By Michael Hutt Rs 920
In The Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal, Michael J. Hutt chronicles the life of the well-known Nepali poet, Bhupi Sherchan, whose poems are closely interwoven with the social, cultural, and political milieu of the region. Including a generous sampling of Bhupi Sherchan’s poetry in English translation, the volume offers insights into the poet’s life as a participant and a commentator on the processes of societal change.
The around 60 poems in English translation are accompanied by detailed footnotes and the poems are arranged to coincide with the periods of the poet’s life that produced them. With biographical information for the book drawn from published sources as well as interviews with Bhupi Sherchan’s friends, wives, offspring, and other relations, the volume includes around 40 rare photographs.
Madness and Civilization: A history of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By Michel Foucault
Rs 800
Madness and Civilization, which was first published in 1959, was the first major work of the cultural critic and maverick structuralist Foucault, and it eloquently and stylishly establishes the main themes, (namely, power, knowledge, confinement) of his later works.
Foucault, in his brilliant and forceful exposition, traces the codes or “epistemes” responsible for the shaping of madness from the Renaissance and up to the late nineteenth century. He charts the history of insanity from it being considered as a virtually harmless “wisdom of folly”, to it being considered as a disease in the age of confinement and the psychiatric clinic.
Searching for peace: The Road to Transcend
By John Galtung, Carl G.Jacobsen and KF Brand Jacobsen Rs 1600
This new, updated and extensively revised edition of “Searching for Peace” is one of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies, world order and globalization.
Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide.
A critical and piercing analysis of the short-comings of conventional approaches to conflict resolution, real politics and worsening dynamics of global violence which, if not resolved, threaten even more catastrophic destruction in the future. The book maps the conditions and path to sustainable peace, and the challenge for peace by peaceful means.
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