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• Review of Vakil, Ganjavii, Khanlarzadeh’s Revolutionary Engineers | Ernest Lee
  20 September 2025

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  Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
  by Sepehr Vakil, Mahdi Ganjavi, Mina Khanlarzadeh
  MIT Press
  2025. 217 pp. (paper) ISBN 9780262552196 | ISBN electronic: 9780262382830
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  Reviewed by Ernest Lee (University of Chicago)
  Aryameh University of Technology (AMUT)

• When Nationalists Backed ‘Made in India’ | M R Narayan Swamy
  17 December 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Branded in History: Fresh Marketing Lessons from Vintage Brands
  by Ramya Ramamurthy
  Hachette India
  Pages: 309; Price: Rs 499
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9388322681 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9388322683
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  Did you know that Sunlight soap is as old as the Indian National Congress? The Lever Brothers in the UK made the first ‘vegetarian soap’ by combining vegetable or palm oil with glycerine to create Sunlight in 1885. After all, Indians were averse to imported soaps with animal (…)

• Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’
  4 November 2022

  Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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  Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
  2020. 324 pp
  (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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  Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

• Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind
  29 November 2024

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  The Marcusean Mind
  Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson
  Routledge, London
  2025. 602 pp.
  ISBN 9781032462998
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  Reviewed by Charles Reitz
  We are living in world-historical, conflict-ridden times. Many of us have spent our whole professional lives as teachers in the multicultural education reform movement. We have worked with excellent colleagues, but we have faced strong (…)

• Review of Ellermann, Greg, Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature | Paige Figanbaum
  9 June 2023

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  by Paige Figanbaum (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
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  Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature by Greg Ellermann
  Stanford University Press 2022. xiii + 180 pp (cloth) ISBN 978-1-5036-2848-9
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  Greg Ellermann’s book Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature, provides a thorough examination of the significance of nature as a concept. The author argues that without the romanticism movement, society would view and (…)

• Bhavuk’s Review of Nehru’s India by Aditya Mukherjee
  7 December 2024

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  Nehru’s India: Past, Present and Future
  by Aditya Mukherjee
  Vintage Books
  Penguin (25 November 2024)
  Hardcover: 208 pages
  ISBN-10 : 0143471953
  ISBN-13 : 978-0143471950
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  Reviewed by Bhavuk
  An Appraisal of Nehru In Our Times
  Seeing the 14th of November pass uneventfully, one felt dejected that Nehru was not being discussed at such a crucial time for Indian democracy. Aditya Mukherjee’s book Nehru’s India: Past, (…)

• Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall
  7 July 2023

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  Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
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  Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
  by Philip B. Minehan
  Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2
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  When Francisco Franco and other officers rose against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, it was above all the working class that fought the attempted coup d’etat to a (…)

• Trump Marries Republican Politics to Authoritarianism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  12 July 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Democracy Awakening:
  Notes on the State of America
  by Heather Cox Richardson
  W H Allen/Penguin Random House
  2024
  Pages: xvii + 286, ISBN-10 ? : ? 0593652983
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  Is Donald Trump mad? Yes and no.
  It is easy

• Ghosal’s Review of The Lone Wolf by Neha Dwivedi
  9 December 2023

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  Review by Joydip Ghosal
  __0__ The Lone Wolf The Untold Story of the Rescue of Sheikh Hasina by Neha Dwivedi
  Penguin Veer 2021 ISBN: 9780143452720 https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-lone-wolf/
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  Neha Dwivedi was the daughter of a Kargil martyr. After her father’s untimely demise she found solace in writing. She is a child feeding specialist and child birth educator. She deeply believes in inspirational healing power of stories. Her book The Lone Wolf : The Untold (…)

• Review of Singh’s My Tributes to Socialist Leaders | Harish Sharma
  12 July 2025

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  My Tributes to Socialist Leaders by Prem Singh
  Foreword by Ravela Somayya, Dr. A. Raghu Kumar
  Southern Springs Publishers (under the auspices of Rammanohar Lohia Samata Nyas), Hyderabad ISBN:978-81-962788-1-6 pp. 125, Price Rs 250
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  It has rightly been asserted that the socialist tradition in India deserves a place in the narrative in the making of modern India. This assertion is made in the context of the contribution (…)