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The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art by Panos Kompatsiaris 9780367376680
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world... -
Cut the Crap and Close the Gap: The Urgency of Delivering Desired Results by Jim Coleman 9781683502739
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45Cut the Crap and Close the Gap is written by a Hog Farmer, Fortune 500 Executive and Economic Developer. It's a practical operating guide for achieving breakthrough levels of performance by closing... -
The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense by Kara Keeling
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles... -
Jeder Mensch ist ein Kunstler: Kosmopolitische UEbungen mit Joseph Beuys by 9783775748667
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $64.23In thirteen chapters, the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue offer profound insight into the cosmopolitan thinking of Joseph Beuys, as manifested in his actions, which are presented in the... -
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis 9780241551271
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics,... -
Shining Bright, Shining Black: Meet 100 Inspiring Black Icons Jamia Wilson 9780711297159
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Shining Bright, Shining Black! is a rebound treasury of the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, and its follow-up Young, Gifted and Black Too. Meet 100 icons of colour from the... -
Art of Protest: What a Revolution Looks Like by De Nichols 9781787418240
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.752023 WINNER OF THE BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD!2022 WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS IN THE CHILDREN'S TRADE 9 TO 16 CATEGORY!"Start making. Start being the change you want to see in... -
Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrea Stone 9780813079202
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from early archives to call into question the idea that the... -
Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century Andrea Stone 9780813080833
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from early archives to call into question the idea that the... -
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin by Damani J. Partridge
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use... -
Politics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building by Lena Zuckerwise 9781531507022
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $149.57From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black... -
Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance by Alex Zamalin
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet... -
Black Icons in Herstory by Monica Ahanonuby
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $40.83Black Icons in Herstory features colorfully illustrated portraits and inspiring biographies of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, film, literature, politics, human rights, and more... -
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (60th Anniversary Edition) by Gary Younge 9781642599619
Booksplease Price: $119.05Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon... -
Revolutionary Positions: Sexuality and Gender in Cuba and Beyond by Michelle Chase
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82As the Cuban Revolution reaches its sixtieth anniversary, contributors to this special issue explore the impact of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, providing a social and... -
Women's Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture by Ann M. Savage 9781440839429
Booksplease Price: $71.82Covering from 1900 to the present day, this book highlights how female artists, actors, writers, and activists were involved in the fight for women's rights, with a focus on popular culture that... -
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (Updated Edition) by Gary Younge 9781642599602
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon... -
Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin 9781608468522
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little understood phenomenon, Zetkin's work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign... -
Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime by Dylan Rodriguez 9780816645619
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nation's incarceration rate is now the highest in the world. The dramatic rise and consolidation of America's... -
Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex by Kathryn Sophia Belle 9780197660201
Booksplease Price: $45.63Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She... -
The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn by Andrew Frederick Smith 9781438488721
Booksplease Price: $53.35Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even... -
Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation by Martin Levy 9783838216591
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $39.55The 1967 'Summer of Love' brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary as the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. The congress, organized by the... -
The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn by Andrew Frederick Smith 9781438488714
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even... -
The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by T. Storm Heter 9781538162613
Booksplease Price: $147.83A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press,... -
The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body Mineke Schipper 9781908906595
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure - Mother Earth - was recreated... -
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s by James Smethurst 9780807855980
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $59.92Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the... -
The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by T. Storm Heter 9781538162620
Booksplease Price: $65.99A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press,... -
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier 9780226308340
Booksplease Price: $47.60For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of the arts. Whether he's turning to literature and... -
What is Academic Freedom?: A Century of Debate, 1915 - Present by Daniel Gordon
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces... -
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin by Damani J. Partridge 9780520382190
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $123.42In this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use... -
The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC Karen Bojar 9781032819570
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.11The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in... -
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family Michelle Chase 9781683405566
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyondThis volume reconsiders revolutionary Cuba's global influence by shifting the... -
A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets by Andy Shallal 9781682196380
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58A Seat at the Table is the story of the founding of Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurant that has become a celebrated hub for political activism. Named in honor of Langston Hughes,... -
Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex by Kathryn Sophia Belle 9780197660195
Booksplease Price: $153.27Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She... -
Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News Bill Kurtis 9780700640041
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $43.76Starting with his coverage of the largest tornado in Kansas history, legendary correspondent, anchorman, and producer Bill Kurtis details his whirlwind career reporting American history as it... -
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons-even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according... -
Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Saladin Ambar 9780197621998
RRP: $51.66Booksplease Price: $44.95A sweeping look into interracial friendship's significance in American democracy from the founding to the present. The oppression of Blacks is America's original sin-a sin that took root in 1619... -
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family Michelle Chase 9781683405702
Booksplease Price: $57.62Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyondThis volume reconsiders revolutionary Cuba's global influence by shifting the... -
The Christmas Princess by Mariah Carey
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.51There was one time unlike any other, when everyone pitched in and helped one another . . . CHRISTMAS TIME! Mariah Carey, lovingly and aptly known as the Queen of Christmas, has brought forth a... -
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.08The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought-showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional"In this pathbreaking collection of articles,...