Social Sciences and Education

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different r...

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controv...

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even thou...

Although often neglected and underplayed in mainstream history, armed resistance to British imperialism is a significant part of India’s epic strug...

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Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Sovie...

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer ri...

Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues th...

India's over 200 million Dalits, once called "untouchables," have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of thi...

This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspec...

In 2003, The United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human ri...

Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a pol...

Combining theory with practical application, this seminal introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice integrates the latest research ...

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorr...

Cognitive Psychology takes students to the forefront of the field and introduces them to key discoveries of cognitive psychology. With accessible a...

This seventh volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers a range of topics in behavioral economics. It is an essential guide f...

More than ever, Writing That Works is the right choice for the most up-to-date coverage of business writing. Real-world model documents are grounde...

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate...

This introductory textbook takes a building-block approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime an...

Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subjec...

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Thiird Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center....

Following the death of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, this remarkable document was found in his study, a project to which he had devoted t...

Virtually all enterprises are regulated. Regulation is crucial not only to economic success but also to protecting consumer, worker, environmental,...

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded mil...

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has re...

This book strives to understand India's approach to global governance by way of systematically considering three potential factors - ideas, interes...

In 2015 the Goethe-Institute in Kolkata (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) began a collaborative project entitled ‘Inherited Memories’. The project beg...

In the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details of his r...

A Foot in the Door is the culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, and brings the voices of Dalit wome...

Historicizing gendered modernity's in India underscores how gender, as a category of historical analysis and identity, is central to our imaginatio...

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Rituals—loosely defined as symbolically meaningful action—pervaded medieval society, up and down the social strata. Royal Courts were a constant ar...

The objective of this work is to understand the evolutionary process of economic and legal policies that brought international regime of private pr...

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolu...

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based...

Urban studies or urban history has recently emerged as a compelling framework for historical inquiry as it is a potent tool for the discovery of va...

Words of her own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works ...

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable. The threats from climate change, exploitation-based approaches to commer...

Billionaires in World Politics shows how the privatization of politics assumes a new dimension when billionaires wield power in world politics, whi...

The Dharmaśāstra ascribed to yājñavalkya, commonly called yājñavalkya Smith, is a text on religious, Civil, and criminal law and jurisprudence comp...

Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomou...

Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the ad...

Let some of the best investors in the world teach you how to be on the right side of the trade. The first edition of Value Investing: From Graham t...

The Macroeconomics of Developing Countries provides a comprehensive discussion of the exogenous factors and macroeconomic policies that affect the ...

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process o...

Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever sinc...