Nitish's bookshelf: read en-US Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:44:11 -0700 60 Nitish's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives]]> 2272880
By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.]]> 252 Leonard Mlodinow 0375424040 Nitish 0 to-read 3.93 2008 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
author: Leonard Mlodinow
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics]]> 116185
Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the creator � from Archimedes, the absentminded theoretician whose absorption in his work often precluded eating or bathing, to Gerolamo Cardano, the sixteenth-century mathematician whose accomplishments flourished despite a bizarre array of misadventures, to the paranoid genius of modern times, Georg Cantor. He also provides step-by-step proofs for the theorems, each easily accessible to readers with no more than a knowledge of high school mathematics. A rare combination of the historical, biographical, and mathematical, Journey Through Genius is a fascinating introduction to a neglected field of human creativity.

“It is mathematics presented as a series of works of art; a fascinating lingering over individual examples of ingenuity and insight. It is mathematics by lightning flash.� —Isaac Asimov]]> 320 William Dunham 014014739X Nitish 0 to-read 4.22 1990 Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
author: William Dunham
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1990
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]]> <![CDATA[Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play]]> 44144492
With this practical book, machine learning engineers and data scientists will learn how to recreate some of the most famous examples of generative deep learning models, such as variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks (GANs). You'll also learn how to apply the techniques to your own datasets.

David Foster, cofounder of Applied Data Science, demonstrates the inner workings of each technique, starting with the basics of deep learning before advancing to the most cutting-edge algorithms in the field. Through tips and tricks, you'll learn how to make your models learn more efficiently and become more creative.


Get a fundamental overview of deep learning
Learn about libraries such as Keras and TensorFlow
Discover how variational autoencoders work
Get practical examples of generative adversarial networks (GANs)
Understand how autoregressive generative models function
Apply generative models within a reinforcement learning setting to accomplish tasks]]> 330 David Foster 1492041947 Nitish 4 programming-art, 2025 4.27 Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play
author: David Foster
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]]> <![CDATA[SuperCollider for the Creative Musician: A Practical Guide (Creating Technology for Music)]]> 169242675
The book begins with platform-specific fundamentals, explores a large family of creative techniques, and then guides the reader through the nuances of assembling, navigating, and performing large-scale projects. Key topics include synthesis, sampling, sequencing, signal processing, external control, and graphical user interface design. Written with both beginners and intermediate practitioners in mind, this book is an invaluable resource for sound creators whose background falls anywhere on the spectrum between musician and computer programmer, and who seek to add new and innovative code-based techniques to their skill set. The companion website has an extensive collection of detailed code examples, which can be downloaded for exploration, experimentation, and hands-on learning.]]> 344 Eli Fieldsteel 019761700X Nitish 0 4.50 SuperCollider for the Creative Musician: A Practical Guide (Creating Technology for Music)
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]]> <![CDATA[The SuperCollider Book (Mit Press)]]> 11326841 776 Scott Wilson 0262232693 Nitish 0 4.35 2011 The SuperCollider Book (Mit Press)
author: Scott Wilson
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music (Oxford Handbooks)]]> 38260176 708 Alex McLean 0190655712 Nitish 0 4.20 The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music (Oxford Handbooks)
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]]> <![CDATA[Electronic Music and Sound Design: Theory and Practice with Max 8, Volume 2]]> 54981833 748 Alessandro Cipriani 8899212147 Nitish 0 5.00 Electronic Music and Sound Design: Theory and Practice with Max 8, Volume 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance]]> 593453 1335 Guerino Mazzola 3764357312 Nitish 0 4.56 2003 The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance
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]]> <![CDATA[Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking with gen~ Book 1]]> 63213658 Generating Sound & Organizing Thinking with gen~ Book 1Generating Sound & Organizing Time is about the astonishing things you can do—and the insights you can find—when you work at the atomic sample-by-sample structure of digital audio.

Whether you are a musician, sound designer, composer, or an experimentalist interested in creating music and tools to generate and modulate audio, our aim is to reveal how working at the sample level is not only easier to reason about, but also far more open to demystify and unleash the immense possibilities of digital audio signal processing.

To do this we use gen~, which lets us work directly at the sample level through visual patching (or by coding if you prefer) and hear results immediately after every edit. That means you can crack open the algorithms of oscillators, filters, audio effects and so on that are inaccessibly black-boxed in most music software, and explore your own variations through experimentation and hybridization.

This book is also about developing useful things to think design patterns, techniques and subcircuits to help you bring new musical signal processes to life. Starting from the simplest beginnings we’ll see how very many seemingly unrelated synthesis and sound processing algorithms come down to a pretty small number of common circuits and patterns reapplied in a few different ways (without needing much math or code), as we develop

algorithmic rhythm generators, beat slicers, Euclidean sequencersmorphing LFOs, wave shapers, bit-crushers and gliding quantizerschaotic systems, stepped and smoothed noise and chance operationsa wide palette of filters and delay effectsa plethora of phase and frequency modulation algorithmsformant, pulsar and polyphonic granular synthesizers of various kindsbandlimited virtual analog and wavetable oscillators capable of intensive modulation…and more in the large collection of patching examples provided with the book.

"This book unlocks—for composers, musicians, sound designers, and experimentalists at every level—a very smart exploration and demystification of computer music techniques, and a beautifully concise, unpretentious, and accessible introduction to low-level signal processing. Graham and Gregory's book will not only give you insight into how to work with audio all the way down to its elemental sample-by-sample number streams; it will also inspire you to want to work this way all the time."

- R. Luke DuBois
Associate Professor of Integrated Design & Media
New York University Tandon School of EngineeringThis book invites you to a fascinating journey through concepts, ideas, and ready-to-use practical gems, developed and brought to you by two people who combine deep technical knowledge with artistic mastery. It will show you how much is possible with gen~, the hidden secret weapon inside Max. Whatever you think you need to reinvent, it might simply be in here.

- Robert HenkeThis book clearly and insightfully illuminates the possibilities of per-sample digital signal processing. The depths the book reaches and the arrows of thought that it shoots in all directions expand both the microscopic and macroscopic, not only for programming, make it indispensable for all Max/MSP users and those interested in better understanding DSP.

- Jim O’Rourke]]> 480 Graham Wakefield 173259032X Nitish 0 to-read 5.00 Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking with gen~ Book 1
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]]> <![CDATA[A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider]]> 42852350
Ruviaro, Bruno, "A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider (2nd edition)" (2014). Faculty Book Gallery. 91.
]]> 114 Bruno Ruviaro Nitish 0 4.17 A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider
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]]> <![CDATA[Live Coding: A User's Manual (Software Studies)]]> 61057867 The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding.

Performative, improvised, on the fly: live coding is about how people interact with the world and each other via code. In the last few decades, live coding has emerged as a dynamic creative practice gaining attention across cultural and technical fields--from music and the visual arts through to computer science. Live Coding: A User's Manual is the first comprehensive introduction to the practice, and a broader cultural commentary on the potential for live coding to open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. This multi-authored book--by artists and musicians, software designers, and researchers--provides a practice-focused account of the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding, including expositions from a wide range of live coding practitioners. In a more conceptual register, the authors consider liveness, temporality, and knowledge in relation to live coding, alongside speculating on the practice's future forms.]]> 352 Alan F. Blackwell 0262544814 Nitish 0 4.38 Live Coding: A User's Manual (Software Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio]]> 2305045 112 Troy Nelson 1423414357 Nitish 0 currently-reading, music 4.05 2007 Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio
author: Troy Nelson
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]]> <![CDATA[Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes]]> 10321060 436 Jason Brownlee Nitish 0 to-read 3.85 2011 Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes
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]]> Guitar Exercises For Dummies 3455564 240 Mark Phillips 0470387661 Nitish 0 3.54 2008 Guitar Exercises For Dummies
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]]> <![CDATA[Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse]]> 1389596 91 Bhagat Singh 8178710609 Nitish 0 4.44 1931 Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
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average rating: 4.44
book published: 1931
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]]> The Last Mughal 6573525
The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment—created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history.]]> 512 William Dalrymple 0307267393 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.24 2006 The Last Mughal
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]]> Sputnik Sweetheart 9557 alternate cover can be found here

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.

Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...]]> 229 Haruki Murakami 0099448475 Nitish 0 to-read 3.85 1999 Sputnik Sweetheart
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]]> Lord of the Flies 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 Nitish 0 3.70 1954 Lord of the Flies
author: William Golding
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1954
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]]> The Doors of Perception 3188964 The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline.

The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.

Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.]]> 208 Aldous Huxley Nitish 5 non-fiction, 2016 3.91 1956 The Doors of Perception
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]]> Notes from Underground 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Nitish 0 to-read 4.21 1864 Notes from Underground
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Nitish 5 fiction, 2024 4.04 1942 The Stranger
author: Albert Camus
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1942
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]]> राŕ¤� दरबारी 25321979 334 श्रीलाŕ¤� शŕĄŕ¤•ŕĄŤŕ¤� Nitish 0 hindi, to-read 4.53 1968 राग दरबारी
author: श्रीलाŕ¤� शŕĄŕ¤•ŕĄŤŕ¤�
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average rating: 4.53
book published: 1968
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]]> सूरज का सातवाठŕ¤ŕĄ‹ŕ¤ˇŕ¤Ľŕ¤� 6720421 100 Dharamvir Bharati 8126314869 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.15 1952 सूरज का सातवाठŕ¤ŕĄ‹ŕ¤ˇŕ¤Ľŕ¤ľ
author: Dharamvir Bharati
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> गŕĄŕ¤¨ŕ¤ľŕ¤ąŕĄ‹ŕ¤� का देवतŕ¤� 3282557 257 Dharamvir Bharati 8126317779 Nitish 4 indian-fiction, hindi, 2024 4.34 1949 गŕĄŕ¤¨ŕ¤ľŕ¤ąŕĄ‹ŕ¤‚ का देवता
author: Dharamvir Bharati
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average rating: 4.34
book published: 1949
rating: 4
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]]> Diwan e Ghalib / ŘŻŰŚŮان غالب 5826288 283 Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib 9690007920 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.42 2008 Diwan e Ghalib / ŘŻŰŚŮان غالب
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> महाभार� 18744349 New book 288 सूर्यकां� त्रिपाठी 'निराला' 8171782213 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.14 महाभारत
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]]> Karmabhumi 326510 had lived together peacefully and shared strong social bonds except marriage. English education, however, drove a wedge between these two communities. It is against this backdrop that Premchand wrote Karmabhumi .]]> 382 Munshi Premchand 0195676416 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.17 1932 Karmabhumi
author: Munshi Premchand
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> काशी का अस्सी (Kashi ka Assi) 13645867 172 Kashinath Singh 8126704225 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.06 2004 काशी का अस्सी (Kashi ka Assi)
author: Kashinath Singh
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> तम� 868210
भारत मेŕ¤� सांप्रदायिकतŕ¤� की समस्या एक यŕĄŕ¤� पŕĄŕ¤°ŕ¤ľŕ¤¨ŕĄ€ हे और इसके दानवी पंजोŕ¤� से अभी तक इस देŕ¤� की मŕĄŕ¤•ŕĄŤŕ¤¤ŕ¤ż नहीŕ¤� हŕĄŕ¤� हŕĄŕĄ� आज़ादी से पहले विदेशी शासकों ने यहाठकी ज़मीŕ¤� पर अपने पाŕ¤ŕ¤µ मजबूŕ¤� करने के लिŕ¤� इस समस्या को हथकंडा बनायŕ¤� था और आज़ादी के बाŕ¤� हमारŕĄ� अपने देŕ¤� के कŕĄŕ¤� राजनीतिŕ¤� दल इसका ŕ¤ŕĄŕ¤Łŕ¤żŕ¤� उपयोŕ¤� कर रहŕĄ� हŕĄŕ¤‚। और इस सारी प्रक्रियŕ¤� मेŕ¤� जो तबाही हŕĄŕ¤� हॠउसका शिकाŕ¤� बनते रहŕĄ� हŕĄŕ¤� वे निर्दोŕ¤� और गरीŕ¤� लोŕ¤� जो ŕ¤� हिंदŕĄ� हŕĄŕ¤�, ŕ¤� मŕĄŕ¤¸ŕ¤˛ŕ¤®ŕ¤ľŕ¤� बल्कŕ¤� सिर्ŕ¤� इंसाŕ¤� हŕĄŕ¤�, और हŕĄŕ¤� भारतीŕ¤� नागरिकŕĄ�

भीष्ŕ¤� साहनी ने आज़ादी से पहले हŕĄŕ¤� सांप्रदायिŕ¤� दंगोŕ¤� को आधार बनाकŕ¤� इस समस्या का सूक्ष्ŕ¤� विश्लेषण किया हॠऔर उन मनोवŕĄŕ¤¤ŕĄŤŕ¤¤ŕ¤żŕ¤ŻŕĄ‹ŕ¤‚ को उखाड़कŕ¤� सामनŕĄ� रखŕ¤� हॠजो अपनी विकŕĄŕ¤¤ŕ¤żŕ¤ŻŕĄ‹ŕ¤� का परिणाम जनसाधारण को भोगनŕĄ� के लिŕ¤� विवश करती हŕĄŕ¤‚।]]> 310 Bhisham Sahni 8126715391 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.19 1972 तमस
author: Bhisham Sahni
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> कितन� पाकिस्ता� 13175687 361 Kamleshwar 8170284767 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.23 2000 कितने पाकिस्तान
author: Kamleshwar
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> कŕĄŕ¤°ŕĄŕ¤•ŕĄŤŕ¤·ŕĄ‡ŕ¤¤ŕĄŤŕ¤� 10836641 120 Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 8170281865 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.40 1946 कŕĄŕ¤°ŕĄŕ¤•ŕĄŤŕ¤·ŕĄ‡ŕ¤¤ŕĄŤŕ¤°
author: Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
name: Nitish
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1946
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]]> मŕĄŕ¤˛ŕ¤ľ आŕ¤ŕ¤šŕ¤˛ 15839449 मŕĄŕ¤˛ŕ¤ľ आŕ¤ŕ¤šŕ¤˛ हिन्दी का श्रेष्ŕ¤� और सशक्ŕ¤� आंचलिक उपन्याŕ¤� हŕĄŕĄ� नेपाŕ¤� की सीमा से सटŕĄ� उतŕ¤�-पूर्वी बिहाŕ¤� के एक पिछड़े ग्रामीŕ¤� अंचल को पŕĄŕ¤·ŕĄŤŕ¤ ŕ¤­ŕĄ‚मŕ¤� बनाकŕ¤� रेणॠने इसमेŕ¤� वहाठके जीवन का, जिससŕĄ� वह स्वयŕ¤� भी ŕ¤ŕ¤¨ŕ¤żŕ¤·ŕĄŤŕ¤ź रूŕ¤� से जŕĄŕ¤ˇŕ¤ĽŕĄ� हŕĄŕ¤� थे, अत्यन्ŕ¤� जीवन्त और मŕĄŕ¤–र चित्रण किया हŕĄŕĄ�

मŕĄŕ¤˛ŕ¤ľ आŕ¤ŕ¤šŕ¤˛ का कथानायŕ¤� एक यŕĄŕ¤µŕ¤ľ डॉक्टर हॠजो अपनी शिक्षा पूरी करने के बाŕ¤� एक पिछड़े गाŕ¤ŕ¤µ को अपने कार्ŕ¤�-क्षेत्ŕ¤� के रूŕ¤� मेŕ¤� चŕĄŕ¤¨ŕ¤¤ŕ¤� हŕĄ, तथŕ¤� इसी क्रम मेŕ¤� ग्रामीŕ¤� जीवन के पिछड़ेपन, दŕĄ:ŕ¤�-दŕĄŕ¤¨ŕĄŤŕ¤�, अभाव, अज्ञान, अन्धविश्वाŕ¤� के साŕ¤�-साŕ¤� तरŕ¤�-तरŕ¤� के सामाजिŕ¤� शोषण-चक्रों मेŕ¤� फंसी हŕĄŕ¤� जनता की पीड़ŕ¤� और संŕ¤ŕ¤°ŕĄŤŕ¤·ŕĄ‹ŕ¤‚ से भी उसका साक्षात्काŕ¤� होता हŕĄŕĄ� कथŕ¤� का अन्त इस आशामŕ¤� संकेŕ¤� के साŕ¤� होता हॠकि यŕĄŕ¤—ोŕ¤� से सोŕ¤� हŕĄŕ¤� ग्राŕ¤�-चेतनŕ¤� तेजी से जाŕ¤� रही हŕĄŕĄ�

कथाशिल्पी फणीश्वरनाŕ¤� रेणॠकी इस यŕĄŕ¤—ान्तरकारी औपन्यासिŕ¤� कŕĄŕ¤¤ŕ¤ż मेŕ¤� कथाशिल्प के साŕ¤�-साŕ¤� भाषाशिल्ŕ¤� और शŕĄŕ¤˛ŕĄ€ŕ¤¶ŕ¤żŕ¤˛ŕĄŤŕ¤� का विलक्षŕ¤� सामंजस्य हॠजो जितनŕ¤� सहŕ¤�-स्वाभाविŕ¤� हŕĄ, उतना ही प्रभावकारी और मोहक भी।]]> 353 फणीश्वर नाŕ¤� रेणॠ817178853X Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.30 1954 मŕĄŕ¤˛ŕ¤ľ आŕ¤ŕ¤šŕ¤˛
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]]> चरित्रही� 3917241 351 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.02 1917 चरित्रहीन
author: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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]]> निठल्ल� की डायरी 10866631 148 Harishankar Parsai 8126713046 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.34 1968 निठल्ले की डायरी
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> Yashodhara 16849854 Maitheli Sharan Gupt Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 3.85 Yashodhara
author: Maitheli Sharan Gupt
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]]> उर्वशी 17665932 156 Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 8180313174 Nitish 0 hindi, to-read 4.24 1994 उर्वशी
author: Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
name: Nitish
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]]> <![CDATA[शतरं� के खिलाड़ी [Shatranj ke Khiladi]]]> 6092681 Shatranj Ke Khiladi (शतरं� के खिलाड़ी) is a story of two nawabs of Lucknow who are so deeply immersed into playing chess that they forget to protect their city which falls into the hand of the British.]]> 24 Munshi Premchand 8188139041 Nitish 0 hindi, to-read 4.12 1924 शतरंज के खिलाड़ी [Shatranj ke Khiladi]
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> गोदा� [Godaan] 694226 352 Munshi Premchand 8172242190 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.38 1936 गोदान [Godaan]
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]]> Gaban 11692391 272 Munshi Premchand 8122311962 Nitish 0 hindi, to-read 4.29 1931 Gaban
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]]> ŕ¤•ŕ¤ľŕ¤®ŕ¤ľŕ¤Żŕ¤¨ŕĄ¶Ä 41183561
Kamayani depicts the interplay of human emotions, thoughts, and actions by taking mythological metaphors. Kamayani has personalities like Manu, Ida and Shraddha who are found in the Vedas. The great deluge described in the poem has its origin in Satapatha Brahmana. Explaining his metaphorical presentation of Vedic characters, the poet said:
"Ida was the sister of the gods, giving consciousness to entire mankind. For this reason there is an Ida Karma in the Yagnas. This erudition of Ida created a rift between Shraddha and Manu. Then with the progressive intelligence searching for unbridled pleasures, the impasse was inevitable. This story is so very ancient that metaphor has wonderfully mingled with history. Therefore, Manu, Shraddha and Ida while maintaining their historical importance may also express the symbolic import. Manu represents the mind with its faculties of the head and heart and these are again symbolized as Faith (Shraddha) and Intelligence (Ida) respectively. On this data is based the story of Kamayani."
The plot is based on the Vedic story where Manu, the man surviving after the deluge (Pralaya), is emotionless (Bhavanasunya). Manu starts getting involved in various emotions, thoughts and actions. These are sequentially portrayed with Shraddha, Ida, Kilaat and other characters playing there part, contributing in them. The chapters are named after these emotions, thoughts or actions. Some people consider that the sequence of chapters denotes the change of personality in a mans life with age.
Following is the sequence:

Chinta (Anxiety)
Asha (Hope)
Shraddha (Reverential belief, Faith, Virtue of being a woman)
Kama (Sexual love)
Vasna (Passion for material pleasure)
Lajja (Shyness)
Karma (Action)
Irshyaa (Jealousy)
Ida (Logic, Intellect)
Swapna (Dream)
Sangharsh (Internal conflict)
Nirved (Disregard of worldly things, Renunciation)
Darshan (Philosophy, Vision)
Rahasya (Hidden knowledge, Mystery)
Anand (Bliss, Self-realization, Shiva)]]> 136 जयशंकर प्रसाद 8128806637 Nitish 0 to-read, hindi 4.49 1936 कामायनॶÄ
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]]> The Illustrated Man 24830 The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater

Contents:

· Prologue: The Illustrated Man · ss *
· The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 �50
· Kaleidoscope · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct �49
· The Other Foot · ss New Story Magazine Mar �51
· The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] · ss Copy Spr �50
· The Man · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb �49
· The Long Rain [“Death-by-Rain”] · ss Planet Stories Sum �50
· The Rocket Man · ss Maclean’s Mar 1 �51
· The Fire Balloons [“â€In This Sign...’”] · ss Imagination Apr â€�51
· The Last Night of the World · ss Esquire Feb �51
· The Exiles [“The Mad Wizards of Mars”] · ss Maclean’s Sep 15 �49; F&SF Win �50
· No Particular Night or Morning · ss *
· The Fox and the Forest [“To the Future”] · ss Colliers May 13 �50
· The Visitor · ss Startling Stories Nov �48
· The Concrete Mixer · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr �49
· Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] · ss Startling Stories Mar �49
· The City [“Purpose”] · ss Startling Stories Jul �50
· Zero Hour · ss Planet Stories Fll �47
· The Rocket [“Outcast of the Stars”] · ss Super Science Stories Mar �50
· Epilogue · aw *]]> 186 Ray Bradbury 000712774X Nitish 3 science-fiction, 2022 4.14 1951 The Illustrated Man
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Guitar All-in-One For Dummies: Book + Online Video and Audio Instruction]]> 22372079 Make your music come alive with this indispensable guitar guide

There's no denying that guitar players have cachet. The guitar is an ever-present part of our collective musical heritage, and the sound can be sensual, aggressive, or a million things in between. Whether you're hoping to conquer Free Bird, Bourée, or Bolero Mallorquin, you need to learn to walk before you can run. Even once you can run, you need something to help you clear hurdles along the way.

That's where Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, comes in. It's your complete compendium of guitar instruction, written in clear, concise For Dummies style. It covers everything from positioning and basic chords to guitar theory and playing styles, and even includes maintenance advice to keep your instrument sounding great. It's an amazing resource for newbies and veterans alike, and offers you the opportunity to stretch beyond your usual genre.

Forge the sound of rock, blues, classical, and more Understand the music theory behind guitar mastery Express yourself through your own compositions Perform practice exercises for muscle memory and dexterity

Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, includes access to audio tracks and instructional videos to guide you through the lessons and inspire you to play often, which is the number-one key to success. You get advice and instruction from some of the most respected guitar teachers in the business, plus online resources, for less than the cost of a single lesson. Guitar All-In-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is the key to bringing your music to life.

]]> 656 Jon Chappell Nitish 0 music, currently-reading 3.90 2009 Guitar All-in-One For Dummies: Book + Online Video and Audio Instruction
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name: Nitish
average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Nitish 4 non-fiction, scientific, 2022 4.33 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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]]> How the Mind Works 835623 The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him."  The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 Featured in Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Lingua Franca, and Science Times Front-page reviews in the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Book Section, and the San Diego Union Book Review]]> 660 Steven Pinker 0393318486 Nitish 0 philosophy-psychology 3.99 1997 How the Mind Works
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]]> Snow Crash 40651883 Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous� you'll recognize it immediately.]]> 559 Neal Stephenson Nitish 0 to-read 4.02 1992 Snow Crash
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]]> The Palace of Illusions 1774836
Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.

The Palace of Illusions traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.]]> 360 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 0385515995 Nitish 0 indian-fiction, left-midway 4.20 2008 The Palace of Illusions
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name: Nitish
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[Ukulele Mastery Simplified: How Anyone Can Quickly Become a Strumming, Chords and Melodic Uke Ninja]]> 18881261 You Are About to Discover the Easiest Way to Master the Ukulele.>> From the Author of the #1 Amazon.com Bestseller Guitar Mastery Simplified.Would you like to know how to play the ukulele like an ukulele master and eliminate all your disbeliefs that have been holding you back from truly mastering the ukulele?Sound impossible? Well it's not...Ukulele Mastery Simplified, by Erich Andreas AKA Your Uke Sage, is packed with the most important ukulele lessons that will help you take your uke playing ability to the highest level it has ever been! Erich has taught/played ukulele and guitar professionally for almost 30 years.INSIDE YOU WILL Exactly "Where to Start?"The 3 Most Important Dexterity ExercisesHow to Play Open and Bar ChordsHow to Read Chord ChartsThe Anatomy of the UkuleleThe 6 Most Fundamental Concepts to Guitar StrummingHow to Read Ukulele TablatureMajor and Blues Scale MapsHow to Use a Capo The Correct WayWhere the Notes Fall on the Fret BoardHow to Tune Your UkuleleDiatonic Harmony and Music TheoryAnd Much, Much More...You will FINALLY get to fully understand ukulele music theory while at the same time learn all the important ukulele chords needed to become an advanced uke "ninja". This book is for beginners to advanced ukulele players.The solutions you'll discover inside Ukulele Mastery Simplified will have you on your way to playing the ukulele like a true strumming, chords and melodic uke ninja! The ukulele lessons inside this book will have you rockin' out to all your favorite uke jams and songs in no time.Scroll up and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kindle or other reading device! ]]> 115 Erich Andreas Nitish 0 2021, music 3.65 2013 Ukulele Mastery Simplified: How Anyone Can Quickly Become a Strumming, Chords and Melodic Uke Ninja
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name: Nitish
average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds]]> 423977 320 David Toop 1852427434 Nitish 0 to-read, music 4.12 1995 Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> No One Here Gets Out Alive 691520 384 Jerry Hopkins 0446697338 Nitish 0 3.94 1980 No One Here Gets Out Alive
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name: Nitish
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd]]> 265734 360 Nick Mason 0811848248 Nitish 0 to-read, music 4.12 2004 Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Hammer of the Gods 586516 408 Stephen Davis 0425182134 Nitish 0 to-read, music 3.86 1985 Hammer of the Gods
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name: Nitish
average rating: 3.86
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]]> The History of Jazz 177539
Now, in The History of Jazz , Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved.

Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made.
And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form.

Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz , we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called
classics of jazz literature.]]> 471 Ted Gioia 019512653X Nitish 0 to-read, music 4.08 1997 The History of Jazz
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]]> <![CDATA[Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)]]> 1330324 513 Amitav Ghosh 071956896X Nitish 0 indian-fiction, to-read 3.97 2008 Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life]]> 50815166 304 William Hartston 1838950842 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 3.69 Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Pillars of Geometry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)]]> 210611 240 John Stillwell 0387255303 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 4.12 2005 The Four Pillars of Geometry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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]]> Contemporary Abstract Algebra 211214 640 Joseph A. Gallian 0618514716 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 4.03 2012 Contemporary Abstract Algebra
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]]> <![CDATA[The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides)]]> 1804259 The Calculus Lifesaver provides students with the essential tools they need not only to learn calculus, but to excel at it.

All of the material in this user-friendly study guide has been proven to get results. The book arose from Adrian Banner's popular calculus review course at Princeton University, which he developed especially for students who are motivated to earn A's but get only average grades on exams. The complete course will be available for free on the Web in a series of videotaped lectures. This study guide works as a supplement to any single-variable calculus course or textbook. Coupled with a selection of exercises, the book can also be used as a textbook in its own right. The style is informal, non-intimidating, and even entertaining, without sacrificing comprehensiveness. The author elaborates standard course material with scores of detailed examples that treat the reader to an inner monologue--the train of thought students should be following in order to solve the problem--providing the necessary reasoning as well as the solution. The book's emphasis is on building problem-solving skills. Examples range from easy to difficult and illustrate the in-depth presentation of theory.

The Calculus Lifesaver combines ease of use and readability with the depth of content and mathematical rigor of the best calculus textbooks. It is an indispensable volume for any student seeking to master calculus.

Serves as a companion to any single-variable calculus textbook

Informal, entertaining, and not intimidating

Informative videos that follow the book--a full forty-eight hours of Banner's Princeton calculus-review course--is available at Adrian Banner lectures

More than 475 examples (ranging from easy to hard) provide step-by-step reasoning

Theorems and methods justified and connections made to actual practice

Difficult topics such as improper integrals and infinite series covered in detail

Tried and tested by students taking freshman calculus]]> 754 Adrian Banner 0691130884 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 4.21 2007 The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown]]> 41940441 An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration

Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life.

Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.]]> 226 Karen Olsson 0374719632 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 3.82 2019 The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics]]> 33916545 How one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way, she considers how to use a chessboard to plan a worldwide dinner party, how to make a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and how to create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough. Beyond Infinity shows how one little symbol holds the biggest idea of all.]]> 304 Eugenia Cheng 0465094821 Nitish 0 3.79 2017 Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
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]]> <![CDATA[Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life]]> 35960094
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising solutions, Weird Math leads us from a lyrical exploration of mathematics in our universe to profound questions about God, chance, and infinity. A magical introduction to the mysteries of math, it will entrance beginners and seasoned mathematicians alike.]]> 320 David Darling 1541644786 Nitish 0 mathematics, to-read 3.47 Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
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]]> Math Without Numbers 52685608 An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math

The only numbers in this book are the page numbers.

Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math--topology, analysis, and algebra--which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject.

Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world.

The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.]]> 224 Milo Beckman 1524745545 Nitish 0 4.09 2021 Math Without Numbers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story]]> 52617760
David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day. He emphasizes throughout elegant deduction and practical applications, and argues that geometry can offer the quickest route to the whole spirit of mathematics at its best. Along the way, we encounter the quirky and the unexpected, meet the great personalities involved, and uncover some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics.]]> 288 David Acheson 019884638X Nitish 0 4.16 The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Nitish 0 don-t-bother 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
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]]> Contact 61666 semblent à présent impatients d'établir le contact : ils nous surveillent depuis longtemps, et le moment est peut-être venu pour eux de nous juger...]]> 580 Carl Sagan 2266079999 Nitish 4 science-fiction, 2021 4.14 1985 Contact
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays]]> 11987 212 Albert Camus Nitish 0 to-read, classic-fiction 4.23 1942 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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]]> The Plague 11989
It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view.

The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings; the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.]]> 308 Albert Camus Nitish 0 to-read, classic-fiction 4.05 1947 The Plague
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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Nitish 0 classic-fiction, to-read 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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]]> Scar Tissue 96647 New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane.

In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though the band has gone through many incarnations, Anthony Kiedis, the group's lyricist and dynamic lead singer, has been there for the whole roller-coaster ride. Whether he's recollecting the influence of the beautiful, strong women who have been his muses, or retracing a journey that has included appearances as diverse as a performance before half a million people at Woodstock or an audience of one at the humble compound of the exiled Dalai Lama, Kiedis shares a compelling story about the price of success and excess.

Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption--a story that could only have come out of the world of rock.]]> 465 Anthony Kiedis 1401307450 Nitish 0 biographies, to-read 4.11 2004 Scar Tissue
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]]> The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills � and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit � he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Nitish 4 science-fiction, 2021 4.41 2011 The Martian
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average rating: 4.41
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Nitish 4 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
author: Steven D. Levitt
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)]]> 4921
"We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - A week on the rolling deep? - George suggests the river -"

And with the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around - many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.]]> 185 Jerome K. Jerome Nitish 0 to-read, classic-fiction 3.86 1889 Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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]]> India: A History 174501 578 John Keay 0802137970 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 3.92 2000 India: A History
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)]]> 22034
Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.]]> 448 Mario Puzo Nitish 0 to-read, classic-fiction 4.39 1969 The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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]]> Mandate: Will of the People 24995272
Vir Sanghvi, the well-known journalist and TV anchor, draws on his personal experiences and memories as well as scores of interviews to piece together an incisive and candid account of what went on behind the scenes. Peppered with little-known details and insider information, this book tells the stories behind the story and brings alive the men and women behind the headlines.

Mandate: Will of the People contains the real story of the declaration of the Emergency, the rise and fall of Sanjay Gandhi, the Punjab insurgencies, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the bloody riots that followed her death. It tracks the emergence of Rajiv Gandhi and explains the Bofors scandal that contributed to his defeat.

Many of the questions that linger over Indian politics are answered here: how did Narasimha Rao become Prime Minister? Why did he liberalise the economy? What was the Ram Mandir agitation really about? Why didn't Sonia Gandhi agree to be PM? And how did Manmohan Singh's weakness clear the way for Narendra Modi.

If you have to read one book about Indian politics - then this is it.]]> 156 Vir Sanghvi 9384030392 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 3.79 2015 Mandate: Will of the People
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]]> <![CDATA[Men of Steel: India's Business leaders in candid conversation]]> 6215388 110 Vir Sanghvi 8174364749 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 3.72 2007 Men of Steel: India's Business leaders in candid conversation
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> <![CDATA[The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity]]> 10310 The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country's huge social and economic disparities, and its current place in the world" (Sunil Khilnani, Financial Times, U.K.).]]> 409 Amartya Sen 031242602X Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 3.82 2005 The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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]]> A House for Mr Biswas 5849 623 V.S. Naipaul 0330487191 Nitish 0 indian-fiction, to-read 3.82 1961 A House for Mr Biswas
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]]> The Forest of Enchantments 43293099
The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women’s struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, contemporary battle of wills.

While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, â€Enough!’]]> 372 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 9353025982 Nitish 0 indian-fiction, to-read 4.19 2019 The Forest of Enchantments
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]]> <![CDATA[Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From]]> 43305406
Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the subsequent large migrations of modern humans into India—of agriculturalists from Iran between 7000 and 3000 BCE and pastoralists from the Central Asian Steppe between 2000 and 1000 BCE, among others.

As Joseph unravels our history using the results of genetic and other research, he takes head-on some of the most controversial and uncomfortable questions of Indian history: Who were the Harappans? Did the 'Aryans' really migrate to India? Are North Indians genetically different from South Indians? And are the various castes genetically distinct groups?

This book relies heavily on path-breaking DNA research of recent years. But it also presents earlier archaeological and linguistic evidence—all in an entertaining and highly readable manner. A hugely significant book, Early Indians authoritatively and bravely puts to rest several ugly debates on the ancestry of modern Indians. It not only shows us how the modern Indian population came to be composed as it is, but also reveals an undeniable and important truth about who we are: we are all migrants. And we are all mixed.]]> 256 Tony Joseph 938622898X Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.31 2018 Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
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]]> <![CDATA[The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History]]> 52509565 From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who became a warrior princess to another who sang for the gramophone; from a woman with no breasts to a goddess with three; and from an Englishman who venerated sacred Sanskrit to imperious Victoria Maharani—the essays in this collection open a window into India’s past, and to a world of such astonishing richness that it is surprising how much of it has been forgotten or expunged.

To dip into these essays is to be absorbed in India’s story and reflect on the experiences of men and women whose lives were full of drama and action. We discover the advent of the railways, just as we learn about the history of Indian football; we hear of the hated Lord Curzon’s love of India’s monuments, even as we unravel the story of the photographer who was Jaipur’s maharajah. In the hands of a consummate historian and storyteller, these men and women speak also of the concerns and perspectives of the present, showing us what was, and what might have been.

An exhilarating journey with the author of The Ivory Throne and Rebel Sultans, The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin is a retelling of history no reader will want to miss.

]]> 398 Manu S. Pillai Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 3.95 2018 The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore]]> 28264135 1137 Manu S. Pillai 9351776433 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.27 2016 The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
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]]> Jaya: 9 9864913
The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are the twins, Jaya and Vijaya, both whose names mean 'victory'. One keeps you in Swarga; the other raises you into Vaikuntha.

In Vaikuntha there is bliss forever, in Swarga there is pleasure for only as long as you deserve. What is the difference between Jaya and Vijaya? Solve this puzzle and you will solve the mystery of the Mahabharata.

In this enthralling retelling of India's greatest epic, the Mahabharata originally known as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the Sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chhattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu and Yakshagana of Karnataka.

Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings by the author, the 108 chapters abound with little-known details such as the names of the hundred Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan and Barbareek, the Mahabharata version of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana, and the dating of the war based on astronomical data.

With clarity and simplicity, the tales in this elegant volume reveal the eternal relevance of the Mahabharata, the complex and disturbing meditation on the human condition that has shaped Indian thought for over 3000 years.]]> 349 Devdutt Pattanaik 014310425X Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.20 2010 Jaya: 9
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]]> <![CDATA[Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People]]> 13563459
The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times.
The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors that lives on. The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell?

The story of the Ravanayana has never been told.
Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed castes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale. But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak.

“For thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor’s tale, the Ramayana. Now hear the Ravanayana, for I am Ravana, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished."

“I am a non-entity � invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravana and Rama � the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser.�

The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young saviour � Ravana. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravana, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed, Ravana leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravana succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed from them. It is then that Ravana, by one action, changes the history of the world.]]> 504 Anand Neelakantan 938157605X Nitish 0 indian-fiction, to-read 3.67 2012 Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond]]> 30845 420 Shashi Tharoor 1559708034 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 3.82 1997 India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
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]]> <![CDATA[An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India]]> 32618967
British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialization and the destruction of its textile industry.

In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.]]> 360 Shashi Tharoor 938306465X Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.17 2016 An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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]]> <![CDATA[Prehistory and Protohistory of India: An Appraisal: Palaeolithic, Non-Harappan Chalocolithic Cultures]]> 3423184 212 V.K. Jain 8124603723 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 3.66 2006 Prehistory and Protohistory of India: An Appraisal: Palaeolithic, Non-Harappan Chalocolithic Cultures
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]]> Annihilation of Caste 22551905 Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.� —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste

B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar � a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois � offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.

Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,� examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.]]> 415 B.R. Ambedkar 1781688311 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.63 1936 Annihilation of Caste
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]]> <![CDATA[Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300]]> 276117 586 Romila Thapar 0520242254 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 3.79 1966 Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
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]]> The Discovery of India 154126 In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects. Describing himself as "a dabbler in many things," he committed his life not only to politics but also to nature and wild life, drama, poetry, history, and science, as well as many other fields. These two volumes help to illuminate the depth of his interests and knowledge and the skill and elegance with which he treated the written word!!

]]> 656 Jawaharlal Nehru 0143031031 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 4.09 1946 The Discovery of India
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]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters]]> 186538 In Xanadu, became an instant backpacker's classic, winning a stream of literary prizes. City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain soon followed, to universal critical praise. Yet it is India that Dalrymple continues to return to in his travels, and his fourth book, The Age of Kali, is his most reflective book to date.

The result of 10 year's living and traveling throughout the Indian subcontinent, The Age of Kali emerges from Dalrymple's uneasy sense that the region is slipping into the most fearsome of all epochs in ancient Hindu cosmology: "the Kali Yug, the Age of Kali, the lowest possible throw, an epoch of strife, corruption, darkness, and disintegration." "The brilliance of this book lies in its refusal to reflect any cultural pessimism. Dalrymple's love for the subcontinent, and his feel for its diverse cultural identity, comes across in every page, which makes its chronicles of political corruption, ethnic violence, and social disintegration all the more poignant. The scope of the book is particularly impressive, from the vivid opening chapters portraying the lawless caste violence of Bihar, to interviews with the drug barons on the North-West Frontier, and Dalrymple's extraordinary encounter with the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Some of the most fascinating sections of the book are Dalrymple's interviews with Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, which read like nonfiction companion pieces to Salman Rushdie's bitterly satirical Shame. The Age of Kali is a dark, disturbing book that takes the pulse of a continent facing some tough questions. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk]]> 394 William Dalrymple 1864501723 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 3.98 1998 The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire]]> 42972023
In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.

The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.]]> 544 William Dalrymple 1635573955 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-history 4.18 2019 The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy]]> 356824 India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...]]> 912 Ramachandra Guha 0060198818 Nitish 0 indian-history, to-read 4.38 2007 India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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]]> <![CDATA[Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found]]> 4364
As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.]]> 542 Suketu Mehta 0375703403 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-fiction 3.94 2004 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Friday: The True Story Of The Bombay Bomb Blasts]]> 33662 288 S. Hussain Zaidi 0143028219 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-fiction 4.12 2002 Black Friday: The True Story Of The Bombay Bomb Blasts
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Love and Longing in Bombay 165602 272 Vikram Chandra 0316136778 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-fiction 3.60 1997 Love and Longing in Bombay
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]]> <![CDATA[The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1)]]> 676885 512 Samit Basu 0143030434 Nitish 0 to-read, indian-fiction 4.12 2004 The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia]]> 13637470
Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and went on to wipe out the competition and eventually became the Mumbai police’s own nemesis.The narrative encompasses several milestones in the history of crime in India, from the rise of the Pathans, formation of the Dawood gang, the first ever supari, mafia’s nefarious role in Bollywood, Dawood’s move to Karachi, and Pakistan’s subsequent alleged role in sheltering one of the most wanted persons in the world.

This story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai, and captures his bravado, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia’s games of supremacy and internecine warfare.]]> 378 S. Hussain Zaidi 8174368949 Nitish 0 non-fiction, to-read 3.93 2012 Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
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]]> Anathem 2845024
Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates—at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected." But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.

Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros—a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose—as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world—as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.]]> 937 Neal Stephenson 0061474096 Nitish 0 to-read, science-fiction 4.16 2008 Anathem
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]]> <![CDATA[Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)]]> 76679 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov.

As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory—and with it the future of the Galaxy.

Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for his true heirs—a search the begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.]]> 464 Isaac Asimov 0553565079 Nitish 4 science-fiction, 2021 4.15 1993 Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
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book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meaning of Liff (Meaning of Liff, #1)]]> 64119 191 Douglas Adams 0330281216 Nitish 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.96 1983 The Meaning of Liff (Meaning of Liff, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1983
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