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Bees of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Laurence Packer
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.80A beautifully illustrated introduction to the incredible variety of bees from around the worldWhen many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects... -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.47Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most... -
Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.39Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness,... -
Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly by John Quiggin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that... -
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the... -
Honors Calculus by Charles R. MacCluer
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $71.83This is the first modern calculus book to be organized axiomatically and to survey the subject's applicability to science and engineering. A challenging exposition of calculus in the European style,... -
Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition by Douglas A. Irwin
Booksplease Price: $27.75Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as... -
Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance by Mary W. Helms
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.77What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and... -
Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.31Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of... -
Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still by Dan Diner
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41Lost in the Sacred poses questions about the Muslim world that no other book by a Western writer has dared to ask. Focusing on the Arab Middle East, Dan Diner asks what caused the Muslim world to lag... -
Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment by David Pedulla
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.22An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations... -
Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Emilee Chapman
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.23An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central... -
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $82.81Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of... -
Harmonic Analysis (PMS-43), Volume 43: Real-Variable Methods, Orthogonality, and Oscillatory Integrals. (PMS-43) by Elias M. Stein
RRP: $193.50Booksplease Price: $154.28This book contains an exposition of some of the main developments of the last twenty years in the following areas of harmonic analysis: singular integral and pseudo-differential operators, the theory... -
Mathematics for Physics and Physicists by Walter Appel
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $108.42What can a physicist gain by studying mathematics? By gathering together everything a physicist needs to know about mathematics in one comprehensive and accessible guide, this is the question... -
Physics for the Inquiring Mind: The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science by Eric M. Rogers
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $81.77In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of... -
The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events by Louise K. Comfort
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and... -
Tantra in Practice by David Gordon White
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.36As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and... -
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $94.56W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after... -
The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World by Paul Sterry
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.48A personal account of-and guide to-unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland BritainOver the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has... -
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their... -
The Essential Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.35A comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard’s writings that offers an unmatched introduction to one of the most original and influential modern philosophersThis is the most comprehensive anthology of... -
Color Charts: A History by Anne Varichon 9780691255170
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.25A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized... -
Essays on the Great Depression by Ben S. Bernanke 9780691254135
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic... -
Prickly Moses: Poems by Simon West 9780691250595
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.78Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of... -
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor by J. E. Gordon 9780691180984
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.78J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions about how the structural world around us works. Gordon... -
Zanzibar: Background to Revolution by Michael F. Lofchie
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15This book gives a detailed analysis of the causes of the revolution of January 1964 in Zanzibar, and provides a study of the process of modernization in a plural society. Originally published in... -
Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky 9780691136721
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.78What ever happened to privacy? The simple right to be left alone? Surveillance cameras track our movements. Governments monitor our phone calls, e-mails, and Internet habits. Insurance companies know... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.85A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Liberal Nationalism by Yael Tamir 9780691001746
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15"This is a most timely, intelligent, well-written, and absorbing essay on a central and painful social and political problem of out time."--Sir Isaiah Berlin "The major achievement of... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of... -
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 42: April 7-June 23, 1917 by Woodrow Wilson 9780691046921
RRP: $188.34Booksplease Price: $150.30As this volume begins, the United States has just entered the World War and Wilson and his administration face the awesome task of mobilization. Making the undertaking more difficult is the German... -
Aurora Americana: Poems by Myronn Hardy 9780691250571
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.95From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the... -
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis by Caroline Levine 9780691250816
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $85.63An argument that humanists have the tools—and the responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars... -
Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services by Kelley Fong 9780691235714
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.35How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services... -
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability by Justin Grimmer 9780691162614
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $101.42Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions--even though those very choices have a pervasive influence on American life. Why does this happen?... -
Luxury Fever: Weighing the Cost of Excess by Robert H. Frank 9780691146935
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41The turn of the twenty-first century witnessed a spectacular rise in gross consumption. With the super-rich setting the pace, everyone spent furiously in a desperate attempt to keep up. As cars and... -
Competition Policy and Price Fixing by Louis Kaplow 9780691158624
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $62.33Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes...