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Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary by Leigh Claire La Berge 9781478019251
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline... -
......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient by Aimé Césaire 9781478030645
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.90Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire’s three-act drama . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent—written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the... -
Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global by A. Aneesh 9780822358534
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in... -
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya 9781478026464
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein,... -
Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition Shona N. Jackson 9781478016540
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57In Beyond Constraint, Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous People's sovereign, free, and coerced... -
How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory Jennifer C. Nash 9781478026235
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field’s central object and preoccupation: loss. She... -
The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain by Noël Valis 9780822329978
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursileria refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of... -
Metamorphoses: Memoirs of a Life in Medicine by William G. Anlyan 9780822333784
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30William G. Anlyan, a dedicated doctor and gifted administrator, was a leader in the transformation of Duke University Hospital from a regional medical center into one of America's foremost biomedical... -
Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea by Irus Braverman 9781478006541
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The ocean and its inhabitants sketch and stretch our understandings of law in unexpected ways. Inspired by the blue turn in the social sciences and humanities, Blue Legalities explores how regulatory... -
Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience by John Law 9780822328124
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways... -
Semiotics of Peasants in Transition: Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America by Irene Portis-Winner 9780822328278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £6.43In Semiotics of Peasants in Transition Irene Portis-Winner examines the complexities of ethnic identity in a traditional Slovene village with unique ties to an American city. At once an investigation... -
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule by Michel Gobat 9780822336341 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £14.56Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny... -
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization by A. Aneesh 9780822336815 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £12.97Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other... -
Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy by Melissa S. Fisher 9780822337270 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £14.71With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in... -
Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship by Jeremy Packer 9780822339526 [USED COPY]
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £5.94While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed on what constitutes safe, decorous driving or who is capable of it. Mobility without... -
Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence by Leigh A. Payne 9780822340614 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £1.10An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina's Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet's intelligence service reveals on a television show that... -
El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia by Sian Lazar 9780822341291 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £5.66Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz:... -
Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe by Mark Slobin 9780822318552 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition-and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent... -
The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable? by Elizabeth Mensch 9780822313311 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00Fiercely committed to the separation of church and state, thoroughly pluralistic, largely secular: Where does a society like ours find common terms for conducting a moral debate? In view of the... -
Central American Recovery and Development by William L. Ascher 9780822309055 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £1.14The International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development was created in 1987 to analyze development in the region and to make recommendations to the region's governments and to the... -
Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute Between Canada and the United States by Jurgen Schmandt 9780822308706 [USED COPY]
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £6.40From reviews of the first edition:"Covers a wide range of issues with balance and clarity. . . . I can recommend the book highly as an intermediate-level source of information and insight into the... -
Universities and the Future of America by Derek Bok 9780822310365 [USED COPY]
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £4.00Since World War II, says the author, industrialized nations have come to depend so heavily on expert knowledge, scientific discovery, and highly trained personnel that universities have become "the... -
A Report of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development by William L. Ascher 9780822309338 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £2.30The 1980s were one of the most turbulent decades in Central America's history, a history that has been marked by more than its share of strife and upheaval. The wars, economic hardship, and political... -
Soviet-American Relations After the Cold War by Robert Jervis 9780822310808 [USED COPY]
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £1.41This important collection of essays explores the terrain of possible Soviet-American relations in the next decade. Starting from the premise that glasnost and perestroika will not be reversed, this... -
Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 by George S. N. Luckyj 9780822310990 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £2.20Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 illuminates the flowering of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s and the subsequent purge of Soviet Ukrainian writers during the following Stalinist... -
American Indian Persistence and Resurgence by Karl Kroeber 9780822314592 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States... -
Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production by Rob Wilson 9780822316299 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional,... -
The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence by Frederick Mark Gedicks 9780822316541 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially... -
Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales by Laurie J. Sears 9780822316855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £1.03Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in... -
Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg 9780822319115 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £10.40As one of the founding figures of cultural studies, Lawrence Grossberg was an early participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' project, one which sought to develop a... -
Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another by Ilan Stavans 9780822324003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £1.03It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the... -
Living with the Coast of Alaska by Owen Mason 9780822320098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £9.20Facing two oceans and three seas, Alaska's coastline stretches through bays, fjords, and around islands for 45,000 miles. Living with the Coast of Alaska, a new volume in the Living with the Shore... -
Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9780822323006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £9.20In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays,... -
Managing the Environmental Crisis: Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration by William R. Mangun 9780822323792 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £1.14Second edition With a new foreword by Lynton Keith CaldwellIn Managing the Environmental Crisis William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning provide a balanced and comprehensive guide to the management of... -
The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality by Michael Lucey 9780822331568 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the... -
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1856-July 1857 by Kenneth J. Fielding 9780822366324 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £1.80The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and... -
Living with the Louisiana Shore by Joseph T. Kelley 9780822305187 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00Nowhere in America is there a more beautiful, more varied, or more endangered shoreline than in Louisiana. Because of its setting at the mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana differs from other... -
The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief by Mark Bauerlein 9780822320135 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £2.30The Pragmatic Mind is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and... -
The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom Erik S. McDuffie 9781478026839
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities... -
Eating Is an English Word Annemarie Mol 9781478030867
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may...