Humanities books

With glowing compassion and luminous prose, Lamorna Ash (‘a new star of non-fiction’ William Dalrymple) explores...  Read More >>

Treasure makes respectable people do dishonourable things…  Read More >>

Illuminates Global Interpretations of Biblical Narratives Through Cinematic Storytelling and Critical Analysis In...  Read More >>

Breaking Bread blends history and personal insight to explore bread's role in themes such as agriculture, religion,...  Read More >>

Provides an accessible overview of basic concepts of critical religion as well as practical advice on how critical...  Read More >>

How nineteenth-century environmental sciences laid the groundwork for global mineral extraction. Unearthed depicts...  Read More >>

Know all about Judaism in one place Judaism All-In-One For Dummies is a comprehensive resource on Jewish beliefs,...  Read More >>

This Element aims to explore borders in ancient Egypt, both the territorial and ideological boundaries of the state....  Read More >>

User-friendly guide that sets out a plan of 20 Roman towns, explaining how visitors can find the archaeological...  Read More >>

This Element explores Greek mythology through diachronic narratology, focusing on how stories evolve over time....  Read More >>

Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines...  Read More >>

In this new edition, Derek Gillman provides an updated overview of long-standing and more recent controversies over...  Read More >>

This volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny Wormald on James VI and I. She wrote on almost every aspect...  Read More >>

Anthropologists and archaeologists have struggled with the concept of the food taboo for over a century. This Element...  Read More >>

A love letter to the world of books  Read More >>

This Element approaches large game hunting through a social and symbolic lens. It explores some recurring themes...  Read More >>

This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine temporal cognition– the capacity to mentally...  Read More >>

Theophrastus' so-called metaphysics presents a series of difficulties for various accounts of first principles,...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on the villancicos (or choral poems) of the Novohispanic philosopher Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz....  Read More >>

This Element provides an opinionated survey of the ideal and nonideal theory debate in political philosophy. It...  Read More >>

This Element examines the history, beliefs, and practices of the QAnon movement, described by supporters as a military...  Read More >>

A punchy, rigorous take on the moral dangers of assisted suicide from a secular point of view.  Read More >>

This book focuses on discovering particular moral and theological virtues of the oppressed embodied in their daily...  Read More >>

Through a reading of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, this book explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive analysis of the border dialects spoken in the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian border area (northwest...  Read More >>