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The Jacqueline Rose Reader by Jacqueline Rose 9780822349785
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism,... -
What's Left of the Left: Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times by James E. Cronin 9780822350798
Booksplease Price: £40.94In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left's responses to the end of... -
Making the Most of Mess: Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges by Emery Roe 9780822353072
Booksplease Price: £99.85In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these... -
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution by Jorge Olivares 9780822353829
Booksplease Price: £100.09Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame... -
Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru by Cynthia E. Milton 9780822355151
Booksplease Price: £107.46Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that... -
Juan Gregorio Palechor: The Story of My Life by Myriam Jimeno 9780822355229
Booksplease Price: £99.96The Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923-1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of Colombia, where he helped found the Regional... -
Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro by Bryan McCann 9780822355236
Booksplease Price: £100.19Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions-such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment-that... -
The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief by Renato Rosaldo 9780822356493
Booksplease Price: £92.55This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had... -
What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities by Thomas R. Cole 9780822308171
Booksplease Price: £34.52In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant... -
Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Nancy E. Van Deusen 9780822358473
Booksplease Price: £96.83In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios-indigenous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire-were enslaved and relocated throughout the Iberian world. Although various laws... -
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones 9780822361459
Booksplease Price: £103.34Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a... -
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G. Weheliye 9780822356912
Booksplease Price: £91.39Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical... -
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway 9780822362142
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.25In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She... -
National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives by Donald E. Pease 9780822314929
Booksplease Price: £36.04National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national... -
Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong by Cindy Patton 9780822317470
Booksplease Price: £30.02The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding... -
Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil by Jeffrey Lesser 9780822322924
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity... -
Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 by Rebecca Zorach 9781478001409
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the... -
Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India by Amanda J. Weidman 9780822336310
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an... -
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present Robyn Maynard 9781478029618
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20Robyn Maynard's bestselling Policing Black Lives offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this revised and... -
![The Crisis of Socialism in Europe by Christiane Lemke 9780822311805 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8960662/9995213/9780822311805__82146.1752824504.jpg?c=1 "The Crisis of Socialism in Europe by Christiane Lemke 9780822311805 [USED COPY]")
The Crisis of Socialism in Europe by Christiane Lemke 9780822311805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £1.23The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis" of... -
Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai by Svati P. Shah 9780822356899
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic... -
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329954
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being... -
Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali by Emma Baulch 9780822341154
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In 1996, Emma Baulch went to live in Bali to do research on youth culture. Her chats with young people led her to an enormously popular regular outdoor show dominated by local reggae, punk, and death... -
![Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order by Kenneth Surin 9780822346173 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9256811/10290965/9780822346173__42076.1756708005.jpg?c=1 "Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order by Kenneth Surin 9780822346173 [USED COPY]")
Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order by Kenneth Surin 9780822346173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £1.41The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present... -
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by Cherise Smith 9780822347996
Booksplease Price: £39.40The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise... -
The City of Our Dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture Laleh Khalili 9781478038696
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478038696Author Laleh KhaliliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The City of Our Dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture Laleh Khalili 9781478033851
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478033851Author Laleh KhaliliFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335832
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to... -
E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces by Debbora Battaglia 9780822336211
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings... -
Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal by Ronen Shamir 9780822316626
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With 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... -
Pinter In Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter by Susan Hollis Merritt 9780822316749
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Pinter in Play provides a survey of diverse readings of the Harold Pinter canon organized around and presented in terms of the major critical schools of the past twenty-five years, from New Criticism... -
Writing: The Political Test by Claude Lefort 9780822325208
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Writing involves risks-the risk that one will be misunderstood, the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, this risk of inadvertently... -
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema by Meaghan Morris 9781932643015
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences... -
Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965 by Jonathan Engel 9780822336952
Booksplease Price: £34.23Poor People's Medicine is a detailed history of Medicaid since its beginning in 1965. Federally aided and state-operated, Medicaid is the single most important source of medical care for the poorest... -
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. by Houston A. Baker 9780822326953
Booksplease Price: £27.88In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black... -
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam 9780822322436
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.53Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for... -
Cultures of United States Imperialism by Amy Kaplan 9780822314134
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American... -
Healing Songs by Ted Gioia 9780822337027
Booksplease Price: £34.28While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two... -
![Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994 by Robert F. Durden 9780822321514 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9437983/10471840/9780822321514__70667.1764573204.jpg?c=1 "Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994 by Robert F. Durden 9780822321514 [USED COPY]")
Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994 by Robert F. Durden 9780822321514 [USED COPY]
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £7.20Like the majority of the founders of large philanthropic foundations in the United States, James B. Duke assumed that the Duke Endowment, which he established in 1924, would continue its charitable... -
![Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822324751 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9437984/10471841/9780822324751__35090.1764573205.jpg?c=1 "Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822324751 [USED COPY]")
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822324751 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that...