Politics and Current Affairs

This volume brings together articles on utopia and dystopia in a breadth of disciplines-history, literature, gender studies, political science, soc...

Most writings on the theme of the nation confine themselves to discussions of ideology and thoughts on nationalism, leaving out the question of the...

Focusing on the European Union, this work provides coverage of the pan-European character of the EU after the 2004 enlargement. It includes a chapt...

About the Book Wars in the industrial age kill large numbers of people. What do societies involved in these conflicts do with all the corpses? How ...

About the Book This is the first analysis of Gandhi′s dressing style in terms of communication theory and an exploration of the subliminal messages...

His hard-hitting critiques of Democrat and Republican administrations in The Wall Street Journal , New York Times , Newsweek , and other national p...

"The war on terrorism is the first political growth industry of the new Millennium." So begins Jim Bovard's newest and, in some ways, most provocat...

About the Book Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility ...

The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The soc...

It seldom happens that the story of an individual becomes so intertwined with the cause she or he stands for that it becomes impossible to separate...

About the Book This book discusses the experiences of women negotiating conflict and post-conflict situations to deliver transformative peace. Insp...

About the Book One aim of Gilmer's captivating text on university pedagogy is to show that biochemistry (or any science) does not consist solely of...

About the Book This book provides a synoptic view of the developments in the discipline of public administration in the age of globalization. The s...

Global Jihad and America ;questions the assumption if Islamist terrorism, or “Global Jihad,” poses the biggest threat to modern civilization in th...

About the Book Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India for sixteen years, was as charismatic as she was controversial-at once admired and criticized...

From a son who waged a life-long struggle to live up to family expectations, George W. Bush has transformed himself through acts of will and faith....

The long drawn out and heavily politicised presidential election process in 2000 with the winner Republican George W. Bush taking a smaller percent...

About the Book The concept of citizenship is currently the focus of discussion by the media, politicians and academics, because of a generally perc...

About the Book Praise for Bush's Brain "Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all ti...

The book examines India’s current and looming foreign policy challenges from a strategic and policy-oriented perspective. It analyzes the long-term...

About the Book Written as per the latest Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)-prescribed syllabus (for B.E./B.Tech. I & II semesters...

We live in an age when most Muslims take pride in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha, penned by Muhammad Iqbal. Many though have forgotten that the same...

We live in an age when most Muslims take pride in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha, penned by Muhammad Iqbal. Many though have forgotten that the same...

About the Book The purpose of the Charan Singh Archives is to widely disseminate the life and intellectual heritage of Charan Singh and we encourag...

International Politics is designed as a core textbook of International Politics at the undergraduate level in Indian universities. It provides a ro...

About the Book What's Left after New Labour? This timely book assesses the legacy of both the Third Way and its critics. Analysing the relationship...

The twenty stimulating and original essays in this volume provide a comprehensive analysis of the main strands of modern Indian political thought. ...

About the Book Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capaci...

Rajshree Sarabhai sees things around us in a way that makes us look at the world through her eyes. She captures details in what are common plants m...

About the Book Recently, American youth have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality...

About the Book For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded pol...

About the Book In contemporary India, work for wages has expanded substantially as a mode of subsistence while labor, at the same time, has suffere...

About the Book We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public hea...

About the Book This book discusses the experiences of women negotiating conflict and post-conflict situations to deliver transformative peaceInspir...

About the Book The Parsee Punch made its mark as the only illustrated comic weekly paper in the Bombay Presidency. It was published in July 1854 at...

About the Book This book captures how electioneering has changed over the years and how media and marketing have assumed more significance than par...