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  • Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture

    The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

    by Sk Sagir Ali, Swayamdipta Das, Pritha Banerjee, Shinjini Basu, Subhayu Bhattacharjee, Madhumita Biswas, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Joydip Datta, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam0, Debamitra Kar1, Swati Moitra2, Sudeshna Mukherjee3, Rajeesh C. Sarngadharan4, Samrat Sengupta5 ...
    Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the myriad ways in which disaster events (both man-made and natural) are perceived and represented in South Asian literature and culture. This book explores the affective mechanisms of empathy and imaginary identification which are conditioned and reiterated by biopolitical statist ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Nabarun Bhattacharya

    Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics

    by Sourit Bhattacharya, Arka Chattopadhyay, Samrat Sengupta ...
    The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Posthumanism and India

    A Critical Cartography

    Edited by Debashish Banerji, Md. Monirul Islam, Samrat Sengupta ...
    The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.The world today has universalized a Eurocentric history of the human with its privileges, oppressions, exploitations and exclusions. On the one hand, this has led to the triumphalist narrative of technology, the blurring of biological embodiment through prostheses ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Selected Progresses in Modern Physics

    Proceedings of TiMP 2021

    Edited by Soumitra Sengupta, Samrat Dey, Saurya Das, Dhruba J. Saikia, Sudhakar Panda, Ramakrishna Podila ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Trends in Modern Physics (TiMP 2021) held at Assam Don Bosco University in Guwahati, India, between February 26 and 27, 2021. This conference was the 3rd in a series of annual conferences of the Department of Physics, ADBU, with the 1st and 2nd being national conferences. The conference was jointly organized by the ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
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    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

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  • Japanese Environmental Philosophy

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    Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • The Cow in the Elevator

    An Anthropology of Wonder

    by Tulasi Srinivas ...
    In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual ... Read more

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  • Indian Genre Fiction

    Pasts and Future Histories

    Edited by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity ...
    Series series Studies in Global Genre Fiction
    This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, ... Read more

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    by David R. Loy ...
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  • The Marriage of Sense and Soul

    Integrating Science and Religion

    by Ken Wilber ...
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  • Tortuosity and Microstructure Effects in Porous Media

    Classical Theories, Empirical Data and Modern Methods

    by Lorenz Holzer, Philip Marmet, Mathias Fingerle, Andreas Wiegmann, Matthias Neumann, Volker Schmidt ...
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    This open access book presents a thorough look at tortuosity and microstructure effects in porous materials. The book delivers a comprehensive review of the subject, summarizing all key results in the field with respect to the underlying theories, empirical data available in the literature, modern methodologies and calculation approaches, and quantitative relationships between microscopic and ... Read more

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