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The War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 reopened the barely healed wounds of the Partition of 1947. A third nation was carved out leaving in it...

Having survived a tumultuous period in its political history, the island state of Sri Lanka has one of the longest and most active traditions of po...

AS it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature ...

This book is an annotated English translation of Gadadhar Singh's Cīn Me Terah Mās (1902), a stunning account, in Hindi, of his experiences in Chin...

Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid w...

In the early phase of imperial domination, hill stations such as Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund, and Mount Abu were developed by the British to refl...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary I...

Reliable and up-to-date statistics are crucial for planning the economic advancement of a nation. This book presents a comprehensive assessment of ...

Orwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosity througho...

This book documents the history of education policymaking in India from 1947 to 2016. It provides a nuanced understanding of policy developments fr...

The Oxford Handbook of Mutuals and Co-Owned Business investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricu...

Charting a renewed course for Africa, this work looks at the immediate challenges resulting from the global changes and the priority medium-term po...

As a field of rich theoretical development and practical application, political communication has expanded over the past fifty years. Since its dev...

One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , I...

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introdu...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering a...

This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre throug...

Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Sh...

Algebra marked the beginning of modern mathematics, moving it beyond arithmetic, which involves calculations featuring given numbers, to problems w...

Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers and social workers. Marking the transit...

This is a compelling introduction to the importance of the body for contemporary identities and social relationships. Drawing on studies of sex and...

The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart ...

This book offers a comprehensive commentary on the many facets of environmental politics of the present times. Looking towards the future, it quest...

In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Looking at Goethe’s poetry, novels and dr...

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in...

This Very Short Introduction describes the key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the late 15th century to the present day. It examines the de...

Fungi perform a variety of essential functions in ecosystems, and are important to both agriculture and biotechnology. Their importance is now beco...

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eight...

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is p...

Measurement is a fundamental concept that underpins almost every aspect of the modern world. It is central to the sciences, social sciences, medici...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries ...

Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of w...

In this Very Short Introduction Richard Crisp tells the story of social psychology, its history, concepts, and major theories. From attitudes to at...

The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Int...

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of p...

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presenc...

What are the contours of the field of public policy? How has it evolved? What broad questions does it grapple with? How do policymaking, implementa...

An idyllic Naga village surrounded by misty hills, Hoyat is located in the No Man’s Land between India and Burma. When Atanu reaches here to begin ...

Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and ...

Generation of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On ...

Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933‒2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahābhārata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, ...

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a cur...

Awaara, Sholay, Deewar, Hum Apke Hain Koun. . !, 3 Idiots. The success stories of these cult films are not only well known, but have also benchmark...

The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell...