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Greek Literature by Columbia University Press 9780371451212
Booksplease Price: £16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371451212Author Columbia University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HardPress... -
SEPTEMBER BLACKBERRIES PA by Columbia University Press 9780811205245
Booksplease Price: £13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811205245Author Columbia University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions... -
JAGUAR SKIES PA by Columbia University Press 9780811205801
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811205801Author Columbia University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint New Directions... -
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia by Karen L. Harel
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to... -
Atheism by Alexandre Kojève
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40One of the twentieth century's most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian emigre to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French... -
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting... -
Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism by Karl Lowith
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.85Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars... -
The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and... -
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-Orientation in Film and Video by Chris Straayer
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.54Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers... -
Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis by Julia Kristeva
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees... -
The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-chi lu by Lin-Chi
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the Lin-Chi lu details the insights and exploits of the great ninth century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang... -
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.81Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth's past. In The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of... -
The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey--one of... -
China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence by Sophie Richardson
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89Why would China jeopardize its relationship with the United States, the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, and much of Southeast Asia to sustain the Khmer Rouge and provide hundreds of millions of dollars... -
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army by Phyllis Birnbaum
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.81Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's... -
River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers by Daniel McCool
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates... -
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform by Gunnar Almgren
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to... -
The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution by Steven S. Lee
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination... -
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry... -
Videophilosophy: The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism by Maurizio Lazzarato
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive... -
The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged... -
Chinese History and Culture: Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century, Volume 2 by Yu Ying-Shih
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yu is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese... -
Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom by John Hoenig
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.21Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the... -
What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India and asks: How do contemporary... -
Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology by R. Parthasarathy
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new... -
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science by Professor John F. Marra
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age... -
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary... -
Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China by Joshua Fogel
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02China's increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals... -
Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice by Donna Hardina
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.98This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action... -
Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York by Nan A. Rothschild
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.68Winner, 2023 SAA Book Award - Popular, Society for American ArchaeologyHonorable Mention, 2024 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of AmericaBits and pieces of the lives led long... -
Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World by Matthew Crippen
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Pragmatism-a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science-is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies,... -
Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography Yuri Pines (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem) 9780231196635
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the centuries preceding the imperial unification of 221... -
History of the Mafia by Salvatore Lupo
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.13When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.65In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to... -
The Cave Bear Story: Life and Death of a Vanished Animal by Bjorn Kurten
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40This portrait of the cave bear conveys facts about this animal, including its structure, habits, and society, the Ice Age environment, sexual and racial variations, and extinction. The text also... -
The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life by Nicholas Delbanco
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40We work, each one of us, in the deep dark with no notion of what lasts. With this phrase Nicholas Delbanco reveals one of his urgent concerns: Why does a writer write? How much of his work will seem... -
Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process: Public Policy, Public Opinion, and Political Representation by Ellen D. B. Riggle
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02From "Don't ask, don't tell" to the Defense of Marriage Act, from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the continued battle against AIDS, gays and lesbians have been in the spotlight during the... -
Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups Among the Smaller European Nations by Miroslav Hroch
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40This classic work on nationalism, originally published thirty years ago and now reissued with a new preface by the author, provides excellent historical and political background to the profusion of... -
Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age by Edward O'Donnell
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and...