Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited new book, he delves further than ever before into this country of one billion people. Covering subjects as diverse as Hindu extremism, bonded child labour, Sufi mysticism, the crisis ...(展开全部)

Written between May 1991 and February 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death from an AIDS-related illness , Derek Jarman’s entries in Smiling in Slow Motion pick up where Modern Nature left off. Friends and enemies are reviewed as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infu...(展开全部)

Derek Jarman's Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey started in Modern Nature, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as he races through his ...(展开全部)

Derek Jarman's Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey started in Modern Nature, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as he races through his ...(展开全部)

The Books by Sylvie Lacerte Vision in Motion "This book is written for the artist and the layman, for everyone interested in his relationship to our existing civilization" (Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947, p.5) The opening sentence of this book, written by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1946 and published posthumously by his wife Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1947, illustrates in an unquesti...(展开全部)

苏林德·约德卡（Surinder S. Jodhka），贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学社会学教授，印度新德里人文科学中心高级研究员，牛津大学访问学者，主要研究方向包括农村转型、社群身份、社会文化等，重点关注种姓问题在当代印度社会生活中的表现形式。著有《种姓制度：牛津印度通识读本》（Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions）、《印度农村手册》（A Handbook of Rural India）、《审问印度的现代性》（Interrogating India’s Modernity）等。

Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhis...(展开全部)

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attaché in the Mexican Embassy. Eleven years later he returned as Mexico's ambassador. In Light of India is Paz's celebration of that country and his most personal work of prose to date. As in all of his essays, he brings poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on the subject, and the result is a series of fascinatin...(展开全部)