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Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics by Michael J Brown
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £8.53Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn," writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American... -
Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again by Matthew Rowley
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £16.84This book explores how polarised interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's 'Make America Great Again'... -
Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again by 9780367676858
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book explores how polarised interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's 'Make America Great Again'... -
Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America by David Theo Goldberg
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Racial Subjects heralds the next wave of writing about race and moves discussions about race forward as few other books recently have. Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary relations... -
Occupied Reading: Critical Foundations for an Ecological Theory by Alan A. Block
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Today's growing national concern about education centers on the paramount importance of teaching reading and writing. This volume offers a rigorous examination of reading and the pedagogy of reading... -
Race, Power, and the Obama Legacy by Pierre W. Orelus
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This book critically examines Obama's presidency and legacy, especially in regard to race, inequality, education, and political power. Orelus depicts an "interest convergence factor" that led many... -
God and Caesar: Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation by Yaacov Oved
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63H. Richard Niebuhr's powerful interpretation of Ernst Troeltsch has shaped our view of the man for over seventy years. Troeltsch is one of the most respected and renowned figures in liberal... -
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought by Melvin L. Rogers 9780691219134
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracyCould the African American political... -
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought Melvin L. Rogers 9780691220765
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracyCould the African American political... -
Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction Dean Nelson 9798881803520
Booksplease Price: £34.83Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors make it big? The act of writing is a daunting task for many people, and becoming a "writer" means so much... -
Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing Through Loss Lucy Cane 9780367194161
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Lucy Cane presents the first full-length study of Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015), an influential theorist of democracy and prescient critic of "inverted totalitarianism" in the United States. She traces... -
Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory Anthony Elliott (University of South Australia, Australia) 9781138349902
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews by Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858818
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.76A powerfully moving book that "could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations" (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews by Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858825
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
Sidney Hook Reconsidered by Matthew J. Cotter 9781591021933
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.93With a completely revised and updated bibliography of Hook's works, plus a foreword by Cornel West and afterword by Richard Rorty, this outstanding collection of essays examining the rich and varied... -
Democracy and Tradition by Jeffrey Stout
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.62Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how... -
As I Run Toward Africa: A Memoir by Molefi Kete Asante
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69As I Run Toward Africa is Molefi Kete Asante's memoir of his extraordinary life. He takes the reader on a journey from the American South to the homes of kings in Africa. Born into a family of 16... -
Why Nationalism by Yael Tamir 9780691190105
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Why nationalism is a permanent political force-and how it can be harnessed once again for liberal endsAround the world today, nationalism is back-and it's often deeply troubling. Populist politicians... -
Why Nationalism by Yael Tamir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23The surprising case for liberal nationalismAround the world today, nationalism is back-and it's often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic,... -
Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have... -
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern... -
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter by Susan Stanford Friedman 9780691058047
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman... -
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists - Revised Edition by Susan Neiman 9780691143897
Booksplease Price: £43.48For years, moral language has been the province of the Right, as the Left has consoled itself with rudderless pragmatism. In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the vocabulary of... -
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America by Jennifer L. Hochschild 9780691152998
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s... -
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming 9781628724387
Booksplease Price: £15.22"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human... -
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton by Kathryn Watterson 9780691227290
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.37A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic Black neighborhood... -
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America by Jennifer L. Hochschild
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton by Kathryn Watterson 9780691176451
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the... -
In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development by Esther Kingston-Mann 9780691004334
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues... -
Color - Class - Identity: The New Politics Of Race John Arthur 9780813331157
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Three recent and dramatic national events have shattered the complacency of many people about progress, however fitful, in race relations in America. The Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the O. J... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
Black Intellectuals by Rutledge M. Dennis 9780762302758
Booksplease Price: £98.08This volume attempts to construct a theory of black intellectualism drawing on the areas of culture, politics, class and myth. Both mainstream and radical black intellectual thought are charted and... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691147468
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9798216371014
Booksplease Price: £17.97A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences TitleFrom Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."Award-winning author, scholar, and social... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691278087
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards-now... -
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks 9780691141985
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.05With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial... -
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future by George Yancy 9781538176429
Booksplease Price: £27.90Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of...