Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book This work is distinctive in looking at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context and in opening up the...

About the Book This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javie...

About the Book Women novelists in India who 'use' English to write fiction are, increasingly, gaining international recognition for their work. Unf...

About the Book Few facts are known about Catholic recusant Jane Owen. The title page of this, her only work, tells us that in 1634 when this volume...

About the Book Best known for The Piano , Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema. Th...

Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of the finest English novelists: she paints on a small canvas, but with the most exquisitely detailed touch. Her nov...

About the Book James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the templat...

There is so much more to the Jama Masjid than the edifice itself. It is not just a place of worshiper an architectural marvel or a historic monumen...

About the Book Jalsa takes the reader through the journeys of women performers in India from the salon to the studio. It attempts to give insight i...

About the Book While Mahatma Gandhi is hailed across the world as a champion of humanity and nonviolent struggle, the struggles of the woman who ac...

About the Book Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a world-renowned philosopher, speaker, educationist, and writer. This edited volume seeks to cont...

About the Book An infamous espionage case took the country by storm in 1994 and destroyed the lives and careers of many people. It has finally been...

About the Book Examining the production and assimilation of Jews as "the nation" in the modern state of Israel, this book shows how identity is con...

About the Book The past thirty years have witnessed the rise of political parties and other formal groups in the Middle East and elsewhere with Isl...

Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of...

Islamic Extremism : Causes, Diversity, & Challenges is a deeply informed book which examines the threat that Islamic extremists pose to America...

About the Book Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and publi...

About the Book This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive ea...

Islam in Historical Perspective is a general introduction to Islam and the history of Muslim societies. Richly illustrated by quotations and images...

About the Book Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics explores how the central state apparatus, social forces, ethnic groups, political elites, and r...

The doctrine of 'Islamic economics' entered Islamic discourses in the mid-twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring ec...

About the Book Islamist political parties have enjoyed unprecedented election victories in recent times. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the electi...

About the Book That is full. This is full. From the full comes the full. Remove the full from the full and what remains? The full. This first line...

About the Book This volume, part of the the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, presents all of the surviving writings of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-191...

About the Book Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal ...

About the Book Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September ...

About the Book Mineral elements are found in foods and drink of all different types, from drinking water through to mothers' milk. The search for m...

About the Book We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things ...

About the Book Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had ...

About the Book “The day they found My brother with a blood stain, I found one on My kurta too, but no one noticed My blood stain.” thus begins ...

About the Book Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? p...

About the Book Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, ...

About the Book A collection of greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards that have been either made by hand or produced with the...

Invisible Walls is about two women, Aparna and Kamala, whose lives run in parallel, though they do not know each other. They dream of a world witho...

Study of the evolution of the leading stringed instrument in Hindustani classical music. Careful study of musicians, social organization, patronage...

About the Book Technology has extended its reach to the humanbody, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants andtechnological subs...

Introductory Sociology (Indian Reprint)

Comprehensive textbook on issues and challenges of urban administration, development, governance and planning Urbanization is one of the preferred...

About the Book This revised edition of Tischler's INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY continues a tradition of providing a proven and comprehensive textbook ...

About the Book The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience a...

About the Book Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which both covers theory and applies it to real ...

About the Book M.A.K. Halliday (1925–2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential...

About the Book Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. The approach...

About the Book Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical introduction to the theory and practice of...

The book serves as a comprehensive guide spanning seven chapters and begins with a broad introduction to audiovisual translation (AVT). Further cha...

Into The Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond by Jesse Ross Knutson, 9382579443, 9789382579441, Yoda Press

8000 photographs, all of them shot inside a 12-room house with 10 residents. These aren’t impersonal records, but the result of a real life journey...