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Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.522007 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Winner 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.28As 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: $28.13Booksplease Price: $1.37Among 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: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65Can 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: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79The 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: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01Is 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: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01The 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: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86In 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: $71.02Booksplease Price: $7.10Since 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Guns, 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: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51As 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.522009 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: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02The 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52The 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: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01In 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: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79It 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: $80.40Booksplease Price: $8.04Money 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: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22This 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: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62For 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: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Exploring 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: $84.42Booksplease Price: $8.44Although 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11When 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: $58.96Booksplease Price: $5.90For 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Prison, 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: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11After 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: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Holocaust 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... -
The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood by Nancy Ehrenreich 9780814722305 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Since the passage of Roe v. Wade, the debate over reproductive rights has dominated America's courts, legislatures, and streets. The contributors to The Reproductive Rights Reader embrace... -
Situating Sadness: Women and Depression in Social Context by Janet M. Stoppard 9780814798003 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51It is well known that depression occurs more often in women than in men. It is the most commonly encountered mental health problem among women and ranks overall as one of the most important women's... -
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States by Charles J. Ogletree 9780814762172 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being... -
Making Their Place: Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany by Katja M. Guenther 9780804770729 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their... -
Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century: Volume 2 A Comparative Perspective by William Potter 9780804769709 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative projections of nuclear proliferation over the next decade and offers a range of practical nonproliferation measures. The authors address... -
Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's <I>Crisis of European Sciences</I> by David Hyder 9780804756044 [USED COPY]
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $8.04This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's... -
Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego by Steven P. Erie 9780804756037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s... -
Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China by Yongming Zhou 9780804751285 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62It is widely recognized that internet technology has had a profound effect on political participation in China, but this new use of technology is not unprecedented in Chinese history. This is a... -
Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang 9780822328988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15In Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mutually imbricated modes of identity formation, representation, and knowledge production... -
Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment by Jack M. Balkin 9780814799703 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats, such as identity theft, computer viruses, and cyberattacks. Moreover, because cybercrimes are... -
God's New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus by Rebecca Y. Kim 9780814747902 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $6.43In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and... -
Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis by Richard Delgado 9780814719565 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people... -
Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Alicia R. Schmidt Camacho 9780814716489 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants, including...