Humanities books

Becoming Her in Marriage is a 31-day faith-based devotional for women who love deeply, carry much, and are learning...  Read More >>

Was Shakespeare a white man from Stratford? Debate still rages over the identity of the most beloved poet of all...  Read More >>

In 2024, women swept the Grammy awards, prompting headlines about their arrival in music. However, women have been...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

Like Gomorrah with horses - that's probably the best way to describe the stories of those inhabiting the heather-clad...  Read More >>

Mary Fitton was born in 1578 in the delightful village of Gawsworth in Cheshire.  Read More >>

When Anne Lister, 'Gentleman Jack, ' and her infamous diaries hit the headlines a few years ago, their popularity...  Read More >>

Sir Geoffrey de Langley, a Warwickshire knight, was studied within the context of a 'crisis' of the knightly class....  Read More >>

On 4 September 1944, Allied forces and local resistance fighters captured the Belgian port of Antwerp, the largest...  Read More >>

How did a petite dancer from a Welsh mining town become a killer in wartime London? Set against the chaos of the...  Read More >>

A sharp history of journalism's digital unravelling in the age of algorithms.  Read More >>

Wyndham Ward grew up with a determination to fly whatever the odds. Starting out as boy mechanic in the RAF, he...  Read More >>

Artillery trains are the Cinderella of Civil War military history despite leaving a rich archival legacy. For the...  Read More >>

In 1943, US bomber crews based in the UK were tasked with a 25-mission tour of duty. Most crews never made it past...  Read More >>

A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens explores the phenomenon of witch persecution in Scotland...  Read More >>

It is a political, military and social history of the East European subcontinent at constant war - imperial, national,...  Read More >>

Strange Ways to Die in the Dark Ages takes an amusing yet grim dive into the bizarre, unexpected, and downright...  Read More >>

Perhaps more than any concentration within the history of early modern philosophy, the field of Spinoza scholarship...  Read More >>

In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical...  Read More >>

The book offers students and general readers a new, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge account of Matthew Paris'...  Read More >>

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Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, this book explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped...  Read More >>

Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short...  Read More >>

The system of linguistic and material networks that capital constructs to deny humans the ability to sense environmental...  Read More >>

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation,...  Read More >>