Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book Marked by powerful and evocative prose, Ferenc Barn s's novel tells the fascinating story of a young man's journey through his stran...

About the Book Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon. It marks the transition from the earlier history ...

About the Book In this book, Mehrotra has put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by some of his best contemporaries...

About the Book 'Modern European thought' describes a wide range of philosophies, cultural programmes, and political arguments developed in Europe i...

About the Book Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exer...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an inte...

About the Book Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past ...

About the Book The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, c...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historica...

About the Book This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading ...

About the Book This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of lingu...

About the Book In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. Its fiv...

About the Book This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslin...

About the Book This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), ...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Hegel is a comprehensive guide to Hegel's philosophy, from his first published writings to his final lectures...

About the Book Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide t...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of...

About the Book Academic food ethics incorporates work from philosophy but also anthropology, economics, the environmental sciences and other natura...

About the Book Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime a...

About the Book The Oxford handbook of Descartes and cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and cart...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes origina...

About the Book Crime and punishment fascinate. Overwhelming in their media dominance, they present us with our most popular television programs, fi...

About the Book Through a comprehensive collection of articles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication explores the origin and evol...

About the Book This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics,...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive...

About the Book Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, sco...

The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary Indi...

This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a histori...

About the Book New edition of an introductory survey that begins with the historic, geographic and archeological basis of western theological study...

About the Book Fate brought three beautiful youngsters together in a small Oklahoma town one fall of 1959. Set during the turbulent years of the ea...

About the Book Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the...

About the Book Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, whic...

About the Book With compelling selections by some of the world's most respected and critically acclaimed writers, The New World Reader encourages e...

About the Book This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities. The author shows how the research...

About the Book Tariq Ali's latest play, The New Adventures of Don Quixote , can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht a...

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These Smart Busin...

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About the Book This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and contemporary aspect...

On the ceiling of the Devasiraya Mandapam in the third prakara of the Tyagarajasvami Temple in Tiruvarur, an unfinished set of around 50 painted pa...

The mountain of the moon is a story about taking a chance dare which, with its wings of imagination, leads you to the silver lining after a storm. ...

About the Book The “Modern Sovereign,” a notion indebted both to Hobbes’s Leviathan and Marx’s conception of capital, refers to the power t...

About the Book Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and arde...

About the Book With the turn of the century, slowly a change began to come over the women in mainstream Bollywood films. The female lead shed-off h...

About the Book Approaching The Mill on the Floss from a variety of critical perspectives, Ashton reveals how George Eliot translated her unconventi...

About the Book The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre is an essential reference tool and companion for anyone interested in the theatre and th...

Despite a consistent record of attracting appreciative audiences to the theater, The Merry Wives of Windsor has not received as much favorable crit...