Humanities books

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

Moving between intellectual traditions, this study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  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 >>

Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its...  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 >>

This Element offers a fresh, systematic introduction to political ethics. It starts with a discussion of two challenges...  Read More >>

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If in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include...  Read More >>

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Introduces a treasure trove of saints to fire faith in readers, so they may themselves become giants of faith who...  Read More >>

The new Tyndale Old Testament Commentary on the Book of Job, from W. Dennis Tucker, Professor of Christian Scriptures...  Read More >>

Building on Karl Barth's theological ethics, Cahill provides a social-relational account of emotion and moral formation...  Read More >>

Integrates the thought of Edward Schillebeeckx and Judith Butler to propose a Catholic nonviolent hope to account...  Read More >>

How emotions were used by anti-colonial activists in the Algerian Revolution  Read More >>

A comparative ethnography of divergent Muslim and Catholic experiences of national (non)belonging and the consequences...  Read More >>

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the Kingdom of God, contributing new insights into...  Read More >>

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

The first English account of the diplomatic visit of Prince Nasr Allah to Europe in the late nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Andrew Fuller was an influential English pastor-theologian of the eighteenth century; this work provides a fresh...  Read More >>

A systematic treatment of the ways in which the historical development of human language has changed our cognition....  Read More >>

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the influence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume explores the methodological and theoretical approaches to studying queens in the ancient...  Read More >>