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Improvisations of Empire: Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834 by Matthew Shum 9781839981791
Booksplease Price: £25.71Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), the son of a Lowland tenant farmer in Scotland. It examines his... -
California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream by Charles L. Crow 9781839983795
Booksplease Price: £21.96California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a... -
Foreign Aid to the Gaza Strip between Trusteeship and De-Development by Ahmed Tannira 9781839985416
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book examines the impact of aid to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip from the 1993 Oslo Agreement up to 2013. It attempts to go beyond the general notion that the Israeli occupation is... -
Fronsperger and Laffemas: 16th-century Precursors of Modern Economic Ideas by Erik S. Reinert 9781839987083
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This volume introduces two unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge and makes them available internationally for the first time in full English... -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781839988295
Booksplease Price: £21.00This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a... -
African Memoirs and Cultural Representations: Narrating Traditions Toyin Falola 9781839987748
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual's way of life. In other words, in memoir writing,... -
How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers Matthew Calarco 9781839999475
Booksplease Price: £25.71Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with "the human"? Is the human a category worth preserving?... -
More Meditations of a Militant Moderate Peter H. Schuck 9781839999468
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a... -
Teaching Palestine on an Israeli University Campus: Unsettling Denial by Daphna Golan-Agnon 9781785275012
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The word "occupation" is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The "war outside" is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students... -
Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World by Mike Rosenberg 9781839985102
Booksplease Price: £14.87Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World offers a practical and tested framework with which to chart one's own path toward the future. The book will help interpret... -
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War by Philip Boobbyer 9781839985621
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd's life is interesting for the way it connected the worlds of... -
Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition by Daniel Sacilotto 9781839986871
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist indigenista tradition,... -
Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona's Undead Voices by Dolores Flores-Silva 9781839980367
Booksplease Price: £21.96Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a single... -
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 by Sam Hirst 9781839981531
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and... -
The Archaeology of War: The History of Violence between the 20th and 21st Centuries by Christian Wevelsiep 9781839983559
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The 20th century holds many titles that emphasise the extraordinary. It was a century of totalitarianism, but also one of betrayal, an age of extremes and the incomprehensible. Betrayed, that is, at... -
Britain's Mandate in Palestine: A Legal Charade that spawned a century of conflict by John Quigley 9781839984631
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Analysis of Britain's role in Palestine has proceeded on the assumption that Britain was lawfully in control of the territory. Analysts differ on whether what it did was proper, but they agree that... -
Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964-1985 by Anna Grimaldi 9781839985508
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Brazil and Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964-1985 explores how solidarity for Brazil contributed to the global human rights movement of the 1970s. Through protests, petitions, posters, and... -
Rediscovering the Core of Western Culture: Lest We Lose Love by Scherto Gill 9781839987618
Booksplease Price: £21.03Few are aware that since antiquity, there has always been the philosophy of love at the core of Western culture. It articulates what makes life meaningful and worthwhile, and how we can live a good... -
The Democracy Amendments: Constitutional Reforms to Save the United States by John J. Davenport 9781839986628
Booksplease Price: £16.75The institutional fabric of our nation is afflicted by divisive politics. Trust in Congress and the Supreme Court has reached new lows, and a tsunami of misinformation and vote suppression is causing... -
Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint by Inge Brokerhof 9781839992896
Booksplease Price: £21.96Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It... -
The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic Donald G. Nieman 9781839992766
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.73How did the world's oldest democracy lose its mojo? How did we get to a point where we face existential crises like climate change yet leaders can't agree that there's a problem let alone develop... -
Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition Daniel Sacilotto 9781839998386
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist indigenista tradition,... -
Genocide: A Thematic Approach Thomas Earl Porter 9781839998393
Booksplease Price: £25.71The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. Most students who register for a course on... -
Marx in the Field by Alessandra Mezzadri 9781785274497
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of the Marxian method to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring... -
Constraining Development: The Shrinking of Policy Space in the International Trade Regime by Rachel Thrasher 9781785277610
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09There is a fundamental mismatch between the global trade rules as they govern international economic behaviour and the political economic factors influencing domestic policy making. It comes as no... -
Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat: The People's Reefs by Kelly Dunning 9781839986710
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean region, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today. The question this book answers is, what is the best way to protect the... -
Prometheus and Gaia: Technology, Ecology and Anti-Humanism by Harrison Fluss 9781839980183
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Prometheus and Gaia examines the ideological positions of Futurism and Eco-Pessimism. While these are rarely spoken about in mainstream discourse, they do have strong resonances in today's popular... -
Trends in Comparative Law and Economics by Nuno Garoupa 9781839985355
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.40The book is a short introduction to comparative law and economics, a growing field in the interaction between law, economics and comparative political science. It is a guide to economists, lawyers... -
Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s Ameer Chasib Furaih 9781839982170
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book examines the poetries of two Aboriginal Australian poets, namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958- ) and two African American Black Arts poets... -
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing Amina Yaqin 9781839998027
Booksplease Price: £25.71In this book, the author critically interrogates the construction of gender, community and nation in the work of progressive women poets. The book combines the study of nation and community through a... -
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading: Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot by Kelda Green 9781785273810
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09'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... -
Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures by Ryan Johnson 9781785274343
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The theory of "literary worlds" has become increasingly important in comparative and world literatures. But how are the often-contradictory elements of Eastern and Western literatures to cohere in... -
The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism: Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points by H. Aram Veeser 9781839985614
Booksplease Price: £25.71The 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,... -
Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980 by Gevork Hartoonian 9781839986376
Booksplease Price: £25.71This 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... -
The Essential Book of Business and Life Quotations by Dominique V. Turpin 9781839984389
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.74An up-to-date book of quotations for executives, academics and anyone who wants to spice speeches and business presentations or simply reflect on some of the best things ever said on topics linked to... -
Literature and Transformation: A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences by Thor Magnus Tangeras 9781839985393
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book develops a method called intimate reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read, and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self... -
Military Memories: Draft Era Veterans Recall their Service by Donald Zillman 9781839986451
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era describe their service and its influence on their lives. Their service is shaped by the history of America's raising of its military... -
Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film by Daniel Shaviro 9781839983825
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.31How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end... -
The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers by Joseph McBride 9781839983313
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.65The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box office hits, such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No... -
Military Memories: Draft Era Veterans Recall their Service Donald Zillman 9781839992520
Booksplease Price: £25.71Eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era describe their service and its influence on their lives. Their service is shaped by the history of America's raising of its military...