Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book Reprinted and newly commissioned essays address topics spanning the career of British poet Tennyson (1809-92), focus on eight partic...

About the Book Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protes...

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It concerns how architects can u...

Court & Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection (H.B)

About the Book Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again?Counter Re...

This third book of The Jalebi Trilogy series, Corrugated Slices: The Social Jalebi is about the feelings a jalebi evokes in us. The first, Jalebi M...

‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So w...

About the Book Paul celan (1920–70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise d...

Describes the personal and political disaster resulting from excessive pride, ambition, and contempt for one's fellow man, suggests a fresh interpr...

About the Book Ninar Esber talks to her father, the poete Adonis, in ten very personal interviews about his education, his feelings about Islam, po...

About the Book For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo G mez-Pe a has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultur...

About the Book Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around the year 1700 a new commercial socie...

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthro...

About the Book The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and rese...

About the Book Continuum Glossary of Religious Terms provides a comprehensive glossary of terms from seven major religions: Judaism, Christianity, ...

About the Book The age of exploration was one in which a confident and wealthy Europe was ready to look at the world in different ways. By this tim...

About the Book The central argument in this collection of essays by Sudhir Chandra, written over a period of thirty-five years, is that contemporar...

Indian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced regarding its nature for long now...

About the Book Nathan Salmon presents a selection of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analy...

About the Book Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and m...

Japanese sociology emerged by inculcating concepts from European and American sociology. However, it evolved in its own way and has tried to theori...

About the Book A rigorous, authoritative new anthology which brings together some of the most significant contemporary scholarship on the theory of...

About the Book This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary Bri...

Notwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemp...

Economic liberalization and globalization in India in the early 1990s resulted in a whirlwind of consumerist activities. New material and visual te...

In life there are two roads to choose from—the road of light, filled with happiness and possibilities or the road of darkness, replete with negativ...

About the Book Introduces Construction Grammar as a cognitive-functional theory of language, applied to the structures of English What do speakers ...

This is a book about how to manage the processes involved in a construction project towards a sustainable and regenerative end-product. It covers k...

About the Book " The amount of illustrations with straightforward explanation is a huge help." Cristina McCarthy, North Coast College, USA Improve...

Every year, nearly 100 billion tonnes of raw material globally is extracted from the earth – approximately half of it for construction purposes. Th...

About the Book Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Lan...

About the Book In the late seventeenth century, theater and print began the history of their tense relations and imperfect alliance. Plays, of cour...

About the Book From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambi...

About the Book Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictur...

About the Book The bestselling step-by-step framing guide--updated and expanded to meet 2018 codes and standards Complete Book of Framing, Second E...

About the Book Recent developments have made obsolete the division of the globe into three worlds of capitalist, state socialist and underdeveloped...

About the Book Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on exis...

Commercial Space [Hardcover] Rihan, Xing

About the Book Paramita Satpathy belongs to the second generation of modern fiction writers in Odia. In her career spanning two decades, she has ca...

About the Book This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre's promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoove...

About the Book How can colorblindness - the idea that race does not matter - be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind...

Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and...

About the Book This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. Can ...

About the Book The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer...

About the Book Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrot...

About the Book The tale of a mythic king’s aggression against his offspring, and his desperation to escape the curse of old age laid upon him in ...

Th e troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatize the crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelft h...