Used in the plural -- humanities -- it usually becomes "the humanities" or a field of study within university settings, a group of "subjects" scholars study, discuss and debate including history, music, art, languages, philosophy, religion, and literature.
But Ms. Jackson, in her scholarly love of her subject, urges scholars to "give this kind of book some positive publicity".
Writers like Amitav Ghosh — "Sea of Poppies" — have written many books on the subject and scholars have studied this migration extensively.
The section of the August 2002 memorandum discussing the commander-in-chief power, for instance, failed to discuss or even cite the leading Supreme Court decision on the subject, several scholars said.
Understandably, he destroyed many of his private papers, which is one reason why the life and work of Hobbes has long been such a tricky subject for scholars.But things are looking up for the Monster, thanks to the labours of Noel Malcolm, a polymath at All Souls College, Oxford, and a former journalist and commentator.
While very few non-white feminists have availed themselves of psychoanalytic tools for unraveling the processes that produced the raced subject, some scholars have encouraged this sort of theorizing to take place.
Although Dylan himself has remained mute on the subject, Dylan scholars believe that it is probably an amalgam of personalities within Dylan's social orbit.
Benfey "brings to his subject a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama," William Deresiewicz said here in 2003.
Benfey, whose previous books include studies of Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane and late-19th-century New Orleans, brings to his subject a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama.
