Humanities books

""Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of ""a...  Read More >>

History remembers Alexander the Great. It does not remember the man who fixed the plumbing. Prince Bartholomew...  Read More >>

""In September 1924, all of us who attended the new courses in Dornach felt we were living far beyond our ordinary...  Read More >>

Using definitions of key Qur’ānic terms, Sayyed Mahmoud Taleghani discusses the relationship of humanity to the...  Read More >>

This elegant cloth-over-board gift edition combines two of Jen Wilkin’s most popular books on the attributes of...  Read More >>

Dogmática cristiana, de Gijsbert van den Brink y Cornelis van der Kooi, es una introducción accesible y rigurosa...  Read More >>

Documents the influence Britain and France had on the ideas of liberty and human rights from the twelfth century...  Read More >>

The story of Joseph begins quietly, almost deceptively, in the pastoral rhythms of a family marked by both promise...  Read More >>

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This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign...  Read More >>

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

An authoritative overview of the personal, professional, cultural, political and religious contexts in which Hensel...  Read More >>

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

A collection of fourteen new essays by leading scholars on Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, a classic text in...  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 >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

There are different approaches to modelling the divine with each raising questions one needs to consider when employing...  Read More >>

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

This Element explores Hegel's philosophy of nature, examining its foundations and method in relation to Newtonian...  Read More >>

Political meritocracy allocates power by virtue and competence. This monograph critiques three models: epistocracy...  Read More >>

Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what...  Read More >>

This Element explores emerging forms of religiosity among Japanese young adults. It argues that existing frameworks...  Read More >>

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. It supports...  Read More >>