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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... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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
Booksplease Price: $41.07Only 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... -
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... -
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... -
A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China by Sarah Schneewind 9780872208247
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.27A commoner's presentation to the emperor of a lucky omen from his garden, the repercussions for his family, and several retellings of the incident provide the background for an engaging introduction... -
The Legacy Of The Blues: Art And Lives Of Twelve Great Bluesmen by Samuel Charters 9780306800542
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.18Blues is a language,one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is... -
Tiny: A Memoir About Love, Letting Go and a Very Small House by Louise Southerden 9781741179224
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.52Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer,... -
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of Cultural Exchange by Charlotte Jirousek 9780253042163
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of... -
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies by Scott A. Eldridge II (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 9781032369815
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $62.15This second edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers a truly global and groundbreaking collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of... -
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... -
Oddities & Curiosities Sticker, Color & Activity Book: Over 500 Unique Stickers Editors of Chartwell Books 9780785846123
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Immerse yourself in the curious and macabre with this treasure trove of ephemera-with 200+ stickers, 50+ activity and coloring pages, and instructions for tarot reading, phrenology, and more. If... -
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... -
Sweet Anaesthetist by Jay Whittaker
Booksplease Price: $16.67Jay Whittaker's debut collection, Wristwatch, won the 2018 Saltire prize for Poetry Book of the Year. In this eagerly awaited follow-up, Jay explores themes of origin, asking what shapes us most: our... -
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism Kevin B. Anderson 9781804296875
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the years... -
Britannia AD 43: The Claudian Invasion by Nic Fields
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.18For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the... -
The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque by John V. Waldron 9781498557252
Booksplease Price: $68.32For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my... -
Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic by David Treece 9781785273841
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil,... -
Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other Essays by Ángel Rama 9781438494487
Booksplease Price: $35.29Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Angel Rama's most important essays.Angel Rama was among the most prominent Latin American literary and cultural critics of... -
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature by Zhang Longxi 9781041005483
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $62.15The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engaged in comparative literary studies and addresses a central and highly important... -
Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts by Feliciano Chimbutane 9781847693631
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.24This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the... -
Maliheh Afnan: Traces, Faces, Places by Rose Issa 9780863564864
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.74Malileh Afnan's work appears 'as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers... -
Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781398109735
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.23These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love. These are the women who made a difference, who influenced... -
Heroines of the Tudor World Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781398133518
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love. These are the women who made a difference, who influenced...