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Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel by Michal Shaul
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How did the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) community chart a new path for its future after it lost the core of its future leaders, teachers, and rabbis in the Holocaust? How did the revival of this group... -
Religious Symbols and the Intervention of the Law: Symbolic Functionality in Pluralist States by Sylvie Bacquet 9780367727284
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44In contemporary pluralist states, where faith communities live together, different religious symbols and practices have to coexist. This may lead to conflicts between certain minority practices and... -
Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes by Neil Badmington 9780367109356
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63'I've never kept a journal', Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ' - or, rather, I've never known if I should keep one'. The form itself, he continued, was inferior and 'unnecessary', a 'minor mania of... -
Public Administration in Hong Kong: Dynamics of Reform and Executive-Led Public Policy by Wei Li 9781032050843
Booksplease Price: £20.99This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China, mapping the changing patterns of political-administrative relations affected by the... -
What's the Use of Truth? by Richard Rorty 9780231140140
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the... -
What's the Use of Truth? by Richard Rorty 9780231140157
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.11What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the... -
Intellectual Commons and the Law: A Normative Theory for Commons-Based Peer Production by Antonios Broumas 9781912656875
Booksplease Price: £26.79'With clarity and sophistication, Antonios Broumas presents a bold new theory of intellectual commons and powerful arguments for a new body of supportive law. This book not only reveals the... -
Avro 748 by Barry Lloyd
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The vision of Alliott Verdon Roe and his team in designing and building the 748 resulted in a highly successful commercial airliner, that since the 1960s has been responsible for opening new air... -
A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-50 Charmian Brinson 9780719099809
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing... -
Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine by Lukas K. Buehler 9780367392598
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Every researcher in genomics and proteomics now has access to public domain databases containing literally billions of data entries. However, without the right analytical tools, and an understanding... -
Shattering Silos: Reimagining Knowledge, Politics, and Social Critique by Lambert Zuidervaart 9780228011576
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are... -
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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the "Re-Privatization" of Labor by R. Goodman 9780230616400
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.92Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge... -
After Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Global Politics by E. Wilson 9780230290372
Booksplease Price: £90.56Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present phenomenon in global politics. This book outlines a... -
Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood 9789042919907
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The subject of veiling and face veil is nowadays one of the most controversial topics in the media and the public domain. Most people, and especially politicians and journalists, in both Muslim and... -
Exeter Diocese: Register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, 1420-55, v.4 by G. R. Dunstan
Booksplease Price: £30.73Sheds light on the history of East Devon's churches from the Middle Ages onwards, illustrating the ways in which parish churches were transformed in the late nineteenth century. In the mid... -
Public Choice: An Introduction by Iain McLean 9780631138396
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81The 1968 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to one of the founders of public choice theory, James Buchanan, yet many people have only the vaguest idea what public choice is. The book offers and... -
Faith as social capital: Connecting or dividing? Robert Furbey (School of Environment and Development, Sheffield Hallam University) 9781861348371
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.96The UK government has identified Faith communities as important sources of 'social capital' in community development and regeneration. But religion is also associated with conflict and division. How... -
The Public Lands of Texas, 1519-1970 by Thomas Lloyd Miller 9780806113029
Booksplease Price: £23.00Land has always been an important subject in Texas. In colonial times there was no gold or silver, no rich cities or advanced civilizations to lure Europeans and Americans to Texas. They went for... -
Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System by C. Murray 9781493950560
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.80Although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, few are familiar with the large and varied array of objects that travel with and between the planets in their... -
The Challenge of American History by Louis P. Masur 9780801862229
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"If historical scholarship has often proved irrelevant to the world outside university walls, history itself has burst into the public domain. Over the last decade, we have witnessed intense national... -
Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation' by Sharmistha Gooptu
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.72Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads... -
Arming the Western Front: War, Business and the State in Britain 1900-1920 Roger Lloyd-Jones 9780815366836
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79The First World War was above all a war of logistics. Whilst the conflict will forever be remembered for the mud and slaughter of the Western Front, it was a war won on the factory floor as much as... -
German Unification 1989-90: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII by Patrick Salmon 9780415691505
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in... -
Remaking governance: Peoples, politics and the public sphere by Janet Newman 9781861346391
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.28Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores... -
Silicon Nitride for Microelectronic Applications: Part 1 Preparation and Properties by John T. Milek 9781468461640
Booksplease Price: £92.01The large amount of literature on the technology of thin film silicon nitride indi cates the interest of the Department of Defense, NASA and the semiconductor industry in the development and full... -
Eugene Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the First 'Missing Link' and Its Discoverer by Bert Theunissen 9781556080814
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although the name Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few who study the origin of our species who will fail to recognise the historical place of the usage and its association with Eugene... -
The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion by Luc Boltanski 9780745647302
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization of abortion has brought it into the public domain,... -
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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the "Re-Privatization" of Labor by R. Goodman 9780230616417
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.58Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impetus to reconstitute the private sphere left a huge... -
Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order by Shubo Li 9789811053818
Booksplease Price: £90.56This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in... -
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in K-12 Schools: Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice by Mark Abendroth 9781681231235
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase "free... -
Eugene Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the First 'Missing Link' and Its Discoverer by Enid Perlin-West 9789401074919
Booksplease Price: £92.09Although the name Pithecanthropus is now seldom used, there are few who study the origin of our species who will fail to recognise the historical place of the usage and its association with Eugene... -
The Privatisation of Knowledge: A New Policy Agenda for Health, Energy, and Data Governance by Massimo Florio 9781032464060
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This book deals with the emergence of intellectual monopolies. It explores different ways of producing knowledge, thus showing alternatives to the current dominant paradigm which is based on turning... -
![Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's "The Rover" and "The Feign'd Courtezans" by Tiziana Febronia Arena 9783034326483](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8416849/9452565/9783034326483__71333.1749698840.jpg?c=1 "Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's "The Rover" and "The Feign'd Courtezans" by Tiziana Febronia Arena 9783034326483")
Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's "The Rover" and "The Feign'd Courtezans" by Tiziana Febronia Arena 9783034326483
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £47.61"Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's The Rover and The Feign'd Courtezans" pursues an in-depth investigation of the process whereby female identity was performatively... -
Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures by Peter Frank Peters
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of... -
Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa: Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana by Seth Tweneboah 9781032088778
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high... -
Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development by Juliette M. Rogers 9780271032689
Booksplease Price: £48.49In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Epoque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary... -
'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture by Ffion Jones
Booksplease Price: £8.03This volume approaches the fascinating figure of Iolo Morganwg - stonemason, poet and literary forger - from three distinct but interrelated angles. They all take as their starting point Iolo... -
Strategic Security Public Protection: Implications of the Boko Haram Conflict for Creating Active Security & Intelligence DNA-Architecture for Conflict-Torn Societies by Maiwa'azi Dandaura-Samu
Booksplease Price: £91.39This book explores the theory and practice of security conflict intervention by examining the experience of the Boko Haram security assault conflict. Through an examination of the realities of... -
ARTtitude by Frederic Claquin 9780764346286
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £28.18Representing countries as far-reaching and distinct as Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Guatemala, and the United States (to name a few), the 34 international artists featured in this... -
Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures by Peter Frank Peters 9780415581233
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of...