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Degenerations of Democracy by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.65Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of... -
A World of Resistance: India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis by Assa Doron 9780674295612
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.35A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of-and solutions to-one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of... -
Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences by Sanjay Seth
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £34.47The knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to govern populations has been globally dominant for more than a century. It first emerged in the early modern period in Europe and... -
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
Booksplease Price: £32.12Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepot of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421889
RRP: £79.50Booksplease Price: £76.16Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
History, the Human, and the World Between by R. Radhakrishnan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48History, the Human, and the World Between is a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing. The eminent... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £31.11Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion by Amy Hollywood 9780231156431
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53Acute Melancholia and Other Essays deploys spirited and progressive approaches to the study of Christian mysticism and the philosophy of religion. Ideal for novices and experienced scholars alike,... -
The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities Eva Horn 9781138342477
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also... -
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth by Alison Bashford 9780231147675
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching... -
Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia by Ann McGrath 9781496203847
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning... -
History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century by Dr. Zoltán Boldizsár Simon 9781350192720
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £27.99Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a... -
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival by Wai Chee Dimock 9780226477107
Booksplease Price: £22.15Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these... -
Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins Saurabh Dube 9781526140272
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions... -
Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia by Ann McGrath
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning... -
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival by Wai Chee Dimock
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these... -
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 by Sheldon Pollock 9780822349044
Booksplease Price: £30.97In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While... -
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth by Alison Bashford 9780231147668
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £118.80Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching... -
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9781503637320
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.50Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene-an era many... -
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern... -
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla 9780822342687
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.08In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was... -
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala 9781107052123
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £78.09This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake 9780521881180
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was... -
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala 9781316615379
Booksplease Price: £27.11This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial... -
Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea by Faisal Devji 9780674072671
Booksplease Price: £32.15Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state... -
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How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin 9780241472521 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.25'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former... -
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles-anything for which he can get a little cash... -
Empire by Michael Hardt 9780674006713
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £22.31Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy... -
Time's Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia 9780674292178
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.04A New Statesman Best Book of the Year"Powerful and radically important."-Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement"Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the... -
This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world?... -
This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba 9781009012584
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.47In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world?... -
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi 9781107432437
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.68How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term... -
How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former...