Humanities books

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help...  Read More >>

Offers a groundbreaking approach to a key text in Zen Buddhism.  Read More >>

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This volume explores the tension between new and more traditional research methods in Crusade Studies and highlights...  Read More >>

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American Experiment chronicles a journey guided by the spirit of Walt Whitman (who functions somewhat like Virgil...  Read More >>

Holy the Body wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee,...  Read More >>

The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey confronts religious devotion as something you grasp and something that seizes you....  Read More >>

Sometimes, history isn't what it appears to be. For instance, in the early 1920s, a thriving Southern Black community...  Read More >>

One thousand years ago, in the valley of Kashmir, a great Tantric master named Kshemaraja wrote his masterpiece:...  Read More >>

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A published account of the trenches and their aftermath from French writer Blaise Cendrars.  Read More >>

In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical...  Read More >>

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In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed...  Read More >>

Take a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation,...  Read More >>

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In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity:...  Read More >>

In From Protest to Politics, Bayard Rustin argues that the era of street protest and moral appeal must give way...  Read More >>

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