Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question "what ...

About the Book This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing the work of several Black poets of th...

About the Book We find ourselves face to face with Sartre the literary critic in thiscollection of brief but insightful essays that carefully exami...

About the Book On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would hav...

About the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short but incisive essays that make up this important...

About the Book This volume consists of a single long essay that analyses the work ofMaurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), the leading phenomenologic...

About the Book ‘There is a crisis of the essay,’ begins Sartre as he ventures into a longanalysis of how the work of one of his contemporaries ...

About the Book Sartre’s engagement with literature of his day extended well beyondthe works of his French contemporaries. This short volume testi...

About the Book Truckbahone McMahone, originally published in Bengali in 1984, is a humorous travelogue of the author's journey across north-east In...

Old Stone Mansion by Mahesh Elkunchwar, 8170464862, 9788170464860, Seagull

About the Book Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that ta...

About the Book Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the Index on Censorship that deals with religion and free expression, The Je...

About the Book To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. ...

About the Book During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, h...

We live in an age when most Muslims take pride in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha, penned by Muhammad Iqbal. Many though have forgotten that the same...

About the Book Redolent of the briny air of the sea and the lore of the seashore, Ocean Rimmed World captures the struggles and changing fortunes o...

About the Book -A tragic historical novel, with mythical dimension and epic narrative, based on the battle of Karbala that took place on 10th Octob...

About the Book These four essays of varying length bear witness to Sartre’s preoccupationwith philosophers and their work. In these pages he exam...

About the Book Darnell M. Hunt explores the relationship between social identity (race, class, gender, etc.), our perceptions of everyday reality a...

Set in turbulent post-partition Bengal, the novel tells the story of people uprooted ruthlessly from their homeland, fighting for a new life in an ...

About the Book Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this boo...

About the Book One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascina...

About the Book The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting featu...

About the Book This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in co...

About the Book As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world struggle to prevent further financial col...

An insightful look into the muse and music of one of the greatest artists produced by India. The book follows Bismillah Khan as he grows from child...

About the Book "Nippon Wars" and Other Plays provides a unique and fascinating window into the last thirty years of Japan's dynamic theater scene. ...

About the Book From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati --self-immolation--feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved...

Nilina’s Song is an engaging biography of the musician, Naina Devi, whose extraordinary life took her through fundamental changes of environment an...

About the Book The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English Su...

About the Book Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet--Tariq Ali's much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more...

Night Of The Golden Butterfly by Tariq Ali, 8170463459, 9788170463450, Seagull

About the Book This volume contains a series of Jacobean newsletters written by Catholic priests. They shed light on the strife among different Cat...

The journey from modern to contemporary art in India continues to be one from indigenous to global intersecting with international art at increasin...

Based on a number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions si...

About the Book Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a "classic" of modernist American...

About the Book New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and p...

About the Book Introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on ...

This exhilarating and richly illustrated guide to Los Angeles's most exciting new buildings establishes the city as a mecca for forward-thinking an...

About the Book What is New Age? Crystals, meditation and astrology. T'ai Chi, Reiki and Feng Shui. Reflexology, aromatherapy and past-life regressi...

About the Book Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the ...

About the Book What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to ...

About the Book This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic p...

About the Book Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and ...

About the Book This work is about the city of Delhi and its architectural and urban design styles from 1912, when the British Town Planning Committ...

About the Book Throughout South Asia, young men and women are pursuing new educational opportunities and getting married later. These changes, Nico...

Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world re...

About the Book Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the...