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The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America Christian Joppke 9780745665429
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.76Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the... -
An Emotional History of Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Britain Ryan Tristram-Walmsley 9781350541634
Booksplease Price: $179.87A groundbreaking exploration of postwar Caribbean migration to Britain, Oceans of Feeling offers the first historical analysis of this defining moment in modern British history using the tools,... -
Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective by Mario Barrera 9780268006884
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $37.15Beyond Aztlan argues that American society has historically viewed a distinctive cultural identity as something that an ethnic group gives up in order to achieve economic and political parity. ... -
Canada's Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests by Peter H. Russell 9781487524265
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.66150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a... -
Letters Of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss by Andre Aciman 9781565846074
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.88"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters of Transit have written award-winning... -
Navigating Rough S.E.A.S. - Soul Eroding Assimilation-Forcing Systems: A Playbook for Navigating Workplace Trauma and Reclaiming Power, Wellness, and Joy by Tonicia Freeman-Foster 9798989866908
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989866908Author Tonicia Freeman-FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 248 -
Macroscopic Models for Vehicular Flows and Crowd Dynamics: Theory and Applications: Classical and Non-Classical Advanced Mathematics for Real Life Applications by Massimiliano Daniele Rosini 9783319001548
Booksplease Price: $190.18This monograph presents a systematic treatment of the theory for hyperbolic conservation laws and their applications to vehicular traffics and crowd dynamics. In the first part of the book, the... -
How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis Simon May 9781529042863
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary... -
The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America by Christian Joppke 9780745665412
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the... -
Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question by Robert Fine 9781526104977
Booksplease Price: $40.36Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of... -
Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question by Robert Fine 9781526104953
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $158.87Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of... -
Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons Darrell M. Newton 9780719081675
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $129.38Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, this book provides a historical analysis of the policies and practices established by the BBC as it attempted to assist white Britons in... -
Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature by Danny Mendez 9781138110892
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Mendez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement... -
Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific by Norman Vasu 9780415819725
Booksplease Price: $231.82Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region... -
Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty Lorenz Biegler (Carnegie Mellon, USA) 9780470697436
RRP: $235.10Booksplease Price: $210.65This book focuses on computational methods for large-scale statistical inverse problems and provides an introduction to statistical Bayesian and frequentist methodologies. Recent research advances... -
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le 9781805300762
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of... -
Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons by Darrell M. Newton 9781526143617
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, this book provides a historical analysis of the policies and practices established by the BBC as it attempted to assist white Britons in... -
Immigration and Crime: Taking Stock by Charis E. Kubrin 9783031228384
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $86.86This brief examines various dimensions of the immigration-crime relationship in the United States. It evaluates a range of theories and arguments asserting an immigration-crime link, reviews studies... -
Settler Colonial Culture and Thought in the Northeastern United States Christoph Strobel 9781032640518
Booksplease Price: $95.13This book provides the first comprehensive work that examines the intellectual impact of New English narratives about Indigenous peoples, colonization, and the cultural influence they had in the... -
The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration by Kyle Hughes
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26This is a new departure in Scottish and Irish migration studies. The Scottish diasporic communities closest to home - those which are part of what we sometimes term the 'near diaspora' - are those we... -
Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten Ursina Jaeger 9781978836983
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $42.25Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss neighborhood. Schools as formative instances of social... -
Problems and Prospects in Long and Medium Range Weather Forecasting by D.M. Burridge 9783540128274
Booksplease Price: $190.18Forecasting the weather for the long and medium range is a difficult and scientifically challenging problem. Since the first operational weather prediction by numerical methods was carried out (on... -
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) by Sui Sin Far 9781554810277
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $35.66Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a complex and sympathetic picture of life in American... -
Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918 Elisabeth C. Davis 9781666952520
Booksplease Price: $171.61Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918 brings to light a largely unknown of history of the Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by... -
The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuburger 9780801477201
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.78Bulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numerically significant Turks and the... -
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States Joel Spring 9781032800585
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78Joel Spring's history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization-the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and... -
From Berlin to Berkeley: German-Jewish Identities Reinhard Bendix 9781041303480
RRP: $155.38Booksplease Price: $154.75Originally published in 1986, From Berlin to Berkeley is an intellectual portrait of one of America's leading 20th century social scientists, Reinhard Bendix, and his father, Ludwig Bendix. It... -
The Sense of Art: A Study in Aesthetic Education by Ralph A. Smith
RRP: $121.78Booksplease Price: $113.69Ralph A. Smith provides a theory of aesthetic education that addresses the need to revitalize the capacity for genuine judgment in society, reaffirm the ideal of excellence in culture, and reorder... -
The Trail We Leave by Rubén Palma 9781931896092
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $25.37The Trail We Leave received rave reviews in Denmark for its exploration of the lives of exiles in Scandinavia and the difficulty of living between two cultures (with sometimes comic, sometimes... -
![Female Muslim Existence in the West. Failure or Emancipation: A critical comparison of Monica Ali's "Brick Lane" (2003) and Kia Abdullah's "Life, Love and Assimilation" (2006) by Matthias Dickert 9783668301931](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8645470/9680699/9783668301931__76058.1750183099.jpg?c=1 "Female Muslim Existence in the West. Failure or Emancipation: A critical comparison of Monica Ali's "Brick Lane" (2003) and Kia Abdullah's "Life, Love and Assimilation" (2006) by Matthias Dickert 9783668301931")
Female Muslim Existence in the West. Failure or Emancipation: A critical comparison of Monica Ali's "Brick Lane" (2003) and Kia Abdullah's "Life, Love and Assimilation" (2006) by Matthias Dickert 9783668301931
RRP: $127.89Booksplease Price: $95.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668301931Author Matthias DickertFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Identity and Integration: Migrants in Western Europe by Bernhard Peters 9780367604585
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Symbolic boundaries, cultural differences and ethnic conflicts have gained significance and new meanings in a global situation characterized by the dissolution of traditional political and societal... -
Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity by Tomas Jimenez 9780520261426
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly... -
Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Rebecca Wellington 9780806193700
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers... -
Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten Ursina Jaeger 9781978836990
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $167.58Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss neighborhood. Schools as formative instances of social... -
Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Outrageous satire . . . extremely funny, weirdly touching' - Guardian'A work of genius' - Scotsman'Close-to-the-knuckle farce with a big beating heart' - Daily... -
Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America: Poverty and Race in America by Jean M. Hartman 9780765607270
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.77Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation;... -
The Population History of German Jewry 1815–1939: Based on the Collections and Preliminary Research of Prof. Usiel Oscar Schmelz by Steven Mark Lowenstein 9798887191089
RRP: $291.88Booksplease Price: $203.34AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of... -
The Native American Contest Powwow: Cultural Tethering Theory by Steven Aicinena 9781666900910
Booksplease Price: $179.87The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to understand the importance of the contest powwow and what it means to participants, carrying on the beauty of Native American... -
The Native American Contest Powwow: Cultural Tethering Theory by Steven Aicinena 9781666900934
Booksplease Price: $71.06The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to convey the importance of the contest powwow in the celebration and preservation of Native American culture. The book... -
Once We Were Strangers: What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor by Shawn Smucker 9780800734763
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.52In 2012, Mohammad fled his Syrian village along with his wife and four sons, escaping to Jordan through the wilderness. Four years later he sat across from Shawn Smucker in a small conference room in...