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  • Cool Rules

    Anatomy of an Attitude

    by David Robins, Dick Pountain ...
    Series series FOCI
    Cool Rules introduces the reader to a new cultural category. While the authors do not claim to have discovered Cool, they believe they are the first to attempt a serious, systematic analysis of Cool’s history, psychology, and importance.The contemporary Cool attitude is barely 50 years old, but its roots are older than that. Cool Rules traces Cool’s ancient origins in European, Asian, and African ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • City of Fear

    by Robin David ...
    An extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times In 2001, a calamitous earthquake struck Gujarat. A year later came the kind of communal carnage the nation had not seen since the Partition. For Robin David, then an assistant editor with the Times of India, the two events engendered a tectonic shift in his own life. The earthquake left deep cracks in his ancestral home, while the riots ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 35 and Sexless in Ahmedabad

    by Robin David ...
    Anant, a thirty-five-year-old small-time photographer in Ahmedabad, has a recurring nightmare. In it, a three-legged bitch is chained to his ankle, slowing his step and dragging angrily behind him. Try as he might, he is neither able to free himself of the mongrel in the dream nor the dream itself. What does the dog signify? Raashee, his one-time lover who now exists only in online chat windows? ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • "Voelkisch" Writers and National Socialism

    A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890–1960

    by Christian Emden, David Robin Midgley, Guy Tourlamain ...
    Series Book 21 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and Rudolf Binding – it examines the continuities in völkisch-nationalist ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Third Reich in Power

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 2 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People“[A] masterpiece. Fluidly narrated, tightly organized and comprehensive.” —The New York Times“A major achievement.” —The Boston Globe**By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Satanic Verses

    A Novel

    by Salman Rushdie ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—NewsdayWinner of the Whitbread PrizeOne of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvan ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Midnight's Children

    A Novel

    by Salman Rushdie ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Novels
    **The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Association of Small Bombs

    A Novel

    by Karan Mahajan ...
    **National Book Award FinalistWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardWinner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation AwardWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf AwardWinner of the Bard Fiction PrizeOne of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the YearOne of Granta’s Best Young American NovelistsA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

    The New Histories

    Edited by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

    A novel

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    **New York Times Best SellerLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Hudson GroupA dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things**The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Backing Hitler:Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    by Robert Gellately ...
    The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD