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Food webs describe biological communities in terms of feeding interactions. This book integrates the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystems ...

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analys...

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features...

Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. This Very Short Introduction explores the theoretical and practical problems ra...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant ...

Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, ...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and acade...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...

Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety serve? In this Very Short Introduction we disco...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy a...

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - ...

Capturing the immense importance of India's cities to its economy, polity, and society, this short introduction provides nuanced yet accessible ana...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philoso...

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and ...

Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Isla...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its o...

The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock...

Key Features Author, India's best-known psychoanalyst. Book acclaimed as the best application of psychoanalysis to Indian culture. New Prologue sit...

First published in 1973, Bharathipura is about the practice of untouchability in a traditional society that is evolving into modernity through new ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's My Early Life (1932)-an adaptation of his authoritative autobiography-is one of the earliest books developed by the Pr...

Examining the caste system, culture, religious rules, and traditions, as well as the ambivalent relationship between handed-down cultural values an...

The Mauryan period witnessed the rise of the first subcontinental empire which required administration appropriate to a changing political economy,...

This collection of fifteen essays by eminent economist Deepak Nayyar provides an unusual blend of theory and policy, of applied research and empiri...

Data Structures Using C++ is designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate engineering students of computer science and information technology ...

The Central Asian region in our neighbourhood is in ferment and India's interest in that region is abiding. India has had a long tradition of linka...

In recent times, religion-based educational disparities in India, especially between Hindus and Muslims, have been the focus of passionate debate. ...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration...

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk. The US subprime mortgage crisis hig...

Nearly all urban data used for the purpose of economic analysis, urban policymaking, and investment decision-making are aggregated data. Urban syst...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings bo...

The Idea of History

Environmental economics can be controversial, but it is also central to some key policy issues facing governments and society today, including indu...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding ...

Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of livi...

Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory ter...

Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre bas...

Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ...

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more...

In this Very Short Introduction Peter M. Higgins presents an overview of the number types featured in modern science and mathematics. Providing a n...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific ...

From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what t...

From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoki...

In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been ins...

This book explores fascinating aspects of India's diversified cultural base-monuments, art tradition, religion, philosophy, performing arts, and li...

With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewha...