Humanities books

This book investigates how word meanings are represented and processed in our brains, linking perception, action,...  Read More >>

This inter-disciplinary work re-examines the role that criminal accusation plays in the creation and maintenance...  Read More >>

Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

A definitive new account of France in World War II exploring the country's collapse in 1940, the rise of Charles...  Read More >>

Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate...  Read More >>

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Politicises and historicises the concept of place and its multiple potentialities in contemporary philosophical...  Read More >>

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the...  Read More >>

SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave...  Read More >>

An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes,...  Read More >>

What happens to species when climate disruption causes suitable habitat within one country to move or vanish? In...  Read More >>

Through the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 1350–1700,...  Read More >>

In the first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation...  Read More >>

Examining and recreating many of the details of ordinary lives in early medieval England between the 5th and 11th...  Read More >>

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Relive the extraordinary '40s-'80s through trivia, facts, and memory challenges tailored for Baby Boomers.  Read More >>

Offers an understanding of the myriad ways people interact, experience and give meaning to ambivalent heritage sites...  Read More >>

Novel and thought-provoking, this book provides an entirely new theoretical foundation for thinking about social...  Read More >>

The first coherent treatment of Lusophone Africa's independence struggles, including rich empirical chapters that...  Read More >>

In an era of instability and global competition, Statecraft offers a vital guide to understanding how states succeed,...  Read More >>

At the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Scottish professional athlete competing in the Highland Games circuit...  Read More >>

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Drawing on author John Cullen's years of experience as both a stand-up comic and an elite curler, Curling Rocks!...  Read More >>