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About the Book This book focuses on methods that relate, in one form or another, to the "small-gain theorem". It is aimed at readers who are intere...

About the Book Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, th...

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term et...

This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study...

The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by...

About the Book The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring ...

About the Book Child mortality has been widely perceived and addressed as a medical issue. Regardless of the fact that there has been a substantial...

A Practical Vedic Dictionary

About the Book This book is a concise and accessible guide to the practical workings of the TRIPS agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual ...

About the Book Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha (1883-1942) was an exceptional ruler, a princely 'rebel' who resisted the paramount power in diffe...

About the Book Memoirs of a Life in Punjab is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry of life in colonial Punjab with a g...

Humanity faces an ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. They are causally intertwined and res...

About the Book Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially ...

About the Book A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apar...

About the Book The polyamines are ubiquitous and essential organic cations in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. This book is a comprehensive survey...

About the Book The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United...

About the Book Encapsulating new policing developments under the Coalition, A Future for Policing: Developments in Policing in England and Wales f...

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entri...

A Dictionary of Marketing is an accessible, practical, and internationally-focused A-Z guide to all areas of marketing. Covering traditional techni...

About the Book The US-India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was...

About the Book Are you surprised to know that there are fish genes in some tomatoes? That brazil nut genes in soybeans can result in potentially le...

About the Book Success in scientific and engineering research depends on effective writing and presentation. The purpose of this guide is to help t...

About the Book Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic ...

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, ph...

About the Book Following a general trend, Ayurveda is often officially described and commonly known even among its practitioners as 'alternative me...

(Dis)connected empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empi...

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which....

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history...

The colonial administration passed a Factory Act in 1881, producing the first official definition of ‘factory’ in modern Indian history as a workpl...

Even after 70 years, the Partition of India, we continue to grapple with its histories, memories and legacies within our contemporary society. It r...

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther ...

Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth ...

"Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offer...

Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative applicat...

This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins...

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have...

Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposit...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His wo...

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of ...

In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and rel...

Not long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system - a star and the bodies orbiting it - that we knew. Now, we know thousand...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver l...

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devi...

The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We've made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinic...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In today's society, work takes up a vast proportion of the time and energy of ordinary ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring From frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders, to the lesser-known caecilians, there are over 8,...