Cultural studies

This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture.

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death.

This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity.

Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters.

This is the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking, originally published in Berlin in 1794.

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwaka'wakw carving, or the kawaii invasion of parts of Tokyo.

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwaka'wakw carving, or the kawaii invasion of parts of Tokyo.

The development of sustainable agricultural systems is an imperative aspect of any country, but particularly in the context of developing countries.

For over half a century, Stanley Milgram's classic and controversial obedience experiments have been a touchstone in the social and behavioral sciences, introducing generations of students to the concept of destructive obedience to authority and the Holocaust.

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to make a case for their contemporary importance in an accessible and inviting way.

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to make a case for their contemporary importance in an accessible and inviting way.

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death.

Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory.

What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world?

Das Buch zeigt, wie Gutachten und Studien zu ‚erwünschten‘ Ergebnissen gelangen können und sich damit ihren Auftraggebern gefällig erweisen.

Here is an inspiring, wide-ranging A-Z guide to one of the world's best-loved cuisines.

"e;Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days .

More than any other academic discipline, literary studies is the creation of print culture.

Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty.

What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world?

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world.

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense.

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world.

Sixth edition, fully revised and updated.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "e;occulture"e; that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination.

In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship.

For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct events.

In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention.

Over the past few years, 'fashion law' has emerged as a vibrant field of inquiry.

In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention.

A fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimizationLinear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives.

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland.