Books in the Genre Humanities

List of books for the genre humanities, with author and links to descriptions.

(alphabetically ordered list)

Books in the Genre Humanities

 

Book: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Author: Anne Frank

Description: Anne Frank's breathtakingly intimate account of the nightmare of Hitler's Final Solution is a modern classic and has always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. It has been translated into more than fifty languages.

This vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in... (keep reading...)

 

Book: Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man

Author: Charles Barkley

Description: From the inimitable Charles Barkley, author of The New York Times bestselling I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It, comes a frank, fearless, funny, and explosive look at the reality of race and racism in America today. Citing the obstacles standing in the way of harmonious race relations in the United States, a cautionary analysis of the nation's growing racial segregation describes the author's experiences of talking about race with interviewees ranging from students to KKK members, addressing such... (keep reading...)