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The Anthem Companion to Peter Berger by Jonathan B. Imber 9781839984549
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $150.08Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half-century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern... -
Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980 by Gevork Hartoonian 9781839983498
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an... -
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970: A Semiology and Sociocultural History by David Scott 9781839985348
Booksplease Price: $33.17This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920-1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information... -
Reading as a Philosophical Practice by Robert Piercey 9781839985430
Booksplease Price: $33.17Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading-everyday reading for pleasure-matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To... -
Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends by Victoria Munoz 9781839985461
Booksplease Price: $33.17Did Spanish explorers really discover the sunken city of Atlantis or one of the lost tribes of Israel in Aztec Mexico? Did classical writers foretell the discovery of America? Were faeries and... -
The Cold War in the 1950s by Nicolas Lewkowicz 9781839985539
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45The book claims that the United States and the Soviet Union attained the mastery of the international order by projecting universalist values that responded to the particularist markers of the... -
Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1841-1921: From Foreigner to Alien by Ben Braber 9781839985607
Booksplease Price: $33.17This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language that was used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921. Using a historical and linguistic method for an... -
Sub-Saharan African Immigrants' Stories of Resilience and Courage by Miriam Konate 9781839987861
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45The purpose of this book is to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States. The authors believe... -
Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond by Nausica Palazzo 9781839992551
Booksplease Price: $33.17Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to... -
Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric by Paul Allen Miller 9781839990854
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric is a collection of essays that makes a strong case for a comparative approach to... -
Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language Alice C Helliwell 9781839991363
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45This collection brings together work on the relevance of Wittgenstein's philosophy to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Over two volumes, our contributors cover a wide range of topics from... -
Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views by Anne Maxwell 9781839990793
Booksplease Price: $28.33Australian Women's Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views examines the photographs produced by six talented women photographers against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards... -
The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance: From Palace to Academy Emmanuel Cudjoe 9781839991820
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45The Kete dance form, once exclusive to royal courts, carries intricate movements, symbolic gestures, and rhythms that mirror Ghanaian history and values. It embodies storytelling, often depicting... -
Reading as a Philosophical Practice by Robert Piercey 9781785276071
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading-everyday reading for pleasure-matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To... -
The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism: Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points by H. Aram Veeser 9781785274374
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45The interviewees of this volume fall into three groups: the main players who brought about the rise of theory (Fish, Gallop, Spivak, Bhabha); a younger group of post-theorists (Berube, Dimock,... -
Minutes to Midnight, 2nd Edition by Paul Dukes 9781785274985
Booksplease Price: $24.01The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special... -
Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock 9781839983467
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial... -
Colonial Australian Women Poets: Political Voice and Feminist Traditions by Katie Hansord 9781839985645
Booksplease Price: $33.17My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and... -
Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness by Elizabeth DePoy 9781839980459
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness examines the role of embodied disablement in providing an important but often circumvented analysis of the explicit and implicit nature of the legitimate... -
Offering Theory: Reading in Sociography by John Mowitt 9781839982347
Booksplease Price: $33.17A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who... -
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading: Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot by Kelda Green 9781839985317
Booksplease Price: $33.17'Rethinking Therapeutic Reading' uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It... -
Joseph Karo and Shaping of Modern Jewish Law: The Early Modern Ottoman and Global Settings by Roni Weinstein 9781839992537
Booksplease Price: $33.17The double codes of law composed by R. Joseph Karo during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries mark a watershed in the history of Jewish Halakhah [law]. No further legal project was... -
Gothic Appalachian Literature Sarah Robertson 9781839986789
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.90Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of... -
Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World: From Salem to Somewhere Else Michael J. Colacurcio 9781839993497
Booksplease Price: $33.17Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World picks up Hawthorne where The Province of Piety left him, extending the historical and theological reading there developed of the early Puritan and... -
Natural Law Jurisprudence in U.S. Supreme Court Cases since Roe v. Wade Charles P. Nemeth 9781839993800
Booksplease Price: $33.17This text will examine U.S. Supreme Court cases which highlight, feature and illuminate some facets of natural law reasoning since the Court's decree in Roe v. Wade. For most of our constitutional... -
Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land Constantine Sandis 9781839986703
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45This book brings together Constantine Sandis's essays on Wittgenstein's approach to understanding others. It sketches a picture of how his anti-scepticismwith regard to the philosophical problem of... -
Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation Ben Spies-Butcher 9781839995323
Booksplease Price: $33.17Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare, and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising... -
Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Stories of Resilience and Courage Mariam Konate 9781839999482
Booksplease Price: $33.17The purpose of this book to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the US. The authors believe that telling... -
Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion Laura L. Runge 9781839999758
Booksplease Price: $33.17Aphra Behn (1640-1689), prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, translator, has a fascinating and extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history. Quantitative... -
Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic by Daniella Trimboli 9781785273902
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Using 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... -
Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia by Geoff Rodoreda 9781785274244
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45More than any other event in Australia's legal, political and cultural history, the High Court of Australia's 1992 Mabo decision challenged previous ways of thinking about land, identity, belonging,... -
Collective Complaints As a Means for Protecting Social Rights in Europe by Giuseppe Palmisano 9781839981418
Booksplease Price: $28.33The collective complaints procedure was created in 1995 as an optional quasi-jurisdictional monitoring mechanism specific for the protection of social rights, within the framework of the Council of... -
War, Genocide and Cultural Memory: The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today by Claus Bundgård Christensen 9781839990021
Booksplease Price: $32.55This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book... -
On the Fall of the Roman Republic: Lessons for the American People by Thomas E. Strunk 9781839988394
Booksplease Price: $27.15Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate, military misadventures abroad, and... -
Modern Persian, Elementary Level: beh farsi begoo by Iago Gocheleishvili 9781839991752
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $69.32Modern Persian, Elementary Level is an innovative Persian language textbook. It is intended for university-level learners and features material for two consecutive semesters of elementary Persian... -
The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor: The Midnight Sea in the Blood by Peter Read 9781839989926
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $40.07Why does a highly skilled and highly trained sculptor, the master of every style and technique, insist on working in the style of the Italian Renaissance? The answer is that to Dabro, every sculpture... -
Intermediate SCAT Practice Tests: 3 Full-Length Verbal and Quantitative Mock Tests with Detailed Answer Explanations by Anthem Press 9781839981685
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.90This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 4 and 5 to take the Intermediate School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the... -
A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton's Love in "The World" by Ross Nelson 9781839987281
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Caroline Norton's forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naive young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season. Her... -
War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life Jeffrey S. Reznick 9781839996689
Booksplease Price: $33.17War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895-1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew... -
Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia by Mei Li 9781785279799
Booksplease Price: $33.17Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia discusses China's soft power communication approach and investigates information handling between China and its targeted audiences in the...