In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Re...

Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as 'those who carry boxes') distribute...

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulen...

Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shatte...

Soso Tham (1873-1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was on...

Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Pop...

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values an...

This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wis...

Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex gl...

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thir...

In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the w...

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal a...

This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of ...

How do university finances really work?From flagship public research universities to small, pri...

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves ...

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of...

This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulo...

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of i...

Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy...

This anthology, inspired by Voltaire's advice that a text needed to be concise to have real influ...

Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions,...

In view of the challenges-many of which are political-that different European countries are curre...

In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previou...

Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible arc...

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked a...

This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intelle...

From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibi...

Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as 'those who carry boxes') distribute...

Bourdieu and Literature

This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural ins...

Face aux défis - entre autres politiques - auxquels sont confrontés différents pays européens, le...

The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous vi...

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English...

Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanu...

A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of mediev...

The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent s...

Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a d...

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times...

A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehen...

This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish m...

Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John V...

From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized...

Nettle's book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two dif...

William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any t...

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying stor...

In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx's theory of exploitation, ...

This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the rep...

Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limi...