Humanities

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...

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

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...

From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrat...

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...