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Indiana University: New Portraits of the Bloomington Campus by Indiana University Press 9780253063243
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Set 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... -
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears... -
Gregorian Chant by Willi Apel
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Willi Apel's classic study of Gregorian chant is now in paperback. This extensive survey describes the evolutionary processes of its long history as well as its definition and terminology, the... -
Promoting Social Justice through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Delores D. Liston
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong... -
![The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory by Deborah E. McDowell](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/170828/170546/9780253209269__25206.1686788043.jpg?c=1 "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory by Deborah E. McDowell")
The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory by Deborah E. McDowell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58"The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the... -
Ecological Feminist Philosophies by Karen J. Warren
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Here feminist philosophers and ecofeminist scholars pursue the connections between feminism and environmentalism. Topics include the ecofeminist ethic; the role of patriarchal concepts in... -
The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract-Film and Literature by Clyde Romer Hughes Taylor
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01"In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that does... -
Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach, Expanded Edition by Meredith Little
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician's repertoire, little... -
Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History by Ronald Grigor Suny
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37As a new independent Republic of Armenia is established among the ruins of the Soviet Union, Armenians are rethinking their history-the processes by which they arrived at statehood in a small part of... -
Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies by Sandra Harding
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and... -
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains by Rachel Calof
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65"Calof's [story] has the 'electricity' one occasionally finds in primary sources. It is powerful, shocking, and primitive, with the kind of appeal primary sources often attain without effort. . . ... -
Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic by Edmond J. Keller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37" . . . an excellent, comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution . . . essential for anyone who wishes to understand revolutionary Ethiopia." -Perspective"This masterly history deals with the... -
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary by Bill Nichols
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34". . . a valuable and important book . . ." -The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryRepresenting Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice... -
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Olga Tian-Shanskaia
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41" . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb." -Steven Hoch" . . . one of the best ethnographic... -
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies by Rey Chow
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."-Discourse... -
The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition by Ronald Grigor Suny
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.08". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." -Religious Studies Review". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." -American Historical... -
Passing the Time in Ballymenone by Henry Glassie
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28"This is an extraordinary book." -Progress in Human Geography". . . fresh and fascinating." -Come-All-Ye" . . . an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. . . . it is about the effort of one man to... -
![Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man" by Whitney Davis](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/813458/813169/9780253209887__96185.1687665319.jpg?c=1 "Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man" by Whitney Davis")
Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man" by Whitney Davis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77"... a valuable scholarly addition to any student of Freud or as research material in a library." -HNet, H-CAACA Davis argues that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to understanding... -
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music by Sergei Bertensson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Sergei Rachmaninoff A Lifetime in MusicSergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, with the assistance of Sophia SatinaWith a new introduction by David Butler CannataAn indispensable and captivating document,... -
The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common by Alphonso Lingis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12" . . . thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing."... -
Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond by Todd Boyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has informed a large segment of... -
A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana: 119 Unique Places to Explore by Steven Higgs
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54This is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road. Featuring 95 beautiful... -
Parke County: Indiana's Covered Bridge Capital by Marsha Williamson Mohr
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66With its beautiful meadows and countless meandering streams, picturesque Parke County, Indiana, is home to 31 historic covered bridges, ranging from 43 to 315 feet long. Every October, the county... -
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers by Robin K. Morgan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the... -
Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption by Omar Rivera
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39A distinctive focus of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American philosophy is the convergence of identity formation and political liberation in ethnically and racially diverse postcolonial contexts... -
Meadow Lake: Gold Town by Paul Fatout
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65The inhabitants of Meadow Lake, California, dreamed as big as all the gold seekers of the far West, certain that their town, their mine was the "big bonanza"-a place of legendary wealth that most... -
Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel by Cary Nelson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers... -
The Art of Loving Krishna: Ornamentation and Devotion by Cynthia Packert
Booksplease Price: £27.52Since ancient times, Hindus have expressed their love and devotion to their deities through beautiful ornamentation-dressing and decorating the deities with elaborate clothing, jewelry, and flowers... -
Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years: Collected Works of J. Edward Murr by J. Edward Murr 9780253062680
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life-from 1816 to 1830, ages 7 to 21-learning and growing in southwestern Indiana. Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely discussed... -
David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy by Nir Kedar 9780253057471
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £51.90In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar... -
A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self by Brian E. Gregor 9780253006714
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? In this provocative book, Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the... -
Applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning beyond the Individual Classroom by Jennifer C. Friberg 9780253042828
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39When the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) emerged, it often concentrated on individual faculty practice in one classroom; it is now, however, increasingly common to find work in SoTL... -
Presidents, Battles, and Must-See Civil War Destinations: Exploring a Kentucky Divided by Cameron M. Ludwick 9780253038975
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £42.60As a border state and strategic territory, Kentucky was fiercely contested by the Union and the Confederacy and had ties to both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Kentucky natives and adventure... -
![Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching" by Diana Arghirescu 9780253063687](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1955159/1954728/9780253063687__93616.1708281035.jpg?c=1 "Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching" by Diana Arghirescu 9780253063687")
Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Qisong's "Essays on Assisting the Teaching" by Diana Arghirescu 9780253063687
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42In Building Bridges between Chan Buddhism and Confucianism, Diana Arghirescu explores the close connections between Buddhism and Confucianism during China's Song period (960-1279). Drawing on In... -
Citizens without a City: Destruction and Despair after the L'Aquila Earthquake by Jan-Jonathan Bock 9780253058850
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14In 2009, after seismic tremors struck the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila, survivors were subjected to a "second earthquake"-invasive media attention and a relief effort that left them in a state... -
True to My God and Country by F Ouzan 9780253068262
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69True to My God and Country explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War. Patriotic Americans determined to fight,... -
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain by Daniela Flesler 9780253050120
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage... -
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater by Nina Penner 9780253049964
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner... -
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan 9780253051981
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a... -
Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd by John J. Stuhr 9780253018847
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside...