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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A Vida Não É Útil
Futuro ancestral
A Terra Dá, a Terra Quer
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Prince
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Communist Manifesto
The Republic
The Odyssey
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Art of War
Man's Search for Meaning
Hamlet
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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

If change is inevitable and nothing is permanent, then apparently we can survive without adaptation.
Suman Subhralin

Clive James
Learned books are published by the thousand, yet learning was never less trusted as something to be pursued for its own sake. Too often used for ill, it is now asked about its use for good, and usually on the assumption that any goodwill be measurable on a market, like a commodity.
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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