Arts, Literature and Humanities

Two renowned sex therapists show people how to get the love they want Sex therapists Dr. Gail Wyatt and Dr. Lewis Wyatt have helped thousands of p...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are f...

This Introduction introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, mult...

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It ...

In this anthology Eunice de Souza brings together the writings of women whose contributions in various areas social and literary during the ninetee...

His mother’s gone, there’s no one to cook hot rice when it’s evening . . . No one to say, ‘Son, sit near my lap and eat.’ ‘Ma, from Dusk to Dawn’ i...

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, conce...

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A....

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either ...

Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. This study of his works, across a range of discipl...

Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroti...

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the ...

René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endu...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosop...

Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the N...

Presenting a distinct combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford ...

This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Social & Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction is a book that helps its readers in understanding the basics of anthropology. It help...

The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This ...

We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and lite...

This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works in complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is on...

The essays in this volume chart the course of subaltarn history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency.

Titu Mir, a peasant leader, led a revolt against the British in Bengal in 1830- 31, in the course of which he was killed. This was a period of tran...

Developed by English handwriting masters in the 18th century, copperplate calligraphy is admired for its fluidity and beauty. It is the most popula...

Drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation, Richard Kuhns explores modern transformations of an ancient poetic genre, tr...

A critical analysis of scientific research on sexual orientation, its methodological and ontological assumptions and its ethical implications. The ...

This play by one of India s foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes -...

Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the f...

Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The ...

Most of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This vo...

Jim Corbett's classic stories of man-eaters have made him a legend in India. This colorfully-written collection contains classic tales about the hu...

Though much of Iqbal's best poetry is written in Persian, he is also a poet of colossal stature in Urdu. Shikwa (1909) and Jawab-i-Shikwa (1913) ex...

This is an outstanding survey of some key differences and lessons, within India, concerning some crucial components of human development and self-e...

This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin...

Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Colonel Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the ...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

This is the first Oxford India Paperback printing of this collection. Vijay Tendulka has been in the vanguard of the Indian theatre for almost fort...

What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, ...

Integrating multicultural and multi-ethnic perspectives throughout the text, this work aims to broaden student understanding of the range of cultur...

How did hand the ape join the League of Batman and Superman as Hanuman? You have to read this humorous retelling of the Ramayana to find out!.

A technical guide providing the facets and duties of the first and second camera assistants' jobs. It explains both the practice and theory. It cov...

The Way of the Cross for Children 978-0-89942-497-2 The Way of the Cross is an ideal gift for a child's First Holy Communion. The St. Joseph Pictu...

Using old photographs, old and new documents, excerpts from letters, books and informal writings, the author documents the growing involvement of w...

Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the "civil war over smut." The past two decades have been high seasons for pornograph...