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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition by Seth Lerer
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.80Seth 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: €20.39Booksplease Price: €19.93Taubes, 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: €21.59Booksplease Price: €18.61What 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: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.15This 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: €30.00Booksplease Price: €25.68Historical 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: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.06Winner - 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: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.88This 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: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.95Chosen 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: €26.40Booksplease Price: €22.28In 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: €19.19Booksplease Price: €16.79The 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: €26.40Booksplease Price: €20.40What 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... -
The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey D. Sachs
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.42Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a... -
Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India by Diana L. Eck
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €18.61The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means... -
Rasa: Performing the Divine in India by Susan L. Schwartz
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €22.28While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central... -
Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: €38.40Booksplease Price: €32.08Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and... -
The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe by Allen Ellenzweig
RRP: €50.40Booksplease Price: €42.18Allen Ellenzweig traces the male gaze upon men as captured by the camera throughout the history of photography. More than one hundred striking, provocative duotone photographs reflect a wide-ranging... -
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded) by Michael J. Mauboussin
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €19.58Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics... -
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler 9780231146111
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €19.57Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state... -
Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell 9780231180986
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €25.68From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new... -
The Science of the Oven by Herve This 9780231147071
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.95Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its... -
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit 9780231146371
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.88A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a... -
Friend: A Novel from North Korea by Paek Nam-nyong 9780231195614
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2013 by Sid Holt 9780231162258
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.88Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award-winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168595
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.54A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball by Jay Martin 9780231147941
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.54Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur,... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by David Hajdu 9780231191838
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.68Winner - 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... -
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power by John Searle 9780231137539
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we... -
The Running Flame: A Novel Fang Fang 9780231215015
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70"She knew that if she didn't say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging."The Running Flame opens with its protagonist in prison awaiting... -
The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future Dickson Despommier 9780231219099
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70Cities are at once among humanity's crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and... -
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy by Alain Badiou 9780231157971
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €18.61Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most... -
Defeating Dengue: A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving R. Edward Freeman 9780231224185
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €18.61Winner, 2025 SIM Outstanding Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of ManagementDengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection, is a scourge of tropical climates. An extraordinary... -
Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development Dr. John C. Mutter 9780231220477
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.70How will future climates be different from today's world-and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies? This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and... -
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
RRP: €33.60Booksplease Price: €28.43Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and... -
Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity by Katherine S. Newman
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.54Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor... -
The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age by David L. Rogers
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €25.55Rethink your business for the digital age. Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy? Globally recognized digital... -
Film Censorship: Regulating America's Screen by Sheri Chinen Biesen
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.58Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2009 by The American Society of Magazine Editors
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.95More and more readers turn to The Best American Magazine Writing for their annual fix of the year's most captivating essays, columns, reporting, and criticism. Chosen from the winners and finalists... -
Negotiations, 1972-1990 by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €21.37Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key... -
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy by Evan Thompson 9780231136952
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €22.09A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and... -
Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints by Paul Milgrom 9780231175982
RRP: €100.80Booksplease Price: €79.61Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith's famous concept...