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The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline by Wallace Kaufman 9780822305743
Booksplease Price: $71.67Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in... -
Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration by Milton C. Sernett 9780822319931
Booksplease Price: $82.51Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration-the movement from South to North and from country to city by... -
Cortijo's Wake / El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia 9780822332169
Booksplease Price: $66.86A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto... -
Bêtes Noires: Sorcery As History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby 9781478032786
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76In Bêtes Noires, Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Drawing on interviews... -
Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850–1950 by Don Kalb 9780822320227
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of... -
Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power by Sampada Aranke 9781478016663
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In Death's Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of... -
A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastiao Salgado by Parvati Nair 9780822350484
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50A Different Light is the first in-depth study of the work of Sebastiao Salgado, widely considered the greatest documentary photographer of our time. For more than three decades, Salgado has produced... -
Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms Monique Roelofs 9781478033752
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $161.70Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this... -
![Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities by Kamari Maxine Clarke 9780822333302 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9437986/10471843/9780822333302__96529.1764573208.jpg?c=1 "Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities by Kamari Maxine Clarke 9780822333302 [USED COPY]")
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities by Kamari Maxine Clarke 9780822333302 [USED COPY]
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $14.20Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient... -
In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics by Sarah Sharma 9780822354659
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those... -
How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money by Bill Maurer 9780822359562
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $142.84From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading... -
![Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia by Joanne Rappaport 9780822335610 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9471972/10505820/9780822335610__12216.1768377242.jpg?c=1 "Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia by Joanne Rappaport 9780822335610 [USED COPY]")
Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia by Joanne Rappaport 9780822335610 [USED COPY]
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $28.75Although only 2 percent of Colombia's population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country's indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national... -
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent Timothy Neale 9781478038795
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478038795Author Timothy NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation by Dana E. Powell 9780822369943
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty... -
Going to the Moon Sally Ashton 9781478033387
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $122.64In 2022, poet Sally Ashton learned that one of her poems would be included in a time capsule to be sent to the Moon via Astrobotic’s 2024 Griffin/VIPER as part of the Lunar Codex project. For her,... -
Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity by Ann Elias 9781478003182
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century... -
Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas Nikita Kaur Simpson 9781478033295
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87In Tension, Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted state of... -
The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention by Catherine Gimelli Martin 9780822319894
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51In this reexamination of the allegorical dimensions of Paradise Lost, Catherine Martin presents Milton’s poem as a prophecy foretelling the end of one culture and its replacement by another. She... -
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker 9780822323044
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian... -
B Jenkins by Fred Moten 9780822346845
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of... -
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards 9780822350903
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $170.77In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the... -
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours Fatima Mojaddedi 9781478038535
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarized violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in... -
Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal by Ronen Shamir 9780822316503
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $153.32With the New Deal came a dramatic expansion of the American regulatory state. Threatening to undermine many of the traditional roles of the legal system and its actors by establishing a system of... -
The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art: Duke University Museum of Art by Caroline Bruzelius 9780822310556
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $144.90The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art in the Duke University Museum of Art is one of the finest to be found in any American university museum. It is remarkable for its breadth and the variety of... -
Man-Made Medicine: Women's Health, Public Policy, and Reform by Kary L. Moss 9780822318163
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31If not for the reproductive functions of women, would there be anything called women's health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer... -
The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion by Edward Keynes 9780822309680
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Since the early 1960s the Supreme Court and its congressional critics have been locked in a continuing dispute over the issues of school prayer, busing, and abortion. Although for years the Court's... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg 9780822347583
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $169.72This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces... -
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society by Kathryn Hochstetler 9780822340485
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $157.82Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in... -
The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan by Kazuo Nimura 9780822320180
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine-Japan's largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world-joined together for three... -
The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America,1960 and After by Lucas Hilderbrand 9781478020301
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $190.83Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed... -
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 by Ken Gonzales-Day 9780822337812
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $145.43Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice... -
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies by Aurora Santiago Ortiz 9781478033349
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25Interrogating The Future of Puerto Rican Studies brings together emerging and established scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have... -
Erotic Knowledge: Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory by Elena Gambino 9781478033776
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $140.55Erotic Knowledge explores how US lesbian feminists raised questions about the political stakes of sexual freedom, how their distinctive political vocabularies informed coalition- and... -
Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire by Denise Tse-Shang Tang 9781478033684
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $140.55In Everyday Erotics, Denise Tse-Shang Tang explores the lives of older women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Tang interviews women born in the 1930’s through the 1960’s,... -
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher L. Miller 9780822341277
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $194.25The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth,... -
Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture by William Craft Brumfield 9780822315681
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.26Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and... -
The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo 9781478029700
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $161.70In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo employs a case study from Brazil’s sugarcane industry to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. As Carrillo... -
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics by Tania Murray Li 9780822340089
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $155.19The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that... -
Artificial Respiration by Ricardo Piglia 9780822314264
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in... -
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor by Sandro Mezzadra 9780822354871
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $168.21Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation,...