about the referential
intent of others - it is a social act.
- Foundations of
cognitive grammar by Ronald W. Langacker (1987)
- Representing
Direction in Language and Space by Emile van der Zee and J. M. Slack
(2003)
- Language in Mind: Advances
in the Study of Language and Thought by Dedre Gentner and Susan
Goldin-Meadow (ed.) (2003)
- Presumptive
Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature by Stephen
C. Levinson (2000)
- The Story of Human
Language [Audio book] by John H McWhorter and Teaching Company (publ)
(2004)
- The Mother Tongue:
English & how it Got that Way by Bill Bryson (1990)
- Horrible Histories: Wicked Words by Terry Deary (1996)
infantry - from Italian. Infants, or boy soldiers, were not allowed
...
- Seeing Voices: A
Journey Into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W. Sacks (1989)
- Language: A
Biological Model by Ruth Garrett Millikan (2005)
-
Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition by
Michael Tomasello (2005)
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The
Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2003)
- The Gentle Art of Verbal Self
Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin (1980)
- Mind and Cognition: A
Reader by William G. Lycan (1990)
- Language Change:
Progress Or Decay? by Jean Aitchison (2001)
- The Language War by Robin
Tolmach Lakoff (2001)
- Black Mischief:
Language, Life, Logic, Luck by David Berlinski (1988)
- Form and Meaning in Language:Volume I, Papers on Semantic Roles by Charles J. Fillmore ()
- The Atlas of Languages by
Bernard Comrie and Stephen Matthews and Maria Polinsky (1996)
- Introduction to Old
English by Peter S. Baker (2003)
- Basic Principles of
Indian Philosophy of Language by Piyali Palit (2004)
- The Power of Babel: A
Natural History of Language by John H. McWhorter (2002)
- The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal (1991)
- Symbol, Status,
and Personality by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa (1963)
- Lexical Semantics
Without Thematic Roles by Yael Ravin (1990)
- Writing Systems:
A Linguistic Introduction by Geoffrey Sampson (1985)
- Faith in Fakes by Umberto Eco
(1995)
- The Art of Sign Language: Phrases
by Christopher Brown (2003)
Literature
- Postmodern Indian
English Literature by Bijay Kumar Das (2003)
- The Tale Bearers:
Literary Essays by Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1980)
- The Picador Book of
Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri (2001)
- Dimsum (Asia's
Literary Journal, Volume 10, Spring 2005) by Nury (ed.) Vittachi and
Thomas Keneally (ed.) and Hua Yu (ed.) (2005)
- On the composition of
the short fiction scenario, by Sergei Eisenstein and Alan Y. Upchurch
(tr.) (1985)
- A book of one's own: People and
their diaries, Penguin 1984/1987 by Thomas Mallon (1984)
- The Myth Makers:
Literary Essays by Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1979)
- The poet and the Hangman
by Kornei / tr: R.W. Rotsel Chukovsky (1977)
- Literature: A Crash
Course by Cory Bell (1999)
- The Book of Imaginary
Beings [Spanish: Manual de zoología fantástica] by Jorge Luis Borges and
Margarita Guerrero and Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (trans.) (1979)
- The Dictionary of
Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi (1987)
- Writers Handbook by Sylvia
K. Burack (1984)
- Ernest Hemingway on
Writing by Ernest Hemingway and Larry W. Phillips (ed.) (1984)
Mathematics
- Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight by Martin Gardner (1982)
Aha! Gotcha is my top mathematical puzzle book of all time.
- Aha! Insight by Martin Gardner (1978)
- Excursions in Number
Theory by Charles Stanley Ogilvy and John T. Anderson (1988)
- Multiple criteria decision making by Milan Zeleny (1982)
- Metamagical Themas by
Douglas R. Hofstadter (1985)
- Martin Gardner's New
Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American by Martin Gardner
(1966)
- Men of Mathematics by Eric
Temple Bell (1986)
- What Shape is a Snowflake? by
Ian Stewart (2001)
- Ten little fingers by
Arvind Gupta (2001)
- Vedic
Mathematics: Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas by
Bharati Krishna Tirtha and Vasudeva Sharana Agrawala (ed.)
(1992)
-
Mathematical Recreations and Essays by Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter and
Walter William Rouse Ball (1987)
- Wheels, Life, and Other
Mathematical Amusements by Martin Gardner (1983)
- Mathematical
Puzzles and other brain twisters by Anthony S. Filipiak (1942)
- Sequences,
Combinations, Limits by S. I. Gelfand and M. L. Gerver and A. A. Kirillov
and N. N. Konstantinov (2002)
- Mathematician's
Delight by Walter Warwick Sawyer (1943)
- The Mathematical
Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh and Elena A Marchisotto
(1982)
Philosophy
- Proofs and Refutations
by Imre Lakatos (1964)
- From Stimulus to Science by
Willard Van Orman Quine (1995)
- Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett (2004)
Plato speaks in the famous image of carving nature at its joints... literally,
where one thing leaves off and the next thing starts - patterns that are
...
- The Mind's I:
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter and
Daniel Clement Dennett (1981)
- On Love (orig UK title: Essays in
Love) by Alain de Botton (1993)
- Tao Teh Ching by Lao Zi and Wu, John C. H. (tr.) (1961)
Thirty spokes converge upin a single hub;
It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges.
... while the tangible has its advantages,
It is the intangible that makes it useful.
...
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger
(1972)
- Consciousness
Explained by Daniel Clement Dennett and Paul Weiner (ill.)
(1991)
- The Modularity of Mind: An
Essay on Faculty Psychology by Jerry A Fodor (1986)
- Journeys
Through Philosophy: A Classical Introduction by Nicholas Capaldi and
Eugene Kelly and Luis E. Navia (1982)
- Aristotle by John Herman Randall (1960)
[ nearly all the major Gk philosophers, except for Socrates and Plato, had
been Ionians (from present-day Turkey) p.11-12]
...
- The Age of Adventure:
The Renaissance Philosophers by Giorgio De Santillana (1987)
- Breaking the spell:
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett (2007)
- The Phenomenon of Man by
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1959)
- Kinds of Minds: Towards an
Understanding of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett (1996)
- Word and Object by Willard Van
Orman Quine (1960)
- Voices of Wisdom With
Infotrak: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader (4th edition) by Gary
E. Kessler (2000)
- Darwin's Dangerous
Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel Clement Dennett
(1996)
- Philosophy for
Beginners by Richard Osborne and Ralph Edney (ill.) (1993)
- History of Western
Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances
from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bertrand Russell
(1945)
- Bhagavadgita by Vyasa Arnold,
Edwin (tr.) (1993)
- Relativism,
Suffering and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Bimal K. Matilal by
P. Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty (2003)
- Creative Mythology
(The Masks of God, Volume IV) by Joseph Campbell (1983)
- The Ontology of
Physical Objects: Four-dimensional Hunks of Matter by Mark Heller
(1990)
- The Oxford Companion
to Philosophy by Ted Honderich (1995)
- Four
Upanishads: Translated and commented by Swami Paramananda (1974)
- Pascal's Fire:
Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding by Keith Ward
(2006)
- The Art of Travel by Alain de
Botton (2002)
- The Conquest of
Happiness by Bertrand Russell (1975)
World Poetry
- If only the sea could sleep: love poems by Adonis and Kamal Boullata (tr) and Susan Einbinder (tr) and Mirene Ghossein (tr) (2003)
- Poetry for the Earth by Sara (ed.) Dunn and Alan Scholefield (ed) (1992)
The water-dazzle / lights up the plane tree, me, the cat, the sun, and our lives...
- The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier (1998)
But look
My teeth are white and not red
I haven't eaten anyone
...
- Memoirs by Pablo Neruda and Hardie St. Martin (tr.) (1976)
- Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda and Pablo Picasso (ill.) and William Stanley Merwin (tr.) (2004)
- Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda and Alistair Reid (tr.) (1976)
Aún la atmósfera tiembla Still the atmosphere quivers
...
- The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel (ill.) (1983)
Windrush down the timber chutes
between the mountain's knees --
a hiss of distant breathing,
a shouting in the trees
a recklessness of branches
a wilderness a-sway,
when suddenly
a silence
takes your breath away.
...
- A Book of Love Poetry by
Jon Stallworthy (1986)
- The Oxford Book of Light Verse
by Wystan Hugh (ed.) Auden (1973)
- The Poetry of Our World: An
International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Jeffery Paine
(2000)
- World poetry: an
anthology of verse from antiquity to our time by Clifton Washburn,
Katherine; John S. Major; Fadiman (1998)
- The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Eighth Edition by J. Paul Hunter and Alison Booth and Kelly J. Mays (2002)
I have carved our lives in secret on this stick
of mountain mahogany the length of your arms
...
- Lewis Carroll's The
Hunting of the Snark: The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner and Charles
Mitchell and Selwyn Hugh Goodacre and (ill Henry Holiday) (1981)
- The War Poets by Robert Giddings (1988)
War gives rise to intense emotions, that often find expression in superlative
poetry.
...
- The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by J.D. McClatchy (ed) (1996)
On the whole though, the quality of the poetry is quite refreshing, and
and the random-page test works well.
...
- Short Fuse: The Global
Anthology of New Fusion Poetry by Todd Swift and Philip Norton
(2002)
- Selected Poems by Boris
Leonidovich Pasternak and Jon Stallworthy(tr.) and Peter France(tr.)
(1984)
- The Waste Land and Other
Poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot (1930)
- The Best American
Poetry, 1993 by Louis Gluck and David Lehman (1993)
- The Strange
Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler (2003)
- Selected Poems, 1963 to
1983 (18) by Charles Simic (1990)
- The Penguin Book of Women
Poets by Carol Cosman and Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver (1978)
- Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ()
- Joyful Noise by Paul
Fleischman and Eric Beddows (ill) (1988)
- The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury by Jack Prelutsky and Meilo So (ill) (1999)
One sister for sale!
One sister for sale!
One crying and yelling young
sister for sale!
...
Indian Poetry
While canons such as Marathi poetry or Bengali poetry have clear-cut
standards for membership, "Indian poetry" is far from clear. It is becoming
increasingly clear that both in terms of cultural and historical diversity,
India (or China) is rather like Europe than like Germany. Yet, how many
anthologists do you meet who are bringing out books of "European poetry"?
So you have people like Buddhadev Basu, who famously said
There is nothing called "Indian literature," - as I have been saying in
so many forums - similarly, there is nothing called "Indian food".
Yet, as a sociopolitical continuum, there is something about India that
defines its poetry - but then that is there also in european poetry...
the travails of nationalism...
- strangertime: an anthology of Indian Poetry in English by Pritish Nandy (ed) (1977)
The anthology is therefore not defensive. It celebrates our success. It
attempts to capture the drama, the intensity, and the sheer vitality of the
...
- Indian love poems by
Tambimuttu and John Piper (ill) (1967)
- Speaking of Siva by A. K. Ramanujan and bAsavaNNa and devara dAsimayyA and mahAdeviyakka and allAma prabhu (1973)
- Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar; Ramanujan, A.K. (tr.) (1981)
- Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda by Mohindar Singh Randhawa and Jayadeva (1958)
- The absent
traveller: Prakrit love poetry from the gAthAsaptashati of sAtavAhana
hAla by Arvind Krishna (tr.) Mehrotra (2008)
- Shilappadikaram:
(The Ankle Bracelet) by Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ Daniélou, Alain, [Danielou] (tr.)
Ilango Adigal (1965)
- Erotic Love Poems from
India: Selections from the Amarushataka by Andrew Schelling
(2004)
- The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry by Vinay (ed.) Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujan (ed.) (1994)
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light.
...
- The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (ed) (1993)
Ali's poems seem to be whispered to himself, and to read them is as if to
overhear. ...
...
- An anthology of Indian Love poetry, by Subhash Saha (ed.) (1976)
When you undress, I sit seeing the colours
of the clothes you slip over your head ...
I watch you darkly growing towards me,
the last glinting of arms and the cupped tense belly.
...
- Hundred Indian Poets: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Pranab Bandyopadhyay (ed.) (1977)
love the sixty-seven
kilogrammes of aging flesh
love the damaged liver,
...
- Modern Indian Poetry
in English by Ayyappa K Paniker and various (1991)
- In the Dark of the heart: Songs of Meera by Mirabai and Shama Futehally (tr.) (1994)
I saw the swelling clouds
and Shyam,
my eyes began to rain.
...
- Collected Poems by Keki
N. Daruwalla (2006)
- The Satasaī (Satasai,
700 poems) by Bihari, and K. P. Bahadur (tr.) (1992)
- 20th century Kannada poetry by Sumatheendra Nadig (1983)
Because I love you
The image of the sun comes down to enter the dew drop.
...
- For Love of the Dark One: Songs
of Mirabai by Mirabai and Andrew Schelling (tr.) (1993)
- Masterpieces of Urdu
Rubaiyat by K.C. Kanda (1996)
- The Tenth Rasa: An anthology of Indian nonsense by Michael Heynman and Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar and Sampurna Chattarji (2007)
Idli lost its fiddli
Dosa lost its crown
Wada lost its wiolin
And let the whole band down.
...
- Brunizem by Sujata Bhatt
(1986)
- Selected poems:
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore and William Radice (tr.)
(1989)
- Selected Poems by Gulzar and
Pavan K. Varma (tr.) (2008)
- The Oxford India
illustrated Children's Tagore by Sukanta (ed) Chaudhuri (1991)
- White Elephants by Reetika
Vazirani (1996)
Bengali poetry
- kabitA siMher shreShTha kabitA by kabita sinha (1987)
অপমানের জন্য বার বার ডাকেন
ফিরে আসি
...
- pUrbapallIr rAtribAs by bIthi chaTTopAdhyAy (2004)
se rAte bujhlAm tomAr sharIrei...
- gaRgaRiye tartariye
by Sunirmal Chakrabarti (1989)
- English Writings of
Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore and Sisir Kumar
Das (ed.) (1994)
- Love Songs of Vidyapati by
Vidyapati and Deben Bhattacharya (tr.) (1963)
- Modern Bengali Poems by Lila Ray ()
Lila Ray was the wife of Annadashankar Ray; she was born Alice
Virginia...
- Modern poems from Bengal
by Surabhi Banerjee (1996)
- bhAlabAsAr belA abelA by ananyA bandyopadhyAy (2002)
se bhAbe bale ni keu prem...
- Ami briShTi ebang pAkhiwAlA [bristi] {bn আমি বৃষ্টি এবং পাখিওয়ালা} by Namita Chaudhuri (2003)
ডানাভাঙা অক্ষরগুলি কাঁদতে বসেছে...
- Chheleke History Parate Giye {bn ছেলেকে হিস্ট্রি পড়াতে গিয়ে} by mallikA {bn মল্লিকা সেনগুপ্ত} sengupta (2005)
- AmrA lAsya AmrA laRAi আমরা লাস্য আমরা লড়াই by mallikA {bn মল্লিকা সেনগুপ্ত} sengupta (2001)
- chhokrA chhokrA shyAm rAy-bAi {bn ছোকরা ছোকরা শ্যাম রায়-বাই} by sutapA sengupta (2003)
- dui bAnglAr Abrittir serA kabitA by shyamalkAnti [Das] (ed.) dAsh and bhaTTAchArya, pItam (ed.) (2003)
- The unsevered tongue: translated poetry by Bengali women by Amitabha Mukerjee (2005)
- bAMlA kabitA : sriShTi o sraShTA by subal sAmanta (ed.) (1999)
madhyadin pIchgalA. janashUnya saRake hAm~Tchhe
ekTi kumArI meye, dui chokhe udvigna pratyay
...
- bijayA mukhopAdhyAyer shreShTa kabitA by bijayA mukhopAdhyAy (1990)
- chhARpatra by sukAnta bhaTTachArya (1947)
- debArati mitrer shreShTa kabitA {bn দেবারতি মিত্রর শ্রেষ্ট কবিতা} by debArati mitra (2000)
- e shataker bAMlA kabitA by mrityuNjay sen (ed.) (1996)
- Abritti-koSh by nIradbaraN hAjrA (1974)
- e sab-I rAter chihNa {bn এ সবই রাতের চিহ্ণ} by mandAkrAntA sen (2002)
- chhadmapurAN ছদ্মপুরাণ by mandAkrAntA sen (2001)
- hriday abAdhya meye {bn হৃদয় অবাধ্য মেয়ে } by mandAkrAntA sen (1999)
- puruShke lekhA chiThi {bn পুরুষকে লেখা চিঠি} by mallikA sengupta (2002)
- jhulan jAtrA {bn ঝুলন যাত্রা} by Namita Chaudhuri (1996)
- shudhu triShNAy beRe oThe {bn শুধু তৃষ্ণায় বেড়ে ওঠে} by Namita Chaudhuri (1999)
- drishyAbalI ebang by Namita Chaudhuri (2002)
- sukAnta samagra {bn সুকান্ত সমগ্র} by sukAnta bhaTTachArya and subhASh mukhopAdhyAy (1967)
- khopA bhare Ache tArar dhuloy {bn খোঁপা ভরে আছে তারার ধুলোয়} by debArati mitra (2003)
- ei shatAbdIr premer kabitA by sunIl gangopAdhyAy and dIpak rAy (1987)
- Love Songs of Vidyapati by Vidyapati; Deben Bhattacharya (tr.) (1963)
- gaRgaRiye tartariye {bn গড়গড়িয়ে তরতরিয়ে} by Sunirmal Chakrabarti (1989)
- English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore and Sisir Kumar Das (ed.) (1994)
- kriShNA basur shreShTa kabitA by krishNA basu (2003)
Psychology
- How people learn: brain, mind, experience, and school by John Bransford and Committee on Science of Learning (2003)
Expert knowledge differ from novices not in the breadth of facts or
propositions, but in how these are arranged into ''chunks''.
- Conceptual
Spaces: The Geometry of Thought by Peter Gardenfors (2000)
- Philosophy in the Flesh:
The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff
and Mark Johnson (1999)
- Blink: Thinking
without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
- The Tipping Point: How
Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
(2000)
- Visual intelligence: how we create what we see by Donald D. Hoffman (2000)
- Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball (2006)
Can there be a quantitative, scientific answer to social questions?
- Cognitive Psychology (3d edition) by Robert J. Sternberg ()
- Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane
(1979)
- Jean Piaget by Margaret A. Boden
(1980)
Reference
- The World
Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison and Jorge Braga De
Macedo (ed) and Donald Johnston (ed) (2001)
- Dancing with Giants:
China, India, and the Global Economy by L. Alan Winters and Shahid Yusuf
(2007)
- Lives of the Laureates:
Seven Nobel Economists by William Breit and Roger W. Spencer
(1988)
- Worldly
Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbronner (1953)
- State of the World 1990: A
Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a sustainable society by
Lester R. Brown and Linda Starke (1990)
- World Development Report 2009 : Reshaping Economic Geography by World Bank (publ) (2008)
The day will come when you France, you Russia, you Germany, all you nations
of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious
...
- Millennium:
Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order by Jacques Attali and Leila
Conners (tr.) and Hathan Gardel (tr.) (1991)
- The American
Medical Association Family Medical Guide by Charles B. Clayman
(1994)
- Article 19: World Report
1988: Information, Freedom and Censorship by Kevin Boyle (1988)
- Oxford Dictionary of
quotations by Bernard Darwin (1985)
- Encyclopedia of gods
:over 2,500 deities of the world by Michael Jordan (1993)
- The New York Public Library
Desk Reference: A Stonesong Press Book by Paul Fargis and Sheree Bykofsky
and New York Public Library (publ.) (1989)
- The Oxford
Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty and Sheila Dignen and
Penelope Stock and Penny Stock (2001)
Religion
- Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar; Ramanujan, A.K. (tr.) (1981)
- Sacred Sex: Erotic Writings
from the Religions of the World by Robert Bates (1994)
-
Anathapindika: Great Buddhist stories by S. Dhammika and Susan Harmer
(ill.) (1999)
- An Introduction to
Hinduism by Gavin Flood (2004)
- The Hindu
Religious Tradition by Thomas J. Hopkins (1971)
- Religion and Aging in the
Indian Tradition by Shrinivas Tilak (1989)
- Logical and Ethical
Issues: An Essays on Indian Philosophy of Religion by B. K. Matilal and
Heeraman Tiwari (ed.) (2004)
- Tantra: The Path of
Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein (1998)
- Signs of the Unseen: The
Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi by Wheeler M (tr.) Rumi, Jalaluddin;
Thackston (1999)
Science
- panjikA-saMskAr by kshetramohan basu ()
- To the Ends of the Earth: 100
Maps that Changed the World by Jeremy Harwood (2006)
- The Story of Maps by Lloyd Arnold Brown (1979)
For a slightly more global view, check out Jeremy Harwood's
[[harwood-2006-to-ends-of|To the ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World]] (2006), or to a
lesser degree, Berthon and Robinson's [[berthon-1991-shape-of-world|Shape of the world]].
...
- A Little Book on Map
Projection by William Garnett (1914)
- The Shape of the World by
Simon Berthon and Andrew Robinson (1991)
- The Nature of Space and
Time by Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose (1996)
- Time's Arrows:
Scientific Attitudes Toward Time by Richard Morris (1986)
- The Quantum Dice [Pod
znakom kvanta] by Leonid Ivanovič Ponomarev and Alexander Repyev (tr.)
and Vladimir Perlin (ill.) and Olga Levenok (ill.) (1988)
- Fads and Fallacies in the
Name of Science: in the name of science by Martin Gardner (1957)
- Betrayers of the Truth by
William Broad and Nicholas Wade (1983)
- The Technology of Man: A
Visual History by Derek Birdsall and Carlo M. Cipolla (1980)
- The World Treasury of
Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics by Timothy Ferris (1991)
- Men, Machines, and
Modern Times by Elting Elmore Morison (1966)
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (1999)
Chimpanzees are closer to humans than they are to gorillas. ... ]
...
- The Magic School Bus Meets
the Rot Squad: A Book about Decomposition by Linda Beech and Carolyn
Bracken (ill.) and Joanna Cole and Scholastic (publ.) (1995)
- Baby Wars: The Dynamics of
Family Conflict by Robin Baker and Elizabeth Oram (1998)
- Thumbs up science by
Jess Brallier and Jess Brallier (ill) (2001)
- Remarkable
Discoveries by Frank Ashall (1994)
- A Short History of Nearly
Everything by Bill Bryson (2004)
- prAchIn bhArate vigyAncharchA by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar ()
- Ahead of Time by Harr
Harrison and Theodore J. Gordon (1972)
- Ideas and Opinions by
Albert Einstein and Carl Seelig (1966)
- Chance and Necessity:
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology [Le hasard et la
nécessité] by Jacques Monod and Austryn Wainhouse (tr.) (1972)
- Consilience: The Unity
of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (1999)
- The Secret
House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day by David Bodanis
(2003)
- A Natural History of
Love by Diane Ackerman (1994)
- A Natural History of
the Senses by Diane Ackerman (1990)
- Works of Man: From Ancient Times
to the Present Day by Ronald W. Clark (1985)
- Discoveries and
Inventions of the 19th Century by Robert Routledge (1989)
- Extreme Science:
The Highway of Light and Other Man-made Wonders by Peter Jedicke
(2001)
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution
of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond (1997)
Science Fiction
- Selections
from Science-fiction Thinking Machines by Groff Conklin (1964)
- It Happened Tomorrow by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar and Subir Roy (ill.) and Bal Phondke (ed.) (1993)
Collection of 19 Select Science Fiction Stories from Various Indian Languages...
- The Handmaid's Tale by
Margaret Atwood (1987)
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
(1950)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(1976)
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
and William Weaver (tr.) (1976)
- Childhood's End by Arthur
Charles Clarke (1953)
Adventure, Sailing, Treasure
- A Book of Sea Journeys by
Ludovic Henry Coverley (ed.) Kennedy (1981)
- Mysterious Sea
Stories by William Pattrick (1985)
- Sailing Alone Around
the World by Joshua Slocum (1900)
- Great tales of the sea by
Editors of Reader's Digest (1978)
Self-Help / Feel-good
- Every Street is Paved
with Gold: Success Secrets of a Korean Entrepreneur by Kim Woo-Choong
(1992)
- The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-era Organizations by Stephen Denning ()
- Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the by Richard Carlson ()
Travel
- Points Unknown: A
Century of Great Exploration by David (ed) Roberts (2000)
- Playing the game by Ian Buruma
(1991)
- Hindoo Holiday: An
Indian Journal by Joe Randolph Ackerley (1932)
- Into India by John Keay
(1973)
- A Walk Along the Ganges
by Dennison Berwick (1986)
- Lonely Planet India by
Hugh Finlay and Christine Niven (ed) (1999)
- A Goddess in the Stones:
Travels in India by Norman Lewis (1991)
- An Area of Darkness by Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul (1981)
- Travellers Dictionary
of Quotations by Peter Yapp (1986)
- The Imperial Way:
Making Tracks from Peshawar to Chittagong by Paul Theroux and Steve
McCurry (photo) (1985)
- Eyewitness Travel
Guide to France by Rosemary Bailey and Dorling Kindersley Team (publ.)
(1998)
- River Journeys by Russell
Braddon and Michael Wood and Christina Dodwell and Brian Thompson
(1985)
Art and Design
- Purposes of art: An
introduction to the history and appreciation of art by Albert E. Elsen
(1962)
- Rembrandt by Jessica Hodge
(1994)
- Rodin by Tim Marlow and Auguste Rodin
(1992)
- Black on White and Read All
Over: The Story of Printing by Albert Barker and Anthony D'Adamo (ill)
(1971)
- Knowledge-based
design systems by R. D. Coyne and M. A. Rosenman and A.D. Radford and
M. Balachandran and J.S. Gero (1990)
Miscellaneous
- The Encyclopedia of
Magic [prev. Art of Magic] by Nicholas Einhorn and John Freeman (Photo)
(2002)
- Tricks of the Trade: Over 79
Experts Reveal the Secrets Behind What They Do Best by Jerry Dunn
(1991)
- Chile: Death in the South
by Jacobo Timerman (1987)
- The death of common sense:
How Law is Suffocating America by Philip K. Howard (1994)
- The Road to Botany Bay: An
Exploration of Landscape and History by Paul Carter (1988)
- Numerical Recipes in C:
The Art of Scientific Computing 2nd Edition by William H. Press and
William T. Vetterling and Saul A. Teukolsky and Brian P. Flannery
(1992)
- Mind Children: The
Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec (1988)
- Yes, No, Or Maybe by
Ja. I. Khurgin (1985)
- The Proper Treatment of
Events by Michiel van Lambalgen and Fritz Hamm (2005)
- Understanding Power by
Noam Chomsky (2003)
- The Power of Myth by Joseph
Campbell and Bill Moyers (1991)
- Cities: a
Scientific American book by Scientific American (1965)
- Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner
(2003)
- PrāNāyāma
(Pranayama): Popular Yoga by Swami Kuvalayananda (1966)
- Dialogue with Death: A
Journey Through Consciousness by Eknath Easwaran (1993)
- How children learn by John
Holt (1970)
- The Cosmic Clocks:
From Astrology to a Modern Science by Michel Gauquelin (1973)
- Encyclopedia
of the Unexplained: Magic, Occultism and Parapsychology by Richard
Cavendish (1974)
- Kalidaser
granthAbalI, v.2 by Kalidasa and Rajendranath Vidyabhushan (ed.)
(1929)
- A mandate for democracy:
Three decades of the FR Germany by Federal Republic of Germany Press office [FRG] (publ.) ()
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