Filter By
Books (6522)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Dance for Me When I Die by Cristian Alarcon 9781478003144
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Victor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying... -
Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science by Carolina Alonso Bejarano 9781478003625
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant... -
The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai by Maura Finkelstein 9781478003687
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $141.78Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers-who are... -
Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil by Jacob Blanc 9781478004295
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31In Before the Flood Jacob Blanc traces the protest movements of rural Brazilians living in the shadow of the Itaipu dam-the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. In the 1970s and... -
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett 9781478005018
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $129.60In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs... -
Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam by Keith L. Camacho 9781478005032
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military... -
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King 9781478005056
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $135.70In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal-an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea-as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between... -
The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State by Francois Ewald 9781478007715
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31FranCois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity-first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time-is one of the most... -
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood by Vanessa Diaz 9781478008545
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47In Manufacturing Celebrity Vanessa Diaz traces the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary Hollywood and American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic... -
Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom by Katina L Rogers 9781478008613
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72In Putting the Humanities PhD to Work Katina L. Rogers grounds practical career advice in a nuanced consideration of the current landscape of the academic workforce. Drawing on surveys, interviews,... -
Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools by Marcus Bell 9781478013709
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $129.60In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in majority Black schools in which he examines the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is... -
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities by David Boarder Giles 9781478013495
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478013495Author David Boarder GilesFormat HardbackPage Count 344Impri -
Mendings by Megan Sweeney 9781478016465
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her... -
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas by Yolanda Covington-Ward 9781478010647
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $69.24The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of... -
Amkoullel, The Fula Boy by Amadou Hampate Ba 9781478013273
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.60Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Ba tells in... -
Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We re Coming From by David Simpson 9780822328391
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79"Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . ."-so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of... -
Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America by Matthew C. Gutmann 9780822330349
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $163.70Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin... -
Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video by Mary R. Desjardins 9780822357896
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading... -
Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo 9780822332916
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary... -
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.20new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed... -
The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia by Daniel M. Goldstein 9780822333708
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $35.18Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city's outskirts only to... -
How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition by Yrjo Haila 9780822337256
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice... -
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century by Gregory Mann 9780822337553
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia,... -
The Initials of the Earth by Kathleen Ross 9780822338444
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesus Diaz. Born in Havana in 1941, Diaz... -
Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask by Nick Henck 9780822339953
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the... -
Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco by Geoffrey Baker 9780822341369
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the... -
Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory by Clare Hemmings 9780822348931
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $144.83Why Stories Matter is a powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Clare Hemmings examines the narratives that make up feminist... -
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader by Gayle S. Rubin 9780822349860
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.11Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose... -
Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America by Peter Wade 9780822356486
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31In genetics laboratories in Latin America, scientists have been mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the genetic basis of complex diseases and to trace population histories. As... -
The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia by Danny Hoffman 9780822350590
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries... -
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art by Ilan Stavans 9780822356349
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces... -
Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Tupac Amaru by Sergio Serulnikov 9780822354833
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54Revolution in the Andes is an in-depth history of the TUpac Amaru insurrection, the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest. Between... -
The Other Henry James by John Carlos Rowe 9780822321477
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05In The Other Henry James, John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in... -
Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique by Kang Liu 9780822314165
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In... -
Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture by Gayle Wald 9780822325154
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial "order." Yet the very... -
The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution by Zakiya Hanafi 9780822325369
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $141.08The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates... -
A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an... -
The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies by Alberto Moreiras 9780822327264
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $200.27The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the... -
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State by Thomas Blom Hansen 9780822327981
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together... -
The Official World by Mark Seltzer 9780822360865
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $141.78In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's...