Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

This edited volume explores the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries...  Read More >>

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human...  Read More >>

This book seeks to reinvigorate debates on the growing forces influencing China’s social and economic evolution....  Read More >>

The chapters in this book represents foundational research for a nature versus nurture discussion as it relates...  Read More >>

The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561- 1629), Carlo Antonio (1571-1631)...  Read More >>

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond?...  Read More >>

This book presents an accessible, applied discussion of transformative and intersectional approaches to LGBTQ+ Muslim...  Read More >>

This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so...  Read More >>

Hunger and Postcolonial Writing explores contemporary postcolonial fiction and life-writing from various geo-political...  Read More >>

Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated...  Read More >>

This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how...  Read More >>

This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region...  Read More >>

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South...  Read More >>

This book explores how pre-colonial political traditions and practices shape modern-day politics in both The Gambia...  Read More >>

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the city’s informal urban settlements, the need for...  Read More >>

This book analyses the household demand for consumer goods using a diverse database, consisting of 45 developed...  Read More >>

This volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth...  Read More >>

Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. In this volume, ten...  Read More >>

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 30s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed...  Read More >>

This book is a practical, nontechnical guide to incorporating sports data into decision making, giving leaders the...  Read More >>

This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business...  Read More >>

Although face-veiling is new and unusual in Indonesia, an increasing number of women are choosing to wear the cadar,...  Read More >>

Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions...  Read More >>

This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts...  Read More >>