Focusing on the low caste Chamar community, this book examines how some of them abandoned their traditional polluting work, & strategically entered the upper-caste weaving profession. Located within the changing politics of the time, it outlines human agency & its search for dignity. ...

Police psychologist Karen Warren (Kylie Travis) is stranded on a Texas highway when she accepts a lift from Frank (James Belushi) & Rayanne Lloyd. Frank & his wife row violently, & Frank ends up pulling out a gun & shooting Rayanne. Karen makes a run for it, & finds refuge in a military bunker. There she encounters a scientist who has perfected a time travel machine. Karen finds herself catapulted back into Frank's car, 20 minutes earlier. Can she alter events so that Rayanne is not killed? ...

Intends to make sense of 21st Century pop. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, & new media, this title confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to You Tube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle & rearrange music from yesterday. ...