Arts, Literature and Humanities

Daddy Long Legs (H.B)

Painting in the Kangra Valley is an attempt to survey the painting styles of Guler and Kangra, which flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. The...

This second edition of the classic textbook, The Archaeologist's Laboratory, is a substantially revised work that offers updated information on the...

THE UPDATED, AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE TO SPORTS FIELD MANAGEMENT THAT INCLUDES THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN, AND ON, THE FIELD The updated Third Edition ...

Nathdwara Paintings from the Anil Relia Collection: The Portal to Shrinathji (H.B)

Jaipur is especially famous for the strangeness of its monuments, whether it is the surreal silhouette the Jantar Mantar, the astronomical observat...

The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns (H.B)

Victor and Eli, due to a research project gone wrong, become extraordinaries with supernatural powers. Ten years later Victor escapes from prison, ...

Christa wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and he...

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are p...

The year is 1565. Devastation reigns over the once-renowned Vijayanagara empire. Its powerful Army has buckled under the assault of four minor sult...

War and peace and anna karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honoured as the...

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in Combatting environmental problem...

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of scien...

Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in...

Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, Ethics, in which he criti...

Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German Dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, heiner Müller (1929–95) still remains relati...

On October 5, 2012, the German National newspaper die welt published its daily issue—but things looked... Different. Quieter. The sensations of the...

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order...

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and ide...

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think...

Beginning as a renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, Methodism had become the largest Protestant denomination in the USA i...

The idea of a home is at the heart of pulayathara, which is not only the first Dalit novel on record (1963) but also one of the founding texts of t...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No God was more represented in ancient Rome than the Phallic deity Pria...

Originally published in 1962, Franz fühmann’s autobiographical story cycle the Jew car is a classic of German short fiction and an unparalleled exa...

Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearable trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and w...

Basanti is a misfit in conservative, pre-independence rural Odisha. Not only does she read and write, all her choices—from marrying for love to dis...

The perfect book for paranoid times, “introduces us to W, a mere hanger-on in East Berlin’s post modern underground literary scene. All is not as i...

This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernha...

The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. Inter...

Max Weber famously described politics as “a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgement.” taking this as his inspirat...

During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain....

Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has ...

The Gap-Toothed Banister, A Tale of Anglo-India is a close, compassionate look by Juliette Banerjee, an Anglo-Indian, at her community facing the c...

Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reorder...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so ma...

In less than 250 years, Sydney has evolved from fledgling colonial outpost to thriving global city, it’s emerald harbour or the iconic opera house ...

A groundbreaking book that reveals, for the first time, the crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control needs to know

The work of German poet frederich Hölderlin (1770–1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Mart...

This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee breuer’s la div...

Citizens of Tokyo the first collection in English of plays by one of Japanese most important contemporary playwrightsoriza hirata, whose works have...

Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt school of critical theory, he began his career as a composer and su...

Everything: and other performance texts from Germany, Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theatre colle...

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery by Wendy Stickle, Shelby Hickman, and Christine White examines the legal, so...

It’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali shah—the Nawab of Awadhi in Lucknow Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody...

Anurima Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.

In recent years India has seen remarkable growth in the GDP. Despite this, the country continues to face high levels of indebtedness and poverty, a...