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Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.
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The autobiography of Mohinder Singh Gill, M.F.A., Ed.D. He was born at Badala in Punjab State, India and lived through the partition of India and Pakistan. Then he moved to the United States where he became a distinguished educator and artist. He does not intend to teach or to preach, but hopes the reader finds something beneficial or amusing in his history. In writing his memoirs now, does not imply that his life is over. He is still looking forward to painting his masterpiece and sipping the nectar of Life! His life has been a lifelong search for the Beautiful Truth.
Joelle hates the Nazis who have invaded her country, so when she finds Mohinder, the RAF pilot of a plane that has crashed in the woods near her house, she knows it is up to her and her parents to hide him from the enemy. Joelle and Mohinder are soon firm friends but in occupied France you don't always know who to trust and their fight for survival is just beginning...
An earthy, robust and deeply funny account of the privileged life of a young Sikh boy for whom, as headmaster's son in an all-boys' school in the North West Frontier Province, life is beautiful -
This is a story of a middle class Indian with a prosaic career who manages to get a breakthrough and migrates to US in 2023 at the age of 35. The year now is 2078 and the date is 31 December. Today is his 90th birthday and last day before he undertakes the vow of peaceful slumber. As he sits to pen down his flashback stories chronologically in his dairy, he starts to unfold series of breath taking and chilling events which occurred around the world in his time. ……..….. Neither the world nor the world order remained the same. Each Death must be full of life. And so be it in the life of Jeevan Malhotra. Read to know how and why the concept of taking peaceful slumber at a certain age has got the acceptance of one and all……….…...