Allen Lane
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What is the philosophy of India? This question is as silly as the question: ‘Do you speak Indian?’ For, the expression ‘the philosophy of India’ is vacuous. This book tries to tackle that problem by focusing on a few chosen issues and debates rather than on particular texts. And neither does it make any attempt to present a comprehensive history of all the schools nor does it offer any chronological chronicling of the views of particular ...
If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.
William D. Cohan, bestselling author of House of Cards, has long been critical of the bad behaviour that plagued much of Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and, as an ex-banker, he is an expert on its inner workings as well. But in recent years he has become alarmed by the vitriol directed at ...
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in the Mediterranean, and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed ...
Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. By the war’s end, the Indian Army had become the largest volunteer force in the conflict, consisting of 2. 5 million men, while many millions more had offered ...
The Freakonomics of math - a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a logic of the world and puts its power in our hands. The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be ...
