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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation: The Turkish Muslim Minority of Greece and the Greek Orthodox Minority of T�rkiye G�l M G�r 9780472077458
Booksplease Price: £63.25Migration 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... -
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs Martin J. Siegel 9781501785016
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.472023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius... -
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... -
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 9780814788288
Booksplease Price: £90.57While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the... -
Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation by Rose Stremlau 9780807872048
Booksplease Price: £38.58During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In... -
Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 by Victoria Henshaw 9781474269261
Booksplease Price: £40.38The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that... -
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... -
Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy by Onora O'Neill 9780521381215
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £81.70Two centuries after they were published, Kant's ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain... -
The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era by Tom Holm
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order... -
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... -
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 Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain by Mary Elizabeth Perry 9780691130545
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth... -
Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction by Ymitri Mathison 9781496825520
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise... -
Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta, USA) 9781138493186
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing... -
Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories by Lorraine López 9781880684863
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories, is a stunning debut collection of short stories that explore identity issues in the Latino community. The cast of characters in her stories include a young... -
When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands by Paul M. Sniderman 9780691141015
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial... -
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were... -
The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America by Joseph Andrew Orser 9781469618302
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as... -
Drawing Deena by Hena Khan 9781534459915
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.93From the award-winning author of Amina's Voice and Amina's Song comes a tenderhearted middle grade novel about a young Pakistani American artist determined to manage her anxiety and forge her own... -
Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2) by Richard Levins 9780691080628
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on... -
Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere by Robert W. Sterner
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £69.68All life is chemical. That fact underpins the developing field of ecological stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemical elements in ecological interactions. This long-awaited book brings... -
Interaction and Identity by Harmut B. Mokros 9781138511019
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Common to these concerns are the assumptions that... -
American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by Robert Wuthnow 9780691138558
Booksplease Price: £18.57America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned... -
Migration, Class and Transnational Identities: Croations in Australia and America by Val Colic-Peisker 9780252033605
Booksplease Price: £48.14Val Colic-Peisker harnesses concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political science to compare the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts in the city of... -
Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness by Janet Zandy 9780813521220
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.90This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and self-determination. It offers an alternative to middle-class assimiliation and working-class amnesia. The twenty-five contributors use... -
Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 2 by Bronwyn H. Hall 9780444536099
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £111.06How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering...