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Infrastructure of Transit: Practices of Afghan and Pakistani Recycling Workers in Istanbul within a Transnational Migration and Border Regime by Philipp Ratfisch 9783658522490
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $131.93When walking through Istanbul, one almost inevitably encounters informal waste pickers who clean up the city with their large, heavily loaded hand trucks. Many of them are male undocumented recycling... -
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas by Peter Handke 9780374601447
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.02The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief... -
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912 by Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease Price: $19.65Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of... -
Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God's Love Heals Our Hearts Anne Graham Lotz 9781444783285
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run... -
Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas by Krista Brune 9781438480619
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $89.80Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film,... -
The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain by Tingyang Zhao 9781438498966
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $89.80Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of... -
Lagos Noir by Chris Abani 9781911115731
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.80An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the... -
The African-British Long Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of African-British Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse by Tcho Mbaimba Caulker 9780739127438
Booksplease Price: $123.18Tracing the development of British colonial administration in West Africa over the course of the long eighteenth century, Caulker illuminates the solidification of the administration as it goes... -
The Moss Lisa Leuddecke 9781916747296
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.42There are two things seventeen-year-old Emma Carver is known for: the fact that she grew up beside a sprawling bog, and that her sister went missing over a year ago. No leads, no clues, no trace... -
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux 9781913097684
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment... -
State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648-1789 by Stephen A. Lazer
Booksplease Price: $140.65A richly documented study of early modern state formation, sovereignty, legitimacy, and comparative political culture in Alsace between the Peace of Westphalia and the French Revolution Alsace, a... -
On Art, Artists, Latin America, and Other Utopias by Luis Camnitzer 9780292760905
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the... -
Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome by John David Rhodes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini-but it's not the classical Rome you imagine... -
Long Slow Train: The Soul Music of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings by Donald Brackett
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.30A lively and engaging chronicle of the triumphant rise of Sharon Jones a one of the most authentic purveyors of American soul music since James Brown a ELong Slow Train: The Soul Music of Sharon... -
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art by Terence E. Grieder 9780292741058
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Since Columbus first called the natives of the Americas "Indians," the sources of their art and culture have been a puzzle. The strange mixture of objects of Asian appearance with those decidedly... -
New Labour, new welfare state?: The 'third way' in British social policy by Martin Powell 9781861341518 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $4.50The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right. New Labour, new welfare state?... -
Tate Photography: Sabelo Mlangeni Sarah Allen 9781849768023
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $12.13'I can't make my work without the collaboration of the community. Their willingness to allow their story to be told is an important part of what I see.' Sabelo Mlangeni Many of the stories that... -
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland by Elena Emma Sottilotta 9780691263830
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $90.98Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheries With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles... -
The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.00Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe... -
Not Your Ex's Hexes by April Asher
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.53Rose Maxwell spent her whole life preparing to be the next Prima on the Supernatural Council. But now that she's stepped down, it's time for this witch to figure out who she is and start fresh. Rose... -
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice Ruth Dukes 9781509548996
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and... -
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite by Aimee Bender 9780099538271 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $3.28On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake... -
Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue by Robert Zaretsky 9780803218383
Booksplease Price: $27.13In the French Camargue-the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania-the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this... -
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy by Nicolas Fernandez-Medina
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with... -
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 9781419719608
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.40The book that inspired the hit film! Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Sundance Grand Jury Prize This is the funniest book you&;ll ever read about death. It is a universally... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that... -
Punishment Bag: Poems Jake Fournier 9780826369222
Booksplease Price: $19.10In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory. Jake Fournier's... -
The Bourgeois by Franco Moretti 9781781683040
Booksplease Price: $23.80"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its... -
UAE - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by John Walsh
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.74Offering invaluable information and illustrations to help travelers understand a country's people and avoid cultural faux pas Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is... -
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures by Ann Cvetkovich 9780822330882
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.38In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing-and archiving-accounts of trauma that belong as much to... -
Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics Thomas Meyer (Universitat Dortmund) 9780745628448
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89In his controversial new book, Thomas Meyer argues that the media are transforming traditional party democracy into 'media democracy'. Political elites submit to the mass media's formulas in the hope... -
Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Brandon Morgan 9781496237774
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.95Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist... -
Across The Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780863569517
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $40.05Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean - 'the green sea,' as it was known to Arabic speakers - underwent vast transformation. An era of commercial and... -
R. S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M. Wynn Thomas 9780708325704
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.93The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war... -
Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and their English Border Region Phillipp Schofield 9781783168712
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $75.72Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context... -
Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II by Ivan T. Berend 9780520229013
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $35.19Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War... -
Fire and Ice - Li Cunxu and the Founding of the Later Tang by Richard Davis 9789888208975
Booksplease Price: $53.11The Later Tang was the first of several ephemeral states created by the Shatuo Turks in tenth-century China and Li Cunxu, a martial genius, was its founder. In fifteen years, he turned a small... -
Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers by Mike James Ross 9781394189151
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.79A science-backed recipe for creating engagement, fulfillment, and achievement We're stuck. Stuck to the couch. Stuck scrolling. Stuck at work. Stuck in worn-out paths of habitual action. Stuck in... -
A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel by Youssef Fadel 9789774167546
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.37It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the day...