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The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859 by Charles Darwin
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.85Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and... -
The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship by Frederick E. Greenspahn
Booksplease Price: $190.20In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, "Doubting the Story of the Exodus." It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation... -
Visualizing Atrocity: Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness by Valerie Hartouni
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $108.38Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths... -
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $146.77How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today's ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control... -
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94Tony Judt provides a sharp and intellectual ideological description of mid-twentieth century French intellectuals "Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually... -
Passions and Emotions: NOMOS LIII by James E. Fleming
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.19Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended... -
Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production by Lisa Helen Henderson
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Love and Money argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and... -
Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader by Adrien Katherine Wing
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.85The first anthology to collect essays focusing on the legal rights of women of color around the world Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights... -
Ethnicity and Group Rights: Nomos XXXIX by Ian Shapiro
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.85Within Western political philosophy, the rights of groups has often been neglected or addressed in only the narrowest fashion. Focusing solely on whether rights are exercised by individuals or groups... -
From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era by Elliott Robert Barkan
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22The United States is once again in the midst of a peak period of immigration. By 2005, more than 35 million legal and illegal migrants were present in the United States. At different rates and with... -
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present by Dennis Tyler
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled... -
Multiracial Parents: Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race by Miri Song
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents The world's multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is... -
Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India by Daisy Deomampo
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one of the top providers of... -
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $135.28Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader... -
The Book of Travels: Volume One by Ḥannā Diyāb
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.12The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of... -
Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy by Laura Harrison
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors -... -
Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern
Booksplease Price: $60.00The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents... -
TechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life by Alondra Nelson
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22The cultural impact of new information and communication technologies has been a constant topic of debate, but questions of race and ethnicity remain a critical absence. TechniColor fills this gap by... -
Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear by Aaron Kupchik
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today's high schools. You will also find new and... -
Alienated: Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America by Victor C. Romero
Booksplease Price: $108.84Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a "legitimate" proxy... -
Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music by Robin Sylvan
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22"Sylvan's thesis furnishes far more of the same valued experiences than is usually realized: ritual activity, communal ceremony, a philosophy and worldview, a code for living one's life, a cultural... -
Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship by Edlie L. Wong
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured... -
Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System by Corinne C. Datchi
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $135.28Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system. Women and girls' contact with... -
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men by Jane Ward
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $146.14A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight-her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight... -
Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror by Ben Herzog
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Reveals America's long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship... -
The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community by Jeffrey S. Gurock
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that "on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is... -
Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution by Emeric Bergeaud
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti's fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism. Set during the years of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Stella... -
The Conflict and Culture Reader by Pat K. Chew
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08Culture is the lens through which we make sense of the world. In any conflict, from petty disputes to wars between nation-states, the players invariably view that conflict through the filter of their... -
Democratic Community: Nomos XXXV by John W. Chapman
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. --American Political Science Review A... -
Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law by Ruth Colker
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not. In recent years, however,... -
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism by Seth Forman
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman... -
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Volume Two by Abu al-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali Ibn al-Jawzi
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $77.07Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith-the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds-is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Hanbal's piety and austerity... -
Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications by Adrian Raine
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22A concise overview of the neuropsychology of psychopathy, written in layman's terms The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in biological research on psychopathy, a mental disorder... -
Mahabharata Book Twelve (Volume 3): Peace Part Two: The Book of Liberation by Alex Wynne
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30The Book of Liberation is perhaps the most enigmatic philosophical text from ancient India. Presented as the teachings of Bhishma as he lies dying on the battlefield, after the epic war between the... -
Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture by Frances Negron-Muntaner
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negron-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved... -
No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom by Cary Nelson
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $121.51The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem... -
Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body by Beverly Yuen Thompson
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $146.14A small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade-among the women who make up the twenty percent of all adults in the USA who... -
The Measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience by Professor Kristen Lewis
Booksplease Price: $191.88The Measure of America, 2010-2011, is the definitive report on the overall well-being of all Americans. How are Americans doing-compared to one another and compared to the rest of the world? This... -
The Recognition of Shakuntala by Kalidasa
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.25This play was one of the first examples of Indian literature to be seen in Europe; it attracted considerable attention (among others, from Goethe), and indeed pained surprise that such a... -
Essential Papers on Countertransference by Benjamin Wolstein
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08A carefully selected volume tracing the development of countertransference-the emotional reaction of an analyst to their subject In Essential Papers on Countertransference, Benjamin Wolstein has...