Humanities

Product Description 'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King Horrific events have made the Beast House infamous. For the ...

Product Description The Ladies in White want you to join their family―forever. . .After defeating the Oldies, Quinn and Mike thought that thin...

Review Marsh's mixture of derring-do and scholarship makes for a fun read ― Observer on Ghosts of the WestImmensely enjoyable ― Spalding Today...

Review When it comes to the Australian writer Anna Krien's debut novel, Act of Grace, 'ambitious' feels like an understatement . . . In placin...

Review Unashamedly high-spirited and romantic ― COMPANYA splendidly vivid display ... carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sh...

Review Excellent ... has raised a crucially influential American pioneer rocketeer from obscurity to the recognition he deserves...MacDonald's...

Book Description A heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement - with a new introd...

Product Description The first book in an irresistible duet by the globally bestselling author of the Bridgerton series. If you loved Bridgerto...

Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoany...

This work seeks to provide in one volume all the essential information to learn and master six of the main religions: Judaism; Christianity; Islam;...

Product Description Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper...

The Complete Roman Army draws on archaeology, ancient art and original documentary sources to present the most convincing picture ever published of...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the 50th anniversary of the end of the World War II have brought attention to the displaced cultural and archi...

Product Description Enter the world of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, where the magic, romance and mystery of Regency England com...

Product Description In the second installment of her new series, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick takes us back to California, where Hollywood mogul...

Product Description The East End of London, 1930. Work is scarce, food is in short supply and there is political unrest on the streets. But in th...

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final ...

These essays address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. ...

Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition,...

Product Description From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the stunning sequel to Prudence. Rue and the crew of the Spotted C...

An unprecedented look inside archaeology today, "Discovery!" reveals the exciting, significant and astonishing finds from around the world in the l...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were...

In Goodness and Justice, which was originally published in 2006, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classi...

In this book Dr Low explores the assumptions and principles which determined the conduct and representation of interstate politics in Greece during...

A few years ago, Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book in his father's study by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, part-time lyric poet and full-tim...

Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 13 is an important compilation of articles based on issues surrounding epistemology. Published annually on diffe...

Product Description Following on from the success of Son of the Morning, which saw him compared to both Bernard Cornwell for the flair of his his...

Product Description Dear Mr Cornford, It is with regret that I begin the task of writing to you about your niece, Emily. Her recent behaviour, wh...

Product Description The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyThe year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - e...

Product Description 'Properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN on the Frey & McGray mysteries... December, 1889. There have been many bad day...

Product Description In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history . . . It's Rom...

NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einst...

The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them pre...

What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Ba...

Unlock the secrets of effective communication and enhance your interpersonal skills with this essential guide. Whether you're a student, profession...

Product Description 'A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty...

The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has...

This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most import...

A Theory of Argument is an advanced 2006 textbook intended for students in philosophy, communications studies and linguistics who have completed at...

Product Description THE EXPLOSIVE NOVEL FROM PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AYAD AKHTAR'Terrific' The Times'Extraordinary' Sunday Express'A great American...

Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the spli...

Product Description Alexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose ...

A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which ...

What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chi...

Polish exiles in the West after 1939 were in the vanguard of the movement for European integration and rank with the so-called founding fathers of ...

Like its acclaimed predecessors, RESTORATION LONDON and DR JOHNSON'S LONDON, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the pra...

Product Description It's the year 1260 and the great cathedral - the most ambitious building in all of Christendom - is rising above the streets ...