Srini kasturi (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 251 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.63 inches. In Stock. Arvind, Anagha (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.72 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 448 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.12 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'For 'tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.' - Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4 A petard was a crude bomb strapped to a castle gate to blow it open. The snag: the engineer packing the gunpowder was, statistically, the man most likely to be standing there when it went off early. Shakespeare turned that grim little fact into a phrase that outlived every castle gate in Europe - the idea that the surest way to be destroyed is to build the destroyer yourself. Mary Shelley understood it too. In 1818 she gave us Victor Frankenstein, a man so proud of what he'd built that he never once asked whether it might come looking for him. Everyone in this book is a small, real Frankenstein: inventors flattened by their inventions, tyrants roasted in their own ovens, con men conned by the con. Where a tale is solid history, we treat it as such. Where it's a legend that refuses to die, we say so - and the worst offenders are quarantined in an appendix at the back, so you're never the one at the dinner table who gets corrected. A hundred cautionary tales follow. Read responsibly.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this second book in this now acclaimed series, the story continues into the next Kandam of the Ramayanam. Ayodhyakandam is the nucleus of the Ramayanam, where the character of all four princes is tested, and Sita makes the sacrifice for her husband.