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Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark 9780674025196
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.88Listen to a short interview with McKenzie WarkHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneEver get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play... -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $22.54In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No... -
The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays / The Sonnets by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393938630
Booksplease Price: $105.16These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching... -
The Norton Shakespeare: Histories by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393938593
Booksplease Price: $76.23These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching... -
The Norton Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393264029
Booksplease Price: $66.38The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways-a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital... -
The Norton Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393938586
Booksplease Price: $86.62These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching... -
The Norton Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393938579
Booksplease Price: $86.91These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching... -
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 by Isobel Armstrong 9780199205202
Booksplease Price: $111.86Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology,... -
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $26.29In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very... -
The Norton Shakespeare: Comedies by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393938616
Booksplease Price: $76.56These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching... -
Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic by Barry Zellen 9780739119426
Booksplease Price: $86.28Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the... -
The Business of Personal Finance: How to Improve Financial Wellness by John Hoffmire
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.87This book is no ordinary personal finance book. It presents, in a highly accessible way, how to effectively understand and manage personal finances, avoiding debt and building for the future, and... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691159546
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691114170
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.67How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why... -
Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson 9780674018525
Booksplease Price: $36.62The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests,... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Stephen Greenblatt 9781324072812
Booksplease Price: $74.47From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062981
Booksplease Price: $52.17A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shorter Eleventh Edition,... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
Booksplease Price: $11.73In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and... -
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England by Joanna Picciotto 9780674049062
RRP: $74.76Booksplease Price: $62.02In seventeenth-century England, intellectuals of all kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures. Reinvented as the agent of innocent... -
The Poetry of John Milton by Gordon Teskey 9780674416642
Booksplease Price: $57.71John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil,... -
Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture by W. T. Lhamon
RRP: $90.24Booksplease Price: $73.44Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered-and forever transformed-American popular... -
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America by Eric J. Sundquist 9780674030695
Booksplease Price: $40.79In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special-indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights-might seem strange. Yet... -
Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic by Simon During 9780674013711
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $34.84Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic... -
Friends of Interpretable Objects by Miguel Tamen 9780674013681
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $30.83A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation.Miguel... -
Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural by Victoria Nelson 9780674725928
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $32.95The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the... -
The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel by Jerome McGann 9780674416666
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.88The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson's sneering quip about "The Jingle Man" testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent... -
The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making by Lydia H. Liu 9780674019959
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $32.84What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the... -
Evil Men by James Dawes 9780674416796
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $20.06Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men... -
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai 9780674024090
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $24.07Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai 9780674278745
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $20.89Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory... -
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future by Marcelo Gleiser 9780063056879
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.62An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity-the foundations of... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062929
Booksplease Price: $52.17A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shorter Eleventh Edition,... -
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 by Joseph Frank 9780691115696
Booksplease Price: $54.50This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the... -
Emerson by Lawrence Buell 9780674016279
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $30.83"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself... -
The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell 9780674659896
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.22The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this... -
A New History of German Literature by David E. Wellbery
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $52.01The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $36.34Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life... -
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 9780691155999
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.49Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century... -
How Milton Works by Stanley Fish 9780674012332
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $47.32Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement... -
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Scott Saul 9780674018532
Booksplease Price: $39.41In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late '60s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The...