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Hannah Arendt: An Introduction by John McGowan 9780816630707
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24An informative and lively book about one of the foremost political thinkers of our time.Hannah Arendt was one of this century's leading political theorists and most controversial public intellectuals... -
Do-it-yourself Workshop by John McGowan 9781844767557
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This book contains all the necessary information on basic tools and materials that the do-it-yourself enthusiast will need. It begins with a section on tools and techniques, which covers the basic... -
American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time by John McGowan 9780807885079
Booksplease Price: £58.61Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal... -
Stepping Up!: Discover the Power of Your Position by John Mcgowan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Where you serve today can become where you lead tomorrow... No matter your current position, God will unlock the power for you to reach your incredible potential. The key is to approach all you do... -
Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics by John McGowan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.21How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of... -
American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time by John McGowan 9780807861806
Booksplease Price: £38.07This title presents a citizen's working definition of liberalism. What are the basic values and commitments of American liberals? John McGowan sets out to answer that question in this lively and... -
Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy by John McGowan 9780816679041
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism can be an inspiring... -
Stepping Up!: Discover the Power of Your Position by John Mcgowan 9781546010050
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Pastor Johnny McGowan has been SERVING UP for many years, first as the aide to Lakewood founder John Osteen, and now to Lakewood lead pastor Joel Osteen. Throughout his experience, Pastor Johnny has... -
Do-it-Yourself: A Complete Beginner's Home Improvement Manual by John McGowan 9781844767250
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In this work, over 800 colour photographs and diagrams show you how to do every decorating task and project around the house with complete confidence. It offers expert advice on essential home... -
Do-It-Yourself: Home decorating, repairs, maintenance: a complete practical guide to home improvement by John McGowan 9780754834946
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.15This comprehensive how-to manual covers all the information you need to maintain and improve your house or apartment, with detailed instructions and helpful hints and tips from expert authors to... -
Complete Do-it-Yourself: An Essential Guide to Painting, Papering, Tiling, Flooring, Woodwork, Shelves and Storage, Home Repairs, Home Insulation, Outdoor Projects and Outdoor Repairs by John McGowan 9780754828693
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05This title offers expert advice on essential home decoration and maintenance, including painting, papering, tiling, laying floors, carpentry skills, insulation, and outdoor projects and repairs... -
A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis by Bruno Dallago
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity of problems in the region, revealing the... -
How to Survive in Social Work by Neil Thompson 9781839978074
Booksplease Price: £22.91Social worker. You're a helping hand, a rock in the tempest, a friendly face through the hard times, and a catalyst for change. But what about you? How do you keep going when the pressure just keeps... -
Crises in Europe in the Transatlantic Context: Economic and Political Appraisals by Bruno Dallago
Booksplease Price: £110.39The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point. This book analyzes in an interdisciplinary way the fundamental causes of distress, making sure to relate... -
Crises in Europe in the Transatlantic Context: Economic and Political Appraisals by Bruno Dallago 9780367668983
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point. This book analyzes in an interdisciplinary way the fundamental causes of distress, making sure to relate... -
Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century by John Kucich 9780816633241
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A foundational look at contemporary uses of the Victorian and the presence of the past in postmodern culture.Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels... -
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics by Craig Calhoun 9780816629176
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Eminent contributors consider what Hannah Arendt means in today's public debates.Is politics really nothing more than power relations, competing interests and claims for recognition, conflicting... -
Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies by Donald E. Hall 9780252069611
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Sometimes playful, always provocative, Professions is a collection of searching and candid conversations--ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes--on the issues that face literary and... -
Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as... -
Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity by Jeffrey T. Nealon 9780822321453
Booksplease Price: £31.21In conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In Alterity Politics... -
Hiding from History: Politics and Public Imagination by Meili Steele
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.24In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history... -
Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism by Pelagia Goulimari
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts,... -
Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joseph Margolis
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.84In contemporary philosophical debates in the United States "redefining pragmatism" has become the conventional way to flag significant philosophical contests and to launch large conceptual and... -
The Left at War by Michael Berube
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left-partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful... -
The Left at War by Michael Berube 9780814799840
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £37.81The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left-partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful... -
Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder by Michele Pierson 9780231125635
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood... -
Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism by Jeffrey T Nealon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin's speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown... -
Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning by Timothy W. Galow 9780230112711
Booksplease Price: £46.74Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary"... -
Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application by James F. Manwell 9780470015001
RRP: £77.95Booksplease Price: £75.32Wind energy's bestselling textbook- fully revised. This must-have second edition includes up-to-date data, diagrams, illustrations and thorough new material on: the fundamentals of wind turbine... -
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is... -
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch
Booksplease Price: £56.68The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,... -
Imaginative Experience in the Arts: Promoting Liberal Education Charles Altieri 9781350526655
Booksplease Price: £85.95In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive aspects of our encounters with... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198829454
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £68.73This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to... -
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value by James F. English 9780674030435
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198886440
Booksplease Price: £27.27This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to... -
The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.38This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more... -
Anti-Racist Practice Neil Thompson 9781041131236
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This newly expanded and updated edition of Anti-Racism for Beginners offers guidance for engagement with anti-racism and anti-racist practices in interdisciplinary areas, from social work, healthcare... -
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780691255545
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life-and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your...