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    • In Burmese prisons: correspondence May 1923-July 1926 (Netaji Collected Works Volume 3) 

      Bose, Subhas Chandra (Netaji Research Bureau and Permanent Black, 2009)
      The third volume of Netaji’s Collected Works released on Sarat Chandra Bose’s ninety-second birth anniversary (September 6, 1981) consists of a varied and fascinating collection of Netaji’s correspondence of the period May ...

    • The Indian borderland 1880-1900 

      Holdich, T. Hungerford (Methuen, 1996)
      This work of 1901 describes the geography and border disputes of the north-west frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

    • Innovations in learning technologies for English language teaching 

      Motteram, Gary (Editor) (British Council, 2013)
      This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the current use of technologies to support English teaching and learning. Systematic in the sense that each chapter looks at a key segment of the ELT market – ...

    • Jawaharlal Nehru: civilizing a savage world 

      Sahgal, Nayantara (Penguin Books, 2016)
      Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India's first prime minister. Drawing from the Nehru and the Vijayalakshmi Pandit Papers, ...

    • Leader of youth (Netaji Collected Works Volume 6) 

      Bose, Subhas Chandra (Permanent Black and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, 1987)
      The sixth volume of Netaji’s Collected Works released on his ninetieth birth anniversary marks the end of the second important phase of his political career that ended with his departure for Europe 1933.

    • Letters to Emilie Schenkl 1934 - 1942 (Netaji Collected Works Volume 7) 

      Bose, Subhas Chandra (Netaji Research Bureau, 1994)
      This special volume in the Collected Works illuminates the human and emotional aspects of the many-splendoured personality of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Through its publication editors wish to honour a woman of enormous ...

    • A literary history of the Arabs 

      Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne (Cambridge University Press, 1907)
      A compilation of the history of Islamic authors and writings, A Literary History of the Arabs is considered one of the best explanations of Arabic culture and literature today. R.A. Nicholson explains in the book's preface ...

    • The Lord of the Rings 

      Tolkien, J. R. R. (2023-04-19)
      n ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and ...

    • Mr Hugh Catchpole’s Notes on English Grammar and Usage 

      Catchpole, Hugh (2014-06-15)
      Mr Hugh Catchpole’s Notes on English Grammar and Usage by Hugh Catchpole is designed to improve written and spoken language skills. It also shows how to fix everyday English language mistakes, how to write essay, mistakes ...

    • Netaji collected works; Volume 5 

      Bose, Subhas Chandra (Netaji Research Bureau, 1985)
      The fifth volume includes Netaji’s prison notebooks and diaries from Burma and a fairly lengthly monograph by him on the boycott of British goods, the first English publication that he authored in late twenties. There are ...

    • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 

      Bose, Sisir Kumar (National Book Trust, 2001)
      The biography is meant for the general reader with an inquiring mind, particularly of the new generation who have no direct knowledge or experience of the national struggle for freedom. Even for those interested in advanced ...

    • No god but God : the origins, evolution and future of Islam 

      Aslan, Reza (Random House, 2005)
      No god but God: the origins, evolution, and future of Islam is a non-fiction book written by Iranian-American Muslim scholar Reza Aslan. The book describes the history of Islam and argues for a liberal interpretation of ...

    • Philosophy and philosophers: an introduction to western philosophy 

      Shand, John (UCL Press, 1993)
      Whether John Shand is discussing the slow separation of philosophy and theology in Augustine, Aquinas and Ockham, the rise of rationalism, British empiricism, German idealism, or the new approaches opened up by Russell, ...

    • Present perfect or past simple? 

      Woodford, Kate (Cambridge Dictionary Blog, 2014-06-23)
      This is a tricky area of the English language for low-level learners, so let’s look again at the rules. When we start studying English, we learn that to talk about an action that started and finished in the past, we use ...

    • A sheaf gleaned in French fields 

      Dutt, Toru (C Kegan Paul, London, 1880)
      "The lake's fair surface is not always clear. If but a traveller, or a rash child near, At random throw a stone upon its glass, A dark ooz rises in a vapoury mass......" Toru Dutt was an Indian poet who wrote in English ...

    • Subhas and Sarat: an intimate memoir of the Bose brothers 

      Edited by Bose, Sisir Kumar (Aleph Book, 2016)
      Subhas and Sarat is a closely observed portrait of the Bose family of Bengal-especially its two most famous members, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his older brother, Sarat Chandra Bose-and their role in India's freedom ...

    • Teaching for quality learning at university 

      Biggs, John; Tang, Catherine (McGraw-Hill, 2007)
      The book is an exceptional introduction to some difficult ideas. It is full of downright good advice for every academic who wants to do something practical to improve his or her students’ learning. So much of what we read ...

    • Use of literature in developing learner's speaking skills in Bangladeshi EFL contexts 

      Ainy, Salma (University of Nottingham, 2006-12)
      This dissertation arises from an attempt to answer the question whether it is possible to teach conversational skills through literature; and, if 'yes', how any benefit can be made accessible to both privileged and ...

    • The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good 

      Easterly, William (The Penguin Press, 2006)
      The white man’s burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and ...

    • World development report 2015: mind, society, and behavior 

      The World Bank (World Bank, 2015)
      Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking ...