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Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis by Marco Giugni
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With... -
Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity by David Arnold
Booksplease Price: £20.69Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and... -
A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society Esperanca Bielsa (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) 9781032112138
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98A Translational Sociology provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the key role of translation in society. There is a growing recognition of translation's intervention in the intellectual... -
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865 by Kathleen D. McCarthy 9780226561981
Booksplease Price: £92.36In her incisive history, Kathleen D. McCarthy explores the impact of philanthropy - both giving and volunteerism - on America from 1700 to 1865. What results is a vital reevaluation of public life... -
Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group by Paul Spickard 9780813544335
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Since 1855, nearly a half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, the majority arriving between 1890 and 1924 during the great wave of immigration to Hawai'i and the mainland... -
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union by Vicky Davis 9781350372290
Booksplease Price: £81.03Central Asia has long been situated at the geographical crossroads of East and West, once strategically located on the ancient Silk Road. The envy of the expanding Russian empire, it was colonized in... -
New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction by Ken Jowitt
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.96Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, "New World... -
Anxiety Disorders: Integrated Psychotherapy Approaches by Judy Z. Koenigsberg
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This text provides integrated and unified treatment frameworks for anxiety disorders and examines how contemporary integrated psychotherapy treatment models from different therapeutic interventions... -
Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy Rajiv Rao (The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 9781138954618
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy is a resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of... -
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union Vicky Davis 9781350372283
Booksplease Price: £29.15Central Asia has long been situated at the geographical crossroads of East and West, once strategically located on the ancient Silk Road. The envy of the expanding Russian empire, it was colonized in... -
So Many Snakes, So Little Time: Uncovering the secret lives of Australia's serpents by Rick Shine
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Snakes are creatures of mystery, arousing fear in many people but fascination in a few. Recent research has transformed our understanding of the behaviour and ecology of these animals, revealed their... -
The Response to Industrialism, 1885 - 1914 Samuel P. Hays 9780226321646
Booksplease Price: £23.87In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his... -
Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria by Tomasz Kamusella
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It... -
Feminism/Postmodernism by Linda Nicholson
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44In this anthology, prominent contemporary theorists assess the benefits and dangers of postmodernism for feminist theory. The contributors examine the meaning of postmodernism both as a... -
Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians Sarah A. Whitt 9781478031260
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth... -
La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials by David Hayes-Bautista 9780520292529
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden... -
Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context by Sara Raup Johnson 9780520233072
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.14In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including... -
Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition by Erich S. Gruen 9780520235069
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.70The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the... -
Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America by Ruben G. Rumbaut 9780520230125
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40The new immigration to the United States is unprecedented in its diversity of color, class, and cultural origins. Over the past few decades, the racial and ethnic composition and stratification of... -
Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles by Paula M. L. Moya 9780520230149
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26In "Learning from Experience", Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and... -
Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time by George B. Bradt
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.59A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive-FAST "Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed... -
Rewriting Joyce's Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design by Tekla Mecsnober
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52Rewriting Joyce's Europe sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World... -
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, Comic Edition Gloria Ladson-Billings 9780807783566
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.41This graphic novel is a beautiful reimagining of the classic text about reaching and teaching African American children. The Dreamkeepers has been a perennial favorite with teachers and programs of... -
European Jewry and the First Crusade by Robert Chazan
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.45One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these... -
La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials by David Hayes-Bautista 9780520292536
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £16.41Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden... -
Generative and Non-Linear Phonology by Jacques Durand 9780582003293
Booksplease Price: £68.71Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models. This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of the debate. It provides a... -
Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering Ronald Eyerman 9781594518874
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some... -
Migration in History - Human Migration in Comparative Perspective by Marc S. Rodriguez 9781580461597
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38A study of migration habits as a global phenomenon. Migration in History explores the nature and complexity of the movement of peoples, cultures, and ideas in historical context. This engaging... -
Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians Sarah A. Whitt 9781478028048
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth... -
Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands by Hillel J. Kieval 9780520214101
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from... -
The Eastern Sudanic Languages by A. N. Tucker
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.89Originally published in 1940 this book focusses on the three main groups of Eastern Sudanic languages, namely Moru-Madi, Bong-Baka-Bagirmi and Ndogo-Sere. The term 'Eastern Sudanic Languages' is used... -
The History and Politics of the Bedouin: Reimagining Nomadism in Modern Palestine by Seraje Assi
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period. Extending from the late Ottoman period to the founding of the State of... -
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation by Ryan Ludwig
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable... -
Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 by Ronald Schechter
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.74Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a... -
Golosa 1: A Basic Course in Russian by Richard Robin 9780367612801
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £70.83: A Basic Course in Russian (Sixth Edition), strikes a true balance between communication and structure. It takes a contemporary approach to language learning by focusing on the development of... -
A Jewish Woman of Distinction - The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova Chaeran Y. Freeze 9781684580019
Booksplease Price: £24.17Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and... -
Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances by Anna Montini 9780415539807
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. This field of research has been focusing on how environmental... -
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhota Oyate by Christopher J. Pexa 9781517900717
Booksplease Price: £26.16How authors rendered Dakhota philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance stateTranslated Nation examines literary works... -
Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 9780520078819
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of... -
Managing Project Competence: The Lemon and the Loop by Rolf Medina
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £73.69For companies to be successful, the management of an organization needs to understand how competence evolves and how it can be utilized and linked to the organization's goals. When executive managers...