Humanities books

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

The decipherment of undeciphered scripts is a topic that fascinates a very wide range of people, but very few have...  Read More >>

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

The death penalty was accepted almost universally until the 18th century, when Giuseppe Pelli of Florence and Cesare...  Read More >>

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

Against Affect interrogates shibboleths of feeling and reason and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender,...  Read More >>

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The Sevenfold Path offers stories that reveal how suffering can inspire powerful change, guiding us to explore our...  Read More >>

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An authoritative history of the first metropolitan zoo explores how visions for the menagerie collided with the...  Read More >>

On 25 June 1950, the simmering Cold War suddenly turned hot when North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union, crossed...  Read More >>

Fish Cars and Fish Culture explores how the railroad industry aided the U.S. Fish Commission, created in 1871, in...  Read More >>

This book explores worship’s social developmental impact in shaping the lifeworld of its participants.  Read More >>

This book contains multiple essays from experts on various faith, religious, and mythic traditions to describe how...  Read More >>

This book brings together contributions from philosophers interested in logic and logicians with a philosophical...  Read More >>

Medieval Catholic political philosophy was born in an age of crisis, with the collapse the Roman Empire, and the...  Read More >>

What is unique about this volume is its approach: treating primary sources of major contributors to the development...  Read More >>

What is unique about this volume is its approach: treating primary sources of major contributors to the development...  Read More >>

Ian Bradley has been fascinated by spas since regularly taking the waters at Tunbridge Wells as a boy. He has visited,...  Read More >>

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

This book explores the idea of truth and the communication of truth through witnessing.  Read More >>

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

This book offers tools for a deeper reading and understanding of Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the...  Read More >>

This book argues that within Perkin’s ministry methodology, one can see an underlying ethical conception of justice...  Read More >>

A bold and accessible guide to the key ideas that have shaped our understanding of the Earth's landscapes and environments,...  Read More >>