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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Paperback edition of Seth's tale of obsessive love. Playing in a trio in Vienna, Michael the violinist is very attracted to Julia the pianist. But the trio splits up and the three go their own way. Several years later Michael sees Julia in London and, although she says she happily married and has a child, she agrees to visit Venice and Vienna with him... "The greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to ...

¿Ook jij gaat trouwen met een jongen die ik heb uitgezocht, ¿ zei Rupa Mehra vastberaden tegen haar jongste dochter. Met deze o zo simpele zin begint de Brits-Indiase schrijver Vikram Seth (1952) zijn magistrale roman De geschikte jongen, die zich voornamelijk afspeelt in de fictieve Indiase stad Brahmpur, gelegen aan India¿s heiligste rivier de Ganges.

The remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and find their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power. Shanti joined the army, while Henny made a life for herself in her adop...

An intellectual and cultural history of the birth of theoretical physics in Germany, focusing on the pedagogy and research of a leader in work on the "older" quantum theory.

This volume consists of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2002), organized under the auspices of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS). The conference was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during December 12-14, 2002. The conference attracted 108 submissions (of which two were withdrawn). Of these, a...

The only single-source reference on the concept and implementation of TCP/IP in Linux As open source software becomes a trusted part of business and research systems, it's no wonder that a combination of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and the Linux operating system is becoming more common. TCP/IP's prevalence allows easy communication among computers using various operating systems, whether Windows, Mac OS, Linux...

A study of how modern, Western knowledge came to be disseminated in India and came to assume its current status as the obvious, and almost the only, mode of knowing about India, further, and more dubiously, the work examines whether this knowledge is in f

A study of how modern, Western knowledge came to be disseminated in India and came to assume its current status as the obvious, and almost the only, mode of knowing about India, further, and more dubiously, the work examines whether this knowledge is in f

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science.

Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

The story of Colin Rich and his extended family covers the time period from 1866 to 2001 and relates how major historical events affect their lives. It begins in New Mexico and proceeds through Texas to New Orleans, Chicago, California, and New York.Due to various unscrupulous people, death befalls members of the family, thus inciting retaliation. They unconsciously use the adage, 'Actions speak louder than words, ' because there is an inherit...

The story of Colin Rich and his extended family covers the time period from 1866 to 2001 and relates how major historical events affect their lives. It begins in New Mexico and proceeds through Texas to New Orleans, Chicago, California, and New York.Due to various unscrupulous people, death befalls members of the family, thus inciting retaliation. They unconsciously use the adage, 'Actions speak louder than words, ' because there is an inherit...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

The great California novel been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."-Gore VidalOne of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth's story in verse made him a literary household name in both the United States and India. John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper. From this interaction, John meets a variety of...