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  • 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

    $40.99 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

    $26.99 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

    $70.99 USD

  • Freedom and Despair

    Notes from the South Hebron Hills

    by David Shulman ...
    Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we attend, the phone calls we make, or the streets we march, it sometimes feels like no matter how hard we fight, the relentless crush of injustice will ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Consciousness

    Inquiries into Subjective Experience across Disciplines

    Edited by Idan Segev, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Eviatar Shulman, David Rudrauf, Or Raphael ...
    A scientific exploration of consciousness through the lens of subjective experience by leading interdisciplinary scholars.This volume brings together international scholars from neuroscience, mathematics, physics, neurophenomenology, psychology, cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the study of Indian and Buddhist contemplative traditions.The book explores fundamental questions such as: Is ... Read more

    $35.99 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

    $33.29 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

  • 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

    $16.99 USD

  • Ending Poverty in America

    How to Restore the American Dream

    by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Martin Eakes, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Ronald B. Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hillard Pouncy, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson ...
    An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam

    Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam

    Edited by Heike Oberlin, David Shulman ...
    Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. The actors and drummers create an entire world in the empty space of the stage by using spectacular costumes and make-up and by an immensely rich interplay of words, rhythms, mime, and gestures. This volume focuses on Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam, the two great ... Read more

    $71.99 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

    $22.99 USD