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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... -
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... -
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... -
A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game by Steve Fuller 9781785276033
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth condition's deep historical and philosophical roots... -
Up Against the Wall: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border by Peter Laufer 9781785275241
Booksplease Price: £27.51The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides... -
Towards Third Generation Learning and Teaching: Contours of the New Learning by Murat Yulek 9781839984600
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Descartes has said he is because he thinks. Perhaps we should say: we are because we learn. Learning is an essential human characteristic, look at children who self-learn empirically. In our times we... -
Reinventing Live: The Always On Future of Events by Denzil Rankine 9781785276927
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.85Forget the traditional one-off, in-person event. Welcome to a new world, where event organizers no longer see themselves as pure organizers; rather their role is to facilitate - business,... -
The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era: Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present Mark E. Blum 9781839994760
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era - from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose... -
Fashioning the Dandy: Style and Manners Olga Vainshtein 9781839996849
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition,... -
The Dao of Civilization: a Letter to China by Freya Mathews 9781839984853
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.31The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. Starting with the deep philosophical flaw at the core of modernity, namely... -
Sociology Global: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by R Sooryamoorthy 9781839986819
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.40This book is about sociologies around the world. Viewed from a global perspective, this research-based study examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. Sociology as a... -
Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment by Aneira J. Edmunds 9781839984471
Booksplease Price: £21.96Virtuous institutions, such as human rights ones, have been neglected by securitization theory's focus on the national state apparatus as the key driver of security politics. This book challenges... -
The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies by Robert T. Tally Jr 9781839988332
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual,... -
The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage Laurence Senelick 9781839993114
Booksplease Price: £25.71It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and... -
Art and Design in 1960s New York Amanda Gluibizzi 9781839994968
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.15Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence between fine art and graphic design in New York City during the long decade of the 1960s. Beginning with advertising's "creative... -
The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies Robert T. Tally Jr 9781839996160
Booksplease Price: £25.71The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies comprises a selection of essays that register the situatedness of critical theory and practice amid various intellectual,... -
The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth: Voices from the Global Diplomacy Lab by Eirliani Abdul Rahman 9781785276316
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09As fertility rates decrease, a country's working-age population grows larger relative to the young dependent population. With more people in the labor force and fewer children to support, a country... -
The Transformation of Capacity in International Development: Afghanistan and Pakistan (1977-2017) by Avideh K. Mayville 9781785271557
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development" exposes the transformation of capacity within the development discourse through a discursive analysis of USAID projects in Afghanistan... -
Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia by Mei Li 9781785272028
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Chinese 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... -
The Inherence of Human Dignity: Foundations of Human Dignity, Volume 1 by Barry Bussey 9781785276514
Booksplease Price: £25.71Focused at the theoretical level, this volume seeks to clarify our understanding of various historical and contemporary concepts of human dignity. It examines the various meanings of the term... -
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography: Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction by Mark Franko 9781785278013
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot... -
The New Motivation and Dilemma of China's Soft Power in the Age of Noopolitik by Zheng Li 9781785279577
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Good governance and anti-corruption efforts were expected to enhance soft power overseas. The party-state successfully governed China for decades relying on its controversial governance approaches... -
Essays on Philosophy, Praxis and Culture: An Eclectic, Provocative and Prescient Collection by Lou Marinoff 9781839980572
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition. The... -
Montesquieu' 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition by W. B. Allen 9781839982941
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of "separation of powers" and "balances and checks," it provides the decisive response to the question of whether power in the... -
The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias by Stephen Mennell 9781839986673
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34The book presents an authoritative assessment of Norbert Elias (1897-1990). It recognizes Elias as one of the major contributors to the development of sociological tradition in the past century and...