Arts, Literature and Humanities

Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her w...

In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. Photography After Postmodernism starts with this conception an...

Reveals the forgotten history of Baghdadi Jews’ journey into India through the stories of four generations of Jewish women. An invaluable cultura...

From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elabo...

In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar (F.B)

This textbook is a logic manual which includes an elementary course and an advanced course. It covers more than most introductory logic textbooks, ...

After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead—with all their mysteries—will no longer have any claim on him....

This textbook shows how people can and do transform the world through transforming their practices and the practice architectures that shape them, ...

Now in paperback, the epic tale of a violinist who must navigate the fractious world of early twentieth-century Germany. “Ruven Preuk stands apart...

Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This boo...

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful...

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but n...

Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four women—seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria, and Hanna’s daughter Anna—a...

This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It provides an overview of the main elements of urban form―s...

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a ...

Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court is the sixth in a new series of books initiated by the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur. Wr...

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical ...

Dhaka Delirium is a collection of short essays written over almost two decades. ‘This is a city that narrates its myriad of stories without telling...

Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and ...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemio...

Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic o...

Author Lisa M. Tucker covers topics with a holistic approach, from the structural (site consideration and foundations) to the environmental (indoor...

Heisnam Sabitri is a critically acclaimed Indian stage actor and one of the most notable personalities in Manipuri theatre. Born into a Meitei fami...

Birds of the Snows (F.B)

Sarada Devi: Holiness, Charisma and Iconic Motherhood (P.B)

This text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to data conceptualization, measurement, and association through active learning. Students get...

This pioneering anthology brings together 19 fascinating short stories, translated into English from Indian languages—Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kas...

Fundamentals of Lighting, 4th Edition, takes a practical and integrated approach to the study of lighting and design. Specifically, the text focuse...

The authors skillfully blend a thorough grasp of the first half century with sensitive use of psycho-biographical technique.

Cultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra explores how, as a consequence of modernity, the hybr...

Inscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India focuses on votive inscriptions from the second cent...

Globalization, by incessantly promoting uniformity, is not only destroying biological and cultural diversity but also leading to language shifts be...

The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 wr...

Introducing a refreshing young French voice to English readers, this slim novel is both a riveting love story and an examination of humanity’s assa...

A collection of essays on the mysteries of the body from one of Italy’s leading postwar communist intellectuals. Politician, translator, and journ...

Like Barbarians in India (H.B)

A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s offices...

A novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host co...

The English debut of an idiosyncratic narrative voice. “What now?” wonders Asta, a nurse who has returned to Germany after a final assignment in N...

A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany. Between 1998 and 2007 a series of killin...

A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. “The cold increases with ...

The story of the paradoxical relationship of two parents. As he clears out his parents’ house, Philipp, a photographer, comes across an object tha...

Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures he...

Disguised as a passenger, a homeless woman lives in Paris’s Roissy airport until she meets a man who makes her confront her past. Every day the na...

“Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative;...

Shuvaprasanna: A Man for all Seasons (H.B)