‘Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.’—Shohini Ghosh ‘The history o
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‘The history of desire in India,’ writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, ‘reveals not purity but impurity as a way
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Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic Economic growth--and the hope of better things to
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Written in the Flesh is a history of what people like to do in bed and how that has changed. The change is relentless: h
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Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of a seventeenth-century aesthetic framed not by the rise of secu
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Higher mathematics once pointed towards the involvement of infinity. This we label analysis. The ancient Greeks had help
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A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present,Desire: A History of European Sexualityfollows c
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