Humanities books

This book presents a road map for developing media education targeted toward Generation Z (people born between the...  Read More >>

Rooted in a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords grew into one of the most dynamic revolutionary community...  Read More >>

Krista Lawlor offers the first comprehensive study of reasonableness. Being reasonable is critical to law, politics,...  Read More >>

Ranging across centuries and continents, this book explores the lives of eight remarkable people who introduced...  Read More >>

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

This volume is a powerful recovery of history and memory that expands our understanding of the Holocaust and the...  Read More >>

The Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United...  Read More >>

The art, architecture and culture in ancient Rome have shaped the world we live in today. In this magnificently...  Read More >>

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Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""This contributed volume, from the five-year Beyond the Elite project, examines Jewish daily life in medieval northern...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""This book explores how the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush reshaped US national security...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

A young machine gunner's war with the Big Red One;from D-Day through the Hurtgen Forest;the Battle of the Bulge;Remagen...  Read More >>

During an age of extreme gender polarisation when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (18391916)...  Read More >>

Japanese Military Uniforms 1930-1945  Read More >>

The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.  Read More >>

A fully illustrated account of how Axis forces under Rommel achieved the high point of their success in North Africa...  Read More >>

A poignant and playful exploration of what comes next, from bestselling author and illustrator Jim Benton.  Read More >>

""Between the Buddha and the New Tsar is an ethnography of contemporary urban Buddhism in Buryatia, Russian Federation....  Read More >>

""A study of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of interrogational torture drawing on the archives of...  Read More >>

The 258 Texas cavalry sought to fulfill long-held Southern dreams of expanding their influence westward to the gold...  Read More >>