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Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary by David Patterson 9780295977829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $205.11Booksplease Price: $20.52This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were actually taking place. Many of the writers did not survive... -
Constitution-Making in the Region of Former Soviet Dominance by Rett R. Ludwikowski 9780822318026 [USED COPY]
RRP: $197.60Booksplease Price: $19.76With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, newly formed governments throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states have created constitutions that provide legal... -
Chicanas and Chicanos in School: Racial Profiling, Identity Battles, and Empowerment by Marcos Pizarro 9780292706651 [USED COPY]
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $4.37By any measure of test scores and graduation rates, public schools are failing to educate a large percentage of Chicana/o youth. But despite years of analysis of this failure, no consensus has been... -
Political Order: Nomos XXXVIII by Ian Shapiro 9780814780299 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92The collapse of the Soviet empire stands as a dramatic reminder that political institutions are human creations that can be designed more or less well. The question of what constitutes a viable... -
The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature by Lauro Flores 9780295977461 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.91Booksplease Price: $5.70This book celebrates the emergence of a potent force on the American literary scene: the coming of age of contemporary Hispanic writers. The Americas Review-the pioneering journal of Hispanic... -
RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire by Maria Pramaggiore 9780814766330 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning... -
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen 9780822327301 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.60Booksplease Price: $1.96Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of... -
Democratic Community: Nomos XXXV by John W. Chapman 9780814715079 [USED COPY]
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $5.13A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. --American Political Science Review A... -
The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture by Silviano Santiago 9780822327523 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.20Booksplease Price: $16.59Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of "hybridity"... -
Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea by Stuart Kirsch 9780804753418 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.20Booksplease Price: $16.72While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic... -
Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 by David Nugent 9780804729581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $5.51Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states-how they form, what sustains them, why they fail-this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of... -
Reinventing Marriage: The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer by Lori Kenschaft 9780252030000 [USED COPY]
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $6.08At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, she married... -
Law, Justice, and Power: Between Reason and Will by Sinkwan Cheng 9780804748919 [USED COPY]
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $5.13This is an unprecedented volume that brings together J. Hillis Miller, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and other prominent intellectuals from five countries... -
Citizens and E-Government: Evaluating Policy and Management by Christopher G. Reddick 9781615209316 [USED COPY]
RRP: $359.10Booksplease Price: $3.95Citizens and E-Government: Evaluating Policy and Management examines the role that citizens play in the development of electronic government or e-government, specifically focusing on the impact of... -
The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture by Frederick S. Lane 9781591024279 [USED COPY]
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $4.75Janet Jackson's infamous 'wardrobe malfunction' at the 2004 Superbowl precipitated a nation-wide controversy. To judge by the hysterical reaction, one would think that nothing so shocking had ever... -
The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the Terrorist Threat by Michael P. Arena 9780814707159 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Who would strap a bomb to his chest, walk into a crowded subway station and blow himself up? Only by examining how a terrorist understands his own identity and actions can this question be answered... -
Murach's jQuery by Zak Ruvalcaba 9781890774912 [USED COPY]
RRP: $106.38Booksplease Price: $10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890774912Author Zak RuvalcabaFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint -
Whodunit Puzzles: Mysteries for the Super Sleuth to Solve by Tim Dedopulos 9781398804616 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398804616Author Tim DedopulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian 9780814716328 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.98Booksplease Price: $5.70The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. Editor Angie... -
Wisconsin Politics and Government: America's Laboratory of Democracy by James K. Conant 9780803264564 [USED COPY]
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $5.13Throughout the twentieth century, Wisconsin won national visibility and praise for its role as a "laboratory of democracy" within the American federal system. In Wisconsin Politics and Government... -
![Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan by Daniel C. Lynch 9780804753944](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10585950/11601906/9780804753944__41998.1792628031.jpg?c=1 "Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan by Daniel C. Lynch 9780804753944")
Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan by Daniel C. Lynch 9780804753944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $212.80Booksplease Price: $21.28This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be seen in Taiwan and... -
Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4: Stories of Other Narrators by Douglas R. Parks 9780803236950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $114.00Booksplease Price: $11.40Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in... -
Histories of the Future by Susan Harding 9780822334859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.60Booksplease Price: $1.96We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual... -
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall by Scott Douglas Gerber 9780814731147 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost universally regarded as the "father of the Supreme Court" and "the jurist who started... -
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas by Scott Douglas Gerber 9780814730997 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92An assessment of the first five years of Justice Clarence Thomas's time on the Court Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified public figures of our day. Time magazine called him "Uncle Tom... -
Judging Bush by Robert Maranto 9780804760898 [USED COPY]
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $4.37There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted,... -
Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America by Thomas J. Ferraro 9780814727300 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.342006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago-;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation,... -
Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel by Gregory Forter 9780814726907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.90Booksplease Price: $13.49Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and... -
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley 9780822336006 [USED COPY]
RRP: $197.60Booksplease Price: $2.17For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet... -
Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife: The Diary of Annie Elliott Perrin by Annie Elliott Perrin 9780821412664 [USED COPY]
RRP: $76.00Booksplease Price: $7.60Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife is the bare-bones diary of a Geneva, Ohio, farmer's wife, Annie Perrin, who wrote during the last three weeks of 1917 and all of 1918, that is, during the final battles,... -
In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies by Mandy Merck 9780814756386 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the... -
Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections by Matthew J. Streb 9780814740347 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge... -
Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town by Melissa Checker 9780814716571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up One community's fight against industrial contamination and environmental racism Over the past two... -
Hopi Tales of Destruction by Ekkehart Malotki 9780803282834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $3.99Hopi Tales of Destruction preserves seven powerful tales about ancient Hopi villages that now lie in ruins. These narratives shed considerable light on the Hopis' past, giving insight into cultural... -
China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture by Nancy N. Chen 9780822326342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.60Booksplease Price: $17.86China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its... -
Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 9780804777117 [USED COPY]
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $15.96In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses... -
Taming the Electoral College by Robert W. Bennett 9780804754101 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $3.99Taming the Electoral College explores poorly understood aspects of the electoral college, including two possibilities in particular that could pose the most serious danger for American democracy... -
Lacan and the Matter of Origins by Shuli Barzilai 9780804733823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $5.51Lacan and the Matter of Origins traces the development of Lacan's thinking about the role of the mother in psychical formation. It examines the conceptual struggle throughout his work over issues of... -
Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China by Martin Whyte 9780804769419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $197.60Booksplease Price: $2.17Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of... -
Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception by Janet Staiger 9780814781388 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge...