Interdisciplinary Studies

Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence w...

At the centre of this collection are the actors and processes referred to by the distinguished Oceania thinker and visionary Epeli Hau''ofa as ''or...

Rhetorical Investigations of the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Body in Media: Countering a Wicked Problem examines the power of hegemonic institution...

English, wrote Virginia Woolf, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . ...

In this book, Lara C. Stache and Rachel D. Davidson demonstrate how the on-screen character of the avenging-woman offers a complex construction of ...

The Oxford Handbook of Parasocial Experiences examines how audiences psychologically relate to people they see in the media. Specifically, the term...

This book addresses a range of issues relating to the nature and implications of growth of Indias services sector, including factors contributing t...

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse sp...

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning wi...

This empirically rich volume presents a holistic picture of the electoral process in Indian states and the return of the BJP to power. Drawing on t...

More than half the world's population live in violent settings, such as civil wars, communal conflicts, cities plagued by gang violence, and entire...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longe...

An investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and c...

The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms...

In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to oth...