Humanities books

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 >>

A holistic perspective on strategies, methodologies, and examples of writing and reading by philosopher-artists...  Read More >>

Kenneth W. Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth...  Read More >>

A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities,...  Read More >>

American history is, in part, a history of immigration – of waves of people from other lands making their way to...  Read More >>

‘If you've ever been dumped, fired or experienced any semblance of rejection, then boy do we have the book for you.’...  Read More >>

Do you sometimes wonder what happened to the life you dreamed you'd have? Say Yes by storyteller and artist Scott...  Read More >>

Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the...  Read More >>

Crimea, 1854: residents in the besieged city of Sevastopol look out over a harbour punctured by the masts of scuttled...  Read More >>