Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed...

About the Book Why do people really give? Does giving indicate a kind heart? Is altruism about feeling good or is there more to it? We regularly s...

A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodologica...

About the Book Understanding Max Weber's contribution to social theory is vital for students and scholars of social science. This insightful text o...

War Diaries Notebooks From A Phoney War 1939- 40 Book Description

In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers – sadhus or ascetics – in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox ...

About the Book People have disagreed since time immemorial. They have argued or agreed to disagree, or eventually arrived at an agreement. But we l...

About the Book In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the art...

About the Book Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in sha...

The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt contemp...

This volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting ch...

About the Book A systematic treatment of the design and fabrication of chipless RFID sensors This book presents various sensing techniques incorpor...

About the Book Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA c...

A bridge to the world of mathematics for readers who want to gain a good foundation in basic mathematical skills for research and other activities...

About the Book Solution focused practice offers proven ways of helping adults overcome a range of life difficulties, from physical and mental illne...

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space,...

In South Asia, political liberation resulted in the partition of states, leading to huge flows of refugees who faced horrific, indescribable violen...

About the Book Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen "elsewhere", from Greece, to Palestine, to the globa...

Description: In unruly visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation...

About the Book India is passing through a phase where a major share of its population is in its prime and of working age. Many have spoken of the '...

About the Book Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grip...

About the Book "An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity t...

About the Book The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as ...

About the Book The SuperWoman Workshops have empowered and helped women to reach goals, take responsibility for their lives and utilize tools to be...

About the Book Social Scientist completed forty years of publication in the year 2012. To mark the occasion, collections of essays on specific topi...

West Bengal is now home to about 5.3 million tribal people; they form five per cent of the total tribal population of India. In the state itself, t...

About the Book Brooke Larson's interpretive analysis of the history of Andean peasants reveals the challenges of nation making in the republics of ...

About the Book Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India seeks to explore the multiple relationships that emerge, are c...

About the Book The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in th...

About the Book This book brings together activists, artists, and scholars of color to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced ...

About the Book In 2008, the Mus e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist...

About the Book The cultural imagination of contemporary India is experiencing rapid change, especially among the middle classes. New communication ...

About the Book Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for s...

About the Book In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of "white working class" people. In a wave of revolutionary po...

About the Book Over a decade has passed since the collapse of communism, yet citizens of post-communist countries are still far less likely to join...

About the Book Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as rivet...

About the Book Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted...

About the Book The University as a Site of Resistance analyses massive protests that emerged in the aftermath of Rohith Vemula's death in Hyderabad...

The revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues - from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is t...

About the Book In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck,...

About the Book Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant rea...

About the Book This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student's Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, rese...