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Melete Jennifer Lee Tsai 9781780377575
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length collection explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity... -
The Rise of Algorithmic Society and the Strategic Role of Arts and Culture Luciana Lazzeretti 9781035302536
Booksplease Price: £78.00Illustrating the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the changes it has generated in the economy, society and culture, this expansive book continues the debate concerning the digital... -
Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739130681
Booksplease Price: £96.35Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study examines the parallels between Russian and Japanese philosophies and religions by revealing a common concept of... -
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums Jeremy Braddock 9780520398528
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.47A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group. This expansive book reclaims the Firesign Theatre (hazily... -
Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online: Corrupting the Digital Sphere by Adam Klein 9783319514239
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.61Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online is a critical exploration of digital hate culture and its myriad infiltrations into the modern online community. The book examines radical movements that have... -
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation Daniel Hahn 9781805301622
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? And why are Lady Macbeth's... -
A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness by Jon Stewart
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking... -
Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador by Mireille Eagan
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £31.95Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in ResearchIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and... -
The Civil Wars Appian 9781513132693
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The Civil Wars (c. 150) is a work of political and military history by Appian. Written toward the end of his career as a leading advocate in Rome, The Civil Wars is comprised of books 13-17 of The... -
Roots of War: Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force by David G. Winter 9780199355587
Booksplease Price: £47.56Ever since Thucydides pondered reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, writers, philosophers, and social scientists have all tried to identify and catalog factors that promote conflict... -
Critical Cyberculture Studies by David Silver 9780814740231
Booksplease Price: £90.87Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged... -
The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America William Kiser 9780300275285
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.55How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp... -
Dangerous Peace: New Rivalry In World Politics by Alpo M Rusi 9780367159177
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Alpo Rusi provides a broad vision of the strategic landscape for the coming century, warning against dangers inherent in the emerging world order. He predicts a more complexand potentially... -
The Autocrat’s Predicament: The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single Party, Authoritarian Regimes by Timothy R. Heath 9781666947397
Booksplease Price: £81.47In their quest for national revival, China's leaders under Xi Jinping have sought to improve the economy's performance. The disappointing economic record of authoritarian regimes provides ample... -
Critical Cyberculture Studies by David Silver
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged... -
Imagining Iran: The Tragedy of Subaltern Nationalism by Majid Sharifi 9780739186398
Booksplease Price: £51.70Thematically, this book problematizes Iranian official nationalism. It reviews how every modern Iranian regime since the constitutional revolution of the 1905-06 has failed to legitimize its official... -
The Obama Administration: Perceptions and Encounters Beyond America Dr. Rachel Pistol 9781350290815
Booksplease Price: £85.65This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America's borders and assesses what effect this had on his foreign... -
Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis Rebecca Marwege 9780231220248
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for worsening socioeconomic inequalities, leading to widespread calls for "climate justice." Even though this term has become... -
Listening to Bob Dylan by Larry Starr
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Venerated for his lyrics, Bob Dylan in fact is a songwriting musician with a unique mastery of merging his words with music and performance. Larry Starr cuts through pretention and myth to provide a... -
Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis Rebecca Marwege 9780231220231
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.75Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for worsening socioeconomic inequalities, leading to widespread calls for "climate justice." Even though this term has become... -
Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751 by Stuart B. Schwartz 9780520301238
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.47While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained until recently an unknown world. In Sovereignty... -
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith 9781324111276
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.90In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing... -
Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace by Sophia Rose Arjana
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.53From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions - especially those of the East - are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as 'New Age' or... -
Listening to Bob Dylan by Larry Starr 9780252086021
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Venerated for his lyrics, Bob Dylan in fact is a songwriting musician with a unique mastery of merging his words with music and performance. Larry Starr cuts through pretention and myth to provide a... -
Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751 by Stuart B. Schwartz 9780520415270
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.26While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained until recently an unknown world. In Sovereignty... -
Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz 9780199341160
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £98.62Reciting the Goddess is the first book-length study of Nepal's goddess Svasthani and the popular Svasthanivratakatha textual tradition. In the centuries following its origin as a simple local legend... -
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This accessible, smart, and expansive book on shopping's impact on American life is in part historical, stretching back to the mid-19th century, yet also has a contemporary focus, with material on... -
Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development Robert J. Gibbs (Birmingham, Michigan) 9780470488225
RRP: £71.95Booksplease Price: £64.27"...Extraordinary: Gibbs has popped the hood and taken apart the engine of commercial design and development, showing us each individual part and explaining fit, form and function." -Yaromir Steiner,... -
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy by Joseph R. Hacker
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology-and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern... -
Larry Clark and Masculinity: Male Subjectivity and Visual Culture Dirk Reynders 9781350385405
Booksplease Price: £104.17This book explores the visual representation of masculinity in the work of Larry Clark, using this toprompt a wider conversation about the male body in visual culture and art.Infamous for his often... -
Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution by Eric Schaefer
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range... -
Guru Nanak's Transcendent Aesthetics Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh 9781009562539
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72One of the foremost exponents of the Sikh religion and of related Punjabi literature offers here a sustained exploration of the aesthetics of Sikhism's founder, understood as 'a symbiosis of his... -
Advanced Introduction to Digital Society by Manuel Castells 9781803921112
Booksplease Price: £99.17Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: £20.12There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates-be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the... -
Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences by Matthew J. C. Clark 9781609389352
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.33"You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, 'What'd you do with your life?' And me being... -
Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution by Eric Schaefer 9780822356424
Booksplease Price: £108.69Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range... -
Advanced Introduction to Digital Society by Manuel Castells 9781803921136
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.45Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Using Drawings in Clinical Practice: Enhancing Intake Interviews and Psychological Testing by Gerald D. Oster
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Clinicians are always in need of enticing techniques to engage clients on a daily basis, especially those who are nonverbal or initially opposed to feedback. Using Drawings in Clinical Practice... -
Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions by Jennifer McWeeny 9780231166249
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.75In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist... -
Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions by Jennifer McWeeny 9780231166256
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist...