Humanities books

From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and...  Read More >>

Perhaps more than any concentration within the history of early modern philosophy, the field of Spinoza scholarship...  Read More >>

Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government...  Read More >>

Lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, this...  Read More >>

""Harper Torchbooks paperback edition published under the title Cosmos and history, New York, 1959""--Copyright...  Read More >>

In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical...  Read More >>

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""Darls was my first and only friend outside the family, and I treasured the time we spent together. One of the...  Read More >>

This book explores the little-known history of Hungarian bomber aviation from its origins through the end World...  Read More >>

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Novoa explores this complex gendering of science, modernity, and civilization in Argentina during the eighteenth...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the most important questions, ideas, movements, and events that have defined history....  Read More >>

The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean Peninsula Korea at War recounts how two separate...  Read More >>

This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed...  Read More >>

An overview of what destroyers were and how their capacity for heroic deeds captured the popular imagination.  Read More >>

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary...  Read More >>

First published in 1973, Wolfhart Pannenberg is intended as an introduction for those who do not already know Pannenberg’s...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this book provides a remarkably clear and comprehensive picture of early Tudor society....  Read More >>

First published in 1969, Modernization in Ghana and the U.S.S.R. examines the aspects of politics of modernisation...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, The Bulgarian Economy (now with a new preface by the author) traces rapid growth of the...  Read More >>

Athens or Jerusalem? (first published in 1965), based on the Minns Lectures of 1963, is unique as it gives a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Religion (1948) looks at the religious beliefs and practices of classical Greece. The religion of...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, Buddhist Civilization in Tibet is unique among works in English as it provides a whole...  Read More >>

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule,...  Read More >>