Humanities books

How did orthodox Jews during the Holocaust give meaning to their tragic fate and continue to believe in God? ""Why?...  Read More >>

A personal edition of the pathbreaking new Bible revision that strikes a balance between fidelity to the original...  Read More >>

Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism,...  Read More >>

Reveals how objects and technologies function as discursive agents in film, with formal, narrative, and argumentative...  Read More >>

Makes the case for the importance of metaphysics in democratic political philosophy.  Read More >>

Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States' quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing...  Read More >>

One of the most important introductions to Japanese philosophy, translated from the original Japanese.  Read More >>

Interprets the life and work of Justo L. González as a metamodern missionary and González's contribution to the...  Read More >>

Celebrates the life, social crisis preaching, and ministerial legacy of Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., one of America's...  Read More >>

In 1987, workers installing irrigation pipes in an apple orchard in East Wenatchee, Washington, discovered a cache...  Read More >>

A new edition of Lydia Maria Child’s 1824 novel exploring Indigenous–settler relations in the early days of colonial...  Read More >>

Gives a description of a voyage from the summer capital of British India - Simla, to the capital of China - Peking....  Read More >>

Written in real time during his ambitious trek, this book from 1911 documents British journalist Edwin J. Dingle's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1898, this book is a record of British army officer Francis Younghusband's adventures from...  Read More >>

This book details a three-year expedition to study ethnic minorities in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Tibet led by French...  Read More >>

In 1901, journalist Francis H. Nichols traveled from New York to China's Shaanxi province to report on the famine...  Read More >>

An engaging and informative cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology,...  Read More >>

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel returns with a ""dazzling diamond...  Read More >>

This is the first ever critical edition of Wyndham Lewis's Paleface. It reproduces, with corrections, the text first...  Read More >>

The first in-depth examination of the earliest corpus of Qur'ans copied at the beginning of a transformative phase...  Read More >>

This volume collects 52 of Leibniz's writings on religion and theology, including Examination of the Christian Religion,...  Read More >>

The writings in this volume trace the evolution and interconnection of these projects during Leibniz's formative...  Read More >>

The writings in this volume presents 138 of Leibniz's writings on metaphysics, natural philosophy, ethics, and jurisprudence,...  Read More >>

Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance...  Read More >>

The deeds and misdeeds of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on screen or in real life....  Read More >>