Social Sciences and Education

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 Deccan Plateau has diverse ecological formations that have shaped human ecology, politics, philosophies, trade and urbanization. With thirteen ...

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...

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time?

This book attempts to critically examine Dalit women’s literature to analyse how Dalit women perceive and depict caste, class, and gender in their ...

A hands-on field guide to consistently creating page-turning content that your audience loves. (And that delivers real results.) In the newly revi...

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...

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the...

Examining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, modernity, a...

This textbook is designed for non-native English speakers who need to write scientific and engineering research articles, technical reports, engine...

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

The close attention required for editing and translating gives Olivelle an unparalleled understanding of the texts and inspires numerous articles a...

The Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacula...

Modern(ist) Drama: Essays in Criticism is a casebook of ideas and arguments about Western modern as well as avant-garde drama. In this volume, the ...

The author takes the reader through a detailed analysis of the court cases and seeks to reveal through transcripts, the true picture of the communi...

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...

In the first part, the reader learns about monetary issues, like definitions and typology of monetary unions, rationale of monetary unions, monetar...

In recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage small farmers in high value agr...

This volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the ...

Widows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality, and Cultural Representation seeks to explore the unique vulnerability and precarity of widowhood in Be...

It is seldom recognized that Indian nationalism had its beginnings in the belief that India was being increasingly impoverished under British rule....

The expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century....

This textbook provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics. It adopts an integrative approach, positioning the main fi...

The precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Issue from a novel pers...

The Shaping of Modern Calcutta: The Lottery Committee Years 1817-1830 (H.B)

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...

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...

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

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Islamic law is one of the major legal systems in the world today, yet it is often misunderst...

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western domi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as t...

Very Short Introductions:Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Ber...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Marketing is pivotal in today's world. Used for determining and satisfying the needs of the c...

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The ...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination ― mummies and pyramids, curses an...

Project risk management is regarded as a necessary dimension of effective project delivery. Current practices tend to focus on tangible issues such...

Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states...

This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackling global systemic challe...

This book traces the development of internal marketing from initial conceptualisation through to the current issues. It identifies both significant...

This unique collection of contemporary international public relations (PR) case studies gives the reader in-depth insight into effective public rel...