Essays

This book is a collection of twenty-one essays by Professor David Chan, which first appeared in The Straits Times from October 2011 to January 2015. The essays discussed a wide range of topics including happiness and well-being, fairness perceptions, the...

This is written in honour of James Petras, the revolutionary and anti-imperialist activist and writer, in recognition of his intellectual achievements and political interventions - his steadfast principles, distinguished scholarship, extraordinary...

“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary...

George Yeo: Musings Series One and Series Two available as a set hereGeorge Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range...

This book presents a new assessment by Immanuel Wallerstein titled The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow with additional chapters by prominent social theorists. Global Left is a different concept from globalization and speaks to the appropriateness...

Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they...

Since the modern founding of the theory of signs by the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the field of semiotics has become increasingly prominent as a method of interdisciplinary research and study, bridging the...

Remapping Memory was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The essays in this...

This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin presents twenty contributions of his friends and colleagues, ranging from articles on Persian and Graeco-Roman Egypt to twenty-two (re-)editions of documentary and literary texts written in Egyptian...

With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646793600Author Professor H L MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 127g

Citizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299223144Author Bruce BendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063346840Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063082274Author Jonathan Van NessFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788185229638Author Sudhir ChandraFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint TulikaPublisher Tulika Print Communication ServicesWeight(grams) 614g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094932Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 19mm

Finalist for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardTo devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381075Author Sraboni MunshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint TulikaPublisher TulikaWeight(grams) 198g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556439193Author Martin KeoghFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This book is the second collection of twenty-one essays by behavioural scientist Professor David Chan. The essays in the book first appeared in The Straits Times from March 2015 to September 2017. They discuss a wide range of topics including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276872Author Anna Gifty Opoku-AgyemanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

Nathan Vass has been driving a Seattle city bus at night for the last decade. He began writing a popular blog, The View from Nathan's Bus, about his encounters with the riders of the No. 7 bus, which cuts through the heart of the city's Rainier Valley,...

Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those...

Abandonment, loss, endless transitions, self-reliance, continued persistence, and fierce beauty all coexist in this compelling collection of stories of ten women who journey from victims of the child welfare system to survivors, and beyond. These women...

First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman's extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775276609Author Philippe TortellFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Peter Wall InstitutePublisher Peter Wall Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860566Author Paul GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 286g

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software...

Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary...

During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Viet Nam News, Ha Noi's English-language newspaper, Huu Ngoc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028646Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 397Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455543694Author Barbara EhrenreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

In The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism. He underlines the urgency of seeing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982165789Author Maya PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm * 19mm

What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with...

George Yeo: Musings Series One and Series Two available as a set hereGeorge Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349016245Author Becca RothfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher Little, Brown Book GroupWeight(grams) 41g

Recupera is a book of interwoven essays and autofiction constellating around the complex nature of sisterhood. It follows two sisters as they recover from addiction. With a mix of epistolary form, lyric essay, and art writing, the work hopes to reach...

The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The River Always Wins and I Am a Teacher Every day, posits Marquis, every single human has to make a choice:...