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Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy Samuel Farber (Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York) 9780745607917
Booksplease Price: $66.45This book provides an historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. Rather than an event-by-event description of this period, it... -
Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary by Espen Hammer
Booksplease Price: $78.75Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide--ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book Espen Hammer offers a lucid and thorough account... -
Being with Data: The Dashboarding of Everyday Life by Nathaniel Tkacz
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Once the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everything from how we perceive the value of a professional athlete to... -
When Disasters Come Home: Making and Manipulating Emergencies In The West by David Keen
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming home’ with a vengeance. From global warming to... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745610771
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general... -
Japan by Jeff Kingston 9781509525454
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.76Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful... -
The Political Economy of Inequality Frank Stilwell 9781509528646
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.66During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our... -
Security and Public Health Simon Rushton 9781509515899
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from... -
Wi-Fi by Julian Thomas 9781509529896
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79There are more Wi-Fi devices than humans. From cafe culture to home automation, remote community networks to smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely... -
The Colonialism of Human Rights: Ongoing Hypocrisies of Western Liberalism Colin Samson (University of Essex) 9781509529971
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples? This trenchant book brings human rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of... -
Faceworld by Marion Zilio 9781509537259
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our emotions and our doubts, our anger and joy. We have decorated... -
Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa by Robert Springborg 9781509535590
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.66Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates are comparatively unfavorable and insufficient to substantially improve citizens' lives. Whether this... -
Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms by Massimo Airoldi 9781509543274
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509543274Author Massimo AiroldiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
The Limits of Epistemology Markus Gabriel 9781509525676
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.56At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge... -
Land Sickness by N Schultz 9781509556120
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $33.63As a heat wave hits Paris, the author’s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. He can’t sleep because of the... -
We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle by Jean-Baptiste Vidalou 9781509556519
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $51.78From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or... -
Making the Heavens Speak – Religion as Poetry by P Sloterdijk 9781509547494
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly... -
Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by Maria Popova 9781509557363
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and... -
Bodies and Mobile Media by Ingrid Richardson 9781509549610
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.36Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication... -
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553778
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.38In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
Foreverism by Grafton Tanner 9781509558056
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.83What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or... -
Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy by Catherine Malabou 9781509555239
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.35Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It... -
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction by Cameron Parsell 9781509554492
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.89Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure.As Cameron Parsell shows,... -
Food in a Just World: Compassionate Eating in a Time of Climate Change by Tracey Harris 9781509554027
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is... -
The Sociology of Identity – Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility by Brekhus 9781509534807
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? Identity has... -
Recognition by Cillian McBride 9780745648477
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.31A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order. Everyone cares about recognition: no... -
Uranium by Anthony Burke 9780745670515
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.79Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power... -
Quantitative Marxism by Paul Dunne 9780745606477
Booksplease Price: $78.75This book seeks to establish a constructive and useful interaction between empirical data and research methods, on the one hand, and Marxist theory and analysis, on the other. It shows that it is... -
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose 9780745608181
Booksplease Price: $66.06Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its... -
Interpreting Political Responsibility: Essays 1981 - 1989 John M. Dunn (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745608280
Booksplease Price: $26.70The task of political theory is to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. The central theme of Interpreting Political... -
Trust by Russell Hardin 9780745624648
Booksplease Price: $72.41Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public... -
Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences by Ann Oakley 9780745622576
Booksplease Price: $34.31Experiments in Knowing explores the history, ideology and implications of different 'ways of knowing'.Book InformationISBN 9780745622576Author Ann OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Polity... -
Empires and Colonies by Jonathan Hart 9780745626130
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.63Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected... -
The Identity of Nations by Montserrat Guibernau 9780745626628
Booksplease Price: $72.41What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism... -
Aquinas by Ralph McInerny 9780745626864
Booksplease Price: $66.06This lively and highly accessible introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas focuses on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation.Book InformationISBN... -
Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction by Keith Negus 9780745613185
Booksplease Price: $25.43Popular Music in Theory provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. This book is organized in a way that shows how popular... -
What Is Globalization? by Ulrich Beck 9780745621258
Booksplease Price: $72.41This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.Book InformationISBN 9780745621258Author Ulrich BeckFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Moral Questions: An Introduction to Ethics Jon Nuttall (Director of Studies, St.) 9780745610405
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.Book InformationISBN 9780745610405Author Jon NuttallFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint... -
On Ethnography by Sarah Daynes 9780745685595
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $59.99In turn creative thinker and street flaneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher... -
Digital War Reporting by Donald Matheson 9780745642758
Booksplease Price: $66.06Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the same time,...