Humanities books

This important new book looks for the first time at the stories the media tell about the police. It looks at the...  Read More >>

Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World takes an innovative approach to the supply of and demand...  Read More >>

A grounded guide to meditation as a trainable skill for meeting stress, fear, and uncertainty with clarity and steadiness....  Read More >>

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This Element analyzes variation in foreign investment regulation in post-war India and Brazil. Policymakers' preferences...  Read More >>

Although NRMs are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging and accessible anthology of original essays that provides readers with the essential history of that...  Read More >>

In a global landscape shaped by technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive force, redefining...  Read More >>

This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole...  Read More >>

This Element critically examines leading normative accounts of group discrimination-harm, disrespect, and inequality-and...  Read More >>

This Element reconstructs Kant's puzzling statements about the moral feeling of respect (Achtung), which is 'a feeling...  Read More >>

This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex...  Read More >>

Ireland's Empire examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the...  Read More >>

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What if the world discovered witches overnight? In The Power Borne, Jade Usher's quiet life shatters as her hidden...  Read More >>

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This Element highlights myths promoted by explorers, settlers, and the state about Indigenous Peoples and history....  Read More >>

Science in the Ancient World presents a worldwide history of science, from prehistoric times through the medieval...  Read More >>

Defines a unique period in British youth culture and lifestyle publishing, drawing on oral history, editorial analysis...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate...  Read More >>

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

An examination of past, present and future directions of the study of new religious movements ('cults'), with a...  Read More >>

What role has religion played in the major civilizational transformations associated with the Neolithic Revolution,...  Read More >>