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Semantic Research: From Data to Analysis Juergen Bohnemeyer 9781108441926
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.15The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of... -
Multiculturalism and Education: Diversity and its Impact on Schools and Society by Thomas J. La Belle 9780791419403
Booksplease Price: £26.07This book introduces multiculturalism and its relationship to education and schooling, while also highlighting current approaches to multicultural education and placing them in a broad comparative... -
Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic by Daniel Patrick Kelly 9781666947427
Booksplease Price: £76.51Kant in Context: The Historical Primacy of the Transcendental Dialectic examines the introduction of Kant's critical philosophy through the lens of historical contextualization. Daniel Patrick Kelly... -
Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium by Jeremy Green 9781403966322
Booksplease Price: £46.28Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation... -
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans'... -
Undoing Empire: Race And Nation In The Mulatto Caribbean by Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado 9780816635740
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean historyThis ambitious book brings to light the story of what Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje-the ways Caribbean... -
Cuban Emigres and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World by Dalia Antonia Muller 9781469631981
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a... -
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan Andrew Shryock 9780520201019
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.45This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national... -
Reality TV's Real Men of the Recession: White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism by Shannon O'Sullivan 9781666900019
Booksplease Price: £86.43In this book, Shannon O' Sullivan explores "blue-collar frontier shows", a subgenre of reality television showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in remote, wilderness... -
Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant by Kenneth F. Barber 9780791419687
Booksplease Price: £25.65Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this... -
American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science by John Henry Schlegel 9780807857533
Booksplease Price: £58.08John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into... -
Embracing Disruption: Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance Stephen Wisker 9781032740799
Booksplease Price: £60.08This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeare's conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clown's anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy.Having evoked his... -
A Finite Thinking by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's Being and Time as its... -
How Does Social Science Work?: Reflections on Practice by Paul Diesing 9780822954750
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £49.41The culmination of a lifetime spent in a variety of fields - sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and philosophy of science - -How Does Social Science Work? takes an innovative, sometimes... -
Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools by Susan M. Leist 9780761835226
Booksplease Price: £37.42How can educators demonstrate that writing is essential both in and out of the classroom? How can they help their students build a strong writing foundation and grow as writers? Writing to Teach;... -
A Dose of Emptiness: An Annotated Translation of the sTong thun chen mo of mKhas grub dGe legs dpal bzang by Jose Ignacio Cabezon 9780791407301
Booksplease Price: £29.83This book is an annotated translation of one of the great Tibetan classics of Mahayana Buddhist thought, mKhas grub rje's sTong thun chen mo. The text is a detailed critical exposition of the theory... -
Multiple Criteria Problem Solving: Proceedings of a Conference Buffalo, N.Y. (U.S.A), August 22 - 26, 1977 by Stanley Zionts 9783540086611
Booksplease Price: £90.86The objective of this conference was to foster a healthy exchange of ideas and experience in the domain of multiple criteria problem solving. This conference was an outgrowth of an earlier conference... -
An Explanation of Constrained Optimization for Economists by Peter Morgan 9781442614468
Booksplease Price: £68.73In a constrained optimization problem, the decisionmaker wants to select the "optimal" choice - the one most valuable to him or her - that also meets all of the constraints imposed by the problem... -
Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide by Jeanette Sakel 9780521837279
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £76.92A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. Drawing on over forty years of... -
Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide by Jeanette Sakel
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.95A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. Drawing on over forty years of... -
Islamization in Bosnia: Sarajevo's Conversion and Socio-Economic Development, 1461-1604 by Norman York 9781680530421
Booksplease Price: £72.86The rise of Ottoman Sarajevo in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is emblematic of a unified new Muslim community whose conversion to Islam and booming social and economic growth unified... -
Pragmatism Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy by Joseph Margolis
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers the period of American philosophy's greatest... -
Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze & Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence by 9781474494021
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £86.74Expanding on a burgeoning area in contemporary film studies that explores visual and aural absences and interstices in film narrative, this book explores silences in the soundtrack - not ambient... -
Heredity, Environment, and Personality: A Study of 850 Sets of Twins by John C. Loehlin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests. It... -
Changing Identities in Early Modern France by Michael Wolfe 9780822319139
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Changing Identities in Early Modern France offers new interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the... -
Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 by Deborah Ascher Barnstone 9780472119905
Booksplease Price: £51.25Although the Breslau arts scene was one of the most vibrant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has largely disappeared from memory. Studies of the influence of Weimar culture on modernism have focused... -
Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth by Edgar Dryden 9781421430393
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1968. Professor Dryden sees Melville's novels both as metaphysical processes and as technical forms. The novelist is not a reporter but a creator, and what he creates from his... -
The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference by Tina Chanter 9780253349170
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £34.29Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the... -
Experiential Learning and Community Partnerships for Sustainable Development: A Foundational Model for Climate Action Mara Huber 9781032741710
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book addresses the growing demand for applied experiences that move students beyond learning into the realm of doing by supporting the development of skills and competencies that align with... -
The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood by Martha P. Nochimson
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar... -
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society by Beth A. Conklin 9780292712362
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the... -
Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema by James Phillips
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino... -
The Counseling Skills Practice Manual by David R. Hutchinson 9781452216874
Booksplease Price: £112.26The Counseling Skills Practice Manual is a practical guide for students who are working on improving their counseling skills. Designed as a companion to The Essential Counselor and its accompanying... -
Plato and Europe by Jan Patocka
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the... -
Plato and Europe by Jan Patocka 9780804738002
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the... -
Cultural Pedagogy: Art/Education/Politics by David Trend 9780897892568
Booksplease Price: £76.51In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before. Politicians, bureaucrats, and scholars have credited these endeavors with the capacity to... -
Collected Prose by Charles Olson 9780520208735
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.73The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own... -
Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Gerhard Richter 9780804741262
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Although his writings are considered to be among the most powerful and suggestive... -
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Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd by Thomas Reinert 9780822317074 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a... -
Perversity and Ethics by William Egginton
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61William Egginton argues that the notion of the ethical cannot be understood outside of its relation to perversity-that is, the impulse to do what one knows and feels is wrong. The allure of the...