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Mushrooms have always had a global fan club. And that fanbase continues to spread - like the windswept spores of the Giant Puffball.I Heart Mushrooms is a love letter to all things mushroom. This charmingly illustrated gift book explores the fantastical world of the mushroom - featuring profiles, fun facts, recipes, and more.

In Global Capitalism (originally published in 1991), Richard Peet surveys the various approaches made by social theory towards seeing history in terms of its regional dynamics. He reviews environmental determinism, modernization, dependency, and world systems theories.

The book analyses how the past - material (the historic built environment) and intangible (routines, practices and the 'character' of the populace) - is appropriated, in order to 'sell' the city into the future. It acknowledges the inherent selectivity involved and discusses the factors influencing what is remembered and what's forgotten.

This volume on civil engineering innovations for sustainable communities with net zero targets aligns with the United Nations sustainable development goals in the context of civil engineering innovations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks that natural capital degradation imposes on human health, economy, and society. This book studies the environmental challenges faced by developing economies in a post-COVID-19 world.

This book explores the construction of the idea of the 'talented' student in India and its relationship to the discourse of the 'nation'. It situates the evolution of the National Science Talent Search (NSTS), and subsequently, the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) with state sponsored ideas and practices of 'nation-building'.

This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman's work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role.

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it.

As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in China over the course of the twentieth century, taking into account politics, labour and resources, administration, and institutional integration.

This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia.

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion, the Hul 1855-1856, drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion.

This book addresses changing relationships between families and their homes. The book confronts how transformations in households, life-course transitions, kinship and intergenerational relations shape, and are being shaped by, the shifting role of property markets in social and economic processes.

Doss critically examines the fundamental connections between colonial forms of knowledge, 'modernisation' and decolonisation in India after the first war of Indian independence of 1857. A compelling read for historians of modern India and of decolonisation and postcolonial movements worldwide.

This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka. It includes translated short stories and excerpts from Sinhala novels, written during and after the civil war in the country.

This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city' in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were brought about.

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others.

In the era of modern industrial regimes, the role of technology in tackling climate change is pivotal. International goals of climate change mitigation and sustainable development cannot be achieved without the contribution of new technologies.

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narratives of the postcolonial self and its relationship to society. Marechera destabilizes the narrative constitution of the self in relation to society to turn towards a radical utopian thinking that empowers the individual.

This book discusses the intrusion of personal voice in British landscape poetry of the eighteenth century. It argues that strong conventions, such as those marking topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds, providing cover for explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness.

Through a combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, this book offers a comprehensive overview of wealth and poverty in diverse contexts across the Graeco-Roman world. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology, as well as social scientists and social historians.

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity and convey ideology and benefits from an interdisciplinary methodology to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair and Megha Majumdar

This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business organisation from independence in 1947 through to the twenty-first century.