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Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas by Israel G. Solares 9781647791360
RRP: £48.95£42.92Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and effects of the United States Company, and how its mining operations shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape of North America in the first half of the twentieth... -
Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era by Tracey Raney 9781487540012
£59.87Gender-based violence in politics is a significant and growing problem that threatens the democratic process in Canada. Despite its prevalence, little academic research has been conducted on this topic to date. Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics... -
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780691203744
RRP: £25.00£18.79Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a... -
The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood by Grace E. Howard 9780520391079
RRP: £25.00£21.19Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these... -
The Political Development of American Debt Relief by Emily Zackin 9780226832357
RRP: £80.00£76.61A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection... -
In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad by Mickey Bergman 9781546004752
RRP: £30.00£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546004752Author Mickey BergmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Center StreetPublisher Center Street -
René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis by Andreas Wilmes 9781611864953
RRP: £40.95£33.54This edited volume situates RenÉ Girard in relation to the Western philosophical tradition. Each chapter engages the French anthropologist in dialogue with a key figure from the history of Western philosophy, from Plato to Kierkegaard. The pivotal... -
Voting Online: Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections by Nicole Goodman 9780228021254
£32.78In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may... -
Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York by Marin Kosut 9780231216135
RRP: £22.00£19.89Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era of hypergentrification, still beckon to aspiring artists as a place to make art and remake yourself?Art... -
American Global Leadership: Ailing US Diplomacy and Solutions for the Twenty-First Century by G. Doug Davis 9781621908845
RRP: £118.00£101.55In American Global Leadership: Ailing US Diplomacy and Solutions for the Twenty-First Century, G. Doug Davis and Michael O. Slobodchikoff present a selection of fifteen essays that trace the history of American diplomacy from Eisenhower to Trump. Penned... -
Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire by Nancy E. Riley 9780231196796
RRP: £30.00£27.39The Chinese experience in Hawai‘i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai‘i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic... -
Reforming Legislatures: American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020 by Peverill Squire 9780826223098
RRP: £48.95£45.27Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier... -
Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War by Andreas E. Feldmann 9780231213752
RRP: £30.00£27.39Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and... -
Pressing the Police and Policing the Press: The History and Law of the U.S. Press-Police Relationship by Scott Memmel 9780826223067
RRP: £48.95£45.27In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police Department officers. Members of the press covered these... -
Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools by Chana Teeger 9780231213417
RRP: £25.00£22.43How are histories of racial oppression dealt with in contexts of diversity? Chana Teeger tackles this question by examining how young South Africans, born into democracy, confront their country’s racist apartheid past in high school history lessons... -
Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico by Michelle Ramirez 9780817321956
RRP: £94.00£76.48An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperityPentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca is a timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal church community in Oaxaca de Juarez. Based on extensive... -
Women, Business and the Law 2024 by The World Bank 9781464820632
RRP: £37.95£30.67Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the... -
Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence by Alexander McClelland 9781978832053
RRP: £22.99£17.93Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has... -
Home Is Where Your Politics Are: Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa by Jessica A. Scott 9781978836075
RRP: £25.99£23.26Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of... -
Raising Ducks for Beginners and Beyond: The Guide to Breeds, Ponds, Nutrition, and All Things Duck by Kristine Ellis 9780760388457
RRP: £18.99£14.01Get started raising your own ducks with this approachable guide by duck-fluencer Kristine Ellis (@dunkin.ducks). Raising ducks may seem like all fun and games thanks to the adorable and silly birds, but what most people don’t realize is just how much... -
Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames by Megan Amber Condis 9780807180891
RRP: £60.00£50.86Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of "videogame literature," with essays that consider written... -
Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives by Charles G. Palm 9780817925543
RRP: £30.95£21.53In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Hoover Institution began a historic twelve-year effort to microfilm and publish the records of the Soviet Communist Party and State— ten million pages of newly opened archives documenting the history... -
Mississippian Women by Rachel V. Briggs 9781683404149
RRP: £94.00£76.48Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse... -
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change by Adrian S.Z. Chase 9780816553181
RRP: £86.00£70.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553181Author Adrian S.Z. ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 966g -
The Great Salt Lake Food Chains: Fragility and Resiliency by Bonnie K. Baxter 9781647691820
RRP: £8.95£6.97Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten... -
The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment: Ideas for Inclusive Growth through a Territorial Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean by Elena Ianchovichina 9781464819599
RRP: £37.95£30.67This study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potential of its mostly urban workforce and take advantage of opportunities in a post-pandemic economy reshaped... -
Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography by Kristin Elizabeth Yarris 9780816553433
RRP: £37.95£31.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553433Author Kristin Elizabeth YarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology by Alberto L. Siani 9780231213677
RRP: £30.00£27.39The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these... -
Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right by David Austin Walsh 9780300260977
RRP: £25.00£23.94A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War Since 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the... -
Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court by Kevin A. Johnson 9780817321963
RRP: £94.00£76.48A whole host of fears may motivate calls to restrict First Amendment rights, prioritizing one fear over another. Fear and the First Amendment unveils these negotiations of various fears and related protections as they appear in the contemporary Supreme... -
Substance Use in Older Adults by Art Walaszek 9781615375073
£53.73By 2050, 85.7 million people in the United States are projected to be 65 or older. Older adults are especially prone to the effects of substances, and a 2021 survey showed that 4 million older adults were dealing with a substance use disorder. As the... -
Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West by Katelyn N McDonough 9781647691431
RRP: £86.00£70.08This volume provides the most comprehensive overview of archaeological research into the late Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the North American Far West in over a decade. It focuses on the relationship between stemmed and fluted point... -
Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court by Kevin A. Johnson 9780817361457
£37.16A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer a deeply considered examination of the ways fear figures... -
Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes by Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 9781517911706
£28.68Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails In 1989, a group of U.S. government scientists met to discuss some surprising findings: new diseases were appearing around the world, and viruses that they thought long... -
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice by Cristy Clark 9781474487450
RRP: £24.99£22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474487450Author Cristy ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Predication and Genesis: Metaphysics as Fundamental Heuristic After Schelling's 'The Ages of the World' by Wolfram Hogrebe 9781399531498
RRP: £85.00£76.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399531498Author Wolfram HogrebeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Carrion by Wes Jamison 9781636281162
RRP: £12.99£9.32Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens-of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others-function in Jamison's essay... -
Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in California by David A. Reichard 9780820366333
RRP: £98.00£79.67Beginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California’s rich history of... -
The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume by Gil Morej�n 9781399504812
RRP: £19.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399504812Author Gil Morej�nFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa by Mike Anastario 9780816553372
RRP: £37.95£31.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553372Author Mike AnastarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 340g