Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology’s past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it…

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British ‘civilizing mission’ in South Asia.

Deals with the exploration of the emergence and dynamics of artificial social systems, agent societies, and hybrid man-machine societies. This book aims to develop computer technologies by picking up theoretical…

One of the most respected literary scholars alive, … Abrams stands for understanding and conciliation, calling for a kind of humanism that can embrace the good in all literary theories…

The contributions in this volume explore the relationship between processes of technological innovation, their network characteristics and their local and regional development impacts. Case studies, empirical evidence and conceptual perspectives…

Create compelling women’s groups that deal effectively with domestic abuse Journey Beyond Abuse and its accompanying participant’s journal, Moving Beyond Abuse, give you complete tools for facilitating a powerful group…

This collection examines Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, and assesses the present Shi'i situation within the historical, strategic, and economic heartland of Islam and evaluate the role…

Genetics: From Genes to Genomes represents a new approach to an undergraduate course in genetics. It reflects the way the authors currently view the molecular basis of life. The eighth…