Humanities books

Environmental Entanglements explores a long history of ecological thought in African literature and film. Beginning...  Read More >>

Bestselling author John Bevere challenges Christians to take a fresh and honest look at one of the most often misunderstood...  Read More >>

In Islamic law, maqasid--literally meaning goals, purposes, or objectives--signify the intent behind the rulings...  Read More >>

An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped...  Read More >>

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural...  Read More >>

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A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present...  Read More >>

This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of railway imperialism...  Read More >>

Japan’s prime minister and top military general during WWII, Hideki Tojo is today associated above all with the...  Read More >>

This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate...  Read More >>

As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across...  Read More >>

Many Americans today are frustrated, unsettled, or just plain perplexed about the rules governing our democracy...  Read More >>

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This exquisitely produced volume with a silk cover, colored edges, Swiss and Japanese tube binding, and ribbon ties...  Read More >>

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Christianity has become one of the most powerful markers of identity in the mountainous borderlands of China and...  Read More >>

From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting...  Read More >>

Reframing the study of Indigenous visual cultures, this volume explores how images and objects generate affect and...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1872, a white doctor and a formerly enslaved African American farmer walked through a field near...  Read More >>

Some things I' ve seen I can never share.' From a TV journalist on the Pacific frontline...  Read More >>

In recent decades, individualistic and secular ways of participating in the world have grown pervasive in Western...  Read More >>

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