Society & culture: general books

Examining journal drawings as an integral—and often delightful—feature of Thoreau’s work In 1850, Henry David...  Read More >>

Through an exhaustive survey of medieval, early modern, and contemporary literature, art, and cinema, Sophia Rose...  Read More >>

Costa Rica is the only fully demilitarized, completely independent country in the world. Through good luck, good...  Read More >>

The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited volumes that explore the role of human flourishing...  Read More >>

Re-issued with a new preface, afterword and reading list, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel analyzes the trends in dress...  Read More >>

It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up... Over the past decade,...  Read More >>

Leading philosophical theologians of our time tell their stories and describe the most important directions in their...  Read More >>

A globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls ""one of the most creative...  Read More >>

Humanity is united in its fascination with its own impermanence. Spanning thousands of years, this book takes a...  Read More >>

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today's political debates are fiercely polarized. But...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking exploration of how fatherhood transforms men's...  Read More >>

A diamond-sharp study of toxic love, crisis and recovery, at once moving and whip-smart, from prizewinning poet...  Read More >>

The fascinating inside story of the British aristocracy since the Second World War. There are fewer than 5000 people...  Read More >>

A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self Modern life...  Read More >>

The enthralling insight of We Are Bellingcat meets the human drama and compassion of The Devil You Know- this is...  Read More >>

More than just Wolverine's origin story, with Weapon X legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged readers’...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between craft and war, examining craft fabrication, practices, objects, makers and users...  Read More >>

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

A BFI Film Classic exploring Todd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic, Velvet Goldmine (1998) - an alternative...  Read More >>

A study of Claire Denis' s exhilarating drama Beau travail (1998) in the BFI Film Classics series  Read More >>

In this sharp and humorous look at the outright risqué, as well as the grotesquely exaggerated or repulsive, Ribeiro...  Read More >>

While tracing the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity, Elizabeth Wilson...  Read More >>

Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in England’s capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural...  Read More >>

As the latest volume in the Master Class series from AEJMC, this book introduces innovative best practices for teaching...  Read More >>

Examines How Social Media and AI Reshape Global Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict The Israel–Palestine...  Read More >>