Humanities

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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

Presents more than three hundred portraits, artifacts, photographs, prints, letters, and other visual records to document the fates of the eight pe...

It is not a book about having space, but about being the space that includes all, the space of awareness that you are. Can we be the space for the ...

Disagreements about the morality of markets, and about self-interested behavior within markets, run deep. They arise from perspectives within econo...

Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he...

'A wickedly entertaining read' The Times A Daily Mail Book of the Week The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious fa...

Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relati...

The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world. In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively in...

A day-by-day collection of over 6000 events, trivia, quotations, news items, anniversaries and birthdays for every day of the year. Presented a...

The History Files series presents the people, events and ideas that have shaped our world, through the lens of recent research. Each title covers a...