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Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy by David T. Abalos 9780275952716
Booksplease Price: £36.82How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture - nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own... -
Shakespeare in Japan by Professor Graham Bradshaw 9780826492708
Booksplease Price: £66.58Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores the conditions of Shakespeare's reception and assimilation. It considers the... -
The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970 by Clara Sue Kidwell 9780806140063
Booksplease Price: £20.78Volume 2 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the... -
Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts by Feliciano Chimbutane 9781847693648
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the... -
Cardiac Reconstructions with Allograft Valves by Richard A. Hopkins 9781461281597
Booksplease Price: £46.28A major need of all cardiologists and surgeons involved with the application of allograft tissue to cardiac surgical reconstructions is met by this unique atlas. Step by step, it carefully describes... -
Ausubel's Meaningful Learning in Action by Sarah Cottingham 9781398341432
Booksplease Price: £13.00American psychologist and psychiatrist David Ausubel is well known for his famous quote:"The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and... -
A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe by Liz Fekete 9780745327921
Booksplease Price: £33.50This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies. Liz Fekete argues that at the same time as the EU introduces selective migration policies, it... -
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission by Laura Rademaker 9780824872656
Booksplease Price: £66.22Found in Translation is a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how translation... -
Developing Clinical Problem-Solving Skills: A Guide to More Effective Diagnosis and Treatment by Howard S. Barrows
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.50The transformation from medical student to physician is a gradual one, requiring the assimilation of vast amounts of knowledge as well as the development of the ability to "think like a doctor." The... -
Revival: England Before the Norman Conquest (1910) by Charles William Chadwick Oman 9781138566217
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £86.44In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristics of the last fifty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster... -
The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 Allan Mitchell 9781571811660
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social... -
Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State by Duane Champagne 9780759107991
Booksplease Price: £40.38Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe... -
The Viet Kieu in America: Personal Accounts of Postwar Immigrants from Vietnam by Nghia M. Vo 9780786444700
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84Vietnamese make up one of the largest refugee populations in the United States, some arriving by boat in 1975 after the fall of Saigon and others coming in the 1990s. This collection of 22 essays... -
Psychology and the Developing World by Stuart C. Carr 9780275952457
Booksplease Price: £75.81Previous leading commentators on the development of psychology in the Third World have conceived of three major stages: an attempt to assimilate Western psychology, with predictably negative results;... -
United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volume 2: The Germanic Period by Jacob Rader Marcus 9780814344712
Booksplease Price: £21.12In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural... -
Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth by Gail Marshall 9780521027465
Booksplease Price: £43.34Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and... -
Photosynthesis and Productivity in Different Environments by J. P. Cooper 9780521113427
Booksplease Price: £62.82First published in 1975, this volume provides a unique comparative treatment of annual and seasonal photosynthetic production in both terrestrial and aquatic environments on a world scale and... -
Generations at School: Building an Age-Friendly Learning Community by Suzette Lovely 9781412927284
Booksplease Price: £37.48Suzette Lovely and Austin G. Buffum explore ways to create and sustain a productive and synergetic environment in schools. By examining the generational underpinnings that bind colleagues together or... -
Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence by Kristin Mahoney 9781107109742
Booksplease Price: £99.43In Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Kristin Mahoney argues that the early twentieth century was a period in which the specters of the fin de siecle exercised a remarkable draw... -
Honour Death by John Michael Coia 9781291984354
RRP: £14.96Booksplease Price: £14.34An ordinary middle-aged man of Scottish origin lives a quiet and retired life in the mountains of Southern Italy with his wife. One day Cole meanders in the mountains where he encounters an object of... -
Ti’n fy Nghofio i? by Shobna Gulati 9781802587586
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Remember Me? captures the powerful emotions that these memories hold to both Shobna and her mother; secrets they had collectively buried and also the concealment of her mother's condition. What... -
Yellow Happy Face Cookies by Tatyana Surenyan-Krech 9781524923402
Booksplease Price: £107.59Yellow Happy Face Cookies includes short stories containing the elements of fiction of plot, point of view, character, and setting. The stories are about immigration, family, and assimilation to the... -
The Politics of Ethnicity by Michael Walzer 9780674687530
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United... -
Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms by Sneja Gunew
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £70.29Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book,... -
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems by Rachel Mennies 9780896728547
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.14In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and... -
United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volume 3: The Germanic Period, Part 2 by Jacob Rader Marcus 9780814344736
Booksplease Price: £21.62In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural... -
From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 by Elliott Robert Barkan 9780253348517
Booksplease Price: £39.87At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the... -
A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western Sue Matheson 9780786498048
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as... -
Practical risk management in the construction industry by L. Edwards 9780727720641
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £38.46Until now there has been little information available to engineers to help them assimilate quickly the basic theories and practice of risk management; nor has information been widely available on the... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9781138989436
Booksplease Price: £31.65When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
Dominion I: Seed by Compasse 9780578027678
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42A great monument of the Islamic faith crumbles to the ground in a freak earthquake, setting the stage for mankind's entry into the next age; an apocalyptic time where right and wrong, love and... -
Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization: The Influence of Old Europe by Harald Haarmann 9780786478279
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theatre and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilisation, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of... -
Organisation Theory and Local Government Robert J. Haynes 9781032950235
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1980, this book provides an analysis and assessment of events in local government management during the late 20th Century set within an overall conceptual framework of... -
Byron's Don Juan Bernard Beatty 9781138648562
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in... -
Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century by Heonik Kwon 9780823299928
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late... -
Applications of Biotechnology in Traditional Fermented Foods by Panel on the Applications of Biotechnology to Traditional Fermented Foods 9780309046855
Booksplease Price: £99.55In developing countries, traditional fermentation serves many purposes. It can improve the taste of an otherwise bland food, enhance the digestibility of a food that is difficult to assimilate,... -
The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture by Christopher Mead 9781957183350
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £41.77Traditional thought fused with modern science when Hiroshima’s nuclear annihilation on August 6, 1945, proved the interdependence of space and time. Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9780415726795
Booksplease Price: £112.31When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
U.S. Latino Issues by Rodolfo F. Acuna 9780313361432
Booksplease Price: £20.95Does the term Latino-a construct of the U.S. government-successfully encompass the wide variety of Spanish-speaking people in this country? This introductory topic begins an overview of 10 major... -
Red World and White: Memories of a Chippewa Boyhood by John Rogers 9780806128917
Booksplease Price: £18.02In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of...