Arts, Literature and Humanities

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aris...

Singers die twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known Exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad sing...

Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with it...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner’s guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork®, a method that focu...

TIMES ARE TOUGH FOR SAMSON RYDER, a Melbourne-based, Anglo-Indian private investigator who likes his facts cold and his curries hot. A secret guilt...

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, an...

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound i...

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary int...

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migra...

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issue...

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this ...

Math is an essential component of the interior design profession. Estimating and Costing for Interior Designers, Second Edition, teaches readers a ...

A Depressed doctor and a Young Dalit couple Caught in the Vortex of an Armed Insurgency A recently divorced doctor looking for seclusion, relocate...

How free are women to make their own choices in the circumstances in which they find themselves? How do ordinary citizens become caught in communa...

While traditional drafting books focus on architectural and engineering readers, the thoroughly updated and revised Architectural Drafting for Inte...

Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and u...

Art for Tribal Rituals is the outcome of extensive fieldwork carried out by Eberhard Fischer and Haku Shah in South Gujarat in 1969. After an initi...

Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the begi...

Set in the early days of the Jewish state, Yankinton tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new l...

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the Englis...

These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance the field's decolonization eff...

A novel about disability, family secrets, and Norway’s eugenic past. The White Bathing Hut is a genetic detective story. The narrator uses a whee...

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources f...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author’s personal experiences. His first book, Tra...

Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Bu...

This book proposes a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to conscious...

Set in the 1970s and ’80s, The Hangman’s House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania. Those were extraordinary times of oppr...

Reinhard Jirgl’s strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to lang...

Losing the Plot: Political Isolation of West Bengal is a comprehensive account of West Bengal’s political history tracing the changing leadership, ...

The first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary's most popular twentieth-century writers.

Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on variou...

South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across disciplines to explore...

Tulip of IstanbuL is a historical novel depicting the Ottoman empire’s most glorious times in art and aesthetic, elegance and grandeur of dreams. A...

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya opened its doors to the public on 10 January 1922, as the Prince of Wales Museum. This commemora...

The Kedara Kalpa is a relatively little-known Shaiva text; and only slightly better known than it are the two dispersed series of paintings to whic...

This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, c...

As if being the new kids isn’t enough, Padma and Kannagi Shankar quickly find that New Dawn High School isn’t exactly a regular school. They have w...

First Love is never forgotten. It stays with you till your last breath. What if you are given a second chance at your first love. Will You leave ev...

Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a ...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted wor...