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TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

Finding the light in dark times…

By: AMITAV GANGULY

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TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

Finding the light in dark times…

By: AMITAV GANGULY

This anthology of paranormal short stories with diverse backgrounds in supernatural settings and unusual endings, guarantees to send chills down your spine. The reader will experience how imaginations of the protagonists turn into a ghostly reality, and how a dead mother manipulates the son of her deceased lover and her living daughter. More strange stories of love, which sprouts through bizarre ventriloquism and a man’s yearning between a beautiful ghost and a living girl, keeps the eeriness alive throughout the book. Other curious stories of revenge will take the reader through the hit and run accidents that teach weird lessons, baffling broadcasts of murders, and where a dead man’s face superimposes on his tormentor. Each story is a unique experience.

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Notion Press

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1645876357

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TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

Finding the light in dark times…

By: AMITAV GANGULY

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TEN X MURDERS FOR THE MIND

By: AMITAV GANGULY

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TEN X MURDERS FOR THE MIND

By: AMITAV GANGULY

This collection of crime and detection stories sets out various complex crimes and the ingenuity of Detective Inspector Samsher Brahma and his team, in solving them. There are murders of rage, vengeance, and greed. A killer creates a fictitious persona, poisons are used innovatively, and exceptional alibis are crafted through TVs and voice mimics. Successions of enormous wealth spawn unique crime motives, and mobile phones make a one-of-a-kind background for butchery. Meandering confessions, detections through “timings of crimes,” a schizophrenic man’s murder, a mythical werewolf’s killings, and uncovering an assassin in subtle supernatural circumstances, round up these amazing stories. Every story has its own inimitable experience of use of intellectual efforts and meticulous investigation.

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249

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Notion Press

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1637814666

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The Nutmeg's Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

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The Nutmeg's Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.

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350

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823954

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9780226823959

Whose Ideas Matter?

Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism

By: Amitav Acharya

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Whose Ideas Matter?

Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism

By: Amitav Acharya

Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus. There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors. Acharya terms this perspective "constitutive localization" and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions.

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201

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Cornell University Press

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080145946X

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9780801459467

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TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

TWELVE PARANORMAL TALES

TEN X MURDERS FOR THE MIND

TEN X MURDERS FOR THE MIND

The Nutmeg's Curse

The Nutmeg's Curse

Whose Ideas Matter?

Whose Ideas Matter?

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