Pax Indica Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1967) he finds himself drawn with

he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes

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the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his career

Toomey reveals how our current knowledge of life forms may account for only a tiny fraction of what's really out there

how one unwise action can become a long-term bad habit

Pax Indica Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1967) he finds himself drawn withA definitive account of Indias international relations from an expert in the field. Indian diplomacy, a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, is like the love making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years. In this lively, informative and insightful work, the award winning author and parliamentarian brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has become