Humanities books

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Identifying five pitfalls that make it difficult for women to flourish, this book offers practical strategies for...  Read More >>

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For readers of The Book of Delights and What I Know For Sure, a bite-size invitation to disrupt the hustle and rediscover...  Read More >>

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In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially...  Read More >>

A concise, colourful and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance  Read More >>

The surprising story of how iconic works of music sparked debate and action in America’s halls of Congress  Read More >>

Xu Guoqi navigates the fraught terrain of Chinese identity, arguing that the idea of China has always been constructed...  Read More >>

Challenging the pervasive children's and youth ministry model that segregates kids from the rest of the church,...  Read More >>

A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia-among them, Queen Marie...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz’s Photographs of Pusan, South Korea, 1952–1954 offers both an official...  Read More >>

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A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age.  Read More >>

A philosopher journeys back to the mystics to learn how to live with uncertainty in the twenty-first century How...  Read More >>

An imaginative history of the Kankakee River, told in reverse chronological order, that examines the ecological...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How...  Read More >>

A compelling examination of Nazi women's perpetration of war crimes, and how—or whether—courts held them accountable...  Read More >>

Rumee Ahmed's Theology in Thirty-Six Dialogues (and Sixty Lessons) presents the first accessible English translation...  Read More >>

A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In...  Read More >>

Thinking about relationships between religion and sexuality usually focuses on what religion has to say about sex....  Read More >>

How do places shape peacebuilding interventions? Put simply, they are eventful. Geographers have long argued that...  Read More >>

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, and influential...  Read More >>