Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
10 best books like Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language (Christopher Stevens): The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Quichotte, The Machine Stops, To Have and Have Not, The Elementary Particles, I Take This Woman, Love in a Dead Language, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Dalits, Dynasty and She, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
| Author | David W. Anthony |
| ISBN | 0691058873 |
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
After being voted one of the best novellas...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684859238 |
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region,...
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| ISBN | 0375727019 |
Brilliant, caustic, comic, and severe,
The Elementary Particles
is an unflinching look at a modern world plagued by consumerism, materialism, and unchecked scientific experimentation.
An international bestseller and controversial literary phenomenon that drew immediate comparison...
| Author | Rajinder Singh Bedi |
| ISBN | 8122204279 |
This classic novel is about a woman compelled to marry in order to survive. Tiloka, Rano's husband, is murdered leaving her with four children to look after and a hostile mother-in-law to contend with. Helpful friends and the village elders decide that Mangal, Tiloka's younger brother, should offer...
| Author | Lee A. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0226756998 |
Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into one. Enticing the reader to follow both victims and celebrants of romantic love on their hypertextual voyage of folly and lust-through movie posters, upside-down pages, the...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
| Author | Sanjay Chitranshi |
| ISBN | 9352015932 |
For the first time in the history of the India, a Dalit woman leader has captured the seat of power in the most populous and politically most important state. And decades after the independence, the Dalits are feeling hopeful of justice and their empowerment.
An old political party, controlled...
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
| Author | Gurcharan Das |
| ISBN | 0670083496 |
In his new book, Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, "why be good'', and discovers that the epic's world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist...
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – before it’s too late.
‘It couldn’t...
One of our most courageous and eloquent storytellers, Nayantara Sahgal’s superb mastery over language and history make this bold new work a compelling story that is as disturbing as it is beautifully told.
Prabhakar, returning home one evening, comes upon a corpse at a crossroads, naked...
Will the profusely talented Sanam Khan’s rise to the pinnacle of world cricket be interrupted by the bookies and the powerful match-fixing mafia? Ever since she was fifteen years old, the talented Sanam Khan has only had one dream: to win a world cup for her country. Now, thanks to her own efforts as...
| Author | Roger Hargreaves |
| ISBN | 0843178388 |
Finding One's Calling
1 July 2017
It has been a little while since I have read a Mr Men book so I decided that it would be time to rectify that situation. Well, since they are such short books getting time to read them isn’t a problem, it more has to do with getting time to write a review on them...
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
When you see your nation’s flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?
For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1442359889 |
Mile 81 meets N. in this e-book collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.
In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems...
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
| Author | Daniel Klein |
| ISBN | 0143121936 |
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age. Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends,...
| Author | Barbara Klein Moss |
| ISBN | 0393057135 |
Set in nineteenth-century New England, this exquisite novel tests a woman's love against her husband's utopian quest.
Sophy Hedge, the artistic daughter of the town's minister, falls in love with Gideon Birdsall, a troubled theology student studying with her father. Sophy is drawn to his...
