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Avicenna and the Visionary Recital: (Mythos Series) by Henry Corbin 9780691600703
RRP: $64.50$58.24In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine,... -
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chavez 9780252079580
$27.95Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "coalitional moments" in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant... -
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage by Linda Steiner 9780252043109
$110.60Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an... -
The Sceptical Optimist: Why technology isn't the answer to everything by Nicholas Agar 9780198717058
RRP: $27.08$24.56The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical... -
After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority by Mike Hill 9780814735428
$89.73View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By... -
Global Television: Co-Producing Culture by Barbara J. Selznick 9781592135042
RRP: $34.82$31.10The face of U.S. television broadcasting is changing in ways that are both profound and subtle. Global Television uncovers the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues... -
Hybridity: The Cultural Logic Of Globalization by Marwan Kraidy 9781592131433
$71.26Hybridity, the interaction of people and media from different cultures, is a communication-based phenomenon. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the... -
Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement by Mira Sucharov 9781487587451
$34.55How can twenty-first-century scholars and other experts engage with wider audiences beyond their peers? In Public Influence, Mira Sucharov walks readers through the ins and outs of op-ed writing and social media engagement. Enlivened with discussions of... -
Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics by Jane Pitcher 9781473989344
$134.47The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas common... -
A Student's Introduction to Geographical Thought: Theories, Philosophies, Methodologies by Pauline Couper 9781446282953
$131.40This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and... -
Revolution Televised: Prime Time And The Struggle For Black Power by Christine Acham 9780816644322
RRP: $28.37$25.63After a decadelong hiatus, African Americans once again began appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. Bill Cosby costarred on I Spy, Sammy Davis Jr. briefly hosted a variety show, and in 1968 Diahann Carroll debuted in the title role of Julia,... -
Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy by Paul Garrett 9781473968967
$118.60'An impassioned and thorough dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform...get reading, get angry, get ready'. - Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London 'Rigorous, meticulously researched and edgy, Garrett's new... -
The Company of Others: Stories of Belonging by Sandra Shields 9781551521862
RRP: $25.74$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521862Author Sandra ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Travel Ruminations by Robert Hauptman 9781680537307
RRP: $128.94$118.04Travel Ruminations is a personal account of the author's walking, hiking, and mountain climbing over a 75-year career in all 50 U.S. states and 38 countries, but it is more than a mere memoir. Interspersed are remarks on the ecological aspects of his... -
Logic on the Track of Social Change by David Braybrooke 9780198235309
RRP: $57.39$53.77The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a... -
Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois by Jonathon S. Kahn 9780195307894
RRP: $38.69$34.64W. E. B. Du Bois is an improbable candidate for a project in religion. His skepticism of and, even, hostility toward religion is readily established and canonically accepted. Indeed, he spent his career rejecting normative religious commitments to... -
The War That Changed Us: Ukrainian Novellas, Poems, and Essays from 2022 by Kateryna Pylypchuk 9783838218595
RRP: $32.25$26.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838218595Author Kateryna PylypchukFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag,... -
Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i by Joanna Poblete 9780252082610
$24.76In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans... -
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora by Sherwin K. Bryant 9780252080012
RRP: $33.53$30.01Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Rachele Dini 9781912303731
RRP: $25.79$22.82Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized... -
New Technologies at Work by Christina Garsten 9781859736494
RRP: $46.43$40.88Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short period... -
Gypsies in Madrid by Paloma Gay y Blasco 9781859732533
RRP: $174.15$151.29Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have... -
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People by Ardis Cameron 9781405114660
RRP: $52.83$46.81"Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People" is a groundbreaking collection that explores the 'visual' in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century. The book covers... -
Societal Problems as Public Bads by Nan Dirk de Graaf 9781138480209
RRP: $174.15$151.29Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality, large-scale migration... This book tackles many of the most pressing problems facing societies today. The... -
Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times by Nicole Shukin 9780816653416
$78.52The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the... -
Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals by Augusto Fauni Espiritu 9780804751209
RRP: $154.80$142.44Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More... -
Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir by Rhona Richman Kenneally 9780802096494
$36.39Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by... -
Agitation to Legislation: Negotiating Equity and Justice in India by Zoya Hasan 9780199482177
RRP: $42.56$39.01The book examines (1) the relationship between political mobilization and the making of policy/ to grant socio-economic rights (2) the creation of institutions and (3) representation in public institutions i.e. legislatures. It investigates the... -
Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives by Shakuntala Rao 9780199490820
RRP: $47.72$43.58In the ever changing information environment of the early 21st century, citizens and journalists alike are eagerly adapting to new technologies. India is no different. The country's communication revolution, in the post-liberalization era, had led to one... -
Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi by Amy Austin Holmes 9780190071455
RRP: $109.65$69.85In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin Holmes argues that the ousting of Mubarak in 2011 did not represent the culmination of a revolution or the beginning of a transition... -
Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement by Michael A. Messner 9780197573631
RRP: $107.07$97.19In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In... -
Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities' by Toni Erskine 9780197264379
$77.43In this innovative book, Toni Erskine offers a challenging and original normative approach to some of the most pressing practical concerns in world politics - including the contested nature of the prohibitions against torture and the targeting of... -
The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting by Lindsay Palmer 9780190680824
RRP: $38.69$35.59News "fixers" are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Operating in the shadows, fixers' contributions to journalism are largely hidden from us, yet they underpin... -
Opening the Mind Or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in Nordic Schools by Thorsteinn Helgason 9783899714821
RRP: $61.91$50.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899714821Author Thorsteinn HelgasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 504g -
Transforming Globalization: Challenges And Oppotunities In The Post 9/11 Era: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 3 by Bruce Podobnik 9781608460441
RRP: $38.70$25.65This volume examines the emergence of the movement of resistance that has arisen to challenge neoliberal forms of globalization. The authors describe how workers, environmentalists, human rights activists and a wide variety of other groups have joined... -
Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice by Joseph Zornado 9781138342842
RRP: $174.15$151.29Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that... -
Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: The Protests Against Anti-Contagion Measures and Vaccination During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Prof Donatella della Porta 9780198884309
RRP: $90.30$82.22Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture by James Marten 9780190920753
$138.68Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities... -
The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation by Jason Demers 9781487504489
$59.33Working from the premise that May '68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollination of French philosophy, international activist movements, and American countercultures. From the... -
Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico by Miles V. Rodriguez 9780197558102
RRP: $57.39$52.14The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of...