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Peter Bagge: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496809742
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36For fans of Peter Bagge (b. 1957) and his bracing satirical writing and drawing, this collection offers a perfect means to track how he describes his career choices, work habits, preoccupations, and... -
Peter Bagge: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781628462043
Booksplease Price: £99.43For fans of Peter Bagge (b. 1957) and his bracing satirical writing and drawing, this collection offers a perfect means to track how he describes his career choices, work habits, preoccupations, and... -
Peter Kuper: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496818454
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including... -
Peter Kuper: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496808370
Booksplease Price: £105.05Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including... -
C.L.R. James: A Political Biography by Kent Worcester 9780791427521
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791427521Author Kent WorcesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint -
A Cultural History of The Punisher: Marvel Comics and the Politics of Vengeance by Kent Worcester 9781789388459
RRP: £99.95Booksplease Price: £93.72If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Kent... -
A Cultural History of The Punisher: Marvel Comics and the Politics of Vengeance by Kent Worcester 9781789388589
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.34If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Kent... -
Violence and Politics: Globalization's Paradox by Kenton Worcestor 9780415931113
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Violence and Politics points out a paradox of contemporary political violence: it appears to be growing in scope and complexity even in this era of unprecedented democratic and economic growth. ... -
The Superhero Reader by Charles Hatfield 9781617038020
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £75.14Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book... -
The Superhero Reader by Charles Hatfield 9781617038068
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book... -
A Comics Studies Reader by Jeet Heer 9781604731095
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.56A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books,... -
Third Camp Socialism by Phyllis Jacobson 9798888907917
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Third Camp Socialism collects Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's major writings on civil rights, Stalinism, the Cold War, and the New York Intellectuals. The Jacobsons advanced a militant, small-d... -
Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman by Georgiana Banita 9781496837516
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beinecke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and... -
Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics by Richard Davis 9780195373769
Booksplease Price: £71.75The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played... -
Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics by Richard Davis 9780195373752
Booksplease Price: £29.51The power of political blogs in American politics is now evident to anyone who follows it. In Typing Politics, Richard Davis provides a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the growing role played... -
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium by Jeet Heer 9781578066872
Booksplease Price: £23.03When Art Spiegelman's Maus-a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust-won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of ""serious"" comics has... -
Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman by Georgiana Banita 9781496837509
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beinecke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and... -
Caricature and National Character: The United States at War by Christopher J. Gilbert 9780271089768
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £69.60According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to... -
Labour's Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership by Patrick Seyd 9780198273585
Booksplease Price: £22.48Who belongs to the Labour Party and why? What are their opinions about politics and society, or about the 'new model' party of Neil Kinnock? After the electoral debacle of 1983 the Labour... -
Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque Eli Valley 9781682193877
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.98Museum of Degenerates is a lush showcase of Eli Valley's critically-acclaimed art capturing America in a state of ongoing cataclysm and making the provocative case that the entire political class has... -
In The Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain by Desmond King 9780198296294
Booksplease Price: £65.73Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United... -
Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure Jamie Brassett 9781032065267
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.47A relevant book, given the presence of superheroes as an everyday, culturally dominant phenomenaThis book brings a popular genre, i.e., the superhero comic, in conversation with a rigorous... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.28In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353034
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which... -
Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer 9780813520179
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60In this sympathetic history of a maligned decade, Marty Jezer, a fellow antiwar activist, details Abbie Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, & above all, his incurable... -
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Hogsbjerg 9780822356127
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the... -
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Hogsbjerg
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the... -
Wobblies: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle
Booksplease Price: £26.38The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the... -
The Visual Narrative Reader by Dr Neil Cohn 9781472585592
Booksplease Price: £39.69Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics... -
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped... -
The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images. by Neil Cohn
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £35.29Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this...