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Harper Children's. Paperback. NEW. The Amar Chitra Katha Folktales Series brings together some of the greatest folktales in the Amar Chitra Katha catalogue. These folktales are a celebration of the great collective inheritance from our past generations and aim to bring the reader clo

Oneworld Publications. Paperback. NEW. A tremendously useful, insightful study of the frightening spread of a culture of death. Hosken does an excellent job of sorting out the American reaction, the failure of the Iraqi leadership in the form of Nouri al-Maliki and others, and how IS has

Macmillan. Paperback. NEW. A pilot who has crash-landed in the Sahara Desert wakes up the next morning to a strange voice. 'Please ??will you draw me a sheep!' it says. The voice, as he soon finds out, belongs to a little prince who has left his tiny planet to travel the universe. In response to this little man's many curious questions, the pilot begins to draw a number of images and slowly comes to understand the truths about life in all its peculiarity

Oxford University Press. Hardcover. NEW. The harshest punishment is reserved for the harshest crimes. Murderers, rapists, terrorists perpetrators of grisly acts these are the people on death row. The Supreme Court of India has repeatedly held that the death penalty can be awarded only in the rarest of rare cases, where guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt. Yet, who is to say what that may be? For witnesses can lie and evidence be tampered with. In a system that is imperfect, not all those found guilty are truly demons, nor those who pass the sentence demigods, flawless and beyond reproach. In Demons and Demigods, Aparna Jha recounts how she successfully defended four death row inmates and makes an impassioned argument against capital punishment. For an eye for an eye, she argues, can leave the whole world blind.