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Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages by Rees Davies 9780199542918
Booksplease Price: $141.67It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords. In his final book, the late Sir Rees Davies... -
The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power by Mitchel A. Sollenberger 9780700615766
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $43.59The Constitution clearly states that the president ""shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint"" individuals to positions in the executive and judicial... -
Mourning in America: Race and the Politics of Loss by David W. McIvor
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $49.95Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its... -
Police Abuse and Reform in America: Examining the Facts James J Nolan 9781440881343
Booksplease Price: $79.09Authoritative and insightful, this wide-ranging overview of police abuse and violence in American society offers a one-stop primer for understanding the forces driving abusive and violent police... -
Thermal Decomposition of Solids and Melts: New Thermochemical Approach to the Mechanism, Kinetics and Methodology by Boris V. L'Vov 9781402056710
Booksplease Price: $116.82The appearance of this English edition of my book, ?rst published in Russian in mid-2006, is related to the help and support of two prominent scientists: Professor Michael Brown (Rhodes University... -
Plasma Physics: An Introduction to Laboratory, Space, and Fusion Plasmas by Alexander Piel 9783642436314
Booksplease Price: $66.44This book is an outgrowth of courses in plasma physics which I have taught at Kiel University for many years. During this time I have tried to convince my students that plasmas as different as gas... -
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible... -
Edward I: New Interpretations by Andy King
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Exciting fresh perspectives on Edward I as man, king and administrator. The reign of Edward I was one of the most important of medieval England, but the king's activities and achievements have not... -
Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town Andrew Tucker (University of Cambridge) 9781405183024
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.37Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the... -
Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America by Jeff Pegues 9781633882577
Booksplease Price: $23.57The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the... -
On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock by Tiffany Watt-Smith 9780198700937
Booksplease Price: $151.47While the end of the nineteenth century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical,... -
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz 9781439916384
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $87.75George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible... -
The Radio Station: Broadcasting, Podcasting, and Streaming John Hendricks (Stephen F. Austin State University, USA) 9781138218819
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $78.47The Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio broadcasting, streaming, and podcasting. This book's tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a... -
Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible: A Womanist Reading of Esther Kamilah Hall Sharp 9781666971453
Booksplease Price: $116.84This book integrates womanist biblical interpretation with trauma theory while closely examining survival and the language of survival in the Hebrew Bible. While survival is often a theme lifted when... -
The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn 9780813064383
Booksplease Price: $29.71This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as... -
Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century by Michael E. Brown 9780878401420
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.82The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. In the aftermath of that event it is not unwarranted pessimism that lines the... -
Cops, Cameras, and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras by Michael D. White
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.262021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael... -
First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity by Jennifer Whiting 9780199967919
Booksplease Price: $144.93In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays... -
Introduction to Global Logistics: Delivering the Goods John Manners-Bell 9780749478254
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $52.21Introduction to Global Logistics offers a step-by-step guide to global logistics. Covering the breadth of logistics, this highly accessible text is illustrated by engaging case studies of market... -
American Autopsy: One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System by Michael M. Baden
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.09Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in US history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin... -
Cops, Cameras, and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras by Michael D. White 9781479820177
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $74.642021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael... -
An Introduction to Political Geography John Rennie Short 9780415082273
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global... -
Eric Rhein: Lifelines by Eric Rhein
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.58Commemorating a crisis: the first monograph on Eric Rhein, poetical chronicler of the AIDS epidemic in photos, drawings and assemblages This is the first book on the work of American artist Eric... -
Privatization and Deregulation of Transport by William Bradshaw 9780333790397
Booksplease Price: $117.21The papers which make up the chapters of this book were given at a seminar in Oxford. The event took place following the election of the first Labour government for seventeen years and following an... -
My Corpse Inside Wes Jamison 9780820374949
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $24.17A provocative and meticulously structured exploration of identity, language, and the body, My Corpse Inside exposes the thin and increasingly blurry line between the physical and the digital, between... -
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis by Jodi Rios
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $120.00Black Lives and Spatial Matters is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another... -
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis by Jodi Rios 9781501750472
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.95Black Lives and Spatial Matters is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another... -
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.89A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police aren't in charge... -
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges by Michael N. Bastedo
RRP: $79.34Booksplease Price: $58.48Now in its fifth edition! An indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities.Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social... -
No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart by Robbie Tolan
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27NO JUSTICE tells the story of a young black man, Robbie Tolan, who was gunned down on his parents' front lawn simply because a white officer failed to follow procedure. And it almost cost him his... -
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform by Jonathon A. Cooper 9781498515931
Booksplease Price: $66.56Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events... -
Second Nature 9781960145529
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Winner of the 23rd annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry PrizeChaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory... -
Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth by Gerard George 9781035323678
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $65.62This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity... -
China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage by William C. Hannas
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59This book analyzes China's foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign... -
Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations by Leisha DeHart-Davis 9781626164468
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $92.03The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive... -
Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations by Leisha DeHart-Davis 9781626164475
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $32.52The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the first comprehensive... -
The Lively Science: Remodeling Human Social Research by Michael Agar
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09The Lively Science is Michael Agar's accessible, idiosyncratic, often humorous, and sometimes controversial explication of his own polestar truth: "Research on humans in their social world by other... -
Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City by Clarence Taylor 9781479862450
RRP: $101.91Booksplease Price: $82.71A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City's complex history of police brutality The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri was the catalyst for a... -
The Tectonic Plates are Moving! by Roy Livermore 9780198847939
Booksplease Price: $34.71Plate tectonics is a revolutionary theory on a par with modern genetics. Yet, apart from the frequent use of cliches such as 'tectonic shift' by economists, journalists, and politicians, the science... -
Kingship, Lordship and Sanctity in Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Alexander Grant by Steve Boardman 9781783277162
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.49Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England. The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern...