Slowness by Milan Kundera

Slowness by Milan KunderaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on

or challenging his students not to take his words at face value

As the river of life dries up

Light on Life: An Introduction to the Astrology of India Light on Life brings the insight and wisdom of Indian astrology to the Western reader

This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation

light and darkness

and Spirituality understood as wisdom about the way back into the ground of pluralism of religious forms

the personal suborning and planning of a murder

The first book to offer an Asia-wide deconstruction of success and failure in economic development

sharpening the ability to focus

A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future

and there's no way out - because you don't want this company's severance package

and an enchanting and unpredictable girl leads him into the entourage of Mahatma Gandhi