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Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire by Malachi Haim Hacohen 9781316649848
Booksplease Price: €43.16Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional... -
Marx, Freud and the Critique of Everyday Life: Toward a Permanent Cultural Revolution by Bruce Brown 9780853452805
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.17The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest content with the exclusive emphasis of traditional Marxism on world-historic processes and the struggle... -
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke 9780268048730
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €68.25In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the... -
Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture by Robert Cherry 9781538143124
Booksplease Price: €43.83At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift:... -
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film by Robyn Ollett 9781837721382
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €79.77Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that... -
Maximal Cohen-Macaulay Modules and Tate Cohomology by Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz 9781470453404
RRP: €127.33Booksplease Price: €123.88This book is a lightly edited version of the unpublished manuscript Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules and Tate cohomology over Gorenstein rings by Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz. The central objects of study are... -
After the Trenches: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1918-1939 by William O. Odom 9781603440813
Booksplease Price: €25.28At the end of the Great War, the U.S. Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in its war effort. During the interwar years the army sought to balance readiness and modernization... -
American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future by Wade Clark Roof 9780813512167
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.39Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new... -
The Politics of Minority Coalitions: Race, Ethnicity, and Shared Uncertainties by Wilbur C. Rich 9780275954888
Booksplease Price: €91.40This important new volume analyzes relations among America's minority groups, specifically the prospects of political coalitions among those usually unrelated groups: African Americans,... -
Nanoscale Hydrodynamics of Simple Systems by Jesper Schmidt Hansen 9781009158732
Booksplease Price: €67.15Written for graduate students and researchers, Nanoscale Hydrodynamics of Simple Systems covers fundamental aspects of nanoscale hydrodynamics and extends this basis to examples. Covering classical,... -
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition by Russell B. Goodman 9780521067652
Booksplease Price: €51.57Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such... -
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803 by Susan Newton-King 9780521481533
Booksplease Price: €118.68This important study sheds light on the history of the South African interior during the eighteenth century, a time in which South Africa's specific variant of social discrimination first evolved... -
Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society by Robert I. Rotberg 9780521315050
Booksplease Price: €42.21The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or... -
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries by Rebecca Steinberger 9781138620537
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays,... -
Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre by Hana Worthen 9783030440657
Booksplease Price: €90.20This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and... -
High Definition Metrology Based Surface Quality Control and Applications by Shichang Du 9789811502811
Booksplease Price: €107.18This book provides insights into surface quality control techniques and applications based on high-definition metrology (HDM). Intended as a reference resource for engineers who routinely use a... -
Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent by Ian Domowitz 9781637421598
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.18Ask not what AI can do for a company, rather what artificial intelligence may do to a company. How does a company successfully integrate artificial intelligence into its operations? What are the... -
Low Rank Approximation: Algorithms, Implementation, Applications by Ivan Markovsky 9781447158363
Booksplease Price: €101.91Data Approximation by Low-complexity Models details the theory, algorithms, and applications of structured low-rank approximation. Efficient local optimization methods and effective suboptimal convex... -
Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks by Michael Elazar 9789400736221
Booksplease Price: €109.55This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between... -
Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution by Holly A. Mayer 9781570033391
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Belonging to the Army reveals the identity and importance of the civilians now referred to as camp followers, whom Holly A. Mayer calls the forgotten revolutionaries of the War of American... -
Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia by Robert Geraci
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €35.01Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries,... -
How to Fight Racism Study Guide: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.27Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.This 10-session, video-based study guide (DVD/video streaming sold separately) provides groups and individuals with... -
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 9781469636399
Booksplease Price: €117.74In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and... -
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 9781469636405
Booksplease Price: €40.21In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and... -
How to Fight Racism Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice Jemar Tisby 9780310174325
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.99Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.This 10-session, video-based study guide (DVD/video streaming sold separately) provides groups and individuals with... -
Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526143075
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and... -
The Students of Sherman Indian School by Diana Meyers Bahr 9780806144436
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other... -
The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market by Emily Rosenbaum 9780814775905
Booksplease Price: €61.68The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many... -
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires by Sparky Booker 9781107567375
Booksplease Price: €42.21Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middle Ages - were significantly anglicised, taking on... -
Historical Mosques in Indonesia and the Malay World: Roots, Transformations, and Developments by Bagoes Wiryomartono 9789819938056
Booksplease Price: €133.42The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected historic mosques that demonstrate local interpretations... -
Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) by Elissa Marder 9780804740715
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the... -
Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History by Miki Ward Crawford 9780313362019
Booksplease Price: €73.01Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred. The sudden influx of 50,000 Japanese war brides during 1946-1965... -
We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror by Vincent Tirado 9780063383197
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated "community"... -
Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) by Elissa Marder
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526156082
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and... -
Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity by Adam S. Ferziger 9780812238655
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €58.99Following the Jewish Enlightenment, many eighteenth-century Jews chose not to observe the religious laws and customs that had earlier marked them as culturally different from their Christian peers... -
Immigrant Faculty in the Academy: Narratives of Identity, Resilience, and Action by Maysaa Barakat
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This edited volume shares the diverse experiences of immigrant professors in the United States. Chapters provide insight for educators in academia seeking deeper understanding of issues of identity... -
Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China by Blaine Kaltman
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur... -
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires by Sparky Booker 9781107128088
Booksplease Price: €118.68Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middle Ages - were significantly anglicised, taking on...