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Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire by Jane Stafford 9783319387666
Booksplease Price: $104.13This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part... -
Religious and Cultural Difference in Modern British Political Cartoons by Tahnia Ahmed 9781350294103
Booksplease Price: $116.84Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through... -
Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) by Elissa Marder 9780804740715
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83This 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: $79.14Following 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... -
Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China by Pamela Kyle Crossley
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $73.19Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors... -
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 by Nancy G. Siraisi
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $76.73The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European... -
Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity by Michael Omi
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences,... -
Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity by Michael Omi 9781439918241
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences,... -
Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 by Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham 9780803264670
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.89Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the... -
African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya 9781558764712
RRP: $130.29Booksplease Price: $126.36In contrast to the dispersion of slaves across the Atlantic, African movement to Asia has received scant attention. However, Britain's commemoration in 2007 of the bicentennial of its abolishing the... -
Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Volume 1, Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech by John Kingston 9780521368087
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $55.53This collection of papers presents current research in speech science. The unifying theme of the collection is the relationship between phonological representations of the grammatical structure of... -
The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians by David G. Myers 9780300191530
Booksplease Price: $36.87In this fascinating new collection of essays, contemporary historians examine the ways earlier historians have framed, written, and "made" the Jewish past. Probing the ideology and methodology of... -
Anglo-Saxon England by Malcolm Godden 9780521038515
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $43.72In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one hand how they understood the processes of reading... -
Encompassing Passing; Identities in the Making by Michaela Mudure 9783631812648
RRP: $59.79Booksplease Price: $54.09This book is a collection of articles written by international scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity phenomenon that... -
Ethnic Segregation in Cities Ceri Peach 9781032539058
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity... -
We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror by Vincent Tirado 9780063383197
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68The 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"... -
Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr by Adnan Aslan
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The philosophy of religion and theology are related to the culture in which they have developed. These disciplines provide a source of values and vision to the cultures of which they are part, while... -
Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irish Women by Bronwen Walter
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Notions of diaspora are central to contemporary debates about 'race', ethnicity, identity and nationalism. Yet the Irish diaspora, one of the oldest and largest, is often excluded on the grounds of... -
Child Language by Jean Stilwell Peccei
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit... -
Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology John Alexander Lobur (University of Mississippi, USA) 9780415542654
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him... -
Continental Britons: German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany by Marion Berghahn 9781845450908
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $31.42"...a scholarly yet readable book...pioneering work" Journal of Jewish Studies Based on numerous in-depth and personal interviews with members of three generations, this is the first comprehensive... -
Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After by Keith Williams 9780582294486
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $47.69Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at... -
Women and Smoking since 1890 by Rosemary Elliot 9780415511377
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not... -
After. by Chad Beckim 9780573700484
Booksplease Price: $19.01Characters: 4 male, 2 female Drama When a wrongfully imprisoned man is exonerated by DNA evidence after seventeen years in prison, he is forced to re-assimilate into a cold, foreign world of... -
A-Morphous Morphology Stephen R. Anderson (The Johns Hopkins University) 9780521378666
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $55.53In A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word structure to be the result of interacting... -
The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya by David Parkin 9780521404662
RRP: $147.06Booksplease Price: $142.09In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between... -
A Basic Approach to Precalculus Trigonometry: Preparing to Succeed in Calculus by Young H. Kim 9781634873086
Booksplease Price: $73.68A Basic Approach to Precalculus Trigonometry: Preparing to Succeed in Calculus provides a concise, accessible introduction to trigonometry for high school and first-year college and university... -
Andrea Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology by Brian Madigan 9789004288126
Booksplease Price: $149.64Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology is a study of the book recognized by contemporaries as the first attempt (1517) to publish artifacts from Classical... -
Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) by Elissa Marder
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26This 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.95Following 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This 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: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54The 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
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $116.09Irish 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... -
Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907 by Adrea Lawrence 9780700618071
Booksplease Price: $78.77Clara D. True and Clinton J. Crandall, teacher and superintendent for the Indian Day School of the Santa Clara Pueblo, were typical agents in the campaign waged by the federal government to... -
The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities by Harris Mylonas 9781107661998
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.57What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues... -
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Gospel in Life Study Guide: Grace Changes Everything by Timothy Keller 9780310328919 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.23Join bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller in an eight-week video Bible study on the gospel and how to live it out in all aspects of life--from your community to the world at large. The Gospel... -
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication Roy Ellen 9781859731352
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of... -
Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception Jamie C. Fumo 9781783163472
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $24.81Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer's earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and... -
Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America by Richard Antoun 9781845450373
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $110.24Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village...