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Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space by Anoma Pieris
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted... -
Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK) 9781138570818
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding new... -
China's Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities by Beatriz Carrillo 9781781005729
Booksplease Price: £97.15This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace... -
Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge by Emily L. King 9781501739651
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.46What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage-the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the... -
Rethinking African Cultural Production by Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253015976
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £57.56Frieda 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... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 44: 1 July to 10 November 1804 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691194370
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £119.30Aaron Burr fells Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July, but Jefferson, caring little for either adversary or for disruptive partisan warfare, gives the event only limited notice. He contends with the... -
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9781477328774
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the... -
The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public by Christopher Chavez 9780816542765
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02As a network that claims to represent the nation, NPR asserts unique claims about what it means to be American. In The Sound of Exclusion, Christopher Chavez critically examines how National Public... -
My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 9781398539488
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.07The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover,... -
Boundaries That Divide: How Journalists in Turkey Surrendered Their Power Over Politics Defne Över 9781978844179
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Turkey presents a striking example of the most recent wave of global authoritarian turns. The two-decade long transition in the country's political system also transformed its media environment. As... -
Writing at Russia's Borders by Katya Hokanson 9780802093066
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £47.23It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country's metropolitan centres. Given Russia's long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain... -
Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire: Essays Dedicated to Frans Wiggermann by B.S. Düring 9789062583362
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire is a thematic volume that addresses the issue of how the Middle Assyrian State achieved and maintained its hold... -
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Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides by Lesley Riddoch 9781906307868 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.66Riddoch 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... -
Futures of Modernity: Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice by Michael Heinlein
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £25.00Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of... -
Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 by Yajun Mo
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine... -
The Ideas That Conquered The World: Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.51At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize... -
Race Nation Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of... -
Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 by Heather Sutherland
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of the inhabitants of this area are often... -
The Human Elements of Psychotherapy: A Nonmedical Model of Emotional Healing by David N. Elkins 9781433820663
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.99This book presents a nonmedical model of psychotherapy-one that places common factors, particularly human factors, at the center and moves modalities and techniques to the periphery. In a concise... -
Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries: Rethinking the Boundaries by Philomena Murray 9781138313743
Booksplease Price: £73.69First published in 1999, Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries explores the themes of boundary and identity from cultural, political, sociological and historical perspectives. The volume highlights the... -
Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism by Fabian Baumann 9781501770937
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal... -
The Thin Edge of Innovation: Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy Roger Hayter 9780774869928
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.42Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifting away from resource-based activities to local... -
Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence by Monique Giroux 9780228022268
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82What makes music Metis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Metis music-making, from the Red River Resistance all... -
Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries: Rethinking the Boundaries by Philomena Murray 9781138314412
Booksplease Price: £26.09First published in 1999, Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries explores the themes of boundary and identity from cultural, political, sociological and historical perspectives. The volume highlights the... -
Nirvana - A Tour Diary by Andy Bollen 9781857828757
Booksplease Price: £10.29Afforded the kind ofaccess a journalist can only dream of, Andy Bollen gives fansanew story focusing on the real Kurt Cobain not the angst-ridden, troubled rock star of folklore, the kind and... -
Adversary and Ally: How China Shapes the Frontier Politics of India and Pakistan Harrison Akins 9780231221818
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46In recent years, China has played an increasingly significant role in international affairs, wielding its economic and political strength to solidify its position as a global power. Within its... -
American Fantastic: Myths of Violence and Redemption by Derek J. Thiess 9780299355104
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39American Fantastic challenges readers to recognize an organizing myth in modern American culture's perception of its imperialist past: 'the myth of redemptive violence.' Derek J. Thiess persuasively... -
Walter Scott on Monarchy: Royal Bodies and the Body Politic Tara Ghoshal Wallace 9781399535823
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This book situates Walter Scott's novels on monarchy within both their historical contexts and biopolitical theory, particularly regarding the King's Two Bodies, a notion that, according to Ernst H... -
Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity by Edith W. Clowes 9780801477256
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has... -
Andras Bodor and the History of Classical Studies in Transylvania in the 20th century by Csaba Szabo
Booksplease Price: £26.61Andras Bodor and the history of classical studies in Transylvania in the 20th century is the first comprehensive work focusing on the life of a classicist from Transylvania, presenting in detail the... -
Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry by Lauren Downing Peters 9781350172548
Booksplease Price: £98.79In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women’s apparel sales in the United States and was one of the industry’s few growth sectors. For many, this news... -
The European Union: A Political Sociology by Chris Rumford 9780631226178
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £91.00"The European Union" is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded... -
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 by Seiji Shirane 9781501767708
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II... -
The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond by Julie Kalman 9780691230153
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.62A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and AmericaAt the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the... -
The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate About Animal Language by Gregory Radick 9780226702247
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £49.48In the early 1890s, the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine - one of the technological wonders of the age - to record... -
Food and the City Karen A. Franck (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 9780470093283
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.61Food and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and... -
Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg by Melissa Tandiwe Myambo 9780367665074
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "global(izing)" city are creating more division between... -
It-Clefts: Empirical and Theoretical Surveys and Advances by Caterina Bonan 9783112213810
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.62Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure... -
Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture by Jillian M. Báez 9780252089343
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01From dramas to reality TV to advertising, quinceaneras are familiar across mainstream media in the United States. The celebration event for fifteen-year-old girls has evolved over time and today is... -
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China Laura Hostetler 9780226354217
Booksplease Price: £32.30Laura Hostetler here shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early...