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Ashoka Books
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Ashoka The Great (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 259 ratings — published 2011
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 682 ratings — published 2014
UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF FAMENSI’S HIDDEN TREASURE MASTERPIECES (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.20 — 480,149 ratings — published 2020
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,444 ratings — published 2020
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.49 — 223,535 ratings — published 2014
The Worldly Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,090 ratings — published 1953
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.94 — 447,479 ratings — published 1972
Lifting the Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.05 — 814 ratings — published 2001
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.10 — 100,119 ratings — published 1992
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,625 ratings — published 1943
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,510 ratings — published 1964
There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.23 — 107 ratings — published
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,050 ratings — published
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,961 ratings — published 2018
The Wise Woman and Other Stories: The Best of Mannu Bhandari (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.22 — 23 ratings — published
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,397 ratings — published 2018
Fasting, Feasting (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.36 — 5,429 ratings — published 1999
Quarterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.66 — 673 ratings — published 2023
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,918 ratings — published 2011
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,811 ratings — published 2007
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,886 ratings — published 2005
The Trojan Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,205 ratings — published -415
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,304 ratings — published 1968
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,674 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,828 ratings — published 2016
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,061 ratings — published 2019
Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.78 — 242 ratings — published 2014
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,180 ratings — published 2009
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.93 — 524,234 ratings — published -800
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,295 ratings — published 1945
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,059 ratings — published 1929
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,401 ratings — published -441
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,373 ratings — published -550
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.04 — 573,473 ratings — published 1985
Death and the Maiden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,110 ratings — published 1991
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,657 ratings — published 1979
Essays of E.B. White (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,190 ratings — published 1936
Bodas de sangre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.89 — 35,978 ratings — published 1932
Roman Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,993 ratings — published 2023
The Festival of Insignificance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.36 — 22,892 ratings — published 2013
Seeing Like a Feminist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,686 ratings — published 2012
Makers of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ashoka)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,605 ratings — published 2010
“Ashoka's political and moral philosophy, as he expressed it in his imperial inscriptions, initiated a tradition of religious tolerance, non-violent debate and a commitment to the idea of happiness which has animated Indian political philosophy ever since. But - and it's a big but - his benevolent empire scarcely outlived him. And that leaves us with the uncomfortable question of whether such high ideals can survive the realities of political power. Nevertheless, this was a ruler who really did change the way that his subjects and their successors thought.”
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
― A History of the World in 100 Objects
“The attitude toward the forest people forms an important caveat to Ashoka's espousal of the principle of nonviolence. The fact that the warning to the forest people appears in an inscription that deals with the evils of warfare and the replacement of the goal of military victory by that of dhammic victory suggests that the armed insur- gency of the forest people posed a major political challenge to the Maurya state, one that could not be ignored even by an otherwise pacifist emperor. The king who repents on the devastation of war, declares that he has abjured it, and urges his successors to do like- wise, brandishes his power in front of the forest people and warns them to fall in line if they want to avoid his wrath.”
― Political Violence in Ancient India
― Political Violence in Ancient India
