Bloomsbury

2"e;John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn"e; - GuardianTeechers: "e;In a class of its own ... Godber takes a hard-hitting look at life in a modern comprehensive where class...

Contemporary Critical PerspectivesSir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight&'s Children, is regularly cited as the &'Booker of Bookers&' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the &'Rushdie Affair&' certainly the...

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of the genius designer and explains,...

Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse...

Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence. Such principled law-breaking has been witnessed in recent years over climate change, economic strife, and the treatment of animals. Civil disobedience is examined here in the context of contemporary political activism,...

It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady&'s maid to a wealthy captain&'s daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of...