Music reflects thoughts of people, sense of beauty and arts of the human being. It, in a special way, shows different cultures of people and concepts in the world. That is way it is considered as a gem in the history of human civilization. The Chines...

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the...

This issue of the Cracow Indological Studies stems from the 5th Coffee Break Conference “Space, culture, language and politics in South Asia: common patterns and local distinctions”, held in May 2014 in Rome. The Coffee Break Project focuses on schol...

Titles in Barron's brand-new series of Art Portfolios each present 24 stunning reproductions of memorable works from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enlightening descriptive texts supplement these large reproductions, each of...

A new book in the In Focus series covering a major clinical specialty. The text covers the whole spectrum of cardiac disease in the concise text and illustration format of this series. The text is illustrated by a range of photographs including all m...

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn...