This original contribution to Indian history, focusing oncontemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set ofconcepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically itexamines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It tracesthe expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policyof 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslimexpansion throughout its history. The book gives an interestingperspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British periodas well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its mostimportant successor polity, on its capacity for change anddevelopment in the intermediate sections of society, theland-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on thefiscal system.

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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address thework of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the BritishIsles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson,Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Bront?s, George Eliot, Hardy, James,Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer intheir own time is explained, the relation of their work to that ofpredecessors and successors explored, and their most importantnovels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in apre*ive way, but taken together they describe a strongdeveloping tradition of the writing of fictional prose over thepast 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studyingand teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider thesignificance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green andElizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place inliterary history.

Babies are not born talking, they learn language, startingimmediately from birth. How does this process take place? When dochildren master the skills needed for using language successfully?What stages do they go through as they learn to understand andtalk? Do the languages they learn affect the way they think? Thisnew edition of Eve Clark's highly successful textbook focuses onchildren's acquisition of a first language, the stages ofdevelopment they go through, and how they use language as theylearn. It reports on recent findings in each area covered, includesa completely new chapter on the acquisition of two languages andshows how speech to children differs by social class. Skilfullyintegrating actual data with coverage of current theories anddebates, it is an essential guide to studying language acquisitionfor those working in linguistics, developmental psychology andcognitive science.

At a time when the numbers of emerging infections andantibiotic-resistant bacteria are rising sharply, the supply of newantibiotic drugs has been steadily decreasing. In addition, manyhealth providers have failed to consider that our bodies arecloaked in a blanket of bacteria so pervasive that the bacterialcells outnumber our “human” cells by a factor of ten. In short, weare living in a microbe’s world and cannot ignore the very realpotential for untreatable serious infections. In this timely book, Dr. Michael Schmidt proposes we focus onstrengthening ourselves by thinking of our bodies as a“human-microbe hybrid.” This requires taking action to raise ourdefenses, while preserving the integrity of the microbial elementsthat live on and within us. Drawing on the latest research fromseveral scientific fields, Schmidt presents a strategy of medicinethat can be used to build and balance our system of immune defenseand repair. He offers a set of general recommendations that caneasily be used

An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible waythey intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author HarukiMurakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would beenough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about itas well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwinedobsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories andinsights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become awriter. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich andrevelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly privatewriter and for the exploding population of athletes who findsimilar satisfaction in athletic pursuit.

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the authorof the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by theBaltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” Thispowerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make adifference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who isin love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cureit. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer.Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist,anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant,world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on aboat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnoseand cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools ofmodern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent bookshows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seeminsurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful l

In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of black feminist intellectuals and writers. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of a range of prominent thinkers and draws from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, to provide a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that gave the first synthetic overview of black feminist thought and its canon.

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The bestselling author and psychologist whose books havetopped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of “highsensitivity” in children–and offers a breakthrough parentingguidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers. With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aronbecame the first person to identify the inborn trait of “highsensitivity” and to show how it affects the lives of those whopossess it. Up to 20 percent of the population is born highlysensitive, and now in The Highly Sensitive Child, Aron shifts herfocus to highly sensitive children, who share the samecharacteristics as highly sensitive adults and thus face uniquechallenges as they grow up. Rooted in Aron’s years of experience as a psychotherapist and heroriginal research on child temperament, The Highly Sensitive Childshows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle,and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart,conscientious, creative children, but with the wr

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At the beginning of thetwentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in thefiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In this brilliantdual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford reexaminesevery detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain'sRobert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who died along theway with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache ofsupplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who notonly beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largelyforgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highlyreadable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era andthe complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carryingthem out. The Last Place on Earth is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogyof polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject inthe English language based on the original Norwegian sources, towhich Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains is the part ofthe orogenic system that formed at the Pacific continental marginof present-day Antarctica. According to a recent hypothesis, thiscontinental margin was created by the rifting and subsequent driftof Laurentia from Gondwana. With an unparalleled breadth and depthof information, this book provides a detailed synthesis of thehistory of the Ross orogen. In doing so, it incorporates classicalstudies with discussions of the most recent and controversialresearch from the international community. The book also includes acomprehensive bibliography and a historical chronology of allexpeditions that have worked on the Ross orogen in theTransantarctic Mountains, from the first sightings by Ross in 1840right up to the present day. This review of the Ross orogen of theTransantarctic Mountains will be valuable to all geologistsinterested in these episodes in the Earth's history, and toresearchers of the geology of Antarctica.