Arts, Literature and Humanities

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

About the Book Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practica...

About the Book This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional noti...

About the Book The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200-90...

Drawing on the photographic albums in the personal collection of Sir John Marshall, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 190...

About the Book This book explores the complex ways in which authors, publishers, and readers contributed to the making of Restoration poetry. The e...

About the Book The Making of Modern Hindi examines the politics and processes of making Hindi modern at a formative moment in India's history, when...

A campus is a place formed by its buildings but also by the spaces in between. This book tells the story of the making of the IIM Bangalore campus ...

About the Book An integrated approach that combines essential GIS background with a practical workbook on applying the principles in ArcGIS 10.0 an...

The Epic Guide For NoFappists. And also an interesting and exciting book for the reader interested in some of the world's earliest ideas, and FANTA...

About the Book The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victoria...

About the Book The first comprehensive anthology of Jean-Francois Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide.The Lyotard Reader and Guide is...

About the Book This is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of t...

The little prince is a tender tale of friendship, love and loss by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Originally published as Le petit pr...

About the Book Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living during the twelfth century. He was a man of great politic...

About the Book 'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'...

About the Book The most comprehensive and accessible introduction to scriptural art yet written Literary Study of the Bible: An Introduction approa...

About the Book Praise for the previous edition "I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student... and I expect it to be a useful addition to ever...

About the Book A Swedish teenager, Greta Thunderberg, has become the poster girl for the Climate Change and Sustainability movement across the worl...

About the Book First Published in 2000. The analysis of the Tibetan Bkah-hgyur by Alexander Csoma de Koros, struck its readers with the wonderful p...

About the Book Bloody was once a shocking word. It was used largely by the working classes and caused their betters to shudder with horror. But Blo...

About the Book Bad-ass, bee's knees, and bomb-diffity - slang rules Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents complain of the slang-infested...

About the Book We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere de...

About the Book The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life ...

About the Book This book looks at how English words have been recorded, ordered, dissected, and displayed in dictionaries in Great Britain and the ...

About the Book The publication of Volumes VII and VIII completes this major edition of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, an edition comprising...

About the Book - The author preserves for posterity's sake this vibrant tradition of wall painting that is an integral part of the country's repres...

About the Book John T. Roberts presents and defends a radically new theory of laws of nature, the Measurability Account. Though consistent with a H...

About the Book This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Q...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). This collection presents the full ran...

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times. In "The Last Resistance," Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and ...

Renowned for brilliant gameplay and world-class narrative, The Last of Us raises enduring philosophical questions. Beautiful, thrilling, and tragic...

About the Book The year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty-seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near V...

About the Book Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a young Kongolese woman who in 1704 claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kong...

About the Book When Keith stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime all expenses paid holiday to any destination ...

About the Book What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but i...

About the Book When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destinat...

A sharp critique of politics, media and advertising, The King and the Little Man is a moving modern-day fable about the ultimate insignificance of ...

First-ever, packed with pictures book on this band. Text by Alex Hannaford. Pictures by Steve Gillett. Collector's item.

The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza is an exciting tale from the Hamzanama, a Persian epic. It was a favourite of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. In this ...

The Key to Chinese Civilization: The Explication and Exploration of Chinese Characters ;is a fascinating guide to the history of the Chinese civili...

About the Book In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthus...

The Kailas at Ellora: A New View of a Misunderstood Masterwork

The jungle Book is a children’s classic that remains a favourite of each generation that reads it. The unforgettable characters of Mowgli, the litt...

About the Book 'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it ' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn...

About the Book This book is a collection of Devaki Jain's writings and lectures related to the women's movement in India and interventions in polic...

Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, if greater falsehood ever has been done'. The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge fo...