Arts, Literature and Humanities

Charles Dickens' ability to observe and record human character and environment have placed him at the top table of English fiction writers alongsid...

About the Book An analysis of Bimal Roy’s films and their depiction of people outside the ‘mainstream’ The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An ‘Outsider’ Withi...

About the Book A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of bl...

Thirteen essays that aim to illuminate the achievement of one of England's greatest modern writers. Employing a variety of perspectives - historica...

About the Book A roadmap to improve corporate social responsibility The 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign focused a good deal of attention on the rol...

About the Book This definitive handbook uniquely documents the 2001 UK Census from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Collating a wide ra...

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, line...

About the Book This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern o...

About the Book The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold...

A self-obsessed Calcutta detective who goes by his last name `Kar’, an enigmatic internet cafe hostess in Seoul, and a hotshot geneticist labouring...

About the Book Architectural research is being redefined in practice. Whereas once the value of a piece of research was solely measured by the numb...

In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market seg...

About the Book Let us see in detail why we should not quarrel, apart from these general principles. It can be put in a sentence: Because all the gr...

To begin afresh, after her broken marriage, Saoli returns to India and starts living in prembajar at the house her grandfather had bought from Bita...

Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world – noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slu...

About the Book Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain--their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a c...

About the Book A magnificent example of Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining ...

About the Book Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the realit...

About the Book Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (1925-2018) was an iconic figure in the field of linguistics and the pioneer responsible for the...

About the Book Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies , this Companion offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study ...

About the Book This international collaborative project on G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy includes contributions by eighteen scholars of 18th to 20th ...

About the Book Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a w...

About the Book Sales of Christian music have skyrocketed. More and more Christian artists have crossed over into mainstream markets, and the media ...

About the Book The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition ...

About the Book What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority?...

About the Book The Bible is one of the world's most read and most influential books. It has provided many rules for people to live by, and has shap...

From the Publisher Three main challenges faced me as I prepared this fifth edition of The Bedford Handbook. First, because today's computer-age stu...

About the Book Readers will be inspired by this series of visual ideas for some of the most-used rooms in the house. Each book is rich with beautif...

THE BAG zooms in on one of the all too many poignant mini-dramas that are played out in the conflict zones of North-East India, where no one ‘wins’...

About the Book In The Avant-Garde, Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a...

About the Book The richest, most fulfilling love of your life is yet to come! "The Authentic Heart offers practical, wise, and compassionate guida...

About the Book The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn fr...

About the Book Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional film script, Tariq Ali suggests ...

About the Book With this generously photographed guide in hand, even beginners will be able to create fashionable jewelry, home accessories, and re...

The Islamic state has spread its tentacles in India, penetrating stealthily into the academia, media and politics. The mastermind is Shamsur Ali, a...

About the Book The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

Written in the wake of the widely publicized attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M.F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a promi...

K.M. Adimoolam’s art resists easy categorization. He brings to his work a genuine spirit of enquiry, and a continually rejuvenating wonder at the g...

About the Book Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar year...

Shivdatt Sharma (born 1931) is one of the most prolific of the Indian modernist architects. His architecture is a distinct blend of the core princi...

About the Book I.M. Kadri was one of India s most prolific architects, instrumental in designing and building important landmarks in India and abro...

About the Book Soil is a fundamental and critical, yet often overlooked, component of terrestrial ecosystems. It is an extremely complex environmen...

This is an essential guide for architecture and design students struggling to put together an effective portfolio. There is too often a haphazard ...

About the Book Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship,...

About the Book The Aramaic Astronomical Book describes the movement of the moon in its phases, schematic meteorology, and the movement of the stars...

About the Book With Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trliogy―"Pather Panchali" (1955), "Aparajito" (1956) and "Apur Sansar" (1959)―a stirring new cinemati...

About the Book The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide...

About the Book Big accomplishments come from little first steps. Kids will love to start down the road to reading with The American Heritage(r) Lib...