Look for books from "Mir publishers", there are some nice soviet books.
I have very much enjoyed the OP (Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning). Any particular books that you would recommend?
I thought everybody knew of this site especially Indians since it was started and is lovingly maintained by an Indian :-) A lot of hard work has gone into it with not just scanning of the books but also typesetting some of them in latex for better rendering and reading. The website author deserves all the credit/acclaim he can get.
All of the books are hosted on internet archive which you can browse here - https://archive.org/details/mir-titles
Many of the titles are also published in hard copy form by low-cost Indian publishers on Amazon India.
Some recommendations which are not typical textbooks;
1) Little Mathematics Library series - https://mirtitles.org/2024/05/11/little-mathematics-library-...
2) Books by Lev Tarasov. Some of these books are structured as a dialogue and thus walks you through the conceptual process. Titles are on Calculus, Probability, Quantum Mechanics, Physics Q/A etc. All worth reading; some of them are latex remastered versions - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Tarasov
3) Higher Math for Beginners(with Yaglom) and Elements of Applied Mathematics(with Myskis) by Zeldovich - https://mirtitles.org/?s=zeldovich
4) Mathematical Handbook (two vols); Elementary Mathematics and Higher Mathematics by M.Vygodsky. - https://mirtitles.org/?s=vygodsky
5) Handbook of Physics by Yavorsky and Detlaf - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Handbook+of+Physics
6) Fundamentals of Physics by Ivanov - https://mirtitles.org/2018/04/21/fundamentals-of-physics-iva...
7) Ever popular Science/Maths books by Yakov Perelman viz. Physics for Entertainment, Mathematics can be Fun etc. - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Yakov+Perelman
I grew up fascinated by some of the books from MIR publisher sI could lay my hands on.
> Many of the titles are also published in hard copy form by low-cost Indian publishers on Amazon India.
Any way to quickly filter for these? (Other than of course searching for each book by title)
Thanks!
EDIT:
The one or two titles I found were not really priced economically --
https://www.amazon.in/Satellite-typhoon-Eye-Science-everyone...
https://www.amazon.in/Our-Planet-Earth-Alexei-Byalko/dp/0828...
https://www.amazon.in/Yakov-Perelman%C2%92s-Physics-Entertai...
Search for author name and/or title name. Generally the Indian publishers only publish well-known and famous textbooks/exambooks since they are the ones which sell the most. Eg. Piskunov (Calculus in 2 vols), Irodov (Physics problems) etc. The publishers are CBS Publishers, Arihant Publishers, Aargon Press etc.
The links you have listed are for the original Mir publications from 1970s/1980s which are collector's items today and hence some enterprising individuals are selling them at a markup on Amazon.
Finally, the best way to build up your personal library and enjoy books today, is to get the largest screen Android tablet that you can afford and install a ereader app like Moon+ReaderPro (https://www.moondownload.com/) and start downloading ;-)