Humanities books

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic...  Read More >>

Dominic Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors-from the legacies of settler...  Read More >>

Cymene Howe traces the complex relationships between humans, nonhuman beings and objects, and geophysical forces...  Read More >>

Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous economic system...  Read More >>

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Louis XIV wanted to conquer time and space - to push the borders of France which he inherited out into Flanders,...  Read More >>

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Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the...  Read More >>

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations,...  Read More >>

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Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality,...  Read More >>

In this book, Maarten Van Ginderachter investigates the relationship between working-class identities, socialist...  Read More >>

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Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it...  Read More >>

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our involvement...  Read More >>

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Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal-an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea-as metaphor, mode...  Read More >>

This stunning book will help you on your spiritual journey, by introducing you to traditions, philosophies and practices...  Read More >>

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This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today's uses of religious...  Read More >>

A thrilling and highly newsworthy military adventure in the burning rubble of Islamic State.  Read More >>

This is a charming book... constituting a treasury of some of the noblest deeds of the world. It is intended, says...  Read More >>