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  • Khirbet Khizeh

    A Novel

    by S. Yizhar, David Shulman ...
    Translated by Nicholas de Lange, Yaacob Dweck ...
    A Modern Hebrew Masterpiece: A Heartbreaking Tale of Conscience and Conflict"Exhilarating . . . How often can you say about a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul?" —Neel Mukherjee, The Times (London)It's 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier on duty that day finds himself battling on ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising

    by David Shulman ...
    AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising is a provocative cautionary tale set in the very near future when dramatic breakthroughs in neuroscience and the first complete molecular decoding of a human memory triggers an unthinkable gold rush to privatise human memory. A high stakes courtroom battle parallels the dramatic rise of a militant memory rights movement which will stop at nothing to block the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • More than Real

    A History of the Imagination in South India

    by David Shulman ...
    From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our attention to a period in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and the emergence ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Courier Poetry

    From South Asia and Beyond

    Edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman ...
    This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetry—in which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends an unlikely messenger (a cloud, a bee, a goose, a bat, a language, the wind, a poem, and so on) to the beloved or to a close friend or patron. The volume explores works in a variety of languages, including Sanskrit, Malayalam, Tamil, Old Javanese, Hindi, Telugu, Sinhala, Marathi, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

    Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

    by Sumit Guha, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sunjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Hanah's Sheep and Cattle

    A Novel

    by Shira Gorshman ...
    Translated by Edith Otchin McCrea ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Hanah's Sheep and Cattle is based on the improbable but true story of a strong, secular Jewish woman and former Zionist pioneer navigating the turbulent sweep of Soviet history. Shira Gorshman's autobiographical novel provides unique insights into Jewish life in 1920s Palestine and 1930s Soviet Crimea, but also covers recurrent universal themes: the tribulations of women, the value of sacrificing ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine

    by Margaret Olin, David Shulman ...
    Using both photographs and written narratives, The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine provides a depiction of the lives and struggles faced by Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories on the West Bank, in particular the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley. It sheds light on issues including house demolitions, conflicts between Palestinian shepherds or farmers and Israeli ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told

    by Pingali Suranna ...
    Translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Composed in the mid-sixteenth century, The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told, could be considered the first novel written in South Asia. Telugu, the language spoken in today's Andhra Pradesh region of southern India, has a classical literary tradition extending over a thousand years. Suranna's masterpiece comes from a period of intense creativity in Telugu, when great poets ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life

    by David Shulman ...
    The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life covers the popular theories of Erving Goffman, and shows modern applications of dramaturgical analysis in a wide range of social contexts. David Shulman’s innovative new text demonstrates how Goffman’s ideas, first introduced in 1959, continue to inspire research into how we manage the impressions that others form about us. He synthesizes the ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • God on the Hill

    Temple Poems from Tirupati

    by Annamayya, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman ...
    The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamayya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music - ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600-1800

    by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Everyone has a past: the question is what one does with it. If earlier scholars are to be believed, South Indian society before colonial rule showed an indifference to its past - or approached the past through myth, legend and phantasmagoria. This book sets out not merely to disprove this idea, but to demonstrate the complex forms of historiography produced in South India between the fifteenth and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD