Humanities books

First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Józef Klemens Piłsudski...  Read More >>

First published in 1966, Trouble in Guyana has shown the political development of the colony against the background...  Read More >>

Dyslexia-Friendly Edition of the riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems....  Read More >>

Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores...  Read More >>

Between 1961-1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic...  Read More >>

This book examines the place and status of the Black soldiers of the British Army's West India Regiments from the...  Read More >>

A magnificently illustrated oversized book that uses art to illuminate the lives of medieval women, from peasants...  Read More >>

The psychology of religion is an inherently exciting topic, yet most textbooks struggle to convey the vitality and...  Read More >>

The Elements of Law (1640) presents a complete but succinct version of Hobbes's political theory and of his more...  Read More >>

A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's...  Read More >>

The first modern commentary on Cicero's last dialogue, written in the months after Caesar's assassination. Designed...  Read More >>

Discover the unshakeable influence of the stars in this year-round guide to the power of the Zodiac.  Read More >>

This book examines the social and cultural history of Bengal through two major themes — the intellectual and cultural...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that...  Read More >>

This book studies the history of interactions between India and Japan, especially through Buddhist pilgrimages from...  Read More >>

A new critical edition of Nasir-i Khusraw's Khwan al-Ikhwan including an editorial introduction and notes.  Read More >>

This classic work tells the story of much of the surprising and hidden shady criminal past of leading figures in...  Read More >>

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This book’s essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative...  Read More >>

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