Humanities books

""An irresistibly wry, culturally rich exploration of color and how it shapes our world-from the leading lexicographer...  Read More >>

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An unprecedented picture of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West, Mollie Brumley's Civil War is also a remarkable...  Read More >>

Hungry Oklahoma ultimately suggests that persistent and pervasive poverty can be eliminated. Its moving accounts...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of how Cape Canaveral's ""second space age"" reshaped the trajectory of the US space program...  Read More >>

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Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one...  Read More >>

This intellectual biography of the Egyptian Muslim theologian, scholar, and activist, Muhammad al-Ghazali (1917DS1996),...  Read More >>

This book provides a complete account of the metaphysical aspects of Christology in Western theology, during the...  Read More >>

The Instability of Reason examines 12th-century thinker Śrīharṣa's incisive critique of Sanskrit epistemology and...  Read More >>

Day by day, almost hour by hour, account of the Great Fire of London in September 1666.  Read More >>

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

All know about the 'defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Bohemian nobles against the ruling officials...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military...  Read More >>

The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives...  Read More >>

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Drawing on over two years of relational ethnography, featuring real-life case studies, interviews, and observations...  Read More >>

Provides an overview of the history of the Gifford Lectures.  Read More >>

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A wide-reaching, revolutionary narrative history of the Team of Destiny (da Mets, for anyone not keeping score),...  Read More >>

The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism In Insecurity...  Read More >>

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Studies the current artistic and industrial transformation of TV series in Mexico - the biggest and most dynamic...  Read More >>