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Marx @ 2000: Late Marxist Perspectives by Professor Ronaldo Munck 9781349409181
Booksplease Price: £90.56Marx is out of fashion in intellectual circles on the whole but he is increasingly seen as an astute and relevant guide to the spread of a new raw capitalism world wide. This book is a timely and... -
Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties by Michael D. Dwyer 9780199356843
Booksplease Price: £43.09Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s... -
Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era by 9780312228408
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.05The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together... -
The South African Truth Commission by Kenneth Christie 9780312233327
Booksplease Price: £90.56Over the last thirty years, many political transitions from authoritarian regimes and dictatorial political systems have been accompanied by Truth Commissions. Since 1974 there have been over twenty... -
Managing the Press: Origins of the Media Presidency, 1897-1933 by Steven Ponder 9780312235079
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.84Managing the Press re-examines the emergence of the twentieth century media President, whose authority to govern depends largely on his ability to generate public support by appealing to the... -
Women At Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse by Lisabeth Paravisini-Gerbe 9780312219963
Booksplease Price: £90.56From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely... -
Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture by Henry A. Giroux 9780312239329
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.76Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph... -
Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by A.Lynn Martin 9780312234140
Booksplease Price: £92.21This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to 1700. While... -
Institutions and Institutional Change in the Federal Republic of Germany by Ludger Helms 9780312230012
Booksplease Price: £92.27After an extended period of major political upheaval and remarkably low regime stability before the Second World War, Germany has become one of the most stable democracies in western Europe. A great... -
Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts by 9780312228125
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £63.90In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes... -
Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity by Dr. Glyn Davis 9780851709994
Booksplease Price: £40.09Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programs produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as "Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the... -
Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Barbara Onslow 9780312236021
Booksplease Price: £90.86To 19th-century writers the dynamic periodical press seemed both an influential medium and a means to pay the bills. A suprising number of women, despite limited education, parental opposition and... -
Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts by Jane H. Bayes 9780312293697
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.35In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes... -
A. E. Housman: A Reassessment by Alan W. Holden 9780312223182
Booksplease Price: £90.56This collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written - A Shropshire Lad - a... -
The Third Man by Rob White
Booksplease Price: £10.72A window is thrown open and sudden light illuminates the face of Orson Welles. Harry Lime's return from the dead in "The Third Man" (1949), Carol Reed's unique thriller set in occupied Vienna, is one... -
Miller: Death of a Salesman by J. B. E. Turner 9780333581537
Booksplease Price: £25.91Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of... -
Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention by Carola Lentz 9780312224059
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume... -
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari by David Robinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) remains the source and essence of German Expressionist cinema. Fusing... -
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact by Samantha Power 9781403973115
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.51At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President... -
Teaching Music Video by Peter Fraser 9781844570584
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £41.67Music video is a popular form worldwide. It is a teachable and accessible topic because the videos are familiar to students, easy to get hold of and short. And because it is always changing, it makes... -
Understanding Representation by Wendy Helsby 9781844570805
Booksplease Price: £36.44This is the third book in the "Understanding the Moving Image" series. Like other books in the series, it aims to provide a strong critical and theoretical base for the study of the media. It has... -
Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics: 2nd Revised Edition by Barry Rubin 9781403960740
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.37Among Egyptian fundamentalist groups, one of the most important ideological debates has been whether the Egyptian regime or the West should be the primary target of action. This classic work is... -
Dreams and Destinies by Marguerite Yourcenar 9780312212896
Booksplease Price: £41.69Dreams and Destinies, the Rosetta Stone of Marguerite Yourcenar's canon, is an intimate journal of her dreams. In Dreams and Destinies Yourcenar has provided us with the most daring, yet least... -
Arcade Treasures Bill Kurtz 9780887406195
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £29.80Today, a sense of nostalgia and the irresistible urge to play have combined to make arcade memorabilia and antique arcade games one of the hottest collectible fields of our time. This book is filled... -
Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow by Chris McKimmie 9781911631224
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A quirky, totally original, visual poem to the child's innate celebration of all that is creative in the human heart.' - Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright On Friday nights, all day Saturday and most of... -
The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Development and Identity by Shastri Amita 9780312238520
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £64.93The chapters in this volume analyse issues relating to political governance, national identity, economic development and regional security that have preoccupied the states of South Asia in the fifty... -
The Management of Peace Processes by John Darby 9780312231989
Booksplease Price: £90.86In recent years, the resolution of violent conflicts has undergone significant changes. The UN-dominated interventions of the late 1980s have been replaced by a new form of peace process. This... -
Election Observation and Democratization in Africa by Jon Abbink 9780312223946
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book offers an authoritative study of election observation in Africa and its relation with democratization processes. Election observation is a hotly debated issue in contemporary international... -
Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture by Erica Fudge 9780312225728
Booksplease Price: £90.56When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals... -
Inside the Volcano: My Life with Malcolm Lowry by Jan Gabrial 9780230619784
Booksplease Price: £36.13This intimate memoir of the tempestuous marriage between Jan Gabrial, a young, aspiring American writer, and British novelist Malcolm Lowry takes us through the highs and lows of this passionate,... -
The Hollywood Studio System: A History by Douglas Gomery 9781844570645
Booksplease Price: £37.12Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The... -
Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture by Daniel Sack 9780312294427
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.04At the beginning of Whitebread Protestants, Daniel Sack writes "When I was young, church meant food. Decades later, it's hard to point to particular events, but there are lots of tastes, smells, and... -
Improving Project Performance: Eight Habits of Successful Project Teams by Jerry L. Wellman 9780230112179
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.50The approach to project management is too often formulaic, describing what should be done, but not describing why those actions are important. This book outlines the what and how of project... -
Tele-visions: An Introduction to Studying Television by Glen Creeber 9781844570867
Booksplease Price: £40.09Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television Studies has been specifically designed to offer a comprehensive, authoritative, accessible and lively introduction to the subject of television... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312217778
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £63.80The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.53The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated... -
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic by Anne S. Kasper 9780312294519
Booksplease Price: £46.28Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a... -
Went the Day Well? by Penelope Houston 9781844575008
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced,a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II, and nothing like the loveable comedies... -
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era by Brenda Dixon Gottschild 9780312294434
RRP: £70.50Booksplease Price: £49.97The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion... -
Siblings and the Family Business: Making it Work for Business, the Family, and the Future by Stephanie Brun De Pontet 9780230342163
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £22.66The family business becomes much more complex as it goes from the founder to next generations. As more family members work together several challenges become apparent and can threaten the business if...