Humanities books

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting patient. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis...  Read More >>

Womanism Rising concludes Maparyan’s three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work...  Read More >>

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic...  Read More >>

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The Assumption of Mary refers to the ancient Christian belief that the Mother of God was taken up into Heaven, body...  Read More >>

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers an interpretation of John Paul II's theology of the body that...  Read More >>

UndocuAsians tells the timely, compelling story of the contemporary US immigrant rights movement with a focus on...  Read More >>

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth installment of a...  Read More >>

This book traces the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty's original nineteenth-century choreography...  Read More >>

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation....  Read More >>

Studies the role of preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought.  Read More >>

Offering fresh and provocative explorations of the ancient theorists, this book aims to clarify and stimulate discussion...  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of Gulf States' foreign aid.  Read More >>

Explores the characteristics of the Roman Republic's constitution between 287-133 BC.  Read More >>

Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression...  Read More >>

With their distinctive and other-worldly appearance, runes--an ancient alphabet used to write Germanic languages--provide...  Read More >>

Wage work was supposed to “kill the Indian and save the man,” or so thought Richard Pratt and other late nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Harwood's spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions...  Read More >>

Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West reveals the web of human movement, exchange, and collision...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

Presenting case studies and regional overviews, this book offers insights and strategies for transforming the ethics...  Read More >>

Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive reading of the Qur'an through epigraphic sources from the Arabian Peninsula.  Read More >>

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who...  Read More >>