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Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City by Barbara E. Thornbury 9781498523677
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £28.51Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination-novels, short stories, poetry,... -
The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis aemulus and the Invention of Cicero by William H. F. Altman 9781498527118
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £59.11Less than two years before his murder, Cicero created a catalogue of his philosophical writings that included dialogues he had written years before, numerous recently completed works, and even one he... -
Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church: Perspectives on Decline and Reformation by Debra Meyers
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary... -
Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope by Christina M. Gschwandtner
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £82.66Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope creates a dialogue between Ricoeur's hermeneutic philosophy and the interpretation of human ritual practices. In the first part of... -
The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins by Anny Morissette
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors' political resistance to the Canadian... -
The Byzantine Warrior Hero: Cypriot Folk Songs as History and Myth, 965-1571 by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have left their long-term imprint on Cypriot culture. One... -
Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis by Stefan Mertens
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £31.66The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining... -
Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women's Literature: Imagining Home by Fang Tang
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and 'home' in contemporary diasporic Chinese women's literature. It argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of... -
Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China by Simon Shen
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.13Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the... -
The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism: Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical Thought by David Black
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £80.53Alfred Sohn-Rethel located the origin of philosophical abstraction in the "false conciousness" brought about by the new money economy of Greek Antiquity. In the Enlightenment the conceptual... -
Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty: Funny Looking by Tanya Gonzalez
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £27.90Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty: Funny Looking expands the vista of critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on mainstream television from an interdisciplinary Latina/o... -
Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities by Siobhan Brooks
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.95In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks argues that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the products of institutions and... -
Seinfeld and the Comic Vision by Whitley Kaufman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51Seinfeld and the Comic Vision analyzes the television situation comedy Seinfeld to form a theory of comedy-the comic vision-arguing that comedy should not be seen merely as entertainment, but... -
Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without by Ramon Grosfoguel
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.75An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain... -
Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities by Mona El Khoury
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £94.71At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of... -
Grappling with Representation in the WWE: Exploring Issues of Diversity and Inclusion in World Wrestling Entertainment by Lowery A. Woodall III
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £77.95In this book, Lowery A. Woodall III explores the ways that diverse populations are portrayed, stereotyped, and sometimes villainized in the WWE's colorful and dramatic programming. Each chapter... -
Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature by Elizabeth Rich 9781793644831
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature examines historiographic metafiction's epistemological concern with the historical document. The six texts... -
The Rohingya Crisis: Analyses, Responses, and Peacebuilding Avenues by Kawser Ahmed 9781498585743
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £94.71Since August 2017, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's security forces, have conducted clearance operations in the Rakhine State, driving a mass exodus of ethnic Rohingyas to neighboring Bangladesh. In The... -
The Political Economy of Economic Performance: Sub-Saharan Africa before the Global Recession and the Way Forward by Voxi Heinrich Amavilah 9781498597838
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £67.62Extant research continues to perpetuate a myth of Sub-Saharan African countries (SSACs) as ever stuck in the past and with incurable growth maladies. However, during the years just before the great... -
Cameroon-Nigeria Relations: Trends and Perspectives by Osita Agbu 9781793635945
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £89.54Cameroon-Nigeria Relations: Trends and Perspectives, edited by Osita Agbu and C. Nna-Emeka Okereke, examines various aspects of Cameroon-Nigeria relations since their attainment of independence in... -
Financial Systems, Central Banking and Monetary Policy During COVID-19 Pandemic and After by Cagatay Basarir 9781793645555
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51The book makes an effort in investigating the present and future developments in the financial system, after the COVID-19 Pandemic. The effects of health issues and epidemic diseases influencing the... -
Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play by Florence M. Chee 9781793601391
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £59.99Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play is a critical ethnographic investigation of media discourses surrounding online game addiction and the sociocultural roles fulfilled by games in... -
Inclusive Instruction for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Pulling Back the Curtain by John William McKenna 9781498596428
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51Inclusive Instruction and Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Pulling Back the Curtain discusses the challenges of the increasingly common practice of educating students with... -
De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics by Shinsuke Eguchi 9781498588225
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £95.31De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research... -
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government: Voices for a Revolution by Natália Ayo Schmiedecke 9781793622853
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £64.18Polyphonic Revolution focuses on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73).Seeking to map such a debate to situate the discourses and artistic... -
Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology by Molefi Kete Asante 9781793628923
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £71.06Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a critical analysis of the ideas of Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies. Molefe Asante... -
Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change by Paul Fairfield 9781793614810
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change addresses the question of whether there is a logic of historical change, and whether the collapse of teleology should deter us from inquiring... -
Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead by Robert Leigh Davis 9781793626288
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12Playful Wisdom: American Literature and Ludic Faith, from Walden to Gilead examines how Henry David Thoreau’s thinking about religious “play” created a theological legacy in American literature, one... -
Survival of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Making it Happen by Edward Fort 9781498515504
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.05Survival of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities as edited by North Carolina A&T State University Chancellor Emeritus Edward Fort, conceptualizes the strategies, strategic planning... -
Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History: A Comparative Perspective by Jan Zahorik 9781498536417
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51The book deals with historical, social, economic, political, and international causes, contexts, and consequences of inequalities and conflicts in Africa. In particular, the book is to puts conflicts... -
Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials: Rethinking Victimhood by Cecilia Macon 9781498510387
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £65.90The origin of Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials: Rethinking Victimhood can be found in the resistance that, using a traditional feminist perspective, alleges that... -
Human, All Too (Post)Human: The Humanities after Humanism by Jennifer Cotter 9781498505734
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12The contemporary has marked itself off from modernity by questioning its humanism that centers the world around the human as the moral subject of free will and self-determination, the bearer of... -
The Gamma Paradoxes: An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics by Jeremy Kirby 9781498540360
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debates (or paradoxes as he refers to them) such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the... -
Bill Ratliff: A Profile of Courage and Leadership in American Politics by Robert Edward Sterken 9781498546935
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.60Lt. Governor Bill Ratliff is an engineer, a widely respected senator, and according to Caroline Kennedy he is "an inspiration to all who serve in government, and to all Americans." Senator... -
Identity and Social Networks: A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in the United States by Cynthia Baiqing Zhang 9781498546577
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51Through in-depth interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang explores how identity and social network influence each other and how identity shapes behavior... -
The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective by Chia Yin Hsu 9781498505925
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £77.49In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present... -
Dwight Eisenhower and American Foreign Policy during the 1960s: An American Lion in Winter by Richard M. Filipink 9781498506816
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Dwight Eisenhower had a measurable impact on the foreign policy decisions of his Democratic successors during the 1960s due to his reputation as a military and foreign policy expert as well as his... -
Improving the Viability and Perception of HBCUs by Comfort O. Okpala 9781498578646
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.20This book offers an examination of the development of HBCUs and their role in higher education. Chapters in the volume analyze the contemporary role of HBCUs through several lenses, including... -
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction by Jill E. Anderson 9781498580571
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.12Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and "nature" interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities... -
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean by Ronnie Shepard 9781498572842
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £74.51Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean takes a multilayered approach to the contemporary peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the...