Humanities books

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

All Things That Were Made contains several essays featured at the 2024 annual conference of The Sacra Doctrina Project,...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

This book invites you to marvel: discover how, for example, Archimedes was able to determine the area of a parabolic...  Read More >>

Uncovers the deep folklore of Britain's buried riches, fears and desires.  Read More >>

The dramatic life and death of Libya's eccentric leader.  Read More >>

""This book tells the story of 172 Black men, women, and children from Lynchburg and surrounding counties in Virginia...  Read More >>

The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives...  Read More >>

By focusing on the activities of a standing army in a civilian setting, Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest,...  Read More >>

A riveting Texas memoir of childhood on the storied Waggoner Ranch--where wild parties, eccentric characters, and...  Read More >>

Harvey Ball, a communications sergeant in the 96th Infantry Division, fought from Leyte to Okinawa in World War...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Liu Shiming (1926–2010) is a revered Chinese artist whose works have had a distinct impact on the course of modern...  Read More >>

This book offers a novel philosophical system - Sufi Phenomenology - rooted in the shared pursuit of essence and...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Ostalgie-Filme zur DDR, die seit den 1990er-Jahren entstanden...  Read More >>

Holy the Body wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee,...  Read More >>

Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, braving the dangerous 90-mile...  Read More >>

Country music is as mythologized as the region with which it’s most closely associated, and it remains one of the...  Read More >>

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

A closer look at Nazi concentration camps.  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Accounts of the battle come from the author's interviews with the men who took part. The author walks the reader...  Read More >>

Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one...  Read More >>

""This book examines how America's imagined frontier history shaped the thinking of philosopher John Dewey. It explores...  Read More >>

Are you walking through a valley, feeling alone, lost, or overwhelmed? If life has taken an unexpectant turn; if...  Read More >>