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Correspondence Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Bataille Georges, Leiris Michel

ISBN: HB: 9781905422678, Seagull Books, June 2008
312 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm

In the autumn of 1924, just before Andre Breton published the "Manifeste du surrealisme", two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliotheque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in et...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Censoring Sexuality

Bailey Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...

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Political Science

America

Guerrilla Movements in Latin America

Gott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones

Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...

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Poetry

Purabi The East in its Feminine Gender

Tagore Rabindranath

ISBN: HB + CD: 9781905422739, Seagull Books, February 2008
178 pp., 19.6x15.8 cm

Purabi brings together 52 of Tagore's poems and songs. The collection reveals a very different Tagore from the one the West has come to know, bringing to light a passionate poet who celebrated the wonders of this earth instead of just pondering the m...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Linkenbach Antje

ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures

Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....

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Ecology

Philosophy

Sick Planet

Debord Guy

ISBN: PB: 9781905422692, Seagull Books, February 2008
104 pp., 17.6x11 cm, 7 halftones

"All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have taken part in these troubles" – Guy Debord. Guy Debord is one of the 20th Century's most prophetic critics. His bestselling work, "Society of...

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Performing Arts

Women Studies

Colonial Staged Theatre In Colonial Calcutta

Chatterjee Sudipto

ISBN: PB: 9781905422449, Seagull Books, October 2007
344 pp., 23x15.6 cm

From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of...

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Cultural Studies

Land of Milk and Honey Travels in the History of Indian Food

Banerji Chitrita

ISBN: HB: 9781905422340, Seagull Books, June 2007
112 pp., 20.3x14.7 cm

A culture as ancient as India's, as layered and as plural, inevitably rejoices in a fascinatingly rich history of food, feeding and eating. The most ancient scriptures prescribe and proscribe on the subject, life cycle rituals are intricately bound u...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: PB: 9781905422289, ISBN: HB: 9781905422272, Seagull Books, May 2007
173 pp., 19.6x14 cm

Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist. With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of...

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Culture Studies

Philosophy

Prison Manuscripts Socialism and its Culture

Bukharin Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9781905422227, ISBN: HB: 9781905422210, Seagull Books, April 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...

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