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A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain by S. Sayyid
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually... -
Chisinau: Architectural Guide by Stefan Rusu
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.32Chisinau, today the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova, has undergone tumultuous changes under the successive political regimes that marked the twentieth century. Once part of the... -
Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark: Supporting the Struggle in Syria by Anne Sofie Sch tt 9781474491716
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Anne Sofie Schott contributes to our understanding of mobilisation and identity formation in the periphery of the Kurdish diaspora by examining the small but well-established community in Denmark... -
Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction by Michael Walonen 9780815359517
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather... -
Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes by Peter Gose 9780802096173
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did... -
Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire: A Transnational History Eleonora Naxidou 9789633867754
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £113.27Observers and historians continue to marvel at the diversity and complexity of the Ottoman Empire. This book explores the significant and multifaceted role that Orthodox Christian networks played in... -
The Geopolitics of Pope Francis by J. De Volder 9789042940659
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £69.26Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in March 2013 with a clear agenda of internal reform of the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Yet the reformist Pope Francis has also... -
Policemen of the Tsar: Local Police in an Age of Upheaval by Robert Abbott 9789633865750
Booksplease Price: £96.65Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia's police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23... -
Glasgow in Photographs David Collie 9781398122031
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, has long been an important cultural and trading centre. Its historic university and the wealth generated by the Atlantic trade, followed by massive industrial... -
Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920 Miloš Jovanović 9781503646803
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from... -
Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920 Miloš Jovanović 9781503646001
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £82.90This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from... -
School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory by Onur Erdur 9781509569342
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.14Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: these were among the luminaries of France's golden age of... -
Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World by Isa Blumi
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting... -
The Icon Curtain: The Cold War's Quiet Border by Yuliya Komska
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.87The Iron Curtain did not exist - at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct... -
Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music: Nature and Nationalism by Benedict Taylor 9780367880651
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life. Grieg was enchanted by what he... -
Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context - An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory: Part 1 - Critique: Europe and the Mediterranean by Tobias L. Kienlin 9781784911478
Booksplease Price: £40.11This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or 'proto-urban' society under... -
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs Updated Edition by Ellen Dunham-Jones 9780470934326
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £38.26Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and... -
The Crusades in 100 Objects: The Great Campaigns of the Medieval World by Waterson, James 9781526795304
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53For half a millennium, throughout almost the entire medieval period, the Catholic church sanctioned military campaigns against what it perceived as its enemies. The rise of Islam and its spread... -
Picking Up Signals Jane Pearn 9781836281818
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42These are poems for our time, which stir as well as make us reflect. Flowing between childhood and adulthood and ranging from the deeply personal to the universal, themes of motherhood, adoption,... -
Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China Yanshuo Zhang 9780472077779
Booksplease Price: £96.10China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain understudied or unknown in the West. The Qiang, one... -
Every Little Piece of My Heart by Non Pratt
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16"Pratt's characters are rib-achingly funny, outrageous and entirely true to life." Metro"A writer to watch." The Guardian"A leading name in UK YA literature." The BooksellerUK YA Book... -
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society James B. Jacobs 9780226389776
Booksplease Price: £30.43Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936... -
Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction by Michael Walonen 9780367904210
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather... -
The Search for a Socialist El Dorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s by Alexey Golubev 9781611861150
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.04In the 1930s, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist emigres were building a... -
Political Space: Reading The Global Through Clayoquot Sound by Warren Magnusson 9780816640409
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan by Eluned Gramich 9781917140027
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.37Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative... -
Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia by Edward Lemon 9780367664206
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people's imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism,... -
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) by T. W. Moody 9780199564088
Booksplease Price: £55.04This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to... -
Shakespeare and South Africa by David Johnson 9780198183150
Booksplease Price: £90.87Shakespeare and South Africa is a lively and topical study of the teaching and criticism of Shakespeare in South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present day, covering a number of key... -
Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied Keith Jarrett 9781913268886
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Poetry Book Society RecommendationKeith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661129
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £45.60By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization by Owen Rees 9781324036524
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.52When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world... -
Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides: New Edition by Lesley Riddoch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and economic change. Her... -
In Search of Home: Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor by Kaveri Haritas
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing for the displaced poor, which increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. This longitudinal... -
Rethinking African Cultural Production by Kenneth W. Harrow
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume... -
Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence by Peter Y. Burke
Booksplease Price: £43.01Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of... -
Understanding Healing: Meditative Reflections on Deepening Medicine through Spiritual Science by Rudolf Steiner 9781855843813
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.15Rudolf Steiner's third great lecture course to physicians has a completely different character to his previous presentations. Delivered in response to a group of young doctors - who approached... -
Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State by Alexia Bloch 9780812237597
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02In this book Alexia Bloch examines the experiences of a community of Evenki, an indigenous group in central Siberia, to consider the place of residential schooling inidentity politics in contemporary... -
The Woman Question in Islamic Studies Kecia Ali 9780691183596
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent...