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Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love by Jose David Saldivar
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love, Jose David Saldivar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Diaz's imaginative work and the... -
The Promise of Multispecies Justice by Sophie Chao
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography,... -
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although... -
Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change by Hannah Knox
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers,... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and... -
The Promise of Infrastructure by Nikhil Anand
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.59From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute... -
The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.47In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint-each piece is... -
From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times by Mario Biagioli
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often... -
How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation by Natalie Loveless
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $129.72In recent years, the rise of research-creation-a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right-has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and... -
Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by Mack Hagood
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's "Hear What You Want" ad... -
A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia by Mark Goodale
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution, world renewal (Pachakuti),... -
Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 by Doron Galili
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by electricity as a means of... -
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies by Stanley Fish
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of... -
Photography's Other Histories by Christopher Pinney
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.12Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography's Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the... -
Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times by Ricardo Donato Salvatore
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the... -
Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Russ Castronovo
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to-and even dependent on-death. Deploying an impressive range... -
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jocelyn H. Olcott
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico is an empirically rich history of women's political organizing during a critical stage of regime consolidation. Rebutting the image of Mexican women as... -
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930 by Professor Dwayne Roy Winseck
Booksplease Price: $82.19Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the... -
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity by Elliott Colla
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting... -
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934 by Edward N. Wright-Rios
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and... -
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 by Wilson Chacko Jacob
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle... -
Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's <I>Invisible Man</I> by Barbara Foley
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison's celebrated novel but also on... -
Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994 by Donald L. Donham
Booksplease Price: $90.95How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast... -
The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State by Paulo Drinot
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In The Allure of Labor, Paulo Drinot rethinks the social politics of early-twentieth-century Peru. Arguing that industrialization was as much a cultural project as an economic one, he describes how... -
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest... -
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory by Lynnell L. Thomas
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources... -
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda by Susan Reynolds Whyte
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up... -
Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality by Purnima Mankekar
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and "Indianness," as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate... -
Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity by Allyson Nadia Field
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project, this cinema emphasized economic... -
Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human by Samantha Frost
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of... -
Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an... -
Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles by Susanna Rosenbaum
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve... -
Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich by Amy Laura Hall
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $142.84Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Julian of Norwich, believed to be the first woman to have written a book in English. (We do not know her... -
Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary by James N. Green
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992. As a medical student, he joined a... -
Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants by Nandita Sharma
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as... -
The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by Jeffrey Sconce
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years. In The Technical Delusion Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of... -
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $41.98In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well... -
Racism Postrace by Roopali Mukherjee
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88With the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial-that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people's lives-took hold in public... -
Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History by Quinlan Miller
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In Camp TV Quinlan Miller offers a new account of the history of American...