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Cornell University Press, Est. 1869: Our First 150 Years by Karen M. Laun
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87A history of the first 150 years of Cornell University Press.About the AuthorKaren M. Laun is a Senior Production Editor and the Digital Publishing Editor at Cornell University Press. She has also... -
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia by Justin V. Hastings
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for... -
The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature by Eric Jager
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £25.54Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive... -
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples... -
Narrative Discourse Revisited by Gerard Genette
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only... -
Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law by Martha Minow
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for... -
Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice by Monique Deveaux
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.74How should democratic societies define justice for cultural minority groups, and how might such justice be secured? This book is a nuanced and judicious response to a critical issue in political... -
The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice by Tilottama Rajan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms... -
The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000 by Thomas Head
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89During the dissolution of the former Carolingian Empire, warfare and plunder went unchecked. An innovative response to this violence was the Church-led initiative known as the Peace of God, perhaps... -
![Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" VII-IX by Charlotte Witt](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/190973/190691/9780801481925__43077.1686816344.jpg?c=1 "Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" VII-IX by Charlotte Witt")
Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" VII-IX by Charlotte Witt
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.88Substance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound-and perplexing-treatise: Books VII-IX of the Metaphysics. These central books, which focus on the nature of substance,... -
Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market by Christopher Eaton Gunn
Booksplease Price: £26.32Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy... -
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
Booksplease Price: £23.21In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me," Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of... -
The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France by Mary Mansfield
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.65This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West... -
Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness by Sander L. Gilman
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £20.89'About the AuthorSander L. Gilman is Goldwyn Smith Professor of Humane Studies in the Departments of German Literature and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and is also Professor of the... -
The Social Biology of Wasps by Kenneth G. Ross
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £54.52In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they... -
Chaucer and the Universe of Learning by Ann W. Astell
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.20The order of the fragments making up the Canterbury Tales and the structure of that collection have long been questioned. Ann W. Astell proposes that Chaucer intended the order that is preserved in... -
Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780 by Phyllis Whitman Hunter
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £56.55Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with possessions. Early Americans suspected luxuries as a corrupting force that would lead to an aristocracy. In Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic... -
Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy by Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.00In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to... -
Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic by Eugene Raikhel
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Critics of narcology-as addiction medicine is called in Russia-decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and... -
Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland by Lisa M. Bitel
Booksplease Price: £26.32Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between... -
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition by James D. Faubion
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has... -
Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950 by Miriam Cohen
Booksplease Price: £31.75In turn-of-the-century New York, Italian immigrant daughters spent their youth in factories while their mothers did irregular wage labor as well as domestic work at home. By the I940s,... -
Kant's Theory of Justice by Allen D. Rosen
Booksplease Price: £29.42In this accessible interpretation of Kant's political philosophy, Allen D. Rosen concentrates on the relation between justice, political authority (the state), and individual liberty.About the... -
Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £20.89A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their... -
Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s by Lynne Viola
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and... -
Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After by Peter Sahlins
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.48In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected contribution to the histories of immigration, nationality, and citizenship in... -
The Science Question in Feminism by Sandra Harding
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific... -
Debating Rationality: Nonrational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making by Jennifer J. Halpern
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99"Debating Rationality is a terrific collection of essays written by an obviously first rate set of scholars. Several recent books have attempted to make similar points, but this volume pushes the... -
![Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of "The Recluse" by William Wordsworth](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/395291/395007/9780801410550__27141.1687091055.jpg?c=1 "Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of "The Recluse" by William Wordsworth")
Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of "The Recluse" by William Wordsworth
RRP: £143.00Booksplease Price: £115.31'About the AuthorSally Bushell is Lecturer in English Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre at Lancaster University. She is the author of Re-Reading The... -
Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center... -
Dostoevsky the Thinker by James P. Scanlan
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76For all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. In works from fictional masterpieces to little-known nonfiction prose, he grappled with... -
Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic by Mihoko Suzuki
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a... -
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy by T. J. Pempel
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £20.12The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known... -
The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics by Ivo Banac
Booksplease Price: £32.82Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a... -
Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Michael J. Levin
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £40.28Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete... -
The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Aviva Briefel
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £38.72The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the... -
How to Prevent Coups d'État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival by Erica De Bruin
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.40In this lively and provocative book, Erica De Bruin looks at the threats that rulers face from their own armed forces. Can they make their regimes impervious to coups? How to Prevent Coups d'Etat... -
Without Foundations: Justification in Political Theory by Donald J. Herzog
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Can political theorists justify their ideas? Do sound political theories need foundations? What constitutes a well-justified argument in political discourse? Don Herzog attempts to answer these... -
Descriptive Sketches by William Wordsworth
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £101.80'About the AuthorSally Bushell is Lecturer in English Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre at Lancaster University. She is the author of Re-Reading The... -
The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution by John Shovlin
Booksplease Price: £26.32Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political...