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Making the Immigrant Soldier: HowRace, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military by Cristina-Ioana Dragomir 9780252045035
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Immigrants to the United States have long used the armed forces as a shortcut to citizenship. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir profiles Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, three immigrants of varying nationalities and... -
European Union Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality: Investigating the Triangle of Racial, Gender and Disability Discrimination Anna Lawson 9781138269453
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union. The book is focused on... -
Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions Francesca Monti 9780815399513
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the... -
The Myth of the 'Crime Decline': Exploring Change and Continuity in Crime and Harm by Justin Kotze
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The Myth of the 'Crime Decline' seeks to critically interrogate the supposed statistical decline of crime rates, thought to have occurred in a number of predominantly Western countries over the past... -
Freedom and Authority in French West Africa by Robert Delavignette
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1950 and updated in 1968, this book discusses the functions and status of native chiefs in what were the French colonies in West Africa. It also examines the relation of the... -
Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change: A Critical Analysis by Herbert Blumer 9780202304113
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Herbert Blumer wrote continuously and voluminously, and consequently left a vast array of unpublished work at the time of his death in 1987. This posthumously published volume testifies further to... -
The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas by Keith L. Tinker 9780813062129
Booksplease Price: £23.03Although the Bahamas is geographically part of the West Indies, its population has consistently rejected attempts to link Bahamian national identity to the histories of its poorer Caribbean neighbors... -
Multiculturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education: Who Are We? by Jason Cong Lin 9781032368139
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In Chinese societies, Chinese identity is an important yet controversial topic. This book examines official understandings of Chinese identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong, exploring how the... -
Monstress Volume 9: The Possessed Marjorie Liu 9781534392618
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Maika, Kippa, and Ren return to their own world to discover a full year has passed in their absence-and Zinn is back in the clutches of Maika's father, the megalomaniacal Lord Doctor. From the... -
Topics in Extraordinary Achievement in Historically Excluded Groups: Creating Spaces of Opportunity Miguelina Nuñez-Zippelius 9789819509140
Booksplease Price: £110.39This book provides a systematic synopsis of this highly active but disconnected field of research on underrepresented groups with exceptional performance. In this respect, it fulfills a pioneering... -
Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies by David W. Pfennig
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £72.84Phenotypic plasticity - the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct response to a change in its environment - is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this phenomenon exists... -
Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration: Cross-Border Lives by Susanne Wessendorf
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration represents the first comprehensive study of second-generation transnationalism, exploring the manner in which the children of migrants grow up... -
Biochemical Basis of Plant Breeding: Volume 1 Carbon Metabolism by Carlos A. Neyra
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84First published in 1985: This book presents a comprehensive survey of progress and current knowledge of those biochemical processes with greater potential for the development of superior cultivars:... -
Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity by Audrey Ricke
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity is one of the first ethnographies to analyze the tourism industry based on German cultural heritage in southern... -
Judy Chicago-isms by Judy Chicago 9780691253961
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A collection of inspiring and provocative quotations from pioneering artist, feminist, and activist Judy ChicagoA fierce activist for women's rights and against climate change, Judy Chicago defines... -
Learning, Development and Education: From learning theory to education and practice by Knud Illeris
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient... -
Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey by Jen-hu Chang
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship between climate and... -
Maku: A Comprehensive Grammar by Chris Rogers
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Maku: A Comprehensive Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar of the Maku language, spoken by the jukudeitse who once lived in Venezuela and Brazil. Based on fieldwork with the final two... -
How We Learn: Learning and non-learning in school and beyond Knud Illeris (Aarhus University, Denmark.) 9781138689817
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Having published in 11 languages and sold in more than 100,000 copies, this fully revised edition of How We Learn examines what learning actually is and why and how learning and non-learning takes... -
Indira Gandhi's India/h by Henry C. Hart
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book reappraises the segment of Indian politics to describe how the transformation of the operating rules of an elaborate political system could come to be an option exercisable at the will of a... -
From the Boarding Schools: Apache Indian Students Speak by Arnold Krupat
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Arnold Krupat's From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi... -
Climate Change and Legumes: Stress Mitigation for Sustainability and Food Security by Mohammad Zabed Hossain 9781032079844
Booksplease Price: £110.39Global climate change has created unprecedented challenges for human civilization due to its widespread adverse consequences, including a reduction in crop yield and threatening food security across... -
Race and Ethnicity: The Basics by Peter Kivisto 9780415773737
Booksplease Price: £110.39Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The... -
Redefining Black Film by Mark A. Reid 9780520079021
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered 'black films'? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between... -
Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways Andonis Piperoglou 9783031993275
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access edited collection provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands. Via an assortment of critical reflections from settler colonial Australia,... -
The Engaging Museum: Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement by Graham Black 9780415345576 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £3.02This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means... -
Hispanic Migration and Urban Development: Studies from Washington DC by Enrique S. Pumar
Booksplease Price: £107.73This volume of "Research in Race and Ethnic Relations" analyzes the pattern of assimilation and incorporation among the Hispanic population in the Washington DC metro region. Following a... -
Cultivating Your Microbiome: Ayurvedic and Chinese Practices for a Healthy Gut and a Clear Mind by Bridgette Shea
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A holistic guide to improving your gut flora for better physical and emotional health * Explores the influence of the gut microbiome and the mesentery on all other bodily systems, especially the... -
From Exile To Diaspora: Versions Of The Filipino Experience In The United States by E. San Juan
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in... -
How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans 9781632062628
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.73Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how... -
Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe by Andrea Reiter 9781138999336
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Providing an assessment of Jewish identity, this volume presents critical engagements with a number of Jewish writers and filmmakers from a variety of European countries, including Austria, France,... -
International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth by Jeffry A. Frieden 9780415222792
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.54Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling reader in international political economy offers 31 solid articles - 15 new - by renowned scholars in political science and economics. Frieden and Lake... -
The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal: Stories by Brian Ascalon Roley 9780810133228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.72The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal is a collection of stories that focuses on multigenerational tales of intertwined Filipino families. Set in the huge yet relatively overlooked and misunderstood... -
Divided Power: How Federalism Undermines Reconciliation Emily Grafton 9781773637723
Booksplease Price: £35.48Reconciliation, as set out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is a process of understanding the Canadian state's genocide against Indigenous Peoples and creating a new relationship between... -
Our Land: The Maritimes by G P Gould 9781773104539
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Our Land: The Maritimes examines the historical and legal background to Indigenous land claims in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, tracing the patterns of land dealings that... -
Umbundu Kinship and Character Gladwyn Murray Childs 9781138496033
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Originally published in 1949, this book discusses Umbundu social structure and education, with particular reference to how both of these adapted as Angola's contact with Western influences increased... -
Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era by Laura R. Fisher 9781517903831
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century Reading for Reform rewrites the literary history of late nineteenth and early... -
Enlightened Aboriginal Futures Barry Judd 9781032251189
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book examines the radical intervention of the German-Australian Lutheran missionary F. W. Albrecht in the education of Aboriginal children. Albrecht's ideas about consent, freedom of choice and... -
Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000) by Mike Pincombe 9780754608325
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The... -
The Navajo Nation Political Experience David E. Wilkins 9781538191354
Booksplease Price: £90.57Tribal nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints...