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The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History: Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events by Bruce A. Elleman 9781839989605
Booksplease Price: £21.96In 21 short case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century. It covers a wide range of... -
Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony Wanjala S. Nasong’o 9781839980275
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenya's emergence is rooted in the colonial enterprise, its deleterious effects and... -
Confronting the Irish Past: The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Séamus Murphy 9781839991103
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet... -
From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence: Industrialization and Leadership in Asia’s Prosperity and Nigeria’s Regress Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka 9781839991981
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book examines Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and most populous country, and Asia in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. We traced the divergent growth in wealth between the two... -
A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature Nigel Fabb 9781839994159
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The... -
The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile: An International Perspective Andrés Solimano 9781839994807
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile' focuses on the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system since the early 1980 when launched by the Pinochet regime. It explores... -
Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings: A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000 Jia Gao 9781839994791
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54In the past four or so decades, a significant amount of research efforts has been made to examine the rapid and constant social changes in China. However, most of the literature has focused on either... -
Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition: A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia Aaron Sherraden 9781839994944
Booksplease Price: £25.71According to Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana (early centuries CE), Sambuka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Sudra, Sambuka was in violation of... -
Constraining Development: The Shrinking of Policy Space in the International Trade Regime Rachel Denae Thrasher 9781839996498
Booksplease Price: £25.71There 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... -
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,... -
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... -
Art and Design in 1960s New York by Amanda Gluibizzi 9781785276651
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Art 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 Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 1: Introduction and Text by Bernard J. Muir 9781839986994
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34The book consists of three parts: I. Introduction, including the history of research, detailed paleographical and codicological analysis, and discussion of the other Anglo-Saxon Chronicle... -
Rediscovering the Core of Western Culture: Lest We Lose Love by Scherto Gill 9781839987601
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Few 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 Drivers and Outcomes of Global Health Diplomacy: Lessons from Brazilian Health Cooperation in Mozambique by Maria Berta Ecija 9781839989339
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique looking at the interests of both actors and different power relations within this initiative. It counts with a case study looking... -
Scenes of Bohemian Life Henry Murger 9781839993275
Booksplease Price: £21.03This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger's influential Scenes de la vie de boheme, first published in French in 1851. The book recounts the lives of a bohemian group of creative young people as... -
The Varieties of Joycean Experience Tim Conley 9781839994722
Booksplease Price: £25.71The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of... -
Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare 9781839995200
Booksplease Price: £25.71Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre traces important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre's Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development... -
Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony Wanjala S. Nasong’o 9781801360401
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenya's emergence is rooted in the colonial enterprise, its deleterious effects and... -
Fashion as Cultural Translation: Signs, Images, Narratives by Patrizia Calefato 9781785272424
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital... -
A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game by Steve Fuller 9781785276040
Booksplease Price: £21.00A 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... -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781785277641
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This 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... -
Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry by Sergei Komlev 9781839980992
Booksplease Price: £25.71Natural gas pricing should be as critically important to the general public as it is to industry specialists. Pricing is the basis of balancing the interests of European and Asian consumers of power... -
The Anthem Companion to David Ricardo by J.E. King 9781839982910
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34With contributions from authorities on four continents, this edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772-1823), a major contributor to the British... -
Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and Fulfillment at Work by Robert Stebbins 9781839983139
Booksplease Price: £21.96The idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two serious pursuits. The other pursuit is serious leisure... -
Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985-2015 by Heath A. Diehl 9781839985669
Booksplease Price: £25.71Since the nineteenth century, the Western realistic novel has persistently represented the addict as a morally toxic force bent on destroying the institutions, practices, and ideologies that... -
Swedish Gothic: Dark Forces, Creatures and the Wilderness by Yvonne Leffler 9781839980336
Booksplease Price: £21.96The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today and to highlight the characteristic... -
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the Ending of Servile Labour in Russia and Brazil by Shane O'Rourke 9781839983160
Booksplease Price: £21.96Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia and Princess Isabel of Brazil were active participants in the struggle to end servile labor in their respective countries. They acted in defiance of political...