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Indiana University: New Portraits of the Bloomington Campus by Indiana University Press 9780253063243
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Set in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, Indiana University Bloomington is widely acknowledged to be one of the most picturesque college campuses in the United States Indiana University: New... -
The Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism by Abdellali Hajjat 9780253059888
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.74In 1983-as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest-youths from Venissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first... -
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Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology by Patrick D. Hopkins 9780253212306 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £2.50" . . . discusses the complex connections between gender and technology . . . an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding . . . series by Indiana University Press." -Bruce... -
The Year′s Work in Showgirls Studies by M Hardie 9780253068156
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.29The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a... -
InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader by Chris Robé 9780253051387
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In the 1940s, it was 16 mm film. In the 1980s, it was handheld video cameras. Today, it is cell phones and social media. Activists have always found ways to use the media du jour for quick and... -
Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein 9780253040701
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Today many Germans remain nostalgic about "classic" film comedies created during the 1930s, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. In Antisemitism... -
The Tribal Challenge: Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev Havatzelet Yahel 9780253070791
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.74Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in... -
Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects by Marc Olivier 9780253046550
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.42Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie's prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In... -
You Can't Go to War without Song: Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa by Omotayo Jolaosho 9780253063205
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.29You Can't Go to War without Song explores the role of public performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa. Weaving together detailed ethnographic fieldwork and an astute theoretical... -
New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa by Rosalind I. J. Hackett 9780253015198
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £58.16New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the... -
Creating Culture, Performing Community: An Angahuan Wedding Story by Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera 9780253073419
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12High up in the mountains of the Sierra P'urhépecha, in the state of Michoacán, México, lies the small community of Santo Santiago de Angahuan. Angahuan has a richly complex culture where the... -
Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan: Affection and Mercy by Geoffrey F. Hughes 9780253056436
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.71In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid institutional, technological, and... -
The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture: Between Practice and Phantasm Halina Goldberg 9780253072924
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned... -
Through the Eyes of Descartes by C Sjholm 9780253068224
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.29"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is... -
Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe by Stephen M. Norris 9780253050304
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences... -
Healing the Nation: Literature, Progress, and Christian Science by L. Ashley Squires 9780253029546
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and... -
The Jewish Economic Elite: Making Modern Europe by Cornelia Aust 9780253032157
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.74In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances... -
The Memory Marketplace: Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre by Emilie Pine 9780253049506
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the... -
Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time by Susan Delson 9780253058539
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £58.16In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today's music videos. This history was all but... -
Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media by Andrew J. Owens 9780253053800
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire after Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where... -
Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925 by Brian J. Horowitz 9780253047670
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.99In the early 20th century, with Russia full of intense social strife and political struggle, Vladimir Yevgenyevich (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Jewish Public... -
Flight and Concealment: Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond by Susanna Schrafstetter 9780253064028
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £58.16Between ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews tried to escape Nazi genocide by going into hiding. With the help of Jewish and non-Jewish relatives, friends, or people completely unknown to them,... -
Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto by Olufemi Taiwo 9780253012722
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olufemi Taiwo explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation... -
Violent Space: The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw by Anja Nowak 9780253067425
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.29For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghetto became the... -
Tennessee Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide by Timothy Sedore 9780253045645
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91Throughout Tennessee, Civil War monuments stand tall, peppering the landscape from Chattanooga to Memphis and pinpointing important events and figures within Tennessee's collective narrative. In... -
Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History by Paul A. Cimbala
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.94"These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have driven some of the most important, vital scholarship of the last fifty years." -Georgia Historical Quarterly". ... -
Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video by Phyllis Rauch Klotman
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Struggles for Representation examines over 300 non-fiction films by more than 150 African American film/videomakers and includes an extensive filmography, bibliography, and excerpts from interviews... -
Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition: Inside a Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.33Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic... -
He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children by Marjorie Harness Goodwin
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61"... carefully researched and clearly written... Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and across contexts." -American Ethnologist ... -
![Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture by Steve Gravestock 9780968913246 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031608/5030824/9780968913246__17334.1722858769.jpg?c=1 "Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture by Steve Gravestock 9780968913246 [USED COPY]")
Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture by Steve Gravestock 9780968913246 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Don Owen, perhaps best known as the director of the seminal 1964 feature Nobody Waved Goodbye, is one of the central figures in the development of English-Canadian cinema. Owen spent much of his... -
![Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency by Lloyd I. Rudolph 9780253351913 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5048845/5048042/9780253351913__00846.1722944426.jpg?c=1 "Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency by Lloyd I. Rudolph 9780253351913 [USED COPY]")
Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency by Lloyd I. Rudolph 9780253351913 [USED COPY]
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £1.25This book situates U.S. foreign policy processes in the contexts of three imperial presidencies: the administrations of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush. The contributors examine the... -
![Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems by Darryl D. Jones 9780253347534 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5049408/5048605/9780253347534__02001.1722944939.jpg?c=1 "Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems by Darryl D. Jones 9780253347534 [USED COPY]")
Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems by Darryl D. Jones 9780253347534 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £1.25"After spending a few hours in the pages of Invisible Presence, I can see once more beyond the familiar to the miraculous." -Scott Russell Sanders, from the foreword In this surprising... -
South Africa Belongs to Us: A History of the ANC by Francis Meli 9780253285911
Booksplease Price: £25.70"...Meli combines the insights of an insider with sound scholarship." -Patrick O'Meara "Meli's book is a welcome addition to the literature on South Africa." -L. E. Meyer, Choice... -
The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings by Kin Hubbard 9780253210074
Booksplease Price: £14.85"This is an absolutely delightful book.... Hubbard is considered to be a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks to everyone." -Humor: International Journal of... -
Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust by Emily Miller Budick 9780253344922
Booksplease Price: £37.48How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness... -
Edwin Rogers Embree: The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Foundation Philanthropy, and American Race Relations by Alfred Perkins 9780253356048
Booksplease Price: £36.81One of the most influential philanthropists of the early 20th century, Edwin Rogers Embree was the scion of generations of abolitionists and integrationists. He ably served the Rockefeller Foundation... -
The Indiana Book of Records, Firsts, and Fascinating Facts by Fred D. Cavinder 9780253283207
Booksplease Price: £24.95What the Guinness brothers have done for the records of the world, this book does for Indiana, whose resourceful inhabitants have blazed a bright trail of accomplishments in nearly every field. There... -
A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
Booksplease Price: £19.52Kate Bates is another Gene Stratton-Porter unsung hero in the tradition of Elnora Comstock, of A Girl of the Limberlost, and Freckles and Laddie, of books of the same name. As the youngest child, and... -
From Small Town to Downtown: A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919 by Lawrence A. Brough 9780253343697
Booksplease Price: £44.94The Jewett Car Company was born in Akron, Ohio, in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street... -
The Dark Didn't Catch Me by Crystal Thrasher 9780253216854
Booksplease Price: £14.98The Dark Didn't Catch Me tells the story of the Robinson family during the Great Depression in Greene County, Indiana. Seely Robinson is the tenacious 11-year-old heroine, and it is from her...