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European Societies Today: Inequality, Diversity, Divergence James Wickham 9781138386914
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This accessible new text introduces students to contemporary European societies by examining structures of inequality, making sense of the empirical and historical contexts. Focusing on seven... -
Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac... -
Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam by Sonsyrea Tate 9781621904069
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Little X, Sonsyrea Tate reveals, through the acute vision and engaging voice of a curious child, the practices and policies of the mysterious organization most know only through media portrayals... -
Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War by C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa 9781469617510
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act... -
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia Haun Saussy 9780691231983
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850-with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature... -
The Americanization Syndrome: A Quest for Conformity by Robert A. Carlson 9781032363561
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of education in the process of 'Americanization'. It argues that beginning with seventeenth century puritan leaders such as John... -
La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture by David T. Abalos 9780275958923
Booksplease Price: £76.51La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally... -
The Adam Principle by John Money 9780879758042
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.55This is the first-ever collection of this noted sexologist's original clinical studies of gender identity and role in genetics, hormones, body morphology, brain, and social assimilation and learning... -
The Indispensability of Intuitions by Marc A. Moffett 9781009544412
Booksplease Price: £56.67The idea that human beings possess a substantive source of non-experiential evidence (intuitions) has been ridiculed as mystical or hopelessly mysterious. This Element argues that intuitions are... -
Coming Out Jewish Jon Stratton 9780415222082
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found... -
United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volume 1 by Jacob Rader Marcus 9780814344699
Booksplease Price: £21.62In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural... -
The Indispensability of Intuitions by Marc A. Moffett 9781009544467
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52The idea that human beings possess a substantive source of non-experiential evidence (intuitions) has been ridiculed as mystical or hopelessly mysterious. This Element argues that intuitions are... -
The Sheldons: Being Some Account of the Sheldon Family of Worcestershire and Warwickshire by E. A. B. Barnard 9781107674219
Booksplease Price: £32.12Originally published in 1936, this book was written with the aim of assimilating all of the important details concerning the prominent and interesting members of the Sheldon family of Worcestershire... -
La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture by David T. Abalos 9780275958930
Booksplease Price: £28.57La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally... -
After Piaget by Eduardo Marti
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04After Piaget proves that Jean Piaget's work is critical for understanding some of the most current proposals in the study of psychological development. It analyses Piaget's legacy, moving beyond the... -
Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice by Christine Bennett
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £83.96A comprehensive look at multicultural education that balances theory with practical teaching strategies.Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice uniquely blends diversity theory,... -
Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues by Bernard Segal 9781138002364
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities! Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues brings you the voices of drug abuse researchers who... -
Child's Play: Developmental and Applied Thomas D. Yawkey 9781138297722
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests that social and behavioural scientists have in... -
Plato’s Pragmatism: Rethinking the Relationship between Ethics and Epistemology by Nicholas R. Baima
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but... -
Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century by Rachelle Taylor 9780367881283
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The... -
Muslims in Europe: Comparative perspectives on socio-cultural integration by Paul Statham
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Atrocities by terrorists acting in the name of the 'Islamic State' are occurring with increasing regularity across Western Europe. Often the perpetrators are 'home grown', which places the... -
Diversity in America by Vincent N. Parrillo
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The updated and expanded fourth edition of Diversity in America addresses key controversial topics generating debate in US society today. The book answers these and many other questions by using... -
Salud Y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Joseph Butwin 9780252046513
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front... -
Zara's Rules Paperback Collection (Boxed Set): Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun; Zara's Rules for Finding Hidden Treasure; Zara's Rules for Living Your Best Life by Hena Khan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From the beloved author of Amina's Voice come the first three books in the humor-filled Zara's Rules middle grade series starring a young Muslim girl with an endless list of hobbies and lots of big... -
Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks Filippo Stanco (University of Catania, Italy) 9781138073791
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £80.44This edition presents the most prominent topics and applications of digital image processing, analysis, and computer graphics in the field of cultural heritage preservation. The text assumes prior... -
Andean Structural Styles: A Seismic Atlas by Gonzalo Zamora 9780323851756
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £115.57Andean Structural Styles: A Seismic Atlas is a comprehensive reference illustrating the variability in structural styles and hydrocarbon traps that exist in the Andean chain. The Andean chain,... -
Marine Ecotoxicology: Current Knowledge and Future Issues by 9780128033715
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £84.16Marine Ecotoxicology: Current Knowledge and Future Issues is the first unified resource to cover issues related to contamination, responses, and testing techniques of saltwater from a toxicological... -
Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles Robert J. Sternberg 9780805834314
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical... -
Salud Y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Joseph Butwin 9780252088629
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front... -
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this... -
Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide Stephen M. Croucher 9780415748049
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.18This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory-the social scientific,... -
My Mother's Island by Marnie Mueller 9781880684825
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Marnie Mueller's My Mother's Island, Sarah Ellis must tend to her dying mother, Reba. This moving story of subterranean conflict between a mother and her only child explores the tension between... -
Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era by Steven A. Riess 9780252067754
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics,... -
The Education of Clarence Three Stars: A Lakota American Life by Philip Burnham 9781496238047
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26In The Education of Clarence Three Stars Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was born in 1864 east of the Black Hills. His... -
Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation: The Turkish Muslim Minority of Greece and the Greek Orthodox Minority of T�rkiye G�l M G�r 9780472057450
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Migration and minority rights are increasingly at the forefront of global discourse. Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation explores the lives of two often overlooked minority communities: the... -
Japanese Americans: Changing Patterns Of Ethnic Affiliation Over Three Generations by Darrel Montero 9780367172251
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Despite many social injustices, Japanese Americans are one of the most socioeconomically successful ethnic groups in the United States, having the highest median educational level among both... -
Mexican Americans Across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realities by Jessica M. Vasquez 9780814788295
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in... -
People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity by David O’Brien 9789811937781
Booksplease Price: £112.12In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism... -
The Effects of the September 11 Terrorist Attack on Pakistani-American Parental Involvement in U.S. Schools by Fawzia Reza 9781498508605
Booksplease Price: £90.87This book examines the challenges that Pakistani-American families have faced in their attempts to assimilate within the U.S. school culture since the September eleventh terrorist attack. Negative... -
Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 by Erik Baark 9780313300110
Booksplease Price: £76.51Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He shows how the initial Chinese rejection of the telegraph as an inconvenient technology contributed to...