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Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics by Susan Greenhalgh 9780804748797 [USED COPY]
RRP: $182.40Booksplease Price: $18.24China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in... -
Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective by Karin Kurz 9780804748513 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Although a strong indicator of social status, home ownership has rarely emerged as a topic in social inequality research. This book compares twelve countries-the United States, Germany, Belgium,... -
Continuity and Change in House Elections by David W. Brady 9780804737395 [USED COPY]
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $5.13For two decades, extending from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, elections to the U.S. House of Representatives were highly predictable. More than 90 percent of incumbents would seek reelection... -
Who Supports the Family?: Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages by Jean L. Potuchek 9780804728362 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $3.99In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife' s paid employment much less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine... -
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 by Charles R. Hale 9780804728003 [USED COPY]
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $5.51A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle 9780804727648 [USED COPY]
RRP: $182.40Booksplease Price: $18.24What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on... -
Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City by Daniel Touro Linger 9780804725897 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.90Booksplease Price: $5.89A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Linger's book is a rare and exceptionally worthwhile treatment of the role played by violence in the lives of ordinary Brazilians. . . . Engagingly... -
Empowerment of North American Indian Girls: Ritual Expressions at Puberty by Carol A. Markstrom 9780803232570 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.58Booksplease Price: $4.56Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development... -
California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads by Mina Yang 9780252032431 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.40Booksplease Price: $6.84What does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth... -
Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine by Steve Kroll-Smith 9780814747285 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into... -
Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution by Paula Kamen 9780814747339 [USED COPY]
RRP: $180.50Booksplease Price: $3.95How young woman are redefining sex 30 years after the Sexual Revolution Three decades after the Sexual Revolution, women's power and status have begun to match men's, and women are finally making... -
Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago by Anne Meis Knupfer 9780814746714 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and... -
Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses by Frank S. Ravitch 9780814775851 [USED COPY]
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $11.97Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of disarray and has been for some time. In Masters of... -
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.342007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II... -
The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture by John-Michael Rivera 9780814775578 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines... -
Human Rights and Peace: International and National Dimensions by David P. Forsythe 9780803268807 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $3.23As our world becomes a truly global village through instantaneous media transmission of events, the relationship between human rights and peaceful international relations receives more and more... -
Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions by Julie A. Mertus 9780804760942 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $1.94Among human rights advocates, dominant wisdom holds that the promotion and protection of human rights relies not on international efforts, but on domestic action. International institutions may... -
The Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy by Marcel Henaff 9780804760812 [USED COPY]
RRP: $212.80Booksplease Price: $2.34Can exchange bring us together? Are there any physical or intangible goods that escape the logic of the marketplace? Is there a relationship between truth-the very purpose of philosophy-and money?... -
The Autumn of Dictatorship: Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak by Samer Soliman 9780804760003 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.20Booksplease Price: $16.72The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing... -
The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis by Jacob Rogozinski 9780804759885 [USED COPY]
RRP: $212.80Booksplease Price: $21.28Is our ego but an illusion, a mere appearance produced by a reality that is foreign to us? Is it the main source of violence and injustice? Jacob Rogozinski calls into question these prejudices that... -
The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780804759847 [USED COPY]
RRP: $212.80Booksplease Price: $21.28The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the thought of twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Lefebvre challenges the truism that judges must apply and not create law... -
Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice by Susan J. Terrio 9780804759595 [USED COPY]
RRP: $182.40Booksplease Price: $18.24In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed... -
Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights by John S. W. Park 9780814767146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $100.70Booksplease Price: $10.07Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of... -
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780814736555 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring... -
After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority by Mike Hill 9780814735428 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.90Booksplease Price: $13.49As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular... -
The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions by Sue Davis 9780814719985 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.342009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women's rights movement but was also the movement's... -
Saving Our Children from the First Amendment by Kevin W. Saunders 9780814740354 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.98Booksplease Price: $5.70The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that freedom of... -
Jacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill 9780822344933 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34The French philosopher Jacques RanciEre has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century... -
Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective by Takeyuki Tsuda 9780804762748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $212.80Booksplease Price: $21.28In recent decades, increasing numbers of diasporic peoples have returned to their ethnic homelands, whether because of economic pressures, a desire to rediscover ancestral roots, or the homeland... -
Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media by Jacques Khalip 9780804761376 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.20Booksplease Price: $16.72It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be?... -
Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality and Supplementary Financiers by Erica R. Gould 9780804752794 [USED COPY]
RRP: $114.00Booksplease Price: $11.40Money Talks argues that, contrary to conventional explanations, the changes in the terms of International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality agreements are best explained by shifts in the sources for... -
Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age by Anouar Majid 9780804749817 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.58Booksplease Price: $4.56This book argues that the "clash of civilizations" that is supposed to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural... -
Congress and the Constitution by Neal E. Devins 9780822336129 [USED COPY]
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $5.13For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned... -
Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan by Susan L. Burns 9780822331834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.00Booksplease Price: $17.10Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century... -
Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination by Steven W. Bender 9780814798874 [USED COPY]
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $11.97Although the origin of the term "greaser" is debated, its derogatory meaning never has been. From silent movies like The Greaser's Revenge (1914) and The Girl and the Greaser (1913) with villainous... -
At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered Organization by Assistant Professor Dana M. Britton 9780814798836 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the "Big House" stereotype of popular... -
A Germ of Goodness: The California State Prison System, 1851-1944 by Shelley Bookspan 9780803212169 [USED COPY]
RRP: $83.60Booksplease Price: $8.36For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four prisons... -
Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison by K. C. Carceral 9780814799543 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state... -
After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism by Antonia Darder 9780814782682 [USED COPY]
RRP: $129.20Booksplease Price: $12.92After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the... -
Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy by Michael J. Bazyler 9780814799437 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.34Holocaust Restitution is the first volume to present the Holocaust restitution movement directly from the viewpoints of the various parties involved in the campaigns and settlements. Now that the...