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Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence by E. V. Daniel
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he... -
Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature by Nalini Iyer 9781603296380
Booksplease Price: $62.89Essays on teaching anglophone literature of the South Asian diaspora from around the worldMigration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are... -
Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010 by Rachel Bower 9783319581651
Booksplease Price: $157.40This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across... -
The Displacements Bruce Holsinger 9781472271587
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $16.42'Hypnotic' New York Times'A gripping, full-throttle page-turner' Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling author of The Paper PalaceDaphne Larsen-Hall has every reason to believe that her life as an artist... -
Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels by Shameem Black 9780231149785
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.35Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "the Other." Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye... -
Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature by Nalini Iyer 9781603296373
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33Essays on teaching anglophone literature of the South Asian diaspora from around the worldMigration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are... -
The Dissenters Youssef Rakha 9781913512675
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Amna, Nimo, Mouna - these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, climbs to the attic of their house where he... -
The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose Jagadish Chandra Bose 9780300278408
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $36.64An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communicationJagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist... -
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions... -
Beasts of No Nation Uzodinma Iweala 9780719567537
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. 'Run!' shouts his father when the rebels arrive... -
Nature and Value by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays... -
Racism and ‘Free Speech’ by Anshuman A. Mondal 9781350470521
Booksplease Price: $128.64'Free speech' has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements. This book argues that the weaponization of 'free speech' across the... -
Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing by Vilashini Cooppan
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.75Worlds Within tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood to supersede national borders, this... -
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala 9781473625556
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre).Agu is just a boy when war arrives at... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.02Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region... -
Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere by Stacey Balkan
RRP: $189.13Booksplease Price: $179.42Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible... -
The Forest Fights Back: A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature Jessica den Outer 9780745351483
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.13As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet's future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to... -
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic Uzodinma Iweala 9780719523601
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.06HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted... -
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else by Jeffrey J. Kripal 9780226833682
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $47.89A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human. From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called... -
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee 9780393351712
Booksplease Price: $46.98The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled... -
The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis For Those Who Use It by Matias Sendoa Echanove 9781788730136
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such... -
Literature and the Experience of Globalization: Texts Without Borders by Svend Erik Larsen
Booksplease Price: $71.06How does literature represent, challenge and help us understand our experience of globalization? Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the... -
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Kate Young
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $30.19'A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!' NIGELLA LAWSONA deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food.In this big, beautiful... -
Ocean: From the Shore to the Abyss Asha de Vos 9780500027554
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $63.08A colourful visual journey from the shoreline to the ocean's depths to celebrate the sheer diversity of life beneath the waves. Three quarters of the ocean has never been seen by humans. Drawing on... -
The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West by Amitav Acharya 9781399811767
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The epic history of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for its future.Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest,... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.'... -
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.98*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS* THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER and IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Max Porter 'A forest of writing to be... -
Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Lisa Lampert-Weissig
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial studies and medieval studies. Lisa Lampert-Weissig... -
Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis by Paul Huebener
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.50The environmental crisis is, in many ways, a crisis of time. From the distress cries of birds that no longer know when to migrate, to the rapid dying of coral reefs, to the quickening pace of extreme... -
Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World by Tim Watson 9780190852672
Booksplease Price: $187.01Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers... -
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives Katie Holten 9781783967810
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS* THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER and IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Max Porter 'A forest of writing to be... -
Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice Farhana Sultana 9781032737850
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $55.85This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.Confronting... -
Your Wild and Precious Life: On grief, hope and rebellion Liz Jensen 9781837260225
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A WATERSTONES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024My son's death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it's possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love... -
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China by Peter Thilly 9781503634107
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial... -
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Caste and Outcast by Dhan Gopal Mukerji 9780804744348 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $5.28A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of... -
Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms by Inderpal Grewal
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global... -
A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $79.42In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man... -
My Father's Brain: Understanding Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s by Sandeep Jauhar 9780861544493
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $22.80A son's journey through his father's dementia. As a cardiologist, Sandeep Jauhar is trained to think logically and dispassionately about medical problems, and primed to offer his patients... -
Caste and Outcast by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of... -
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's...