Arts, Literature and Humanities

The author is absolutely in love with the little known islands of the Nicobars and the simple people who live a peaceful life there. He has visited...

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther ...

This book is a pioneering attempt to study Mughal Indian polity and the dynamics of family, kinship and caste through Riti Kal literature. The lite...

I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have likewise and I’ve liked too many men. Fra...

"Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offer...

Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth ...

Variations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of the functions that they are meant to perform, the identity of a commu...

Essays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time. In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the inte...

- Nandita Chaudhuri's paintings and poems together create a multilayered sensory experience - Works take a deep dive into peeling away the 'onion ...

This series of books from Learning Matters is aimed at busy social work and health care practitioners, particularly in the context of integrated he...

This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins...

The new, tenth edition of Social Psychology is a fully revised and sweeping look into the social forces that make us who we are. Real-life examples...

The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man. Born in ...

"An extremely valuable source of reading, information, and guidance for my policing students. It covers all the topical issues." Johannes Oosthuize...

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world....

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contr...

Completing a systematic review and unsure where to start or what path to take? Set out on your journey confidently with this practical guide writte...

Poems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time. Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Anaïs...

Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensiv...

The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue. Representing the transfer of kn...

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems i...

Ed Hooks' essential acting guidebook for animators has been fully revised and updated in this fifth edition, capturing some of the vast changes tha...

Praise for the First Edition: "A real, combined approach of behavioural, social, biomedical, and clinical sciences is paramount. [This book] is on...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of t...

This handbook thoroughly investigates 16 off-grid toilet systems that have been implemented across the world, to provide a comprehensive understand...

Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposit...

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of ...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and rel...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a...

Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbei...

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and e...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second h...

A political play staging the Nazi takeover of Germany with an eye on India. Although Utpal Dutt is acknowledged as a trailblazer of post-Independe...

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. ...

In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building—the titular Starlite Terrace—Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of Rex, Moss, Gary and June...

In this stunning new collection, Nabina Das takes on the most human of our qualities, our yearning for story, and escorts us through poems that are...

It is summer in this book, even if nature often does not hold to summer. The flowers either have tiny buds or have long since withered. It is summe...

History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study ...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...

Jealous of the ‘success’ of his hardworking farmhands, the rich farmer cuts off access to their land; a free gift won by a working-class family is ...

What the Rains Foretold relates an origin myth of Kerala and its people. N. Mohanan’s work is an introspection into the mind of the protagonist, Va...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal’s ...

Max Frisch (1911–91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin’s Sarrazinstrasse, he beg...

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual. A short vade mecum for unrepentant materialism, The Idea ...

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway’s Utøya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back togeth...