General Books

Spoken in the first person, these reminiscences of a woman whose mother was rescued from a house of ill-repute construct a history not often docume...

A collection of poems, drawings and paintings by trail-blazing Bengali artists, both past and present, Visual Rhapsody captures the essence of the ...

‘It is these hoodlums and desperadoes, the derelicts and drifters of the Bengali underworld as well as their political patrons and protectors in th...

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By pres...

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...

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...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Centur...

Five Plays

Illustrated in two colours, in the zoo is a Merry exploration of what it means to have nature amid our cities. .

In the winter of 1946, somenath hore, one of India's major painter-sculptors, was assigned by the Communist party to document the tebhaga movement ...

My iPad for Seniors, 5th Edition, is a comprehensive guide to using all of Apple’s iPad models. It includes everything from basic setup information...

Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable...

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, ac...

Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, études is a diary-like sequence of poems by o...

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s G...

When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with...

A practical guide on how to produce and engage with arguments

Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in love? Forty-six-year-ol...

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hind...

A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance. Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation...

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

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to ...

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of t...

• An in-depth, researched study on the handwoven floor coverings of Kashmir • Comprehensively covers the history, production methods and special f...

Unlike other books on any enactment, this book has been designed and written in a textbook format on Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous P...

Human Trafficking—one of the three most lucrative types of organized crime besides drugs and arms—has reached a frightening magnitude all over the ...

General Studies is a subject which encompasses all aspects of the world around us. It deals with politics, ethics, literature, language, culture, s...

I once tried to eat porridge with my mother's hairbrush. It wasn't a great idea, but it was a creative new choice. And it could be great for pasta ...

This book demystifies the term "trafficking" with a view to properly understand its trends, dimensions, and gaps in policy and law that need to be ...

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills. Drawing on authentic,...

The First Call for Freedom: Unravelling 1857 in Lucknow is a unique and valuable effort in bringing to the fore stories of indomitable courage and ...

General Studies is a subject which encompasses all aspects of the world around us. It deals with politics, ethics, literature, language, culture, s...

The animal world is extremely vast, comprising thousands of species living on land and in water. Human life is inextricably woven with that of anim...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and ...

The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing ...

The recent rise to prominence of renewable energy and energy efficiency has been driven by their potential to lower the environmental impacts of en...

This second edition of John Frow’s Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categoriz...

Analysing Power in Language introduces students to a range of analytical techniques for the critical study of texts.Each section of the book provid...

Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has established itself as a rich educational experience fo...

The book portrays the saga of gory incidents which shook Mumbai in the wake of the students from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh having gone there to take ...

The book draws our attention to the questions: Who am I? Am I this body given to me as a human being? If that be so, what will happen when this bod...

Over the years, Translation Studies has developed into an interdisciplinary area of research, taking in its stride Comparative Literature, Applied ...

Present-day life is full of fear, anxiety, disappointment, frustration and insecurity. Unending competition, from kindergarten to retirement, from ...

The Ph.D. Trajectory: A Step Towards a Successful Journey enumerates certain guidelines for the successful achievement of the goal of obtaining a P...