Gyan : 9 books

A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires...

The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one...

A long-lost Sexton Blake mystery, 1920s detective fiction at its best Historian Gyan Prakash of Princeton University stumbled upon part of the unpublished manuscript of Tower of Silence by Phiroshaw Jamsetjee Chevalier (or Chaiwala, as he called himself) in the British Library. After scouring several...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: Good, University of Stuttgart (Master of Infrastructure Planning), course: Case study, language: English, abstract: The County of Ludwigsburg, with the City of Ludwigsburg as its capital, is located at the core of...

There are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying...

The Conscious Relationship Of I And Myself represents the understandings I have come to through my own personal path of self discovery, it is a way to see the connection of all things as a complete whole without exception and how putting this knowledge into practice can and will end all the conflict...

The book attempts to present a new vision or view in the world of knowing. The query it poses is, What is it that we know? Our spontaneous assumption is, what we know is real, the existent as it is or exists. The attempt here is to find how far our claim that what we know is real or that what is there...

Am Beispiel ihrer bewegten Lebensgeschichte zeigt die Autorin, dass es Wege aus dem Magersucht-Bulimie-Kreislauf gibt. "So oft hatte ich versucht, mich mit Disziplin und Willenskraft aus meinem Suchtkreislauf zu befreien. Doch jeder gescheiterte Versucht drückte mich noch tiefer hinein. Erst...