Society & culture: general books

Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the...  Read More >>

This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the ’instruments of the Passion,’...  Read More >>

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most...  Read More >>

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory,...  Read More >>

Ask No Questions provides readers with a better understanding of Sexual Orientation Discrimination as an increasingly...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to the key issues present in cultural policy in East Asia today. Addressing the...  Read More >>

Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended...  Read More >>

The enduring paradoxes of the home are often brought to light in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However,...  Read More >>

This unique volume collects a range of cutting-edge scholarship relating to asexuality and the sexual community....  Read More >>

Addiction Treatment is an ethnography that compares two types of residential drug-free treatment programs—religious,...  Read More >>

The Cultural Leadership Handbook will help anyone with a professional or academic interest in the culture sector...  Read More >>

This collection of articles uses Critical Race Theory to analyze the workings of on-going racism within English...  Read More >>

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses...  Read More >>

This book scrutinises the realm of safety-security involving ‘nuclear power’ within the context of India’s tryst...  Read More >>

This volume pulls together a range of case studies across a number of different sports and geographical areas that...  Read More >>

A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation...  Read More >>

This book collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical...  Read More >>

Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 explores how female Baptists played a crucial role...  Read More >>

A supplemental follow-up to Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction, this volume covers advances in the most...  Read More >>

In this volume, noted forensic expert Nicholas Petraco helps move toolmark examination from an art to a science....  Read More >>

Bringing together political theorists, historians and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American...  Read More >>

Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better understanding...  Read More >>

This ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

The book is about climate change, transition to low carbon cities and adaptation to climate impact with particular...  Read More >>

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Mouments have created, destroyed and resued by competing...  Read More >>