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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.03Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical... -
Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy by Janet E. Halley 9780822322856 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies... -
Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy by Janet E. Halley 9780822323174
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard 9780241476192
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.02From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learningThe ancient Greek... -
A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol by Michael Moon 9780822321613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary,... -
Refiguring the Ordinary by Gail Weiss
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways... -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.77In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,... -
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance by Shaul Magid 9798986780313
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior... -
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by Keith Gessen 9781844679409
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement,... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard 9781324123415
RRP: $16.75Booksplease Price: $13.92Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant... -
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.79In 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... -
Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir by Tareq Baconi 9781399754040
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.31'Moving and generous'Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost'Fire in Every Direction is a marvel'Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'Luminous, moving, and... -
A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and... -
The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780822351580
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.10The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title... -
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the... -
Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir by Tareq Baconi 9781399739627
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10'In stunning detail . . . Baconi traces a story of personal and communal alienation, longing, and liberation'Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'Moving and... -
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $21.02Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be...