Social Sciences

Editorial Review This book is an attempt to reinterpret world history and it presents a diversity of stories concerning the relationship between the forest and human beings from the viewpoint of environmental archaeology. Leading scholars have conducted a fundamental enquiry into our global environ... More

Translated from twenty-two different languages of the subcontinent, these one hundred and ten tales are an indispensable guide to the richness and vitality of India’s ageless folklore tradition. ‘This collection covers stories heard from tellers, ranging from the well-known Birbal stories to t... More

Tech-savvy writer Levy takes readers step by step through the research, development, and ultimate domination of the Apple iPod--todays cultural icon and a massive force in the music industry.The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on ou... More

This is an extremely useful and informative book that provides everything an activist needs to know for communicating effectively through the media. The book explains how you can stage an event or stunt that will put an issue that concerns you in the news. It takes you through the entire process, st... More

India produces more films than any other country in the world, and thesc works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, thc Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Islands, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this domi... More

This definitive collection of North American ghost stories includes tales passed on by word of mouth and preserved by memory as actual windows to the nation's haunted past.The latest in the bestselling series of Americana occult folklore collections that have included "Haunted America" and "Historic... More

A debate is taking place over what values should define the international order. For global elites, it is a debate about how to rule the world: a conflict between one vision of global order based on U.S. empire and another based on an expanding, corporate-controlled global economy. These visions are... More

Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Irtroducing, Global Issues explores the challenging conflict and security, the global economy, development, and the environment. Notable features of the new edition include:a discussion of the war in Iraqa stronger focus on global security and terrorism... More

This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and overall foreign policy of the United States, describes the new global environment (e.g., the rise of China as a global economic superpower and the completion of European inification) in which US p... More

A woman's journey from her father's harem through the Islamic Revolution. Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sister... More

The Cannes Film Festival jury voted unanimously to award the 2004 Best Picture Award to Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. Since then it has gone on to smash all box office records for a documentary and created an international discussion about the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. The Of... More

Dealing with Divorce is a compassionate and authoritative handbook, a first of its kind in India, that helps you throught the overwhelming experience of divorce. Updated with changes in divorce laws and norms, it guides you through the legal,financial and emotional realities of the divorce process. ... More

SHE IS A FASHION ICON WITH A LUST FOR FAME. HE IS POSSIBLY THE MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE ON THE PLANET.Together they are one of the most loved -- and hated -- pairs on Earth. This sensational, highly addictive biography delves beneath the Beckhams' glossy, glamorous facade to expose the real Posh and Beck... More

The author begins this book with an account of the broadimportance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be ascience of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary stateweakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak statesfor int... More

In 1938 Subhas Chandra Bose reached the peak of his political life, when he was elected President of the Indian National Congress. Leading the forces of anti-coloniaIism and socialism, he was re-elected in 1939, having defeated Gandhi's nominee in a bitterly contested election. However, in the face ... More