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Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America by Jennifer E. Cobbina 9781479818563
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.30Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and... -
Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age by Anne Bremner
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €14.91From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of "innocent until proven... -
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler 9781620974834
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society AwardsNominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington... -
Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics by Joel Bettridge
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde-now more than a century old-persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and... -
Human Rights, Iranian Migrants, and State Media: From Media Portrayal to Civil Reality Shabnam Moinipour 9781032177908
Booksplease Price: €24.98This book offers a detailed analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran's approach towards human rights in the media. It looks at the state-owned and state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran... -
Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces Petra L. Doan 9781138798168
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come... -
Keep Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism--100 Ways to Change the Narrative by 9780310126737
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.27'A timely book and a conversation starter on race in Britain.' Rachel Edwards, Author of Darling and Lucky'A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain still has a very long way to go... -
Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis by Arjen Boin 9780807170441
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.33The government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history, suffered numerous criticisms. Nearly every assessment pointed to failure, from... -
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.31Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so,... -
Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper: Exactly Wrong by Daniel Morris 9781683932369
Booksplease Price: €102.85Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is the first critical book devoted to Kenneth Goldsmith, the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagogue, and provocateur. The book's focus is on Capital, Wasting... -
Policing Unrest: On the Front Lines of the Ferguson Protests by Tammy Rinehart Kochel 9781479807369
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.01An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests, providing insights from both police officers and members of the community Policing Unrest presents the frontline experiences of police... -
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity by Gino Canella
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09Now more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent... -
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity by Gino Canella 9781978824348
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Now more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent... -
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Booksplease Price: €17.08Nobody is a powerful and eye-opening examination of the deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. Unarmed citizens shot by... -
North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South Mark Speltz 9781606065051
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.11The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South... -
Contested Legitimacy in Ferguson: Nine Hours on Canfield Drive by Joshua Bloom 9781009074865
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €19.66At noon on August 9, 2014 when Michael Brown was killed on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, there was little protest. But by 9 pm, dozens were nonviolently defying police armed with military style... -
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform by Jonathon A. Cooper 9781793647566
Booksplease Price: €101.92This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014. More than summarizing historical events, Cooper... -
Deadly Indifference: The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond by Michael D. Brown 9781589794856
Booksplease Price: €23.06At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown-infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-tells his side of the... -
The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics by Kevin Ward 9780367734848
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook's coverage and contributions engages with and... -
England and Scotland in the Fourteenth Century: New Perspectives Andy King 9781843833185
Booksplease Price: €130.10Were the English and the Scots always at loggerheads in the fourteenth century? The essays here offer a more nuanced picture. Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations over the whole fourteenth... -
United Islands? The Languages of Resistance by John Kirk
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of... -
Flight by Chaun Ballard 9781946482136
RRP: €13.09Booksplease Price: €10.47Flight gives testament to the struggle of skin color in contemporary America. Utilizing both innovation and tradition, Chaun Ballard's poems give voice to the silenced, proof to the disenfranchised,... -
Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: Messianic Prophecy Objections by Michael J. Brown 9780801064234
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.79"The Torah doesn't speak of Jesus at all!" "You're completely misinterpreting Isaiah!" "This verse has absolutely nothing to do with your Jesus! It's not even a messianic prophecy!" "As for the real... -
St. Louis School Desegregation: Patterns of Progress and Peril by Hope C. Rias 9783030042479
Booksplease Price: €72.64This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation,... -
European Logistics: Markets, Management and Strategy by Jim Cooper 9780631192268
RRP: €51.16Booksplease Price: €38.89Based on five years fieldwork it is a timely analysis of the current status of logistics and its future role in European business.About the AuthorDR James Cooper is Director of the Cranfield Centre... -
The Lord's Prayer Through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity by Michael Joseph Brown 9780567026705
Booksplease Price: €79.23Michael Brown's book helps to explain why Christians throughout the ages have interpreted texts differently, especially cultic texts. Beginning with an imagined Greco-Roman auditor of the Lord's... -
Redeeming REDD: Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility for Avoided Deforestation by Michael I. Brown
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private... -
Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown 9780674016330
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €30.39The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely,... -
Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City Professor Michael H Brown (Customer) 9781783275977
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €34.99First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages. St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings... -
On Black Media Philosophy by Armond R. Towns
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47Who is the human in media philosophy? Although media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human, this question has not been explicitly asked and... -
On Black Media Philosophy by Armond R. Towns 9780520355798
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.32Who is the human in media philosophy? Although media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human, this question has not been explicitly asked and... -
Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland by John Kirk
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales... -
The United States and Europe in the Global Arena by Frances Burwell 9780333740811
Booksplease Price: €108.12This book examines cooperation between the United States and Europe on a range of global issues. With the Soviet threat no longer a unifying factor, the transatlantic partners have sought a new basis... -
An Introduction to Latent Variable Models by Bob Everett 9789401089548
Booksplease Price: €55.82Latent variable models are used in many areas of the social and behavioural sciences, and the increasing availability of computer packages for fitting such models is likely to increase their... -
From Tahrir Square to Ferguson: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements by Juliet Dee 9781433129407
RRP: €112.34Booksplease Price: €99.47The last several years have seen mass uprisings and dynamic social movements across the globe, from the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011, to the Black Lives Matter movement following Michael Brown's... -
The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371-1488 Steve Boardman 9780748612369
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.89The volume begins with the shaky foundation of the Stewart dynasty during the reign of Robert II (1371-1390) and traces its development to the demise at the Battle of Sauchieburn of James III... -
RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions by Virginia Stead 9781433130687
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €42.71Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave. This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired... -
The Role of the Media in Criminal Justice Policy: Prisons, Populism and the Press by Natalia Antolak-Saper 9781032115276
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media’s influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.This impact is often assumed. And, especially in the wake of... -
Barbour`s Bruce and its Cultural Contexts - Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland by Steve Boardman 9781843843573
Booksplease Price: €114.37Fresh approaches to one of the most important poems from medieval Scotland. John Barbour's Bruce, an account of the deeds of Robert I of Scotland (1306-29) and his companions during the so-called... -
Black Lives Matter and the Press: How Major U.S. Newspapers Covered Police Brutality Against African Americans, from Rodney King to George Floyd by Steve Hallock 9781433196843
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €35.18Do African-American lives matter to the nation’s press? And if they do, how does the press demonstrate this? These are the driving questions of this book, for which the author employed content...