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Cornell University Press, Est. 1869: Our First 150 Years by Karen M. Laun
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.56A 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... -
The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat by Andreas Schweizer
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €32.25"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to... -
Impious Fidelity: Anna Freud, Psychoanalysis, Politics by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.47In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinking and theorizing and its existence as a political... -
Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly Joyce
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43Magnetic Resonance Imaging, not so long ago a diagnostic tool of last resort, has become pervasive in the landscape of consumer medicine; images of the forbidding tubes, with their promises of... -
Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE by Francoise Dunand
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €28.55In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their... -
Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel by David Adams
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.01Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship... -
Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy by Edith W. Clowes
RRP: €78.54Booksplease Price: €53.81If Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat,'" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy... -
Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan by Anne Zacharias-Walsh
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €32.25In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice,... -
The Era of the Witness by Annette Wieviorka
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always... -
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Scott Straus
Booksplease Price: €26.70Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP) The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of... -
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals by Douglas Rogers
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.09The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the... -
Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History, 1778-1984 by Loretta Fowler
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.32Fort Belknap reservation in Montana is home to both the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indian tribes. The two thousand inhabitants of the reservation recognize an array of symbols-political, ritual, and... -
From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia by Carolyn Teich Adams
Booksplease Price: €45.04In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major... -
Norms in International Relations: The Struggle against Apartheid by Audie Klotz
Booksplease Price: €32.25Applying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak... -
Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc by James B. Given
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.39James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy,... -
Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars by Philip G. Roeder
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.98How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions... -
Vietnamese Communism, 1925-1945 by Hyunh Kim Khanh
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.39From a cell of nine men in 1925, the Vietnamese Communists grew by December 1976 into a massive party with over 1.5 million members and the organizational and military capabilities to defeat the... -
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe by Jeffrey Hart
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.63Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of... -
Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address by William Waters
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €56.23To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like performing a script? William Waters pursues these... -
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo by Robert Chodat
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €49.77Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism... -
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition by Nicole Constable
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €18.66Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A... -
Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology by Robert Marc Friedman
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.55In this book, Robert Marc Friedman analyzes the revolution in the theory and practice of meteorology during the first quarter of the twentieth century, initiated by Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951) and... -
Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse by Simone Chambers
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43In Reasonable Democracy, Simone Chambers describes, explains, and defends a discursive politics inspired by the work of Jurgen Habermas. In addition to comparing Habermas's ideas with other... -
Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War by Matthew Evangelista
Booksplease Price: €34.45Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent... -
Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth... -
Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Joan B. Landes
Booksplease Price: €34.09Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role... -
Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 by Frank Costigliola
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.61In Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and... -
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"Getting Paid": Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City by Mercer L. Sullivan
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring... -
The Divorce of Lothar II: Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World by Karl Heidecker
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €45.16"She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. 'Before God and his angels' she bares her heart and confesses to them... -
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €24.86"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's... -
Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia by Laura A. Henry
Booksplease Price: €31.32Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia's environmental... -
The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring by Paulina Bren
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €20.52The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of... -
Sovereign Nations, Carnal States by Kam Shapiro
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.01Sovereign Nations, Carnal States is an extraordinarily synthetic intellectual tour de force. Kam Shapiro uses the body as a lens to focus on often-overlooked dimensions of modern sovereignty. He... -
The Invention of Native American Literature by Robert Dale Parker
Booksplease Price: €32.25In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the... -
The Art of Life by John Kekes
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by... -
Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics by Pierre Gilles de Gennes
RRP: €105.91Booksplease Price: €76.87The first stage of the physics of long, flexible chains was pioneered by eminent scientists such as Debye, Kuhn, Kramers, and Flory, who formulated the basic ideas. In recent years, because of the... -
At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy by Henry R. Nau
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.37The United States has never felt at home abroad. The reason for this unease, even after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is not frequent threats to American security. It is America's... -
Negotiating the World Economy by John S. Odell
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86It is often said economics has become as important as security in international relations, yet we work with much less than full understanding of what goes on when government negotiators bargain over... -
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International by Stephen Hopgood
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was... -
Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path by Laura Engelstein
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €23.94Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile...