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Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium by Michael Z. Newman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.64Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a... -
Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William Richards
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.05Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly... -
Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left by Dr. Gareth Dale
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $34.18Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 by The American Society of Magazine Editors
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 proves that print journalism is as vital as ever, offering information, amusement, connection, and perspective to those who love to lose themselves in a good... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 by Sid Holt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In "The Plague Year,"... -
Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William A. Richards
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.08Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly... -
Danger: Diabolik by Leon Hunt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.64Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant... -
I Spit on Your Grave by David Maguire
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.68There is no denying that Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films ever made. While many condemn it as misogynistic, others praise it for... -
The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities by Eric Hayot
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.94Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar,... -
The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.27Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.97Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them... -
Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting by David P. Celani
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.11W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the... -
Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight by Stephanie Hepburn
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $32.05This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers... -
Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty 9780231143592
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $35.56From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little... -
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Yong Kim 9780231147477
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.85Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little... -
The Essential Huainanzi by An Li 9780231159814
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $31.74Compiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese conceptions of the cosmos, human nature, and the social order. Outlining "all that a... -
From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports by Allen Guttmann 9780231133418
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $35.91Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145183
RRP: $83.08Booksplease Price: $66.45Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the... -
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir by Patrick Keating 9780231149037
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing... -
We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780231170697
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central... -
India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia by Sumit Ganguly 9780231143752
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation as to whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South... -
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life by Robert Rosen 9780231075657
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.08Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to... -
Must We Divide History Into Periods? by Jacques Le Goff 9780231173018
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century... -
Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters by Professor Jeffrey Schlegelmilch 9780231190411
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security, systems designed to keep us safe have also... -
Angela Su: Melencolia by Angela Su 9781884919381
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Angela Su: Melencolia is published in conjunction with the artist's eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere. The richly illustrated book provides an overview of the... -
Passions of Our Time Julia Kristeva 9780231218993
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and... -
Hatred and Forgiveness Julia Kristeva 9780231218986
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the... -
On Taste: In Humans and Other Animals Davide Risso 9780231221290
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Are there only five tastes, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami? Why are some so appealing to us while others are what we call acquired tastes? Do other animals perceive tastes in the same way... -
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition by Seth Lerer
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.11Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only... -
Paul's Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening by L. L. Welborn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Zizek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By thoroughly reexamining Pauline eschatology, L. L... -
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these... -
The Best Business Writing 2014 by Dean Starkman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.15This anthology of the year's best investigative business writing explores the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society and uncovers the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk... -
Origins of Darwin's Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place by J. David Archibald
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.68Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was so important to Darwin's initial theories and line... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by David Hajdu
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.17Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2015 by Sid Holt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 by Sid Holt
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70Chosen from the 2012 National Magazine Awards finalists and winners, this anthology is filled with compelling features and profiles, eye-opening reporting, and incisive criticism and analysis of... -
Beasts Head for Home : A Novel by Kobo Abe
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $24.88In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling,... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 by Sid Holt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 will feature a selection of articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media. These awards are sponsored and administered... -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth Waltz
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.78What are the causes of war? How might the world be made more peaceful? In this landmark work of international relations theory, first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz...