'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity and body image in China as urban lifestyles change and a sizeable middle class emerges. Rising obesity rates are examined in
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Four million lives have been claimed by the diamond wars in Africa, a number which far exceeds the total American war casualties since the American Revolution. Smillie, an investigative writer, teache
To some, history and literary culture are strange bedfellows. This book on Bhagat Singh is written from the viewpoint of vernacular Punjabi culture and tries to tread on the marginalized pat
This definitive collection of essays from ‘Refugee Watch’ is a comprehensive study of human displacement, covering many regions, addressing differing causes of refugee crises, and providing analysis o
This comparative study by Chinese social scientists of the Chinese and Indian development experiences over six decades of independent nationhood is witness to the fact that China and India are now loo
This book examines and re-imagines the turbulent and intertwined lives of Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873–1935), two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese ‘tanka’ (s
