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Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade: Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the Early Seventeenth Century by Yda Schreuder 9781785278280
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic... -
Climate Change and the Future of Seattle by Yonn Dierwechter 9781785279454
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle's current climate policy agenda and future climate... -
Doing Gender in Heavy Metal: Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture by Anna S. Rogers 9781839981333
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $113.88This book provides a sociological examination of gender issues concerning the status of women in the subculture of heavy metal. The study specifically analyzes how women are perceived to 'do gender'... -
Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic by Daniella Trimboli 9781839985638
Booksplease Price: $50.13Using digital storytelling-a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s-as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in... -
Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka 9781839981753
Booksplease Price: $50.13'Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development' is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of... -
Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism: A Study in Quantitative Reporting by Alessandro Martinisi 9781839985836
Booksplease Price: $50.13This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use... -
Keywords for Travel Writing Studies: A Critical Glossary by Charles Forsdick 9781839985843
Booksplease Price: $66.44Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the 'keyword' as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present... -
Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor by Salvatore Attardo 9781839988561
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing,... -
Wollstonecraft and Religion by Brenda Ayres 9781839990182
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33Ever since Godwin announced to the world in Memoirs that Wollstonecraft had had little use for religion, most biographers, scholars, historians and readers have regarded her as an apostate. Further,... -
Law and Humanities by Russell Sandberg 9781839990366
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $226.86This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary 'law and'... -
Interviewing Techniques for Professionals by Geir-Egil Loken 9781785277986
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $57.21The world is loaded with information. We enjoy immediate access to most of it through laptops, smartphones and the Internet. There is, however, a great deal of information that professionals cannot... -
Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons: Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez 9781839992483
Booksplease Price: $50.13This book is the product of an endless individual and collective process of mourning. It departs from the author's mourning for her parents, their histories and struggles in Germany as Gastarbeiter,... -
The Nostalgia for Origins: Religion, Evolution, Cognition and Memory by Carl Olson 9781839990519
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33Using the theme of nostalgia for origins, this work proposes to examine the origin of religion within the context of the theory of evolution and the development of the human brain. It is argued that... -
Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age by Daniel Shaviro 9781839981777
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.87The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an... -
Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor Salvatore Attardo 9781839993626
Booksplease Price: $50.13The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing,... -
Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade: Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the Early Seventeenth Century Yda Schreuder 9781839994746
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.90The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic... -
Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective Amanda Udis-Kessler 9781839995453
Booksplease Price: $50.13Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective shows how inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions about who should... -
Textuality, Culture and Scripture: A Study in Interrelations by Wesley A. Kort 9781785271595
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33"Textuality, Culture, and Scripture", a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, describes the prominent role of texts and textuality in Western modernity and the... -
Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett: Voices in the Closet by Nathalie Camerlynck 9781785277955
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist. Born... -
Dream and Literary Creation in Women's Writings in the 18th-19th Centuries by Isabelle Hervouet 9781785277528
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women's writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the... -
Eight Years on Sakhalin: A Political Prisoner's Memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachev 9781785278228
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41In 1887, following several years' imprisonment for his role in the People's Will terrorist group, Ivan P. Iuvachev was exiled with other political prisoners to the notorious Sakhalin penal colony... -
British Battles 493-937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh by Andrew Breeze 9781839980701
Booksplease Price: $48.75British Battles 493-937 deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493)... -
In Defense of Reason After Hegel: Why We Are So Wise by Richard Dien Winfield 9781839982422
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33In Defense of Reason After Hegel repudiates the assault on truth pervading public life and the academy by drawing upon arguments pioneered by Hegel. These arguments show how thought can free itself... -
Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past by Sarah E. Maier 9781839981760
Booksplease Price: $50.13Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether... -
After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man by Piotr Nowak 9781839981944
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33The basic idea of this book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews". The author achieves this by referring... -
Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics by Omar Sabbagh 9781839984532
Booksplease Price: $50.13This book-length study of an eminent, distinguished and influential poet and contemporary woman of letters integrates analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date... -
Turkey’s Water Diplomacy: Analysis of its Foundations, Challenges and Prospects Aysegül Kibaroglu 9781839994753
Booksplease Price: $50.13'Turkey's Water Diplomacy' delineates the institutional and legal foundations of transboundary water policy-making in Turkey, paying special attention to the evolution of transboundary water politics... -
Black Bones Jones: Ex-Slave. Ex-Soldier. Exorcist. by James Moorer 9798991102544
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $35.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991102544Author James MoorerFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint -
Two for the Pain by James Moorer 9798991102551
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $35.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991102551Author James MoorerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint -
After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man Piotr Nowak 9781839996504
Booksplease Price: $50.13The basic idea of this book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews". The author achieves this by referring... -
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth Andrew L. Jenks 9781839998409
Booksplease Price: $50.13There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This... -
Wittgenstein, Human Beings and Conversation David Cockburn 9781839999451
Booksplease Price: $50.13This book brings together David Cockburn's best work on Wittgensteinian themes relating to 'mind' and 'language'. While none of these papers is well described as 'exegetical', most are discussions of... -
Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith by Murat Arsel 9781785279966
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33The mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly challenged from various fronts such as decoloniality, 'global development' and randomized control trials... -
International Scientific Relations: Science, Technology and Innovation in the International System of the 21st Century by Francisco Del Canto Viterale 9781785277078
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33The book focuses on the novel and unexplored research area of intersection between science, technology, and innovation and international affairs. The main objective of this book is to offer an... -
Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance: Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties by Pia M. Kohler 9781785279782
Booksplease Price: $50.13"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees established to provide advice on science to multilateral environmental agreements. By focusing on how these... -
Authoritarian Collectivism and 'Real Socialism': Twentieth Century Trajectory, Twenty-First Century Issues by Jose Mauricio Domingues 9781839980770
Booksplease Price: $42.82The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology, as well as dwelling on its... -
Nikoli Gretsch's Travel Letters: Volume 1 - Letters from England by Ben P. Robertson 9781839980817
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867) in St. Petersburg in 1839. In the original Russian, Gretsch... -
Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal by Carol Bolton 9781839983405
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $226.86In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of... -
Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve by Maximillian E. Novak 9781839984341
Booksplease Price: $50.13William Congreve was deeply involved in the events of his turbulent times. That involvement reveals itself in works which have sometimes been regarded as entirely unengaged with the realities of his... -
The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman by Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9781839983191
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $226.86The purpose of the volume-as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press "Companion to Sociology" series-is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman's continued appeal and...