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On Hinduism by Wendy Doniger 9780190455101
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £28.38In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected... -
On Hinduism by Wendy Doniger 9789382277071
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382277071Author Wendy DonigerFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher... -
The Rig Veda by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of... -
Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £15.63The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated... -
On Hinduism by Wendy Doniger 9780199360079
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £40.44In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected... -
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
Booksplease Price: £22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780143116691Author Wendy DonigerFormat... -
The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger 9780140445404
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be... -
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger 9780199593347
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.40An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between... -
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade by Wendy Doniger 9780226156439
Booksplease Price: £33.80"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling... -
Siva: The Erotic Ascetic by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty 9780195202502
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between... -
The Donigers of Great Neck - A Mythologized Memoir by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.88"Many memories, many myths"-this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism... -
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.14"While focusing on the central problem of evil, O'Fiaherty illuminates every aspect of Hindu thought." (Choice). "This is Dr. O'Flaherty's third book on Indian mythology, and the best yet. The range... -
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £37.49Booksplease Price: £28.38According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but... -
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the... -
After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata by Wendy Doniger 9780197553398
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.49After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find... -
Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Booksplease Price: £24.80Other People's Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the modern... -
Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80"An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even... -
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.91Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian... -
Dreams, Illusions and Other Realities by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty 9780226618555
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80"Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting... -
The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism by Wendy Doniger 9780393912579
Booksplease Price: £38.90This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world's major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly... -
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger 9780231156417
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly... -
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right by Wendy Doniger 9780195395532
Booksplease Price: £35.21Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated... -
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger
Booksplease Price: £30.43Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals and whose bodies are split or divided. This text... -
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right by Wendy Doniger 9780195394825
Booksplease Price: £117.70Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated... -
Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics by Wendy Doniger
Booksplease Price: £23.95An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of... -
An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963–64 by Wendy Doniger 9781438494173
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £17.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438494173Author Wendy DonigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint State University of New York... -
What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History by Wendy Doniger 9783110453393
RRP: £132.00Booksplease Price: £85.10This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on... -
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation by Wendy Doniger 9780195160161
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.24Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in... -
Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History by Wendy Doniger 9780813945750
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers who could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse... -
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation by Wendy Doniger 9780195313116
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £24.63Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in... -
The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales From The Mahabharata by Wendy Doniger 9789354477171
Booksplease Price: £24.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354477171Author Wendy DonigerPage Count 224Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private... -
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes by L. Bryce Boyer
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W... -
Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own by Margaret H. Case 9780691604022
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art... -
Science in Culture by Peter Galison 9780765806734
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.41The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her... -
The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion: A Reader by Russell McCutcheon 9780826481467
Booksplease Price: £66.88Thirty classic and contemporary readings - from such writers as Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher, and Otto, to Ninian Smart, Mircea Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown, and Wendy Doniger.Thirty classic and... -
The Presence of Siva by S. Kramrisch
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.20One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda, evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy... -
The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati by Aditya Behl 9780199842940
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £25.62Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah... -
The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati by Aditya Behl 9780199842926
Booksplease Price: £86.99Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah... -
Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-century Telugu Poetry from India by 9780299177041
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56English speakers may read for the first time a previously hidden literature of great beauty and importance, compiled and translated by one of the foremost scholars of the literature of...