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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by Willie Morris 9780807856239
Booksplease Price: £30.06In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and... -
Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration Martina Cvajner 9780226662398
Booksplease Price: £26.68Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and... -
Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia by Jordan Stanger-Ross 9780226770741
Booksplease Price: £47.29Despite their twin positions as two of North America's most iconic Italian neighborhoods, South Philly and Toronto's Little Italy have functioned in dramatically different ways since World War II... -
Tracker Alexis Wright 9781916751125
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Winner of the Stella PrizeWinner of the Magarey Medal for BiographyWinner of the Queensland Literary AwardTracker is a collective memoir of the Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. He was a visionary... -
The Cultural One or the Racial Many: Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience by Evandro Camara 9781138391499
Booksplease Price: £90.98First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard quantitative and... -
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-century New York City by Lorrin Thomas
Booksplease Price: £28.55By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States,... -
The Limits of Transnationalism Nancy L Green 9780226608280
Booksplease Price: £24.80Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnationalism reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated... -
Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data Sudipto Banerjee 9781032508559
Booksplease Price: £90.68Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, Third Edition presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of hierarchical and multilevel modeling for spatial and spatio-temporal data... -
Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago by Lilia Fernandez 9780226212845
Booksplease Price: £26.68Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in... -
Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community by Stephen S. Fugita 9780295973760
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.82Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data to... -
The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews by Maurice Samuels
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the... -
Chauncey Yellow Robe: A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930 David W. Messer 9781476673226
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he... -
Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States by John Iceland 9780520257634
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84"Where We Live Now" explores the ways in which immigration is reshaping American neighborhoods. In his examination of residential segregation patterns, John Iceland addresses these questions: what... -
Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination by Lynn M. Gunzberg 9780520078406
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the... -
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In Sao Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as merchants, shopkeepers,... -
The Importance of Being Urban: Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940 by David A Gamson
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.85From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms... -
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan 9781481492072
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2017 "For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can't get better than this book." -R. J. Palacio, author of #1 New York Timesbestseller Wonder "Amina's... -
The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives by Paul D. Fallon 9781138996670
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to... -
Mexican Immigration to the United States by George J. Borjas 9780226066325
Booksplease Price: £81.81From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born... -
Study Skills for International Postgraduates by Martin Davies
Booksplease Price: £33.10This is the definitive guide to successful study as an international postgraduate student. Chapters cover all the core academic skills, including time management, reading, referencing, critical... -
Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution by Benedikt Hallgrimsson 9780520267091
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £67.14Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, "Epigenetics" seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of... -
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman 9780253036964
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary... -
Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 Barry Kernfeld (Independent Scholar) 9780226431833
Booksplease Price: £31.37The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp... -
Centering Indigenous Standpoints through Mediated Communication: Seeding Good Medicine Ben LaPoe 9781666941067
Booksplease Price: £75.81Centering Indigenous Standpoints through Mediated Communication explores how different forms of Indigenous media, including social media, are significant advocatory and educational methods of... -
Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique by Faye Caronan
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic... -
Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions Agnieszka Konopka 9781138503977
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59In the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions, the editors bring together a wide variety of therapeutic approaches in order to... -
Cultural Genocide by Lawrence Davidson 9780813553498
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15Most scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson, by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own... -
Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation by Leo T. S. Ching 9780520225534
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire... -
Frankly Feminist - Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine by Susan Weidman Schneider
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.26A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have-no surprise-typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents... -
Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough by Pawan Dhingra
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £46.29An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children Beyond soccer leagues, music... -
Invisibility in African Displacements: From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance by Jesper Bjarnesen 9781786999191
Booksplease Price: £85.65African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these... -
Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton 9780226143521
Booksplease Price: £25.74Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These fundamental questions about group membership and social formation have been posed repeatedly in political and religious discourses... -
Literary Representation of Spanish Immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): Transculturation, Hybridization, and the Third Space by Andrew S. Gross 9783631929612
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £48.51This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900-1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with... -
American Immigration After 1996: The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion by Kathleen R. Arnold 9780271048901
Booksplease Price: £28.53Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker... -
Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 by Lon Kurashige 9780520227439
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige... -
Human Capital in History: The American Record by Leah Platt Boustan
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Human Capital in History brings together contributions from leading researchers in economic history, labor economics, the economics of education, and related fields. Building on Claudia Goldin's... -
Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity by Thomas B. Starr
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £105.66Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear,... -
Unequal Europe: Social Divisions and Social Cohesion in an Old Continent by James Wickham 9780815374138
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual... -
Universalism without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture Julia L. Cassaniti 9780226501680
Booksplease Price: £31.37One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of... -
Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance by Jesper Bjarnesen 9781786999207
Booksplease Price: £32.38African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these...