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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.16Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical... -
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.19In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She... -
The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema by Kyung Hyun Kim
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the... -
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and Culture by Susan Gillman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors'... -
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 by Srinivas Aravamudan
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes... -
Secularisms by Janet R. Jakobsen
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with... -
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor by Sandro Mezzadra
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation,... -
The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy by Mason Stokes
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of... -
A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy by Andrea Slane
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array... -
Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music by Arthur Knight
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music... -
The Ellis Island Snow Globe by Erica Rand
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned... -
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire by Mrinalini Sinha
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive... -
High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty by Jessica R. Cattelino
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming... -
Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies by Antonio Viego
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to... -
Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement by Timothy Jost
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the... -
Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions by Kathleen Woodward
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of... -
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body by Ed Cohen
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand... -
Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America by Matthew D. O'Hara
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese... -
Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization by Neferti Tadiar
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social... -
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands by Kiran Asher
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is... -
Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image by Roger Hallas
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.80In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer... -
A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life by Mira Schor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political,... -
Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier by Homay King
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The... -
Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio by Timothy Dean Taylor
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the... -
Latinamericanism after 9/11 by John Beverley
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Latinamericanism after 9/11, John Beverley explores Latinamericanist cultural theory in relation to new modes of political mobilization in Latin America. He contends that after 9/11, the hegemony... -
A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A Primer for Teaching World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are designing an introductory-level world history syllabus for the first time, for those who already teach... -
Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan by Michelle Bigenho
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14What does it mean to play "someone else's music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who... -
The Political Force of Musical Beauty by Barry Shank
Booksplease Price: £33.90In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the... -
Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution by Eric Schaefer
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range... -
Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy,... -
A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles by Jennifer Guiliano
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their... -
Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973 by Ayala Levin
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the "golden age" of... -
Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal by Barbara Harlow
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.33A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to... -
Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 by Steven D. Classen
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was "network... -
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine by Susan Merrill Squier
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation-these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what... -
The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass by Nick Bromell
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.75In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his... -
Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging by Leerom Medovoi
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Working in four scholarly teams focused on different global regions-North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and China-the contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging... -
Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading by Robert Christgau
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.41In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word. Many... -
The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition: Differences and Inequalities by Jonathan Oberlander
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers...