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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. AN UNLIKELY CHEMISTRY: Autobiography of a Couple
Book SynopsisHow can two people survive in a marriage when one of them sees it as an impediment to personal growth?Well, you keep trying and eventually figure ways of making it work. An Unlikely Chemistry is the story of a couplea scientist and a filmmakerwho battle personal issues and external challenges and go on to build aife on their own terms.The scientist, Mohana, stands up to a crippled system, determined to discover an Ayurvedic drug for cancer. On the threshold of global recognition, she is compelled to abandon her research due to the biases of a system plagued by caste-based reservations.The filmmaker, Krishnaswamy, provoked by a distorted American documentary on India, vows to make an authentic film on Indian history, heritage and culture. A vow he fulfils with the release of his four-hour film, Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi, distributed by Warner Bros.Krishnaswamy and Mohana then join hands to weave an illustrious tapestry of over two hundred non-fiction films and a dozen television serials. However, their path isittered with politics, controversies,egal battles and societal prejudices, but their belief in righteousness and spirituality helps them overcome these hurdles.An Unlikely Chemistry is the remarkable autobiography of a coupletheirove and their journey of nearly five decades. Within these pages, there''s also the veritable magic and nostalgia of a bygone era.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. AN UNSUITABLE WOMAN
Book SynopsisWeaving together the narratives of non-conformist women from realife with those imagined, An Unsuitable Woman introduces you to the everyday heroines in the Indian society confronting patriarchy.This book includes seventeen inspirational and touching contributions in the form of prose and poetry, from writersike Anand Neelakantan, Madhavi Mahadevan, Sukla Singha, Humra Quraishi and Mitra Phukan, among others. It offers fascinating glimpses of everyday rebellion against patriarchy by a handful of womenfrom Amrita Sher-Gil, the rebel artist toeila Seth, the first female chief justice of a state High Court and to Social Activist Chandraprabha''s unassailable belief in her reforms; theegendary Nangeli who severed her breasts to assert her dissent against an unjust social order to Jahnavi Barua''s nameless protagonist who renders all social stigmas.Plunge into the world of these unsuitable'' women and partake of their undaunted spirit.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. MURDER AT LORD’S
Book SynopsisThe gentleman''s game will noonger be the same. In Murder atord''s, different characters from the world of cricket Indian boy wonder, Vinoo Ramji; English team''s manager, Alan Moorcombe; young and ambitious English reporter, Dick Anthony. Pakistani match-fixer and former hitman, Mohammed Musa; the English team''s captain and compulsive gambler, Michael Cookson and its physiotherapist, Tony Abbott cross paths in the shadowy world of match-fixing, a world ruled by syndicates whose sole purpose isuring players and coaches into their dangerous web of fear, deceit and greed. No one and nothing is offimits whether it is the mysterious disappearance of a cricketer''s girlfriend or a murder atord''s. A deadly cat-and-mouse game begins when a Scotland Yard detective sets out on this elusive crime trail. The quest to unmask the perpetrators takes the reader from the plush suburbs ofondon to the dark alleys of Mumbai. As secretsurk in the shrouds of violence, will justice prevail or will it be tooate?
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Books Faith Looking Back at My Own Career
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Universities Press Wings Of Fire: An Autobiography Of Abdul Kalam
Book SynopsisPersonal tragedies have not been left out. The time when he lost his father and how he felt when conferred with many awards like the Padma Bhushan have been written in much detail.
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Universities Press Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
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Westland Books Pvt Ltd The Autobiography of a Sex Worker
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Restless as Mercury: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Book SynopsisM.K. Gandhi's autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth," reveals his life, family, work, challenges, fasts, jail stints, and political engagements in South Africa. Divided into six books, it portrays his evolution into a leader of disciplined mass movements before returning to India in 1914.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. MAHE & MANO: CHALLENGES, RESILIENCE, AND TRIUMPHS
Book SynopsisA scientist, artist, and writer, Manohar devadoss waseading a happy and fulfillingife with his wife, mahema. But theirives were turned upside down by a tragic road accident thateft mahe paralysed below the shoulders forife. Around the same time, Mano was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative retinal disorder, which eventually made him go blind. But the couple neverost heart, refused to complain, and instead tackledife''s challenges head-on. For more than three decades, Mano remained mahe''s most faithful nurse and Attendant. Mahe & Mano is a chronicle of their extraordinaryife together and the ways in which they triumphed over adversity.
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir
Book SynopsisBorn in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Mumbai Parsi household and educated at one of India’s finest schools, Kobad Ghandy’s life and career could have scaled heights in the bustling world of corporate finance. Only it did not. Instead, he chose to become an activist working for the oppressed of the country. Shocked by the racism he witnessed in the UK as a student and learning of the horrors of colonial rule in India, he determined to serve those struck the harshest by the cruel inequalities of his country. Fractured Freedom takes you through the journey of an honest man and his partner, Anuradha’s, to a difficult destiny. Here is the story of two people who dedicated their lives in the service of the marginalised, and who believed that true revolution required direct action for a more human and just society. Part memoir, part prison diary, Ghandy bares it all looking back at their lives, love, loss and politics, so intrinsically tied together. Having languished in Indian prisons for over a decade, he tells of his long incarceration, of his fellow prisoners, and of the Kafkaesque experiences with the Indian legal system. This is the candid and unfiltered account of how an unjust system breaks the brave and bold-hearted. A story of life in extremes – the height of privilege and the depth of despair, a story of our times, of a path many would shy away from.
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Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd An Unlikely Police Chief:: From and To Jaisalmer
Book SynopsisIn this autobiography, the author narrates the story of his life as a police officer, starting from his childhood, to joining the coveted IPS, and finally to his retirement. As a refugee toddler from Pakistan, his early memories go back to living in a camp in Delhi (India) where his family had moved after the Partition of the subcontinent, until a small quarter was allotted to them. From there, this once mediocre student rose to become a three-star police chief in the elite Indian Police Service, after facing the toughest competition in the entrance examination for the civil services. The author tells the story of the police in India from a ringside view and also a bit about India''s history itself during the last 75 years, the evolution of the political class and the internal challenges that the country faces. How incidents, events and human beings shaped his life takes us on his journey as a police officer and a family man. He also talks of his service to the nation with humility, pride and honour. With its insights, this is surely a motivational book for the younger generation.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Bharathi I Knew
Book SynopsisHer adult perspective gives Bharathiyarâs recalled words a special significance; and discovers in his life, a special message for humanity.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Upendra Nath Banerjee: Memoirs Of A Revolutionary
Book SynopsisWithin the pages of this book lie the forgotten chapters of Bengal''s revolutionary history; the stories of those unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, whose legacies have been lost in the elusive shadows of time. What remains are their names etched on unfamiliar roadssilent reminders that are rarely acknowledged or retained in the memories of those who pass. Amidst the vibrant streets of Kolkata, there is an Upendra Nath Banerjee Road, a tribute to a fearless revolutionary and thinker and his immense contribution to our freedom movement, but few may appreciate the sacrifices of the person it honours. Memoirs of a Revolutionary, a translation of the Bengali classic, Nirbasiter Atmakatha, Upendra Nath Banerjee wrote himself.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Bear Wore a Swimsuit
Book SynopsisHow she managed a husband and two children is a mystery, although she acknowledges various helpers, always bringing them to life in fascinating detail. Many vignettes of people have been described in a manner not to be forgotten.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Yo seré la última:Historia de mi cautiverio y mi
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Urano My Love Story
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Heimat. Lejos de mi hogar / Heimat: A German
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Batiscafo Yo se por que canta el pajaro enjaulado
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Editorial Periferica El Club de Los Mentirosos
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Editorial Periferica Una Granja En Las Green Mountains
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Difusion Centro de Publicacion y Publicaciones de Idiomas, S.L. Sigo aqui
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Persépolis / Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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Anagrama Habla, Memoria
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El asedio / The Siege
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Editorial Periferica Enciclopedia B-S
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Summus Editorial Ltda. João Cândido
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Viella Editrice Journeys for a Witness: My Work as a Photographer
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Maple Press Pvt Ltd The Story of My Life
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Story of My Life
Book SynopsisHer experiences are not just a reflection of the challenges faced even by privileged women in the nineteenth century.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited I want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir
Book SynopsisThis book is Malikaâs searing, angry account of her life with Dhasal. The unvarnished story of a marriage and of a woman and writer seeking her space in a manâs world.
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HarperCollins India Telgi: Ek Reporter Ki Diary
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Bloomsbury India From the Village to the World: A Long Journey To
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HarperCollins India The Golden Years: The Many Joys of Living a Good
Book SynopsisRuskin tells us how to enjoy the advancing years some of us are blessed with, and how to make the most of the amazing gift called life.
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EduCart Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
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Double 9 Booksllp Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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Tulika Books Bread Beauty Revolution – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas,
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd From the Street of Kathmandu
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited One Foot on the Ground: A Life Told Through the
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Westland Publications Limited My Years with Rajiv: Triumph and Tragedy
Book SynopsisWise, witty and intensely moving, the book brings to vivid life not just the personality of Rajiv Gandhi as a man and a leader but a whole phase of modern India''s political history. The author narrates with total honesty and the most becoming modesty the story of promise soaring into achievement only to be cut down by destiny''s inscrutable hand. Habibullah is to Rajiv what Abul Fazl was to Akbar. -Gopalkrishna Gandhi If you want to know who Rajiv Gandhi was as a person, a friend and a leader, and what his contributions as prime minister were, Wajahat Habibullah''s thoughtful book, written with the sure hand of one who knew him from childhood and also served him professionally, is an unputdownable must read. -Pavan K. Varma On 21 May 1991, Wajahat Habibullah, then the commissioner of Kashmir (constituting the valley and two districts of Ladakh), had returned home after inspecting a mysterious fire at Dalgate, Srinagar. Much to his dismay, there had been another fire, one that left him devastated: an RDX explosion in the south Indian town of Sriperumbudur had taken the life of India''s sixth prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. My Years with Rajiv is an endearing account of a friendship that turned into an administrative partnership, one that gave Habibullah an acute insight into Rajiv Gandhi''s political life. But equally, in this lucid memoir, recounting his years in the Indian Administrative Services, particularly at the Prime Minister''s Office, he walks us through the last three decades of the twentieth century in many ways, the most formative years of Indian history. Habibullah also seeks to demystify the workings of the Indian government and bureaucracy: the modernisation of the Nehruvian nation, the turbulence of the Khalistan years in Punjab, the introduction of grassroots policies aimed at poverty alleviation in rural India, the beginning of telecommunications services, the Shah Bano case, the opening of the locks at Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi, Indian interventions in Sri Lanka, and much else. In this, the author, a natural raconteur, is more than successful, telling the tale in his inimitably candid and self-effacing manner.
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Westland Publications Limited A Road Well Travelled
Book SynopsisFormer director of the Central Bureau of Investigation and now diplomat, R.K. Raghavan has had a tumultuous career full of successes, yes, but also one where he stood at the edge of some of India''s biggest fault lines. On 21 May 1991, in Sriperumbudur, he was in charge of Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi''s protection detail. Raghavan was only a few yards from Gandhi when the former prime minister was assassinated by the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. It was a crushing blow to the nation, and one that left the top cop shaken to his core. Years later, Raghavan handled investigations into the Bofors scam, the cricket match-fixing scandal and the horrific Gujarat riots of 2002 key events that came to define India''s national character. R.K. Raghavan has been not only witnessed the country''s turbulent journey, but has been right at the centre as pivotal events unfolded. In some instances, he determined their course. An Indian Police Service officer, Raghavan went on to become directorgeneral of Tamil Nadu''s State Vigilance Directorate and then to head the Interpol and the CBI. A Road Well Travelled chronicles his rise through the ranks of the nation''s protectors and gatekeepers from his first posting in a small town in southern India to his sojourn at the sequestered worlds of the Intelligence Bureau and the CBI, as well as his investigations abroad. His recollections and personal insights are juxtaposed with fascinating vignettes of life in the rank and file of the Indian police and machinations in the corridors of power to reveal a nation on the move, simmering with activity at levels not always visible to other citizens
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Middle:: A Story of Love, Life & Laughter
Book SynopsisNayana Goradia's journey from childhood in Kathiwar to studying in the US and UK, settling in Calcutta, and writing a biography on Lord Curzon, reflecting on colonial legacy and personal experiences.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS
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Westland Publications Limited Talking Life: Javed Akthar in Conversation with
Book SynopsisHe relives the battle he waged on behalf of lyricists and music composers in Parliament, the intense internal struggle to overcome the difficulties that built up in the wake of fame and money, and the many strands that wove through his relentless pursuit of excellence.
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Leuven University Press The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval
Book SynopsisThe present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrological autobiography, authored by Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310). Exploiting all resources of contemporary astrological science, Bate conducts in his Nativitas a profound self-analysis, revealing the peculiarities of his character and personality at a crucial moment of his life (1280). The result is an extraordinarily detailed and penetrating attempt to decode the fate of one's own life and its idiosyncrasies. The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher offers the first critical edition of Bate's Nativitas. An extensive introduction presents Bate's life and work and sheds new light on the reception and use of Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew texts among scholars in Paris at the end of the 13th century. The book thus provides a major new resource for scholars working on medieval science, autobiography, and notions of personhood and individuality. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewIt would require an undue amount of space to list all of the aspects that make this edition of Bate’s Nativitasan arresting source for anyone interested in medieval intellectual and cultural history. Most importantly, perhaps, the book subtly undermines facile clichés about the nature of medieval astrology and in their place gives us a glimpse of the inner workings of the art, revealing an occasionally stunning degree of complexity and psychological depth.C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Volume 50 Issue 2, May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828619834390This is the first complete Latin edition of Bate's Nativitas, and it is an impressive scholarly achievement whose depths can only be hinted at in this review. Not only have the editors produced the definitive edition of Bate's text, they have also written what amounts to a separate monograph to contextualize it.Justin Lake, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.09.58'The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher' offers the first critical edition of Bate’s 'Nativitas'. An extensive introduction presents Bate’s life and work and sheds new light on the reception and use of Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew texts among scholars in Paris at the end of the 13th century. The book thus provides a major new resource for scholars working on medieval science, autobiography, and notions of personhood and individuality.Studi Medievali 2019, IIDie insgesamt äußerst sorgfältige Edition macht damit einen Text verfügbar, der eine Vielzahl von Einblicken in die Welt des späten 13. Jahrhunderts eröffnet. Auch jenseits der Forschung zur Geschichte der Astrologie ist dem Werk daher uneingeschränkt eine breite Rezeption zu wünschen. Klaus Oschema, The Medieval Review 20.04.06Bate’s rich treatise touches on more themes than the editorial team could begin to address; I flagged several passages to which I wish to return in my own work on astrology and prophecy. For all of these reasons, 'The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher' is a real gift, for which scholars will long remain in the editors’ debt. Laura Ackerman Smoller, Isis—Volume 111, Number 3, September 2020Cette publication de la Nativitas, l’autobiographie astrologique du savant et philosophe Henri Bate de Malines (1246 – après 1310), un texte unique en son genre, représente un événement attendu depuis près d’un siècle avec la publication, en 1924, d’un article du grand historien des sciences Aleksander Birkenmajer, qui résumait sa thèse sur Henri Bate, restée inédite. Le présent volume, issu de la collaboration entre quatre chercheurs de renom, vient donc combler un vide important, dont on comprend très bien qu’il ait duré si longtemps, considérant l’extrême difficulté de la matière.Jean-Patrice Boudet, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 56,1 (2021)Das Buch ist ein schönes Beispiel dafür, was in Kooperation erreichbar ist – es handelt sich um eine mustergültige Edition, die man sich für so manchen astrologischen Quellentext wünschen würde. Günther Oestmann, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 77. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 2021 Table of ContentsPreface Table of Contents Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Manuscripts and text tradition of the Nativitas 1.1. Manuscripts (David Juste)1.2. Text tradition (Carlos Steel) 1.2.1. Th e two traditions of the Nativitas 1.2.1.1. Errors in P V (and their copies Par L) against S 1.2.1.2. Errors in S against PV (and their copies) 1.2.1.3. Par a copy from V 1.2.1.4. P and L copies of a common model 1.2.1.5. Another witness of β: Munich, BSB, Clm 3857 1.2.1.6. Three copies of the introduction of the Nativitas 1.2.2. Two different versions of the revolution of the 35th year 1.2.2.1 Th e α version 1.2.2.2. Th e S version 1.2.2.3. Why are there two versions of the revolutions for the 35th year? 1.2.2.4. Is S a direct copy of Bate’s autograph? 1.2.3. Title 1.2.4. Conclusion: a short text history 1.2.5. Stemma codicum 1.3. Editorial principles (Carlos Steel) Chapter 2: A portrait of Henry Bate (Carlos Steel and Steven Vanden Broecke) 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Bate’s biography 2.2.1. Family background 2.2.2. Studies in Paris 2.2.3. Return to the Low Countries: courtly connections, astrology, and an ecclesiastical career 2.2.4. After the Nativitas 2.3. Bate’s self-portrait Chapter 3: Bate’s astrological and astronomical works (David Juste)3.1. Original works3.1.1. Magistralis compositio astrolabii (1274)3.1.2. [Equatorium planetarum] (date unknown) 3.1.3. Tables of Mechelen — Tabule Machlinienses (fi rst version before 1280) 3.1.4. Nativitas (1280-81) 3.1.5. De diebus creticis periodorumque causis (after 1281, perhaps 1292) 3.1.6. Commentary on Albumasar’s De magnis coniunctionibus (lost) [3.1.7.] †Tractatus in quo ostenduntur defectus tabularum Alfonsi 3.2. Translations3.2.1. Alkindi, Liber de iudiciis revolutionum annorum mundi (1278) 3.2.2. Abraham Avenezra, De mundo vel seculo I [Sefer ha-ʿolam I] (1281) 3.2.3. Abraham Avenezra, De luminaribus [Sefer ha-meʾorot] (1292) 3.2.4. Abraham Avenezra, Introductorius ad astronomiam [Reshit ḥokhmah] (1292) 3.2.5. Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum I [Sefer ha-ṭeʿamim I] (1292) 3.2.6. Abraham Avenezra, Liber rationum II [Sefer ha-ṭeʿamim II] (1292) 3.2.7. Abraham Avenezra, Liber introductionis ad iudicia astrologie [Mishpeṭei ha-mazzalot] (1292) [3.2.8] †De fortitudine planetarum Chapter 4: Bate’s Nativitas: the earliest known astrological autobiography (Steven Vanden Broecke) 4.1. Purpose 4.2. ‘Autobiography’ and astrological meaning-making in the Nativitas 4.2.1. Astrological judgment and self-guidance 4.2.2. Particularity and notions of selfhood 4.2.3. The inhabitable birth chart 4.3. Precedents and reception 4.4. Structure and synopsis of the Nativitas Chapter 5: Bate’s Nativitas in context (David Juste) 5.1. The Nativitas in the history of astrology 5.2. Bate’s astrological sources5.3. Bate and the University of Paris 5.3.1. Introduction 5.3.2. Peter of Limoges 5.3.3. Other scholars and opportunities 5.3.4. William of Saint-Cloud 5.4. Appendix: Bate’s astrological sources Chapter 6: Bate and Abraham Ibn Ezra (Shlomo Sela)6.1. Introduction 6.2. The Triple Abraham 6.3. Abraham Avenezra 6.4. Abraham Princeps 6.5. Abraham Compilator Chapter 7: Basic elements of Bate’s astrological technique (Steven Vanden Broecke) 7.1. The four astrological charts of the Nativitas 7.2. Rectifying the nativity 7.3. Hyleg, alcochoden, and empirical verifi cation of the rectified nativity 7.4. A template for analysis: the twelve houses 7.5. Bate’s procedure of astrological self-analysis: the example of the first house7.5.1. Complexion and shape of the body 7.5.2. Qualities of the soul 7.5.2.1. Jupiter 7.5.2.2. Mercury 7.5.2.3. Interpreting the decans 7.6. Solar revolutions of the nativity Index of manuscripts Bibliography to the introductionNativitas Magistri Henrici Baten Conspectus siglorum Abbreviationes Textus Appendix i. Versio altera in codice Segoviensi 84 Appendix ii. Digressio in Libro Rationum Index fontium ab editoribus allegatorum Editiones et manuscripta fontium ab editoribus allegata
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Amsterdam Publishers Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents
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Hong Kong University Press Shanghai Bride – Her Tumultuous Life′s Journey to
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Central European University Press The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness
Book SynopsisA Scholar's Quest for Home and Identity Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes. As we follow his pursuit of a home, we gain insight into the critical developments of post-1945 Europe and America. Markovits's emigration experiences, first from Romania to Vienna and later from Vienna to New York, shed light on the challenges he faced. His journey offers a panoramic view of the forces shaping the latter half of the 20th century. Despite America's flaws, he finds it a beacon of academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity, and religious tolerance—qualities that Europe lacked. Explore the complexities of identity, culture, and the universal search for belonging in this captivating narrative.Trade Review"The great Jewish historian Salo Baron defined the “lachrymose school of Jewish historiography,” that long litany of suffering and persecution that for many defines Jewish life and history. Andy Markovits’s memoir is the anecdote to that school: a sunny, optimistic, and uplifting read. It doesn’t gloss over the sadness of post-War Europe, but it shows how that lost world could produce a vital future and how a stateless, rootless person could nonetheless turn that condition into a fulfilled life." https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-passport-as-home-comfort-in-rootlessness -- Martin Green * Jewish Book Council *"Perhaps the best that one may hope for sometimes is the richness of a life lived without such a destructive set of emotions, the worth of work that is grounded on logic and evidence, the support of people (as the author generously attests to in this memoir) from whom one can learn and with whom one can share insight and understanding. It is this record and these experiences, perhaps above all, which shine brightest out of this evocative memoir." -- Philip Spencer * Fathom *Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter One Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter Two A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter Three Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter Four Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter Five The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City’s Jews) Chapter Six Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter Seven Columbia 1968: How the World – and Andy – Changed in a Single Year Chapter Eight Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter Nine The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter Ten Harvard’s Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter Eleven Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter Twelve Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland Epilogue
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Gefen Publishing House Portrait of a Holocaust Child: Memories &
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