Humanities

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 ...

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings to...

The French Revolution was the big bang out of which all the elements of modern politics and social conflicts were formed. Democracy, populism, libe...

Can we stand inside new thoughts, rather than outside, looking at a closed box? This innovative and interdisciplinary collection aims to answer thi...

A classic work of political theory and practise, this book makes available an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have bee...

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, Toward the Critique of Violence, this critical edition presents readers wit...

Le centenaire de la naissance de Pierre Werner (19132013) a offert une occasion privilégiée dévoquer la personnalité et luvre de cet homme dÉtat lu...

In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurren...

Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment  Animals are staging a revolutiontheyre just not telling us. From radioac...

With her documentaries and essay films since the late 1970s, Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann has created an exciting and widely recognized body ...

The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publi...

What can the starry skies tell you about yourself and others? More than you might imagine.  For over four thousand years, people have watched the s...

From the Quran to Ramadan, this friendly guide introduces you to the origins, practices and beliefs of IslamMany non-Muslims have no idea that Musl...

Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such objects do not rel...

To the dismay of many commentators who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under t...

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?1797), who in his day was the English-speaking worlds most reno...

Examines the connection between historical and speculative fiction to offer a new form of literary-genre fiction that registers the upheavals of th...

Critically engages with Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship and with the limits of friendship as a political concept Reconsiders the importan...

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

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments ...

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland A comprehensive examination of ...