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bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluid...

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and e...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second h...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a ...

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after t...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through th...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...

A pithy, go-to guide for understanding both what we know about the causes of depression and what to do about it. Depression now affects more than ...

Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the na...

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but n...

A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers ca...

The fifth edition of this bestselling Oxford Medical Handbook is now even better than ever, with the inclusion of three new chapters on day case su...

A sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Since their mutual independence in 1947, Ind...

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical ...

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable le...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

Complementing trade theories with relevant trade empirics, this book covers three aspects of the study of International Economics: pure theory of t...

This book brings together writings by Ralph Russell, the eminent twentieth-century Urdu scholar, which illuminates his life-long engagement with Ur...

The India Development Report (IDR) 2022 provides an independent assessment of the Indian economy including contemporary problems, issues, and polic...

Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United ...

Diving into an unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can devel...

Recounting the story of the Oraons and Tana Bhagats of Chhotanagpur in the present-day state of Jharkhand, this book questions postcolonial underst...

This book studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of India...

Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She int...

As global leaders worry about a "new world order" following the pandemic, Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life considers how such pron...

China's geo-economic vision is transforming the Eurasian continent. Acclaimed foreign policy experts recount their travels across Central Asia, bea...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

The Endless Siege is an ethnographic study of the Vidya Bharati chain of schools in India which are run by a Hindu nationalist organization called ...

From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Ch...

From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging ...

India's Ministry of Home Affairs, with its striking durability, and ability to adapt to the transition from colonial rule to post-colonial governan...

This is a story of a school in the walled city of Old Delhi - the Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School. The school has its origins in Madrasa Ghazi...

Nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast...

This book publishes - for the most part, for the first time - Gandhi's letters to his youngest son, Devadas from 1914, when father and son were bot...

This comprehensive textbook applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching...

Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the vil...

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants suc...

From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascina...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocris...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quan...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with European...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of...

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their h...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop...