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  • 3 Stories - Set in India

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

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  • Bombay Stories

    Series series Vintage International
    A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India’s greatest writers.Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor ... Read more

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  • Jesus and Captain Kirk

    by Michael Manto ...
    Jesus and Captain Kirk presents a compelling defense of Christianity, showing that Christians can heed modern scientific knowledge and remain faithful to Scripture without turning their brains off, while joyfully pursuing the superior vision for social justice that the Gospel presents.Using science, philosophy, pop culture, and intellectual reasoning, Manto shows how belief in the Christian God is ... Read more

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  • Stennis Space Center

    Series series Images of America
    Originally known simply as Mississippi Field Operations, Stennis Space Center arose from the dissolution of two towns and several surrounding communities that had served the lumber industry since the 1800s. Its sole purpose was to static test the free world's most powerful rockets after they arrived by barge via the Pearl River. Spurred on by an intense Cold War race to the moon, the National ... Read more

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  • Marshall Space Flight Center

    Series series Images of America
    Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was carved from the environs of Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, at the height of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union. Originally, the area was a center for cotton production and large mills, but on the eve of World War II, civic leaders sought a US Army initiative that established Redstone and Huntsville Arsenals for the manufacture and stockpile ... Read more

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  • still cheaper than therapy

    poems

    by J.C. Manto ...
    poems i wrote not to be run over by a garbage truck, not to cut off my toes with a pair of scissors, not to die of electrocution while microwaving my phone and most of all not to sing a love song in a hailstorm. ... Read more

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  • Michoud Assembly Facility

    Series series Images of America
    After an auspicious beginning as a royal land grant from French king Louis XV to a wealthy French citizen of New Orleans in 1763, the land Michoud Assembly Facility occupies remained in private ownership until 1940, when it was sold to the US government. Prior to World War II, the site was used to grow sugar, hunt muskrat, and build railroad and telephone lines. In 1941, the world�s largest ... Read more

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  • The Dog of Tithwal

    Stories

    “[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests." ---Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street JournalStories from "the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story" encircling the marginalized, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan ... Read more

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  • Light and Fire

    Sex Lives of Modern Dynasties

    by Aaj ka Manto ...
    A non-fiction book that reads like a novel. Sex and relationships/striking tales from the real-life spectrum: Benazir Bhutto experienced wild sexual adventures with many other dignitaries of the world. Indira Gandhi had threesome sex with the Egyptian President Nasser and yogi Brahmachari. Libertine sex lives of some women from an international elite and the royal families...A collection of the ... Read more

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  • Manto: Selected Stories Penguin Premium Classic Edition

    Saadat Hasan Manto's first collection of stories was published in the 1940s, but his stories have an enduring relevance. Now read by more people than ever before, the simple clarity of his stories about arginalized people, his astute understanding of the complexity of human nature and the poignancy of his stories on Partition transcend spatial and temporal boundaries many of his characters are ... Read more

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  • Naked Voices: Stories & Sketches

    by Manto ...
    Naked Voices, Stories & Sketches is one of the most authentic collection showcasing the best of Saadat Hasan Manto as a great storyteller and an honest commentator of all times.In this collection of sixteen stories and three sketches, Manto brazenly celebrates the warts of a seemingly decent society, as well as its dark underbelly - tired and overworked prostitutes in The Candle's Tears or Loser ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an authoritative, extensive exploration of the models of degenerative diseases, providing coverage of the preclinical models that are essential for investigation of principles of the diseases, mechanisms of development of functional deficits, and development of therapeutic approaches, including safety analysis. The book is divided into four major sections. The introductory ... Read more

    $224.99 USD