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Personal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault.In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn't limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them...

This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts...

'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . . . a brilliant, heart-rending read.' Psychologies MagazineBrown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin,...

Ben Davis is the editor of Artinfo, one of the world's most popular resources for information and discussion on arts and culture. As a critic, he has become painfully aware of the role that class plays in art. 9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485463Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 420g

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and...

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181003Author Dan SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 243g

For over twenty years Nancy Hartsock has been a powerful voice in the effort to forge a feminism sophisticated and strong enough to make a difference in the real world of powerful political and economic forces. This volume collects her most important...

As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice...

With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.'GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world's most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262700603Author Bernard TschumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310415Author Sloane CrosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221262Author Sophie ChauhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The New York Times'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane...

At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and...

At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth , world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area...

Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999809488Author David BedrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Belly Song PressPublisher Belly Song PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079515Author Leslie FeinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060578633Author Shelby SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain. Featuring writing, lyrics and images by Wiley, Maxine Peake, Malorie Blackman, Riz Ahmed and many more, it also includes reflections from artists on...

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036235Author Judith PlaskowFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan...

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778014Author Walt AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299380Author Marshall SahlinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 41mm

Good governance is one of the UK's fundamental values, and citizens are entitled to expect that public officials, both elected and non-elected, behave according to the highest standards of ethical behaviour. However, such lofty aspirations are not enough...

This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a...

Where there are pigeons, there is resistance. Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir's award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373898Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The pub has been at the centre of Irish life for centuries. It has played many roles: funeral home, restaurant, grocery shop, music venue, job centre and meeting place for everyone from poets to revolutionaries. Often plain and unpretentious, it is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Book of 2017, Chicago Public Library 2017 (United States). Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, LGBTQ Nonfiction 2018 (United States) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174470Author Dwight MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Not sure how to start your essay or prepare for a presentation? Worried about how to structure your report? Questioning what a good assignment actually looks like? With encouraging, jargon-free advice and a clearly defined seven-step plan to getting...

In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906387716Author Chambi ChachageFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and...