Books

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...

What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ord...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

The Basics: Logic is an accessible introduction to several core areas of logic. The first part of the book features a self-contained introduction t...

Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in sc...

The Basics: Anthropology of Religion is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religi...

The question of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated and it continues to be a controversial topic today. In Th...

The Basics: Tragedy is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the g...

The Basics: Melanie Klein provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those o...

The Basics: Ancient Near East surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great's conquest. The b...

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of ...

This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the b...

Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality...

The Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas' widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese nativ...

Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books fo...

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cu...

Muslim Education in the 21st Century reinvestigates the current state of affairs in Muslim education in Asia whilst at the same time paying special...