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One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

Inequalities of income, wealth and of power have been with us for millennia. This book is a critique of the counter-productivity of growing economi...

Understanding Language Testing presents an introduction to language tests and the process of test development that starts at the very beginning. As...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

The book explores and introduces the world of Science Fiction (SF) by women writers, particularly Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butle...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including cultural studies, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, political economy, and so...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

An enthralling retelling of Shakespeare's twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured with those tasty ti...

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees acros...

Fundamentals of Functional Analysis (Universitext)Springer9783319456317Higher EducationMathematicsMathematics3319456318

A staple story of womanhood united against social and economic despondencies, Little Women is the tale of four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Bet...

Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we have. For many, the qu...

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edit...

Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, grant R...