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Tawaifnama Paperback
$34.00Dharmman Bibi rode into battle during the revolt of 1857 shoulder to shoulder with her patron lover Babu Kunwar Singh. Sadabahar entranced even snakes and spirits with her music, but eventually gave her voice to Baba Court Shaheed. Her foster mothers Bullan and Kallan fought their malevolent brother and an unjust colonial law all the way to the Privy Council—and lost everything. Their great-granddaughter Teema paid for the family’s ruination with her childhood and her body. Bindo, Asghari, Phoolmani, Pyaari … there are so many stories in this family. And you—one of the best-known tawaifs of your times—remember the stories of your foremothers and your own.This is a history, a multi-generational chronicle of one family of well-known tawaifs with roots in Banaras and Bhabua. Through their stories and self-histories, Saba Dewan explores the nuances that conventional narratives have erased, papered over or wilfully rewritten. In a not-so-distant past, tawaifs played a crucial role in the social and cultural life of northern India. They were skilled singers and dancers, and also companions and lovers to men from the local elite. It is from the art practice of tawaifs that kathak evolved and the purab ang thumri singing of Banaras was born. At a time when women were denied access to the letters, tawaifs had a grounding in literature and politics, and their kothas were centres of cultural refinement. Yet, as affluent and powerful as they were, tawaifs were marked by the stigma of being women in the public gaze, accessible to all. In the colonial and nationalist discourse of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this stigma deepened into criminalisation and the violent dismantling of a community. Tawaifnama is the story of that process of change, a nuanced and powerful microhistory set against the sweep of Indian history.
Temples of India Hanuman – A Sacred Trail of 21 Hanuman Temples | Spiritual Journey | Divine Path | Pilgrimage| Holy Trail | Lord Hanuman | Devotion Paperback
$25.00“We cannot reach God without a guru in our lives. Hanuman is the ultimate sadguru,” writes media veteran Priya Gupta in her debut book Hanuman—the first in a new spiritual series, Temples of India. A sacred trail of 21 Hanuman temples plotted across the vast expanse of the Indian subcontinent, the book maps out these revered sites against the backdrop of associated myths, legends and history. Spotlighting Hanuman’s pivotal role in the epic of Ramayana, the book answers questions about his life, character and enduring cultural significance as Gupta supplements her research with rich commentary by some of the country’s esteemed spiritual gurus.
Hanuman is a cartography of pilgrimage where Hindu culture’s most cherished devotee emerges as a multifaceted being: healer, scholar and saviour.
That Christmas and Other Stories Hardcover – Picture Book
$55.00From international film phenomenon, Richard Curtis, and awardwinnning illustrator, Rebecca Cobb, comes three heartwarming tales of magical Christmases.
Gathered together for the first time in a beautiful treasury, The Empty Stocking, Snow Day and That Christmas make the ultimate Christmas trilogy – filled with joy, drama and all the trimmings.
Have you been naughty or nice? Will Father Christmas visit and will there be snow? Celebrate all kinds of Christmases in these funny festive tales…
The books have now been woven together into a major animated Netflix film. About the Author
Richard Curtis is an award-winning and international film-director and script writer, and the creator of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill and Mr Bean.
Rebecca Cobb graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2004. She has collaborated with the Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and Orange Prize-winner Helen Dunmore. Rebecca was the winner of the 2013 Waterstones Prize and has twice been shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award.
The 4-Hour Body, Paperback Timothy Ferriss
$33.00The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide To Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex And Becoming Superhuman is a guide written by Timothy Ferriss.
This book was written for people who want a change in their life. It includes a program that was designed to help anyone who wants to reach their genetic and physical potential, in a small amount of time. The routine is said to be effective within, four hours of effort in a month.
The book was written with the goal of finding out which tiny change obtains a grand result. It is based on over ten years of research, with insight and wisdom from several medical doctors and athletes. It even includes over thousands of hours of amazing personal experimentation, that the author had done to perfect this routine, in order to get rapid body transformation with little effort.
This is a step-by-step guide will explain to readers in less than half an hour on how to obtain maximum benefits for their body. It helps them lose 2% of their body fat within two weeks. It also helps them gain around 34 pounds of muscle within 28 days, which includes four hours of gym time. The book says that only sleeping for two hours a day can make people feel fully rested.
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide To Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex And Becoming Superhuman was published by Vermilion in 2010. This book is available in paperback.
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The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide To Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex And Becoming Superhuman shows readers a way to improve their sex life, and stamina by running 5 kilometres to 50 kilometres within 12 weeks.
The 5 Types of Wealth : A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life Paperback
Original price was: $7.11.$6.53Current price is: $6.53.A groundbreaking guide to rejecting the default path and designing your dream life — from social media star, entrepreneur and inspirational writer of ‘The Curiosity Chronicle’ newsletter, Sahil Bloom.
Money is not enough to make you happy.
We’re constantly told that money is the shortcut to a good life, the only type of wealth worth pursuing. But what would it mean to lead a truly wealthy life? It may involve money, but in the end, it will be defined by everything else.
In The 5 Types of Wealth, Sahil Bloom offers a transformative guide, full of practical steps and actionable insights, for redesigning your life around five types of wealth: Time, Social, Mental, Physical, and Financial. The result is a deep satisfaction and happiness you can build and maintain across the seasons of your life.
Whether you are at the start of your working life, looking to build and grow in mid-life, or a retiree, with Sahil’s guidance you will unlock:
• Control over how you spend your time
• Depth of connection with those around you
• Clarity of purpose, presence, and decision making
• Improved health and vitality
• Simple pathways to financial independence
The 5 Types of Wealth will help you make the first steps toward positive change and building a joyful, balanced life. It’s a journey that can start today – and change your world faster than you thought possible.
The Agama Encyclopaedia 12 Volume Set Revised and Enlarged Edition of Agma Kosa Hardcover
$195.00Book Summary of The Agama Encyclopaedia 12 Vols. The different volumes of this encyclopaedia deal with the temple-culture andAgama framework, the sectarian division of the Agama into Saiva , Vaisnava and Sakta , followed by select topics from the Agama texts. Thus, the entiretyof the Agama literature in so far as it is relevant to the temple-culture isbrought within the scope of? this work.
The Akbar Nama (3 Vols. Set) Hardcover
$149.00Book Summary of The Akbar Nama – 3 Vols. Allamah Abul Fazl?s Akbar namah will always retain its fascination and charm as a minute account of the customs and traditions of the people of India during the reign of Akbar. The ablest of the Mughal emperors, who has been so much extolled by historians for his sagacious statesmanship, dexierous diplomacy and military skill. The his?torical importance of this admirable treatise of reference is further enhanced by the fact that its author was Akbar?s intimate friend and confidential adviser and, therefore, had access to informa?tion at first hand. The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D. and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge and an index at the end. H. Beveridge, with occasional interruptions, spent over twenty years in translating this monu?mental work in three volumes from the Bibliotheca Indica edition of the text after consulting many manuscripts in the British Museum, the India Office, and the Royal Asiatic Society?s Library, etc. Originally published from 1902 to 1939 by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta the volumes have now been reprinted.
THE ART OF JUNJI ITO: TWISTED VISION Hardcover – Illustrated
$135.00Enter the world of Junji Ito’s art––an abyss of horror and sublime beauty.A first-ever collection of Junji Ito’s artworks, featuring over 130 images from his bestselling manga titles along with rare works. This sublime collection includes all of Ito’s unforgettable illustrations in both black-and-white and color, from Tomie’s dreadful beauty to the inhuman spirals of Uzumaki. Includes an interview focused on Ito’s art technique as well as commentary from the artist on each work. About the Author
Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his short story collections Fragments of Horror, Shiver and Frankenstein, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Ito’s influences include classic horror manga artists Kazuo Umezz and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft.
The Atlas of Beauty Hardcover
$85.00Since 2013 Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity and beauty all around us. The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs that celebrates women from all corners of the world and shows that beauty is everywhere, regardless of money, race or social status, and comes in many different sizes and colours. Noroc’s portraits feature women in their native environments, from the Amazon rain forest to markets in India, London city streets and parks in Harlem, and visually demonstrate the juxtaposition between the varied built and social worlds these women inhabit.
The Bachchans: A Saga of Excellence Hardcover
$185.00The Bachchans – probably no other family in India has had the kind of hold on the Indian psyche as they have. The cultural landscape of India is incomplete without a mention of the Bachchans. And though Amitabh Bachchan is the most celebrated of them all, the Bachchan family’s engagement with India’s socio-cultural space starts well before him – in the early years of the twentieth century, with the birth of Harivansh Rai Bachchan – and continues into the third decade of the twenty-first, with the imminent film debut of Agastya Nanda.
S.M.M. Ausaja’s The Bachchans: A Saga of Excellence is a stunning visual chronicle of this history spanning over a hundred years. The author goes back in time to Allahabad in the early 1900s to document the life and times of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, his literary accomplishments with the publication of Madhushala, the tragic death of his first wife and his marriage to Teji (Sarojini Naidu introduced the couple to the Nehru family as ‘the poet and the poem’!), and the birth of their sons Amitabh and Ajitabh.
This pictorial biography then goes on to record the remarkable film careers of Amitabh Bachchan (arguably, the greatest star India has ever produced), his wife Jaya Bhaduri (who was a bigger star before her husband went through the stratosphere), and their son Abhishek Bachchan and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai (who were among the biggest stars of the new millennium).
In The Bachchans, Ausaja, a sort of Boswell to Amitabh Bachchan, archiving all film-related memorabilia pertaining to the actor, offers the ultimate fanboy tribute to the family with a dazzling kaleidoscope of never-before-seen images – posters, stills and photographs – that are bound to thrill and mesmerize anybody interested in the story of a remarkable family.
Gorgeously designed and beautifully produced, this is not just a collector’s edition but also a visual history, like no other, of an important page of India’s popular culture. About the Author
Film historian, author and archivist of vintage film memorabilia, S.M.M. Ausaja is Senior Vice President at DeRivaz & Ives, India’s premier auction house. He began his career with a stint in TV software production, joining Plus Channel in Mumbai under Amit Khanna and Mahesh Bhatt as a trainee on India’s first English daily, A Mouthful of Sky, in 1996. He went on to produce several TV shows in the years to come; working with companies like Integral Productions, HFCL Nine-Broadcasting and Gemini Studios where he also directed documentaries on Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hema Malini which were telecast on prime-time television.
He has written extensively on Indian cinema in various journals and portals. His cinema memorabilia archive is arguably the single largest private archive in the country. For almost four decades, he has tirelessly collected rare first-print posters of films released over the last 100 years, helping preserve an art form that has almost been forgotten in the digital era. Besides the posters, the archive includes a formidable collection of photographs, lobby cards, hand bills, glass slides, postcards and film magazines.
His debut book, Bollywood In Posters, released in 2009, was nominated at the prestigious Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards under the Best Non-Fiction and Best Popular Book categories. Ausaja’s second book Bollywood: The Films! The Songs! The Stars! co-authored with eminent writers was released by Amitabh Bachchan in December 2017.
Ausaja has also been a consultant on the prestigious Oral History Project on Amitabh Bachchan, commissioned by The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the Film Heritage Foundation. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters.
The Bad Guys Box Set (Books 1 to 15) Product Bundle
$160.00They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds… whether you like it or not, in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series. WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. NOPE. None of that nonsense here. So relax and be entirely unsurprised by the Bad Guys’ adventures in this complete and exciting box-set collection!
The Banerji Protocols: A New Method of Treatment with Homeopathic Medicines Hardcover
$70.00Prasanta Banerji
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