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The Devotional Qur’an: Beloved Surahs and Verses Shawkat M. Toorawa 9780300285598
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur'anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time... -
Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States by Kim Scipes 9781793631527
Booksplease Price: $79.40Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the... -
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin 9780691232270
Booksplease Price: $27.78Mixing memoir and visionary science, a leading astrophysicist's groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideasIs the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna... -
Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California by Elizabeth E. Sine
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94During the Great Depression, California became a wellspring for some of the era's most inventive and imaginative political movements. In response to the global catastrophe, the multiracial laboring... -
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories Chris Carlsson 9780745350905
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.91'The history of San Francisco I've been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in... -
Cosmological Physics by J. A. Peacock
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $154.16This textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a complete introduction to modern cosmology. It successfully bridges the gap between undergraduate and advanced graduate texts... -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Esther Allen 9780231159685
Booksplease Price: $192.07The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice... -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Esther Allen 9780231159692
Booksplease Price: $52.94The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely 9780691182421
Booksplease Price: $88.12An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Daniel Kennefick
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.26On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa... -
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning... -
Precision Cosmology: The First Half Million Years by Bernard J. T. Jones 9780521554336
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $161.95Cosmology seeks to characterise our Universe in terms of models based on well-understood and tested physics. Today we know our Universe with a precision that once would have been unthinkable. This... -
In Person: 30 Poets Neil Astley 9781852248000
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes -... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.77An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from... -
Echo of the Big Bang by Michael D. Lemonick
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.78A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave... -
Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World Jonathan Allday 9780367638665
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $92.00The concept of entropy arises in diverse branches of science, including physics, where it plays a crucial role. However, the nature of entropy as a unifying concept is not widely discussed-it is... -
Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality by Bruce Nelson
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.39Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of the American working class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... -
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb 9781032322025
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $60.14This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens... -
The Kabbalistic Tree / by J. H. Chajes 9780271093451
Booksplease Price: $151.20Ilanot-parchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic "tree of life"-have been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred years. Written by leading ilanot expert J. H. Chajes,... -
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson 9780745340937
Booksplease Price: $179.87San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting... -
Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes by Ron Cowen
Booksplease Price: $42.38A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development... -
No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke 9798888904558
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.43The definitive history of the US labor movement's complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today's labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists... -
Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy: A Field-oriented Approach by Pietro Cavaleri
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $249.84This collection explores the impacts and new ways of treatment of difficult clinical situations, in the uncertainty of a world in crisis, through a phenomenological and aesthetic field-oriented lens... -
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland by Toni Gilpin 9781642590333
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $34.252020 Book of the Year * International Labor History Association Honorable Mention * Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between... -
A Flag of No Nation Tom Haviv 9781961814059
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68"This is a living and essential book." -sam sax, author of Bury It and MadnessA meditation on historical rupture and political imagination, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in...