Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. THE GOAT THIEF is a selection of his ten best stories focused on men and women who live in the margins of our society.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The area in which people speak Urdu as their mother tongue includes east and west Pakistan (where, with Bangali, it functions as the official language of the land) and northern India. The language in this volume is based on the Urdu dialect of the educated population of Pakistan. The purpose of the book is to provide the basic grammatical equipment and vocabulary necessary to conduct oneself in areas of Pakistan and India in which Urdu is the language of communication. Developed over a period of fifteen years, it is designed for students who have little or nor linguistic training.

Jake Casper is a young man with the world at his fingertips. That is until his 24 th birthday. When his buddy Peter decides to take him on a hiking trip that forever will change his life. Follow along with him as he takes you on one crazy adventure that you will remember for many years. From the snowing mountains in present day Washington state, to a far away ancient Island filled with beauty and danger at every turn. He learns that love, honor and faith is the true meaning of life. Mumerkamba is a book written in first person, and many hours of factual research was done to give the reader great details in this fast moving story.