Books & Reading

What would you do to change your life? LuAnn is beautiful, young and dirt poor. She's married to a low-level drugs dealer whose infidelities and incompetent double-dealing put her and her child's lives at risk. Enter master-criminal "Jackson" who offers her vast wealth if she agrees to help him fidd... More

‘A wonderful book . . .[a] must for every student of globalization’—N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys technologies Ltd.Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this i... More

As celebrated as it is controversial, "Gender Trouble" has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.Since its publication in 1990, "Gender Trouble" has become... More

This is a book about books, novels in particular how they work, what they are about, what makes them good or bad and how to talk about them to kindred spirits. People of all ages, classes and nationalities read novels for much the same variety of reasons – to escape pain or danger, to discover the... More

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. "Principles of Literary Criticism" was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement tha... More

GRAMMAR, PHONETICS AND USAGE – ALL IN ONE BOOK Making Sense of English is a textbook designed to help students and teachers of English learn about the English language, its sounds, words and grammar. It deals with all the major topics in the syllabuses of the courses on English language for BA an... More

An invaluable sourcebook to E. M. Forster's easily most challenging and provocative work, "A Passage to India" has stirred up debate on such topics as imperialism, modernism, ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This "Routledge Literary Sourcebook" introduces not only the novel but also the key issue... More

Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past — from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America — stood as arguments... More

This book addresses one of the most interesting topics in CAD for digital circuits: Design, Synthesis and Optimization i.e. the generation of detailed specifications of digital circuits from architectural or logic models and the optimization of some figures of merit, such as performance and area. In... More

The new novel from the bestselling author of That Long Silence The narrator in The Binding Vine is the clever, sharp-tongued Urmi, grieving over the death of her baby daughter and surrounded by, but rebuffing, the care of her mother and her childhood friend, Vanaa.Instead, she becomes caught up in t... More

This "Routledge Literary Sourcebook" provides the ideal orientation to "The Merchant of Venice." It offers: extensive annotated extracts from the play; contemporary documents; discussion of the play in performance; twentieth century critical readings of the play; suggestions for further reading and ... More

In the aftermath of America’s centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation’s past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"--from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intelle... More

Version Control and Source-Code Management Essential CVS, Second Edition, is a complete and easy-to-follow reference that helps you apply order to the task of managing a large quantity of documents. No more vexation from trying to keep track of who changed wh... More

Solutions and Examples for Database Developer and DBAs A handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, this Cookbook addresses specific questions in using MySQL. You'll find dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out exam... More

When attorney Dave Douglas is mysteriously turned into a sheep dog, he must uncover an evil plot to alter human DNA while also trying to reconnect with the family he has been neglecting. Original.... More