Humanities

Whether it’s Tomb Raider or Roman coins, the conventional view of archaeology as a discipline solely preoccupied with long dead cultures is mislead...

Surveys the history of changing tastes in food and fine dining – what was available for people to eat, and how it was prepared and served – from pr...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intens...

The final collection from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of ...

This book is a hands-on resource for the amateur, student or volunteer as well as a reference for those interested in the world's greatest archaeol...

While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA ...

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seve...

Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with m...

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europ...

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer peo...

"Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMA...

From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the mo...

A fresh, new translation of Augustines inaugural work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conve...

Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infantes award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the ...