Books published by Cambridge University Press

The first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Father Bulcke who came to colonial India and found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of Goswami Tulsidas and emerged as a renowned exponent of Ramkatha and the Hindi language.

This is a granular historical and ethnographic study of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement's (MQM) capacity to think beyond the exclusivism of Muhajir nationalism toward its contingency and toward a more plural and subaltern framing of the universal.

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India.

Human dignity is a central concept in international human rights law and many national constitutions, as well as in philosophy and legal theory. This book offers a new account of dignity and its history which fundamentally challenges established approaches, and prompts fresh thinking about the concept's past, present and future.

This book aims to understand what sacrifice means through long-term ethnographic studies and its close relationship with power and social organisation in Nepal. Sacrifice is considered here through its constitutive core of violence and its complex relationships with legitimate violence, in order to trace its ability to persist despite disapproval.

66 adult and paediatric neuromuscular case vignettes are structured like a clinical consultation starting with history taking and neurological examination. Highly illustrated with tables of differential diagnoses and videos of clinical features, cases describe state-of-the-art diagnostic procedures, treatments and other management options.

Scholars have often debated the link between empirical senses and belief in the Gospel of John. This study establishes the value of God's physical incarnation for belief, arguing that the theological nature of belief derives from a God who makes himself physically visible in the world.

A concise and accessible guide to using artificial intelligence (AI) in English language teaching and learning

This book is for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in codes for error correction in data communication systems and data storage devices. Both theory and practice of classical and modern channel coding techniques are covered.

Hardy's first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives. This edition provides an authoritative text and full scholarly apparatus, allowing the reader to trace Hardy's creative process for each of the stories, alongside an introductory essay and comprehensive explanatory notes.