Humanities books

Celebrate quintessential American charm with 31 illustrations...  Read More >>

A woman's quiet life became a wartime weapon. Jutta Graae - bank clerk, society hostess, master manipulator - ran...  Read More >>

Journey the historic path from wagon ruts to blacktop highways...  Read More >>

The arena that pitted the east side against the west side. Portland, Oregon in the 1950s was a city at a crossroads....  Read More >>

From the acclaimed author of The Alchemist's Daughter, comes a tale of obsession and deceit...Fool: A Dwarf's Reckoning...  Read More >>

The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property...  Read More >>

""An ethnography of copyright law in Turkish music, integrating this information into broader narratives about Turkish...  Read More >>

Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted ancient...  Read More >>

A collection of short fictional pieces by Mariella Mehr, the renowned Swiss-German Yenish writer, which are both...  Read More >>

An A to Z map of the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek - arguably the most iconoclastic thinkers since Marx and Nietzsche....  Read More >>

From revolution to civil rights, Old Hollywood to the Space Age—the extraordinary story of a nation that contains...  Read More >>

""The 'triumph' of Christianity (100-450 CE) must be disaggregated into three distinct phenomena: the rise to political...  Read More >>

""Studies how real estate drives China's urbanization through an ethnography tracing the growth of a housing market...  Read More >>

""Colonial Negatives concerns early photography in colonial Morocco, which Patricia Goldsworthy frames as a study...  Read More >>

Taking Territory is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest remains a phenomenon today. The end of World...  Read More >>

A graphic novel exploring the right to protest, told by people who raised their voices and demanded to be heard....  Read More >>

Experience the Life-Changing Power of the Cross Like Never Before In a world where the cross has become merely...  Read More >>

It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold...  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in...  Read More >>

The unlikely story of how the American big band conductor raised morale and fought Nazis during World War II  Read More >>

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A doctor's inspiring faith journey from rural Mississippi to North Korea and back again  Read More >>

The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached: John Maclaurin's Masterpiece on the Cross of Christ Discover why theologians...  Read More >>

The Prophet in Exile: Understanding God's Justice and Restoration Ezekiel: A Prophet in Exile by Scott Redd offers...  Read More >>