Aryans, Jews, BrahminsAryans, Jews, Brahmins unmasks fictions about race, caste and origins and tells us how our fractured present consists of competing pasts. Comparatist scholar Dorothy Figueira examines the works of European (Voltaire, Schlegel, Max Mller, Nietzsche) and Indian (Rammohan Roy, Dayananda Saraswati, Tilak, Vivekananda) thinkers who built an ideology of the Aryan out of mis readings of Aryan texts, starting with the Veda. In both the East and the West, the

who took the Elgin group of heritage hotels to new heights—Rea weaves a narrative that immediately transports you to the Himalayas and stirs your wanderlust

sexually assaulted and murdered in another

It's a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall

Galeries Lafayette unveiled its gilded department store

slavery and the complex nature of capital

that this is no simple case

Praise for Jonathan Dee:

the Sad Ghost Club receives an anonymous note from a lonely ghost who is looking for connection

he's back for his dad's funeral and to help his brothers figure out what to do with their unexpected inheritance-the vineyard next door to their California ranch

For his countrymen are facing famine

Pinkalicious and Peter have a magni-fish-cent time down at the dock in this new Pinkalicious I Can Read adventure brought to young readers by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann

With dashes of humor throughout Ruby advises her peers on the importance of feminism ("not just the Spice Girls version") how to deal with jealousy and friend break-ups family life and much more