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Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.'In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienc...

Had I MBA is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himalayan Pradesh, a rural area known as the land ...

Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, B...

It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditiona...

Forming the final part of the sanskrit mahabharata, the harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great God vishnu's avat...

About the Book Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time. S...

No one goes into healthcare with the intention of hurting people, or wanting to come off as callous, cold, or unfeeling. Fortunately, most people w...

About the Book What kind of person should I strive to be? What ideals should I pursue in my life? What would it mean for all of us to wake up to th...

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and sch...

About the Book We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes,...

About the Book R.S. Sharma, one of the best-known historians of early India, provides a comprehensive yet accessible text on the ancient period of ...

About the Book Effective Supervisory Relationships: Best Evidence and Practice is the first book to explore in detail the Supervisory Relationship,...

An engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting th...

Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It's capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a f...

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...

About the Book Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we ...

About the Book John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership througho...

About the Book This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. It of...

The definitive account of the Chinese government's response to the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an out...

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 Across welfare societies we have seen the emergence of policies and norms for worklife balance alongside rising expectations among w...

About the Book Working in International Health is a practical guide for UK health professionals wanting to work in low and middle income countries....

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 Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who...

About the Book It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert,...

About the Book R. F. Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as "a triumph of scholarship, thought, and e...

About the Book Seeking to explore the plight of female healthcare practitioners in the country, Sara Rizvi Jafree's Women, Healthcare, and Violence...

About the Book The post-liberalization era of the Indian economy has given birth to a burgeoning middle class who has gained increasing prominence ...

About the Book Histories often link British actions in Sindh to an aggressive anti-Russian imperial policy in Afghanistan (i.e., the Great Game). W...

About the Book Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the devotional works of the Renaissance period, to the in...

About the Book William Wordsworth's iconic relationship with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years. Separated after the death of their mo...

About the Book Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed...

Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, ...

About the Book What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why...

About the Book From mundane tasks like choosing a plumber to weightier ones like running a country, the world turns on delegation. We delegate part...

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade...

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