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Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border by Chad Richardson 9780292770904
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76"The Valley of South Texas," a recent joke goes, "is a great place to live. It's so close to the United States." Culturally, this borderland region is both Mexican and Anglo-American, and its people... -
The Miraculous Lie: Lope De Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin American Historical Novel by Bart L. Lewis 9780739104651
Booksplease Price: $181.50The golden specter of El Dorado and its promises of unlimited wealth have haunted Western iconography for centuries. The Miraculous Lie: Lope de Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin... -
Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You've (Probably) Never Heard Of by Valorie Castellanos Clark 9781797223636
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.06A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society-in science, politics, art, and more-transformative. By the author... -
Decision Making and Modelling in Cognitive Science by Sisir Roy 9788132236207
Booksplease Price: $114.49This book discusses the paradigm of quantum ontology as an appropriate model for measuring cognitive processes. It clearly shows the inadequacy of the application of classical probability theory in... -
Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav 9780804735407
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in... -
Caring Conservationists Who Are Changing Our Planet: People Power Series Kate Peridot 9781529513226
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Discover the stories of 20 conservationists who are looking after our planet and its animals.Discover fascinating facts about 20 conservationists from around the world and the endangered animals and... -
Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament by Osvaldo D Vena 9781978705128
Booksplease Price: $85.43Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each... -
Literary El Paso by 9780875653877
Booksplease Price: $58.32The latest addition to the successful literary cities series by Texas Christian University Press, ""Literary El Paso"" brings attention to the often overlooked extraordinary literary heritage of this... -
The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt by Eugene Gogol 9780739103319
Booksplease Price: $119.62In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity,... -
Fiction, Philosophy and Literary Theory: Will the Real Saul Kripke Please Stand Up? by Christopher Norris 9780826497567
Booksplease Price: $96.08This book brings together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory - that have figured centrally in Christopher Norris's work over the past two decades. It... -
The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha Es Et O! by Mary Dzon 9780802098948
RRP: $138.60Booksplease Price: $113.95The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular... -
Decolonizing Ethics: The Critical Theory of Enrique Dussel by Amy Allen 9780271089553
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $48.91Enrique Dussel is Latin America's foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics, political philosophy, and liberation theology. Designed for classroom use, this collection of essays... -
The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O! by Mary Dzon
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular... -
Men of Color in Higher Education: New Foundations for Developing Models for Success by Ronald A. Williams
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $70.83Given the continued plight of men of color in college after a decade of ineffective interventions focused more on “fixing the student” than on addressing the social, structural and institutional... -
Kidnapped Democracy by Ramon A. Feenstra 9781786613622
Booksplease Price: $181.50Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their... -
Learning Business English in China: The Construction of Professional Identity by Zuocheng Zhang 9783319865904
Booksplease Price: $193.07This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university. It addresses several topical issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education and Business... -
Kidnapped Democracy by Ramon A. Feenstra
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $26.31Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked. By stealth, powerful elites have gradually gained control of the political sphere and transformed it to serve their... -
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe by Drue H. Barrett 9783319795386
Booksplease Price: $97.19This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health... -
Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border Carina Heckert 9781479832071
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Explores forms of maternal harm stemming from US policies on the US-Mexico border In El Paso, Texas, the racist undertones of anti-immigrant sentiment have contributed to various forms of violence... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers and Scientists by Sreenivas Jayanti 9789402412154
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $171.19This book offers a practical, application-oriented introduction to computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with a focus on the concepts and principles encountered when using CFD in industry. Presuming... -
Latino Families in Later Life: A New Caregiver Paradigm Jacqueline L Angel 9781032964218
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Latino Families in Later Life is a comprehensive look at the issues, dilemmas, and conditions faced by older Latinos and their caregivers, with salient consideration given to key changes shaping the... -
Working with Interpreters and Translators: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists by Henriette W. Langdon 9781597566117
Booksplease Price: $179.87"Working with Interpreters and Translators: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists'" offers state-of-the-art procedures to conduct interviews, assessments, and conferences with... -
Caring Conservationists Who Are Changing Our Planet: People Power Series Kate Peridot 9781529506150
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.48Discover the stories of 20 conservationists who are looking after our planet and its animals.Discover fascinating facts about 20 conservationists from around the world and the endangered animals and... -
Algorithms for a New World: When Big Data and Mathematical Models Meet by Alfio Quarteroni 9783030961657
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $33.12Covid-19 has shown us the importance of mathematical and statistical models to interpret reality, provide forecasts, and explore future scenarios. Algorithms, artificial neural networks, and... -
Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas Eric Gamino 9780820373935
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $37.40As a lifelong resident of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Eric Gamino has always been curious why some U.S.-born Latinos were indifferent toward Latino immigrants, especially since both groups lived... -
His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.23A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His... -
Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas Eric Gamino 9780820373928
RRP: $262.40Booksplease Price: $214.87As a lifelong resident of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Eric Gamino has always been curious why some U.S.-born Latinos were indifferent toward Latino immigrants, especially since both groups lived... -
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship by Leo R. Chavez
Booksplease Price: $26.42Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of... -
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe by Drue H. Barrett 9783319238463
Booksplease Price: $97.82This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health... -
Panic Cure - Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century by Forrest Gander 9781848612952
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11The poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido Garcia Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorria, Pilar Fraile Amador, and... -
The New American College Town: Designing Effective Campus and Community Partnerships by James Martin 9781421432786
RRP: $77.70Booksplease Price: $58.25A new perspective on the relationships among colleges, universities, and the communities with which they are now partnering.Colleges and universities have always had interesting relationships with... -
Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street: Writings from the Edge by Rafael C. Castillo 9781433197888
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $61.82Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a riveting collection of short essays on the impact of world literature—and Fyodor Dostoevsky in particular—on a young Latino growing up in Texas. For a searching... -
The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.73Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body... -
Adela Sloss-Vento: Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer by Arnoldo Carlos Vento 9780761869139
Booksplease Price: $161.30This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an... -
The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success Shouping Hu 9781032638041
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $231.82The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of student success in postsecondary education.This handbook addresses critical issues in... -
Introducing Business English Catherine Nickerson 9781138016316
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Introducing Business English provides a comprehensive overview of this topic, situating the concepts of Business English and English for Specific Business Purposes within the wider field of English... -
Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez 9781479840779
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials' notions of national belonging Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will... -
Women and Gender in Modern Latin America: Historical Sources and Interpretations Pamela S. Murray 9780415894555
RRP: $159.58Booksplease Price: $148.24In Latin American history, women have not only played key roles within the family and society, but have long been active participants in political and economic life. The explosion of research over... -
Latino Immigrants in the United States by Ronald L. Mize 9780745647432
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $32.21This timely and important book introduces readers to the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States - Latinos - and their diverse conditions of departure and reception. A... -
Decolonizing Epistemologies: Latina/o Theology and Philosophy by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Decolonizing Epistemologies builds upon the contributions of liberation and postcolonial theories in both philosophy and theology. Gathering the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and...