Humanities books

This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone studying the Holocaust. The reference entries are enhanced...  Read More >>

Sarah Palmer's authoritative work is the first to treat the history of London and its port as one subject. She brings...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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High quality photos of major weapons systems used during the Vietnam War.  Read More >>

Presenting Poepoe’s funerary narrative in Hawaiian and in English, this work features a kanikau (mourning chant)...  Read More >>

This is both a history of books as objects and artefacts but also a social history about the use and transmission...  Read More >>

CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez,...  Read More >>

The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

A noted expert on ancient Near Eastern divination offers an overview of the fascinating subject.  Read More >>

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America's historic sites, homes, and public buildings are a living record of the diverse ethnicities that, over...  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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Through a partial critical edition and study of Peter Comestor's lectures, this volume recontextualizes the biblical...  Read More >>

As a result of the neo-patristic movement of the early twentieth century, the teachings of original sin and atonement...  Read More >>

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give...  Read More >>