Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores...

The world of monkeys is full of entertaining tales. Brave or wily, quick-thinking or unthinking, each monkey in these tales offers a valuable lesso...

About the Book Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and fini...

About the Book George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian...

About the Book Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously ac...

Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt...

About the Book From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass ...

About the Book An accessible compendium that puts together the political, social, literary and humanist perspectives of modern thinkers of South As...

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, third edition, is a book of exercises and language tasks to facilitate practice and reinforce language us...

About the Book Offers an overview of Peter L Gluck and Partners' practice and includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and pho...

About the Book Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern ...

About the Book Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive sur...

About the Book Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from...

About the Book Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the the...

About the Book Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive sur...

About the Book Showcasing in glorious colour the new pan-Asian interior design that draws elements from Japanese Zen, opulent Thai, and the best of...

About the Book Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, somet...

Mission to Kabul is a story of passion, trust, betrayal, love, political intrigue, and espionage, set against an authentic historical canvas accura...

This book studies minorities of South Asia and Europe in a comparative and transnational perspective. While country-specific studies in minorities ...

About the Book Jane Heal argues that central to our ability to arrive at views about others' thoughts is not knowledge of some theory of the mind b...

About the Book A book much needed by India, Indian sociology and the Indian sense of self. This is a strikingly bold volume, diverse in content and...

About the Book Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, ...

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology, broadly defined, through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the d...

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...

Describes the background of Middlemarch, discusses its themes and characterization, and looks at its critical reception

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 book where ever yo...

About the Book An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers. There are countless theories and approaches to language...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging guide to the much-debated notions of ‘method’, ‘metho...

Metaphysics: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the philosophical study of some of the most important and foundational aspects of...

About the Book This is the first full-length study of the doctrine of the Trinity from the standpoint of analytic philosophical theology. William H...

Melody of a tear takes imagination to the next level. Zara, the suicide-prone protagonist of ambiguous gender, is raised as a son by her father. Sh...

About the Book Meditations for Misfits offers a new look at familiar passages of the Bible; each of the insightful weekly readings uses Scripture, ...

About the Book Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider...

About the Book This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading a...

About the Book Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American lit...

Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes...

About the Book Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It ...

Provides an ethnographically rich study of local politics and gender in rural India. It is based on her extensive fieldwork in Janta, a village nea...

About the Book In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory syste...

About the Book The first systematic overview of the field of comparative theology Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers a synthesis of ...

About the Book Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meaning...

About the Book Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consu...

About the Book Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1...