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One Marriage Under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America by Melanie Heath
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible... -
Frederick Law Olmstead: The Passion of a Public Artist by Melvin Kalfus
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Frederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work... -
She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn by Oneka LaBennett
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £12.29Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being "at risk" for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted... -
Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art by Susette Min
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its... -
Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding by Gregory J. Snyder
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a "heel... -
Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism by Brian Hoffman
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had... -
The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical Tradition by Ibn Khaldūn
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldun applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a... -
Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power by Travis Linnemann
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly... -
Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion by Judah Schept
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award An examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass... -
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature by Jonathan Ben-Dov
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £44.11Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990s, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but... -
A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar M. Pinsker
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.42Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book Council Winner, 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and... -
Essential Legal English in Context: Understanding the Vocabulary of US Law and Government by Karen M. Ross
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2019 Global Legal Skills Book Award, given by the Global Legal Skills Conference An essential handbook for international lawyers and students Focusing on vocabulary, Essential Legal... -
Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America by C. Winter Han
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal-the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated... -
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited... -
Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition): A Primer by Nancy Levit
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal... -
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System by Duncan Kennedy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was... -
The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Steven T. Katz
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.40An in-depth analysis of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, from its origins in the 20th century to its resurgence today The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905,... -
North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria by Michael Menachem Laskier
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.85Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply... -
Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times by Roopali Mukherjee
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Buying (RED) products-from Gap T-shirts to Apple-to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global... -
Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement by Sara Fanning
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £32.86Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds with other nations. Haiti's first leaders... -
Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Ideology, and the Crisis of Morality by Laurence J. Silberstein
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In recent decades, religious fundamentalism has played an increasingly significant role in Western and Middle Eastern politics and culture. In this volume, an international group of scholars from... -
Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception by Janet Staiger
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge... -
Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg by Steven Elliott Tripp
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class... -
Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries by Karen Tongson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality,... -
Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America by Andrew Lyndon Knighton
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and "gentlemen of refinement" capturing the imagination o fa country that was... -
Getting Over Equality: A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America by Steven D. Smith
Booksplease Price: £90.57Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur... -
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While... -
Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Steven H. Jaffe
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.33Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the... -
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many... -
Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Booksplease Price: £56.56Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of... -
Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad by Tahera Qutbuddin
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.00Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, wielding an authority second only to the Qur'an. The words of Muhammad (d. 11/632), God's messenger and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his... -
Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome by Alison Piepmeier
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices When Alison Piepmeier-scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down... -
Asian American Sporting Cultures by Stanley I. Thangaraj
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American sporting... -
An Oasis City by Roger S. Bagnall
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt's Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells... -
Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change by Leela Fernandes
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £16.96A rich set of feminist perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures, and ideologies Growing socio-economic inequality and exclusion are defining features... -
Mission to the Volga by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north... -
The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education by Arthur Austin
Booksplease Price: £90.57Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The most... -
Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II by Craig R. Prentiss
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the... -
Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia by Larry Davidson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48An essential volume for improving understanding of the recovery process for people diagnosed with schizophrenia Schizophrenia is widely considered the most severe and disabling of the mental... -
Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748 by Steven C. Eames
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with...