City Improbable
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City Improbable Writings R E
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Author : Khushwant
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010-09
City Improbable Writings R E written by Khushwant and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09 with Delhi (India) categories.
‘Delhi is the twin of pure paradise, a prototype of the heavenly throne on an earthlyscroll’—Amir Khusrau A city of contradictions, where ancient traditions and modern aspirations jostle for space, Delhi has often been compared to a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its three thousand years of eventful history have witnessed the rise and fall of several empires, a process that continues today. City Improbable brings together writings by immigrants, residents, refugees, travellers and invaders who have engaged with India’s capital over different epochs. Babur shares his earliest experience of the city and Amir Khusrau praises the fine lads of Delhi; Ibn Battuta and Niccolao Manucci record the glories and follies of prominent rulers; William Dalrymple and Khushwant Singh provide intriguing accounts of the threshold period that saw the coming of the British and the waning of the Mughals. Poets and storytellers—Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, Yashpal, Kamleshwar, Ruskin Bond—narrate their versions of the city. Contemporary Delhi is featured in a variety of vignettes: the bureaucracy, the Emergency, the anti-Sikh violence, lovers and joggers in Lodi Gardens, the city’s Sufi legacy as well as its changing cuisine. Among the new pieces in this expanded edition are Sam Miller’s account of his experiences in the suburb of Noida, Manto’s story about a girl from Delhi leaving the city during Partition, Jarnail Singh’s unflinching recollection of the massacre of Sikhs in 1984, a photo essay on Shahpur Jat by Karoki Lewis, and a composite narrative by the young writers of the Cybermohalla Collective about the making of a resettlement colony.
City Improbable
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Author : Khushwant Singh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
City Improbable written by Khushwant Singh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Delhi (India) categories.
Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.
City Improbable
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Author : Khushwant Singh
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2001
City Improbable written by Khushwant Singh and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.
City Improbable Delhi
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Author : Rupa Bajwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-04-01
City Improbable Delhi written by Rupa Bajwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with categories.
Writings On Delhi By Residents, Refugees, Travellers And Invaders, Edited By The City'S Most Celebrated Citizen
Improbable Scholars
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Author : David L. Kirp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-13
Improbable Scholars written by David L. Kirp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13 with Education categories.
"In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work"--
The Improbable City
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Author : Charles Avery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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Silent Theft
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Author : David Bollier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-03-15
Silent Theft written by David Bollier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-15 with Law categories.
'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas company was recently allowed to calm a patent on basmati rice, a kind of rice grown in India for hundreds of years. The Mining Act of 1872 is still in effect, allowing companies to buy land from the government at USD5 and acre if they pan to mine it. These are resources that belong to al of use, yet they are being given away to companies with anything but the common interest in mind. Where was the public outcry, or the government intervention, when these were happening? The answers are alarming. Private corporations are consuming the resources that the American people collectively own at a staggering rate, and the government is not protecting the commons on our behalf. In Silent Theft , David Bollier exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. Amazingly, these abuses often go unnoticed, Bollier argues, because we have lost our ability to see the commons. Publicly funded technological innovations create common wealth (cell phone airwaves, internet addresses, gene sequences) at blinding speed, while an economic atmosphere of deregulation and privatization ensures they will be quickly bought and sold. In an age of market triumphalism, does the notion of the commons have any practical meaning? Crisp and revelatory, Silent Theft is a bold attempt to develop a new language of the commons, a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no bounds.
O Albany
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Author : William Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1985-09-03
O Albany written by William Kennedy and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-09-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.
Cues From All Quarters Or The Literary Musings Of A Clerical Recluse
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Author : Francis Jacox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Cues From All Quarters Or The Literary Musings Of A Clerical Recluse written by Francis Jacox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
An Improbable Life
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Author : Michael I. Sovern
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-18
An Improbable Life written by Michael I. Sovern and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world. According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the institution after growing up in the South Bronx. He addresses key issues in academia, such as affordability, affirmative action, the relative rewards of teaching and research, lifetime tenure, and the role of government funding. Sovern also reports on his many off-campus adventures, including helping the victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, stepping into the chairmanship of Sotheby's, responding to a strike by New York City's firemen, a police riot and threats to shut down the city's transit system, playing a role in the theater world as president of the Shubert Foundation, and chairing the Commission on Integrity in Government.