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Schizophrenia is the archetypal form of madness. Schizophrenia is a common disorder and has a devastating effect on sufferers and their families-pa...

John Bogle puts our obsession with financial success in perspective Throughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Mutual F...

Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the an...

Said Nursi (Makers of Islamic Civilization) [Hardcover] Turner, Colin and Hasan Horkue

Despite Western culture roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no p...

Famous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a Worker’s Union movement in the 1930s, while India was under Bri...

A little girl's monotonous day is brightened by her friends from the animal world, and Poppy grows happy!.

A lavishly illustrated and vivid account of the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove expanse. Here, man learns to co-exist with nature despite ...

Healing Your Emotional Self shows readers how to become reunited with their true self, quiet their inner critic, raise their self-esteem, and begin...

A collection of short inspirational stories that are simple and easy to read. They compel the reader to pause, reflect and carry the message throug...

John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our br...

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. .

Complete Guide to Size Specification and Technical Design, 4th Edition, equips students with everything they need to know about measuring sample ga...

Global Sourcing in the Textile and Apparel Industry, 3rd Edition examines the crucial function of global sourcing in the textile and apparel indust...

Style Wise: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Fashion Stylist, 3rd Edition is an essential text for turning aspiring stylists into professional styli...

Providing insight into a broad and expanding range of topics, The Meanings of Dress, 5th Edition examines social, behavioral, and cultural aspects ...

Social Psychology of Dress, 2nd Edition presents and explains the major theories and concepts of human behavior relating to dress, drawing from the...

Learn technical design processes and industry standards, such as ASTM and ISO, for apparel production and manufacturing practices. With more than 1...

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation, and resources for ...

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how t...

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...

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons. Why, then, do we look so different from each other? The answers lie in the con...

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, a...