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THE Silk Road is a fabled route that has been shaped by some of the most extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it is one of the least hospitable places on earth . This is groundbreaking
geographer and broadcaster Nick Middleton’s extraordinary account of
surviving the life-sapping Gobi desert, the icy passes of Tibet, and the
great steppes of Kazakhstan. Weaving together personal experience of
almost ridiculous endurance — sleeping on steaming rocks in the middle
of a sub-zero desert and courting altitude sickness in otherwise
meditative Tibet - with the bigger picture of our planet’s new ‘lost
worlds’ and their peoples, this is brilliant adventure writing from a
man who has dared to go places that often history has feared to tread. Good News Bad News Good News: George and
Charlie both have jobs. Bad news: they work in a grubby London photo
kiosk. Good news: life’s about to get a lot more interesting. Bad
news: It’s about to get a lot more dangerous too. Good news, bad news:
A spy’s life depends on weighing up all the possible outcomes of every
situation. But who could ever have predicted this would happen.... Good
news, bad news is a dazzling novel of espionage, trust, betrayal and
chance from the creator of Spooks. What God Wants — A
Compelling Answer to Humanity’s Biggest Question This book explores with
startling freshness the most important question you could ever ask, and
offers with breathtaking courage the most extraordinary answer you could
ever imagine. That answer is so theologically revolutionary and so
spiritually empowering that it could change the course of human history.
If embraced, it most certainly will change your life. Religion, Violence and
Political Mobilisation South Asia. The seven essays in this anthology — written by eminent authors from diverse traditions of anthropology, history, politics and sociology — critically re-examine the symbolism, scale and nature of communal violence in South Asia in view of the state’s changing image. Moving beyond cliched explanations of riots, the contributors map the contemporary discourse on Hindu-Muslim violence and focus on the causes of communal violence as well as its long-term consequences. Providing original ethnographic accounts from sites of violence as varied as Karachi, Aligarh, Ahmedabad, Amritsar and Mumbai, this volume emphasises the comparative local complexities. This makes it invaluable for assisting a broader understanding of religious violence.
This book traces the progress of mass communications in India and the West from a historical and sociological perspective, from primitive to modern times. Placing his argument in the global context within which mass communication takes place, the author emphasises the distinction between communication and mass communication — the former being a two-way exchanged and the latter mostly a one-way communication. Stressing that the goal of communication is to bring people together on the basis of a just, peaceful and humane order, the author maintains that efforts must be made to spread communication so that it can serve as an instrument of social change, and become a vital tool in the hands of ordinary people. |
Extremes along the silk
road
Mass Communication in
India: A Sociological Perspective