Humanities books

Churchill loved horses, army, hunters and polo ponies. This book investigates his less appreciated but highly successful...  Read More >>

The first of two volumes, Monty's Normandy Hammer traces the major operations fought by Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds'...  Read More >>

Berlin, situated deep within Soviet-controlled East Germany, became a flashpoint in the Cold War as tensions between...  Read More >>

Thomas Asbridge's remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity's greatest natural disaster, and the...  Read More >>

Many studies of Byzantine military history conclude with the events of 1204, when forces of the Fourth Crusade turned...  Read More >>

War is diplomacy by other means, von Clausewitz's famous doctrine, so familiar to historians of war. But the Thirty...  Read More >>

A major contribution to O’odham studies and Southwest history, Martínez offers a new perspective on the life and...  Read More >>

Deep in the central Pacific sits a cluster of small islands, the Marianas, an archipelago that is just 900 miles...  Read More >>

Offers a new history and theory of wireless beyond 'the wireless', exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of media...  Read More >>

This haunting and immersive book shines a light on the dark history of Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries When...  Read More >>

Reach through time and across continents to see the history of chemistry as it's never been told  Read More >>

""Every serious Bible reader should check it out....[it] communicates the Word of God most engagingly and winsomely...  Read More >>

Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short...  Read More >>

A 'vast, multifaceted and enchanting' (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its role in Black...  Read More >>

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development....  Read More >>

A revealing biography of the new Pope Leo XIV, written by one of the world's most respected Vatican correspondents...  Read More >>

Accessible to students without a comprehensive background in chemistry,this volume serves as an introduction to...  Read More >>

In this study, Margaret Andrews traces the Subura's urban development from the Iron Age through the Early Middle...  Read More >>

Identifies the structural failures that destroy the conditions decentralized leadership requires and provides concrete...  Read More >>

The World Before Racism: An Art Story is a gripping history of anti-black racism, told through works of art as truth-sayers....  Read More >>

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A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide-and forever...  Read More >>

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A philosophy or art in contradistinction to aesthetics. A genuine philosophical engagement with the detail of works...  Read More >>