Humanities books

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 >>

Ephesians 1:3 proclaims that God has given Christians all spiritual blessings ""in Christ."" Volume two of Spiritual...  Read More >>

In the early seventeenth century, Safavid Persia, the Ottoman Empire, and the European powers maneuvered for dominance...  Read More >>

Gripping the reader at the beginning, Scars and Medals is the journey of Mohanad Alsayed from coming of age during...  Read More >>

Life has a way of knocking your heart out of alignment. Life feels mechanical, but you are not sure how to fix it....  Read More >>

Vols. 2-3, 4 (pt.1), 5, 9, 11- have imprint: New Delhi: People's Pub. House.  Read More >>

The prehistoric phase forms the longest period in human history covering a few millennia whereas the knowledge of...  Read More >>

A report of excavations at Hereford Cathedral, including a thorough study of the human remains.  Read More >>

Volume one of Prof. Carlos J. Errázuriz's monumental treatment of canon law establishes that law in the Catholic...  Read More >>

Presenting Poepoe’s funerary narrative in Hawaiian and in English, this work features a kanikau (mourning chant)...  Read More >>