Humanities

With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-relate...

What is the earliest temple complex on Earth? Who built it? Is it really 7000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids How did such a sophistic...

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connectedIn May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD i...

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between...

Everyone must become a philosopher. The alternate is to forego living a human life, or as D. Q. McInerny illustrates, to run while choosing to be h...

An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philo...

If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highli...

LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry examines nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries. This volume expl...

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection,...

The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In Jul...

Named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly!   There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white resi...

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.   This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, expl...

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US governments anti-communist repression.   In the early twentieth c...

A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the authors hands, 'Amazing Grace' lands firmly on the right side of histo...

Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Sp...

The worlds biggest religion has a problem. There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist the sacred wine said to guarantee life...