Manan Ahmed Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India
Ashish AvikunthakManan AhmedOn B.B. Lal by Ashish Avikunthak author of *Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India* (Cambridge, 2021) https://t.co/ANkMszQv1A
Hardcover, 2022
$120.00$95.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Travis ZadehManan Ahmed4/21: I will be part of a panel to discuss Travis Zadeh's terrific new work "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" Do stop by if you can: https://t.co/gNoobb2AUu
Paperback, 2025
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
India: A Story Through 100 Objects
Vidya DehejiaManan AhmedLove this: Vidya Dehejia *India: A story through 100 objects* (@rolibooks, 2021) https://t.co/DftHSMiIfj
Hardcover, 2021
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Kathryn Paige HardenManan AhmedExcellent rebuttal of eugenics’ new clothes in Kathryn Paige Harden’s book *The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality* https://twitter.com/nybooks/status/1509938685101461509
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Beginners Guide to Real Estate Investment: Buy low sell high
Riley MoneyManan Ahmed@thaqafatalhind "buy low, sell high" or "location, location, location" [no experience with either personally or with money]
Paperback, 2019
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beyond a Boundary
C. L. R. JamesManan AhmedTime would pass, old empires would fall and new ones take their place, the relations of countries and the relations of classes had to change, before I discovered that it is not quality of goods and utility which matter, but movement: — C. L. R. James, *Beyond a Boundary* (1963)
Paperback, 2013
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable
Iftikhar DadiManan Ahmed*Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable* (@UWAPress 2022) by @iftikhardadi is such a welcome sight. Can’t wait to read it! Beautiful cover too. https://t.co/RLCGag1xgO
Paperback, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Manan Ahmed AsifManan AhmedWonderful to read Ganeshdatta Poddar call *The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India* "making a case for a reassessment of histories of Hindustan by Hindustanis," in @jas_tw https://t.co/h6tkl9BHDl 🙏🏽 https://t.co/cFhpiborFw
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo JeffersonManan AhmedVery much looking forward to Margo Jefferson’s new memoir—really loved *Negroland* (2016)
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Customs: Poems
Solmaz SharifManan AhmedSolmaz Sharif’s new collection has a poem about arriving at the customs desk (reminds me very much of Agha Shahid Ali’s version—and don’t we all have one such verse inside us?) https://t.co/ZsUaJmWqbP
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book