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Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic by Frank Klaassen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.05This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses... -
Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars by Matthew Restall
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony-with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as... -
Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice by Albert W. Dzur
Booksplease Price: £32.96Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with... -
Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being by David Farrell Krell
Booksplease Price: £37.39Heidegger's thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism,... -
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran by Bruce McComiskey 9780271090160
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.35Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood... -
Caricature and National Character: The United States at War by Christopher J. Gilbert 9780271089768
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £69.60According to a popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Christopher Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political... -
Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience by Briana L. Wong 9780271095479
Booksplease Price: £92.77The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community. In this book, Briana L... -
Pennsylvania Government and Politics: Understanding Public Policy in the Keystone State by Thomas J. Baldino 9780271096797
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.33This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Keystone State’s formal and informal political institutions and players, past and present, and elucidates the place each holds in governing the... -
Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden: Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric by Kyle Jensen 9780271092935
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new... -
Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque Sharon Larson 9780271094458
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.76This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France’s Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon... -
Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture by Jeffrey M. Makala 9780271094045
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.03First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping—the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type—fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed... -
Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School by Natasha Ruiz-Gómez 9780271096803
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £69.60In this book, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez delves into an extraordinary collection of pathological drawings, photographs, sculptures, and casts created by neurologists at Paris’s Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in... -
Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia by Suzanne E. Tallichet 9780271029047
Booksplease Price: £31.89Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain,... -
David Franks: Colonial Merchant by Mark Abbott Stern 9780271030982
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.63David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates not... -
Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities by Karen Olson 9780271026855
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £48.25During its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point near Baltimore was one of the world’s largest steel plants, employing as many as 30,000 workers. But these glory... -
Legalizing Transnational Activism: The Struggle to Gain Social Change from NAFTA's Citizen Petitions by Jonathan Graubart 9780271033624
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £41.20The integration of national economies through the ongoing process that has come to be known as globalization has stirred much controversy, including outright resistance by activists who are concerned... -
Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics by Peggy Z. Brand 9780271013404
RRP: £95.99Booksplease Price: £90.86This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the... -
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture by Christopher Collins 9780271029931
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.60Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share... -
Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good by Julia J. Bartkowiak 9780271018874
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.60As the term "family values" achieves prominence in the rhetoric of political debate, the social issues at the heart of today's political controversies deserve to be studied in depth. This volume... -
Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia: With Biographical Remarks by William Brotherhead 9780271027531
Booksplease Price: £28.53Published in 1891, Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia contains the memoirs of William Brotherhead, a dealer in old and rare books. This remarkable volume offers valuable insights... -
Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France by Tracy Adams 9780271064574
Booksplease Price: £31.85In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine's works within a... -
Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent by Ronald E. Santoni 9780271023007
Booksplease Price: £41.85From "Materialism and Revolution" (1946) through Hope Now (1980), Jean-Paul Sartre was deeply engaged with questions about the meaning and justifiability of violence. In the first comprehensive... -
A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh by Kenneth J. Heineman 9780271028866
Booksplease Price: £44.03Our popular image of the era of the Great Depression is one of bread lines, labor wars, and leftist firebrands. Absent from this picture are religiously motivated social reformers, notably Catholic... -
Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy by Christopher Mitchell 9780271026107
Booksplease Price: £37.39This book adds a wealth of new data on the political significance of inter-American migration, through case studies of the policies of population flows from Cuba, Central America, Haiti, the... -
Freedom's Embrace by J.Melvin Woody 9780271030319
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.92To be free is to escape all limitations and obstacles-or so we think at first. But if we probe further, we discover that freedom embraces its own necessities, a set of conditions without which it... -
Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration by Richard N. Juliani 9780271028644
Booksplease Price: £44.33Philadelphia's first Italian immigrants arrived in the mid-eighteenth century. Artists and scholars, tradesmen and entrepreneurs, they established a new community-one of the first "Little Italies" in... -
The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780271032283
Booksplease Price: £32.96Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways... -
Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico by Miguel Angel Centeno 9780271023908
Booksplease Price: £37.39During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under... -
The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System by Wynne Wright 9780271032757
Booksplease Price: £32.96"One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family... -
Reflections on Time and Politics by 9780271033952
Booksplease Price: £32.96Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the ""death of philosophy"" and the ""death of the subject"" to consider more positively how philosophy can be practiced and the human... -
The Mountain by Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson 9780271036434
Booksplease Price: £37.69The Mountain is R. M. S. Jackson's intriguing work on the benefits of a life attuned to nature. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Jackson, a doctor and health enthusiast from Cambria... -
Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America by Allen M. Hornblum 9780271058757
Booksplease Price: £28.72From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist... -
Serious Nonsense: Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage by William W. Donner 9780271071183
Booksplease Price: £30.73Versammlinge—community events filled with songs, performances, speeches, and skits that celebrate Pennsylvania German heritage and culture—are held entirely in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch... -
The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures: Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP by R. Michael Stewart 9780271070957
Booksplease Price: £28.92Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw... -
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 by Rosemary Moore
Booksplease Price: £31.85Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light... -
The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions,... -
Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France by Christine Adams
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.46This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three... -
Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating by Emily E. Stelzer 9780271081007
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £64.70Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve's sin as one of gluttony-and the evidence for Milton's adaptation of this... -
Caricature and National Character: The United States at War by Christopher J. Gilbert 9780271089775
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.49According 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... -
The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death by Carlos A. Jauregui 9780271025131
Booksplease Price: £28.21Michael de Carvajal's fascinating and unusual play-published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557-is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World. It is a long-ignored...