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  • Text to Tradition

    The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia

    by Deven Patel ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem's author, his reading communities, the modes through which the poem has been read and used, the contexts through which it became canonical, its literary offspring, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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  • The Second Jungle Book

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    The Law of the Jungle-which is by far the oldest law in the world-has arranged for almost every kind of accident that may befall the Jungle People, till now its code is as perfect as time and custom can make it. You will remember that Mowgli spent a great part of his life in the Seeonee Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Baloo, the Brown Bear; and it was Baloo who told him, when the boy grew ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Bhagavad Gita

    by Eknath Easwaran ...
    Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The bethrothed

    I promessi sposi

    by Alessandro Manzoni ...
    Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters the mysterious ... Read more

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  • A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities

    Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization

    by J. C. McKeown ...
    The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And yet, they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous opinions. Like its companion volume, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities, this is an uproarious miscellany of odd stories ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Of Sacred and Secular Desire

    An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided between India and Pakistan, and stamped Greek cultural and linguistic influence on the region. Over the centuries the lure of the Punjab attracted ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Sikhs of the Punjab

    by J. S. Grewal ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of India
    In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Translation as Citation

    Zhuangzi Inside Out

    by Haun Saussy ...
    Series series Global Asias
    This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, and what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works. Haun Saussy argues that translation doesn't amount to the composition, in one language, of ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Translating Style

    A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature

    by Tim Parks ...
    Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of interconnected chapters to analyse translations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Army Regulation AR 11-6 Army Programs Army Foreign Language Program 23 August 2013

    by United States Government US Army ...
    This publication of Army Regulation AR 11-16, Army Programs – Army Foreign Language Program 23 August 2013, is a rapid action revision. This rapid action revision is effective 23 September 2013. The portions affected by this rapid action revision are listed in the summary of change.This regulation implements policies and procedures for establishing Army linguist requirements of Army’s command ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Ctesias: On India

    by Andrew Nichols ...
    A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Translating Maternal Violence

    The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan

    by Alessandro Castellini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD