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Hearts and Minds: US Cultural Management in 21st Century Foreign Relations by Matthew Chambers 9783631667309
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.39This volume looks at a key component of recent US foreign relations, namely, its emphasis on "hearts and minds" as part of its cultural management of the global Other. The authors collected... -
Four English Vocabularies to Spell: Facing Spelling as Student and Teacher by Melvin J. Hoffman 9780761827351
Booksplease Price: £37.81Four English Vocabularies to Spell, written in a clear, conversational style, posits that the English language has four distinct yet interconnected systems for spelling. The text borrows from the... -
School Administration: Persistent Dilemmas in Preparation and Practice by Stephen L. Jacobson 9780275952471
Booksplease Price: £76.81A discussion of many of the dilemmas and problems facing school administrators. Topics include: conflicting beliefs regarding the fundamental purpose of school, administering racial and ethnic... -
The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman by Korkut Bugday 9780415494380
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.97This represents the first modern introduction to literary Ottoman available in English. The author has devised this textbook to provide a course of lessons, readings and exercises to take the student... -
Deleuze and the Problem of Affect by D Cross
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Deleuze has been pivotal for the recent 'affective turn' in philosophy and the humanities at large. Critics and proponents alike, however, have yet to... -
Coastal Ghts of Southern California by Anita Yasuda 9780764331503
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Eerie footsteps sound in thin air. Disembodied voices float down empty staircases. Apparitions peer from lace-covered windows. Welcome to the haunted Southern California coast. Meet inhabitants of... -
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy by Dennis Tedlock 9780871401465
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.12This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the... -
At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry by Sean Pears
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.10For more than fifty years, in literary circles certainly, 'Buffalo' has signalled not just the rust belt city in western New York but an active centre for poetry and speculative poetics in America... -
The Step Not Beyond by Maurice Blanchot 9780791409084
Booksplease Price: £25.65This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the... -
Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality by Frederick Klaits 9781350329812
Booksplease Price: £31.86In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated U.S. City, Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about... -
Epidemiology and Health Policy by Sol Levine 9781032244136
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Originally published in 1987, this book examines the priorities of health policy in the late 20th Century and the varied approaches or strategies to foster the prevention or control of disease... -
Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality by Frederick Klaits 9781350175884
Booksplease Price: £96.35In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated U.S. City, Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about... -
Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth Farhang Erfani 9780230339118
Booksplease Price: £48.40In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book... -
Insiders, Outliers: Centering Adult Student Writers at an HBCU Collie Fulford 9781978844346
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Insiders, Outliers invites readers into the lives of adult HBCU students for whom college is one meaningful activity among many. Although adults over the age of twenty-four comprise a quarter of all... -
Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery by Catherine Cook-Cottone 9780393734102
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.86Embodiment refers to the attunement of the inner and outer self. Cognitions are aligned with the sensing and feeling body. Further, in an attuned experience of self, positive embodiment is maintained... -
Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth by Farhang Erfani 9781349342150
Booksplease Price: £48.40In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book... -
The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Paola Ugolini 9781487505448
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of... -
Insiders, Outliers: Centering Adult Student Writers at an HBCU Collie Fulford 9781978844353
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Insiders, Outliers invites readers into the lives of adult HBCU students for whom college is one meaningful activity among many. Although adults over the age of twenty-four comprise a quarter of all... -
Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil War by Carole Emberton
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy... -
Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War Carole Emberton 9780226269993
Booksplease Price: £24.80In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy... -
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Thomas MacFaul 9780521869041
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their... -
Using and Developing Measurement Instruments in Science Education: A Rasch Modeling Approach by Xiufeng Liu 9781641139359
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37This book meets a demand in the science education community for a comprehensive and introductory measurement book in science education. It describes measurement instruments reported in refereed... -
Using and Developing Measurement Instruments in Science Education: A Rasch Modeling Approach by Xiufeng Liu 9781641139342
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93This book meets a demand in the science education community for a comprehensive and introductory measurement book in science education. It describes measurement instruments reported in refereed... -
Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories John Edgar Browning 9780764340826
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £31.05Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference guide. Monsters from major as well as minor horror films are brought... -
The Urban Sociology Reader by Jan Lin
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.78The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader... -
The Force of Art by Krzysztof Ziarek 9780804750110
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek... -
Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project by Arif Dirlik 9780742501676
Booksplease Price: £44.76Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this... -
Meaning and Being in Myth by Norman Austin 9780271028231
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.79Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The... -
Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger by Andrzej Warminski 9780816612406
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Readings in Interpretation was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the... -
Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives by Robert F. Arnove 9780791410325
Booksplease Price: £27.36In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education illuminate worldwide trends in critical issues that... -
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Thomas MacFaul 9780521123174
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their... -
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition by Leon Battista Alberti 9781107694934
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on... -
Semantic Research: From Data to Analysis Juergen Bohnemeyer 9781108425940
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.42The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of... -
Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective by Roger Des Forges
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.50Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shaping as well as adjusting to new conditions? Do walls... -
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.11Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939... -
Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900 by Hal Langfur 9780826338419
Booksplease Price: £38.49The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct-especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals-and on the process of... -
On the Logics of Planetary Computing: Artificial Intelligence and Geography in the Alas Mertajati Marc Böhlen 9781032857527
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14A new breed of low Earth orbit satellites is making planetary-scale observation and analysis ubiquitous. This book explores how this condition feeds spatially explicit artificial intelligence, GeoAI,... -
High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York by Mark Goldman 9780873957359
Booksplease Price: £27.36In 1901 Buffalo was the national symbol of the country's optimism, pride, and braggadocio. Toward the close of the century, it epitomizes the sense of economic and demographic crisis prevalent in... -
The Force of Art by Krzysztof Ziarek 9780804750103
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek... -
Catholic Makers of America: Biographical Sketches of Catholic Statesmen and Political Thinkers in America's First Century, 1776-1876 by Stephen M. Krason 9780761834120
Booksplease Price: £43.33"This book is intended to call attention to a number of important men in the history of American Catholicism and of the American nation generally. All were prominent figures in their time. Some held...