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The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance by Celeste Vaughan Curington 9780520293441
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87The data behind a distinct form of racism in online dating.The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified... -
Taste by Giorgio Agamben 9781803094489
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.24Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered... -
Studies in Early Christian and Medieval Irish Art, Volume I: Enamel and Metalwork Francoise Henry 9780907132127
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $120.46Over the past fifty years, Francoise Henry has been the leading authority on the history of early Irish art. A pupil of Henri Focillon, she united two traditions of scholarship, one French and one... -
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization: v. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G. S. Hodgson 9780226346847
Booksplease Price: $84.21The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and... -
Parasites of Cattle and Sheep: A Practical Guide to their Biology and Control by Andrew B Forbes
RRP: $165.38Booksplease Price: $149.23Understanding parasite biology and impact is essential when giving advice on parasite control in farm animals. In the first review devoted to parasites of domestic cattle and sheep alone, this book... -
Transcultural Theater Günther Heeg 9781032040745
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist... -
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alan Goldberg 9780226460413
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $201.71In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they... -
A History of Religious Ideas: v. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.65"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and... -
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alan Goldberg
Booksplease Price: $73.75In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they... -
Cafe Society by Aksel Tjora 9781349446438
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $128.21While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying... -
Identity and Integration: Migrants in Western Europe by Bernhard Peters 9780367604585
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Symbolic boundaries, cultural differences and ethnic conflicts have gained significance and new meanings in a global situation characterized by the dissolution of traditional political and societal... -
Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi 9780700704125
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.His thoughts form a consistent and coherent... -
Self Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity by Anthony Cohen 9780415083249
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63Traditionally the self and the individual have been treated as micro-versions of larger social entities by the social sciences in general, and by anthropology in particular. In Self Consciousness,... -
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard 9780811228947
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.06In 1506, Michelangelo-a young but already renowned sculptor-is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment,... -
Mission of the University Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780415605847
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82In 1930, the great Spanish philosopher Jos Ortega y Gasset set forth a program for reforming the modern Spanish university. Aware that the missions of the university are many and often competing,... -
Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order by Bilge Yesil 9780252087998
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In the 2010s, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its... -
Zaire: Continuity And Political Change In An Oppressive State by Winsome J. Leslie 9780367216702
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corrupt and closed political system, with its roots in... -
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan by Marnia Lazreg 9781785336225
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $178.84Foucault lived for two years in Tunisia and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the Orient and the Occident... -
Symbolic Construction of Community by Anthony P. Cohen
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the... -
Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order Bilge Yesil 9780252045899
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39In the 2010s, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its... -
Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde Shirley Mangini 9781032924243
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that... -
Sahara: The Great Desert by E. F. Gautier
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $73.27This book was originally published in 1935. The Sahara, or as it is otherwise known, the Great Desert, is probably the most outstanding desert on the surface of the earth - not only because of its... -
Transcultural Theater by Günther Heeg
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $269.60Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist... -
Cafe Society by Graham Scambler 9781137275929
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying... -
Barack Obama and the Politics of Redemption by Stanley A. Renshon
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most. Would he prove to be a... -
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 3 by Burt Hopkins
RRP: $184.78Booksplease Price: $169.66The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the... -
Sahara: The Great Desert by E. F. Gautier 9780367182656
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $232.45This book was originally published in 1935. The Sahara, or as it is otherwise known, the Great Desert, is probably the most outstanding desert on the surface of the earth - not only because of its... -
Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia by H. Berstein
Booksplease Price: $154.75This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia', held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September... -
Qing Encounters - Artistic Exchanged between China and the West Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 9781606064573
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $99.96Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides... -
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610: Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism by Ana Carolina Hosne
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the 'New World' which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in... -
Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange by Patricia Novillo-Corvalan
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial... -
Medicinal Plants and Malaria: Applications, Trends, and Prospects by Ho Han Kiat 9781032098111
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects millions worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug resistance in parts of Southeast Asia... -
The Ethics of Economic Responsibility by Ralf Lüfter
Booksplease Price: $126.17The Ethics of Economic Responsibility raises fundamental ethical questions related to the conceptualization of economic responsibility, that is: the imperative to fulfil certain economic obligations... -
Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls by Christen E. Civiletto 9781642834161
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.65"Masterful. . . . An absolutely essential story, infuriating, urgent, and indispensable."-Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Murderland and Prairie FiresHow corporate kingpins built... -
Max Weber and Islam Wolfgang Schluchter 9781138511934
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two... -
Atlas Of Mexico by James B Pick
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $89.33This atlas, a part of a larger project devoted to developing a database of population of Mexico, will enhance understanding of Mexico, broaden US perspectives on Mexico, and interest others in using... -
The Unknown Max Weber by Paul Honigsheim
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Edited and introduced by Alan Sica.Paul Honigsheim is unique. One of the select few who regularly participated in the Weber-Kreis in Heidelberg during the 1910s, Honigsheim's special place within... -
Max Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion Stanislav Andreski 9780415489539
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works (Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General... -
Animal Models in Medical Mycology by Makoto Miyaji
Booksplease Price: $231.82The prevalence of antibiotics, corticosteroids, and anticancer or immunosuppressive drugs and the progress of the medical treatments after World War II have saved the lives of many patients attacked... -
Dialogos: Gorgias, Fedon, El Banquete / The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Gorgias, Phaedo, Symposium by Platon 9786070742583
Booksplease Price: $17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786070742583Author PlatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint