Humanities

[A] magnificent history of money and finance.--New York Times Book Review Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-mak...

From the celebrity spirit mediums of the nineteenth century to the TikTok witches hexing the patriarchy, women have long used magic and mysticism t...

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of `maps` or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the fo...

''A rip-roaring new life of Marshal ... [a] splendid account of a great medieval life'' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders''A thoroughly entertaining a...

This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to t...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour...

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a per...

War, revolution, treason and love the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. The Red Prince annou...

There are at least two kinds of games, states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. One could be called finite; the other infinite. ...

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection ...

Slavoj iek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, t...