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Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez 9780822337904
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio DIaz... -
Rethinking Sex by Heather Love 9780822367352
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11This special issue of GLQ celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's groundbreaking essay, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality."... -
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine by Charles L. Briggs 9781478025788
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89In Incommunicable Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical... -
Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies by Max Cavitch 9781478026082
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique... -
Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres by Andreas Bandak 9781478030287
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections on science, culture, technology, art,... -
Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power by Aníbal Quijano 9781478030324
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22The Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded in three basic concepts: coloniality, coloniality of power, and the... -
Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South by Nivedita Menon 9781478030423
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how... -
Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media by Friedrich Kittler 9781478010715
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary... -
Feminism against Cisness by Emma Heaney 9781478030454
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned... -
The Theological Metaphors of Marx by Enrique Dussel 9781478021032
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In The Theological Metaphors of Marx, Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and ethical theory. Dussel shows that Marx unveils the theology of capitalism in his... -
Disability Worlds by Faye Ginsburg 9781478026181
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and... -
Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social by Timothy D. Taylor 9781478030355
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes... -
Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life by Margaret Price 9781478026136
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred... -
Archipelagic American Studies by Brian Russell Roberts 9780822363460
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by... -
Nanovision: Engineering the Future by Colin Milburn 9780822342656
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we think... -
Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus 9781478030188
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus... -
Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari 9781478030416
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the... -
Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal by William H. Chafe 9780822362302
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98In Hillary and Bill, William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons' political lives can be understood only through the prism of their personal relationship. Inseparable from the... -
When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier's Story by Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez 9780822358510
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.71When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military... -
Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding 9780822358794
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.27An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan... -
The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism by Diane P. Freedman 9780822312857
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, "objectivity"-seem to have so little to do with the highly... -
Representing Jazz by Krin Gabbard 9780822315797
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the... -
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen 9780822327301
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of... -
Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia by Sonita Sarker 9780822329923
Booksplease Price: £39.24A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth... -
Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century by Bruce Cumings 9780822329244
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings-a leading historian of contemporary East Asia-provides a nuanced... -
Bad Object by Elizabeth Weed 9780822368786
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Before her death in 2001, Naomi Schor was a leading scholar in feminist and critical theory and a founding coeditor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. This issue takes as its... -
Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America by C. Eric Lincoln 9780822317364
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £17.70In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America... -
Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine by David Rodowick 9780822319627
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France's most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills... -
The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976-1982 by Marcia B. Siegel 9780822311669
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Tail of the Dragon, Marcia B. Siegel and Nathaniel Tileston track the evolution of new dance in New York during the rich and crucial transitional period from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s... -
Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes by Orin Starn 9780822323211
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds)... -
We Ain't What We Was: Civil Rights in the New South by Frederick M. Wirt 9780822318934
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since... -
Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School by Pamela Perry 9780822328773
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high schoolers define white... -
The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution by Susan Oyama 9780822324669
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a... -
Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women by Anne Balsamo 9780822316985
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46This book takes the process of "reading the body" into the fields at the forefront of culture-the vast spaces mapped by science and technology-to show that the body in high-tech is as gendered as... -
Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women by Susan Aiken 9780822313908
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book... -
Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence by James P. Lester 9780822315698
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Completely revised throughout, and including five new chapters, this second edition of Environmental Politics and Policy provides an updated review and synthesis of the political science literature... -
Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire by Gretchen Murphy 9780822334842
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for... -
Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power by Maeva Marcus 9780822314172
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Government seizure of the nation's strikebound steel mills on 8 April 1952 stands as one of President Harry S Truman's most controversial actions, representing an unprecedented use of presidential... -
Jazz Among the Discourses by Krin Gabbard 9780822315964
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of... -
Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism by John D. Schaeffer 9780822310266
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90The concept sensus communis-a term that means a great deal more than its English translation "common sense"-has served as a key principle in the theory of knowledge from the ancient Greeks through...