Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe
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The Future of Truth
10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming from Taking Over Their Children's Lives
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Futuro ancestral
A Terra Dá, a Terra Quer
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
Annotation (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Prince
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Man's Search for Meaning
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Communist Manifesto
The Republic
The Odyssey
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Art of War
Hamlet
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Orientalism
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Burning God by R.F. KuangPath of the Berserker by Rick ScottYumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon SandersonHeaven Official's Blessing by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùThe Emperor by Robert         Reid
Books on the Myth of Attis
22 books — 6 voters

The Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinActor for Life by Connie de VeerBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Nonfiction by Female Authors
363 books — 62 voters

Demography is Politics by Joanne RodriguesBody Talk by Jane M. UssherEscape from Freedom by Erich FrommGet Bail, Leave Jail by S.J. PlotkinThe Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Best Sociology Books
87 books — 33 voters


It is your sacrifice that usually highlights the boundary to differentiate between desire and desperation.
Suman Subhralin

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A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.
Stefan Collini

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