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The Nationalism Reader
Omar Dahbour, Micheline R. Ishay
Humanity Books, 1995
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On Lynchings (Classics in Black Studies)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Humanity Books, 2002
THE WHOLE TRUTH
This is another book ÄBOUT TIME!" The truth to be known about this heroic lady, and how times haven't changed. This is a book that should be required reading in schools.
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Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (The Control of Nature)
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Margaret C. Jacob
Humanity Books, 1994
The Scoop on Newton
What a terrific introduction to the origins of modern science! The authors have provided a balanced, lucid and engaging treatment of a pivotal topic in modern science and culture. The book falls into two parts. The first section provides a thumbnail sketch of ...
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Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
Philip Carl Salzman
Humanity Books, 2008
Sheds critical new light
McGill University Anthropology Professor Philip Carl Salzman in 1978 founded the Commission on Nomadic Peoples and served as its chair through 1993). In three earlier stints (1967-68; 1972-73; 1976) he had done field research studying n Iranian Baluchistan nomadic, ...
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Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) (Contemporary ...
Martin Heidegger
Humanity Books, 2000
Heidegger on Holderlin
The present volume is a translation of Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung, Volume 4 (1981) of the German Collected Edition of Heidegger's works. It contains six essays written between 1936 and 1968, which are supplemented by two brief, related texts and an ...
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Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 To the Present (Control of Nature)
Diane B. Paul
Humanity Books, 1995
Great Introductory Survey of the History of Eugenics
Diane Paul has produced a readable and brief introduction to the history of eugenic thought. After an excellent overview chapter, Paul proceeds chronologically from Francis Galton and social Darwinism through twentieth century campaigns for sterilization and ...
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Inequality, Power, and Development: Issues in Political Sociology
Jerry Kloby
Humanity Books, 2003
Critical Perspectives on Inequality and Globalization
Inequality, Power, and Development: Issues in Political Sociology, 2nd edition by Jerry Kloby (Humanity Books) is an invaluable resource for the student or professor of social science that looks critically at global power and inequality. At once impressive for its ...
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Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
Emma Goldman
Humanity Books, 1996
Most Excellent
Emma Goldman was one of the most important anarchist writers. This collection presents a good selection of her work, ranging through her entire life and covering a wide range of topics. This collection contains a lot of important material that is not present in other ...
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The German-American Experience
Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Humanity Books, 2000
If you have German roots this is a must read!
I actually took two classes with Dr. Tolzmann at the University of Cincinnati and that is how I came to know this book. I hadn't read the book in some years and picked it up again recently. Dr. Tolzmann is a fascinating man and clearly has a passion for his ...
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Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World
Luis E. Navia
Humanity Books, 2005
The Dog
Dr. Luis Navia aims to examine the life of Cynic philosopher Diogenes within the larger context of classical Greek Cynicism. To this end, he presents a clear and engaging account of perhaps philosophy's most eccentric and enigmatic figure. The difficulty of this task ...
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Women and Globalization
Humanity Books, 2004
works in so many ways
The book is accessible to non-academic readers and perfect for college courses in ethnic studies, women's studies, cultural studies, political science, and others. Its primary goal is to expose and analyze globalization's exploitation of poor women, mostly in labor and ...
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Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy
David Loy
Humanity Books, 1997
The very Best on Non-Duality
David Loys book is simply too far ahead of its time. That's why it is so under-appreciated (see the lukewarm editorial reviews). In 20 years this will be a classic. If your "on the verge" this book can help you do the quantum-leap.
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Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Herbert Marcuse
Humanity Books, 1999
"Dr. Marcuse's book deserves a warm welcome. It is the first coherent and sympathetic account in English for many years past of what a great and original thinker set out to do." -- The Times Literary Supplement It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its ...
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary ...
Paul Le Blanc
Humanity Books, 1999
Can working class solidarity reemerge?
For the author the working class for its own wellbeing must be unified against the predations and exploitations of employers. The book focuses on the historical existence and effectiveness of worker solidarity as primarily exercised through unions. The need for working ...
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A Colored Woman In A White World (Classics in Black Studies)
Mary Church Terrell
Humanity Books, 2005
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