Humanities books

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Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. His writing demonstrates an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian...  Read More >>

This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed...  Read More >>

This Element examines how contemporary cosmological theories intersect with Islamic theology, exploring how modern...  Read More >>

This Element analyzes Heidegger's concept of being-in-the-world as presented in Division One of Being and Time....  Read More >>

‘A must-read for anyone curious about how we think.’ Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators...  Read More >>

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This book is about the famines and food shortages that struck India and Britain at the close of the eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

A detailed biography of Pierre de Belloy, an important figure in French royalist polemic and political theory from...  Read More >>

A gripping reassessment of the Enlightenment, exploring how leading thinkers who championed liberty also shaped...  Read More >>

Modern theological approaches to birth focus on ethical questions of contraception and abortion. In the Catholic...  Read More >>

A major new biography of Oliver Cromwell from one of Britain's most eminent historians.  Read More >>

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990.  Read More >>

This major new book explores how mafias dramatically affected governments, economies and cultures across the globe...  Read More >>

A story of faith, fanaticism, and the uncanny power of the imagination. The dawn of the Victorian era: the world...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which...  Read More >>

Get inside the head of one of America's most experienced MiG pilots as he tells the thrilling tale of the top-secret...  Read More >>

The Great Resistance is the story of the struggle for abolition in the Americas, starting from the earliest runaway...  Read More >>

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There’s more to Stoicism than shrugging your shoulders and getting on with it, as Tom Hodgkinson discovers in this...  Read More >>

A haunting tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror...  Read More >>

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – a commanding new...  Read More >>

A deeply human and compassionate re-evaluation of mental illness from the GP and bestselling author of Adventures...  Read More >>

A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario, Zelda and Pokémon, and an ode to our love of...  Read More >>

Citizens of the Earth presents the first comprehensive account of Augustine's engagement with traditional Roman...  Read More >>