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Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity by Mark G. E. Kelly 9781509550944
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.84This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries. By the mid-twentieth century, the... -
The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War by Dr Jeffrey Whyte 9780197267493
Booksplease Price: £92.60The Birth of Psychological War explores the history, politics, and geography of United States psychological warfare in the 20th century against the backdrop of the contemporary 'post-truth era'. From... -
Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War by Rachael Squire 9781538156988
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy... -
Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions Jason Dittmer 9781409400837
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39Over the last quarter-century, evangelicalism has become an important social and political force in modern America. Here, new voices in the field are brought together with leading scholars such as... -
A Moving Border - Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change by Marco Ferrari 9781941332450
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Italy's northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers-all of... -
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason by Thomas Lemke
Booksplease Price: £21.98Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only... -
Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies by Colin Flint
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in... -
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order by Mark Neocleous
Booksplease Price: £18.18The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most... -
Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Karen Culcasi
Booksplease Price: £24.80Displacing Territory explores the core concepts of territory and belonging-and humanizes refugees in the process. Based on fieldwork with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, Displacing... -
Sloterdijk by Jean-Pierre Couture 9780745663807
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine,... -
The Figure of the Migrant by Thomas Nail 9780804787178
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental,... -
The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel-Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and... -
Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies by Marieke De Goede
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Since the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, finance and security have become joined in new ways to produce particular targets of state surveillance. In Speculative Security, Marieke de Goede... -
The Figure of the Migrant by Thomas Nail
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental,... -
Sloterdijk Jean-Pierre Couture 9780745663814
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine,... -
In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe School of Design) 9780745647692
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of... -
The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz 9781517907167
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel-Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and... -
Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces by Andrea Mubi Brighenti
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66In recent years, an increasing number of separation walls have been built around the world. Walls built in urban areas are particularly striking in that they have exacted a heavy toll in terms of... -
In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization Peter Sloterdijk (Karlsruhe School of Design) 9780745647685
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of... -
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom by David Harvey 9780231148467
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have... -
Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Mario Damen 9781041177425
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.69In recent political and legal history, scholars seldom specify how and why they use the concept of territory. In research on state-formation processes and nation building, for instance, the term... -
Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Karen Culcasi 9780226827049
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Displacing Territory explores the core concepts of territory and belonging-and humanizes refugees in the process. Based on fieldwork with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, Displacing... -
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition by Perry Zurn 9781137510662
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970... -
Space by Peter Merriman
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.10Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology,... -
Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination by Franck Bille
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil... -
Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination by Franck Bille 9781478007913
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil... -
In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking with and After Heidegger by Jeff Malpas 9781438490021
Booksplease Price: £27.36Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.The... -
Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography by Jeff Malpas
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £42.49The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing alternative to prevailing... -
Foucault in California: [A True Story-Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] by Simeon Wade
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.91A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking... -
Placing the Border in Everyday Life Reece Jones 9781138218635
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the... -
In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking with and After Heidegger by Jeff Malpas 9781438490038
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.The... -
The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live by Michael Dillon 9780415953009
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live,... -
The Time of the City: Politics, philosophy and genre Michael Shapiro 9780415780537
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of... -
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) by Michel Foucault
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.33In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is... -
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) by Michel Foucault 9781517902346
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745649214
Booksplease Price: £56.43In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is... -
In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making by Luke Bennett 9781783487349
Booksplease Price: £43.76During the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialisation of deadly military stand-off. They were also a symbol of a deeply affective, pervasive anxiety about the... -
From Above: War, Violence and Verticality by Peter Adey 9781849042994
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat -... -
The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor by Veronica Della Dora
Booksplease Price: £60.27The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the...