Humanities books

Philipp Lenhard’s book is the first biography on Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970). It portrays the life of a man who...  Read More >>

Royal Treatment is the story of Jackie Robinson's experience in Canada as a minor leaguer with the AAA Montreal...  Read More >>

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual...  Read More >>

William H. Brewster explores how professional baseball took root in Texas in an era synonymous with cowboys, horses,...  Read More >>

How telecom companies in India have added a whole new group of mobile phone users-and the tremendous impact of this...  Read More >>

This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature,...  Read More >>

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as...  Read More >>

Puts Guerrero's history firmly on the map of Mexican archaeology and history. The book brings together a vast amount...  Read More >>

Examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics...  Read More >>

The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the...  Read More >>

A collection of imaginative and insightful conversations with ancient deities, exploring the modern state of consciousness...  Read More >>

Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on...  Read More >>

In this reprinting of Truth on Trial, Robert Carlson outlines the sad state of higher education in America, where...  Read More >>

Discover effective literacy methods that align with a Christian anthropological view of the human person, as described...  Read More >>

Christians express love of neighbor as one’s self – agapē – by physically caring for the imago Dei, the image of...  Read More >>

René Girard was one of the most influential interdisciplinary thinkers of the 20th century. His mimetic theory—which...  Read More >>

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

All Things That Were Made contains several essays featured at the 2024 annual conference of The Sacra Doctrina Project,...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

This book invites you to marvel: discover how, for example, Archimedes was able to determine the area of a parabolic...  Read More >>

Uncovers the deep folklore of Britain's buried riches, fears and desires.  Read More >>

The dramatic life and death of Libya's eccentric leader.  Read More >>

""This book tells the story of 172 Black men, women, and children from Lynchburg and surrounding counties in Virginia...  Read More >>

The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives...  Read More >>

By focusing on the activities of a standing army in a civilian setting, Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest,...  Read More >>