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Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans by Robert A. Schanke 9780230115750
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.87A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of... -
Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe by Gokce Yurdakul 9780230600133
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.82The contributions in this volume consider the question of migrant agency, how Western societies are both transforming migrants, and being transformed by them. It is informed by debates on the new... -
Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s by Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen 9780230601291
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.46This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious... -
Women's Citizenship in Peru: The Paradoxes of Neopopulism in Latin America by Stephanie Rousseau 9780230618152
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.53This book considers neopopulism as a central issue to understand patterns of women's citizenship construction in many countries of contemporary Latin America. It also explains the paradoxes entailed... -
Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education by Dan W. Butin 9780230622500
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £62.88This book offers a comprehensive rethinking of the theory and practice of service-learning in higher education. Democratic and community engagement are vital aspects of linking colleges and... -
Russian Pluralism: Now Irreversible? by U. Ra'anan 9780312086480
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.78The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. marked also the end of the communist system. However, its replacement by a working democracy is not assured. First a 'civil society', built upon a pluralistic... -
Galbraith and Market Capitalism by David Reisman 9780333273456
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £97.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333273456Author David ReismanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 9780333531372
Booksplease Price: £97.63Frank Kermode's work has always been important to students of English literature. In these essays, leading scholars critically assess Kermode's texts and question his representation of literary... -
Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age by Paul Brooker 9780333631720
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £50.95Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran, remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in the... -
Supranationalism in the New World Order: Global Processes Reviewed by Paul Close 9780333637562
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £98.07Supranationalism in the New World Order argues that in the post-Cold War distribution of global power and configuration of global players, the European Union is just one among a growing number of... -
The Classroom: Encounter and Engagement by William F. Pinar 9781137449221
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.66What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom... -
Women, Universities, and Change: Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States by Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria 9781137033734
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.64This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United... -
Educational Partnerships and the State: The Paradoxes of Governing Schools, Children, and Families by Barry M. Franklin 9781403961280
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.82Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary... -
Good Parents or Good Workers?: How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives by Bruce Fuller 9781403969644
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.87Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures... -
American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War by Charles Dorn 9781403984210
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.69American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.S. educational institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as "weapons" in the nation s... -
Leadership for Social Justice in Higher Education: The Legacy of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program by Terance W. Bigalke 9781349474196
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.44This book provides a wealth of comparative information on social justice in higher education worldwide by examining how the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, the world's largest... -
Parents of Children with Autism: An Ethnography by Juliette De Wolfe 9781349493364
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £41.37In a readable and highly accessible ethnographic account that is shaped by the stories of families and the voices of parents, De Wolfe examines how parents of children with autism navigate the... -
Addressing Ethnic Conflict through Peace Education: International Perspectives by Zvi Bekerman 9781349533114
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.71This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of... -
Educating Israel: Educational Entrepreneurship in Israel's Multicultural Society by Yehuda Bar Shalom 9781349533954
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £35.21This is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that use state-of-the-art educational approaches to help change Israel's conflicted society. It gives an important glimpse of individuals and... -
The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon: Adjusting to Troubled Times by Glenn T. Seaborg 9781349606184
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.58In this revealing book Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg tells what it was like to be chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission during the Nixon presidency. He draws extensively from his meticulously... -
Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe by E. Weitz 9781349733491
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.86The dramatic transformations of the the 1990s - the end of the Cold War, the establishment of political liberties and market economies in Eastern Europe, German unification - quickly led commentators... -
Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos by Thomas Fahy 9781349297092
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.30Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of... -
Public Universities and the Public Sphere by W. Smith 9781349291564
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.33Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution,... -
Immigrant Teachers, American Students: Cultural Differences, Cultural Disconnections by Namulundah Florence 9781349292936
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.22Teachers, as often as students, articulate frustrations over each other's choices and expectations. A teacher's demand for respect may appear an imposition and abuse of authority to students... -
School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany by Jurgen Herbst 9781403973023
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.53For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools. This book reviews these debates and discusses racial integration, ethnicity, social... -
Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign by Michael Berry 9783031168581
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.47During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel... -
Louis Auchincloss: The Growth of a Novelist by Vincent Piket 9781349213689
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349213689Author Vincent PiketFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint -
Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation by Kathy Stuart 9783031252464
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £40.36Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring... -
Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain: From Zapatero to Rajoy by Dr. Bonnie N. Field 9781137306616
Booksplease Price: £46.74This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the Socialist government (2008-11), the 2011 elections,... -
Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas by Zuleika Arashiro 9781349294732
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.82The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It... -
Iran at the Crossroads by John L. Esposito 9781349631650
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.86At the dawn of the 21st century, we are witnessing the redefining and reforming of the Islamic Republic, a struggle between the President Khatami's reformist agenda and more militant conservative... -
Teacher Education in America: Reform Agendas for the Twenty-First Century by Na Na 9780312224547
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £28.23Teacher Education in America is a thought-provoking analysis of the major issues and problems surrounding teacher preparation. Christopher Lucas offers valuable insights into this ongoing debate... -
Havana: Autobiography of a City by Alfredo Jose Estrada 9781403975393
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.65This title presents sensational hardcover reviews: "Publishers Weekly", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Miami Herald", "Austin-American Statesman" and "Library Journal".Estrada had numerous readings and... -
Criminalising Hate: Law as Social Justice Liberalism by Mark Austin Walters 9783031081279
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.87This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as “law as social justice liberalism”, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been... -
Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603–1659 Teresa Grant 9783031539862
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare’s plays in the... -
Cultural Policy and Cultural Industries in Africa: From Culture as a Commodity to Culture as Praxis Last Moyo 9783031577413
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book argues for the reconstitution of the cultural in African cultural industries and societies. It posits that African cultural industries face a deep-seated problem of the crisis of... -
Python for Accounting and Finance: An Integrative Approach to Using Python for Research Sunil Kumar 9783031546792
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book is a comprehensive guide to the application of Python in accounting, finance, and other business disciplines. This book is more than a Python tutorial; it is an integrative approach to... -
Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education Jeremy Lane 9783031598791
Booksplease Price: £111.03Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques... -
Communication, Meaning and Misconceptions: How to Help, Heal and Hurt with Language Karol Janicki 9783031525049
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £49.36This book covers several related topics anchored in the idea of how meaning is created. The central focus in the book is, however, on how language awareness may help us communicate smoothly and solve... -
Development Challenges of Pakistan: Constraints and Choices Jamil Nasir 9789819730636
Booksplease Price: £111.03This book aims to enhance understanding of the academia, policymakers, and general readers about the development challenges and constraints on long-term economic growth of Pakistan. It offers policy...