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Women Writing Culture by Ruth Behar
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.75In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How... -
Picadillo for Paulina Ruth Behar 9781324052418
Booksplease Price: £13.65Paulina has had the birthday of her dreams with the gift of a visit to an animal sanctuary and to make it even better, her whole family gathers for a celebratory dinner at Cocina de Nana. But when... -
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar 9780525516491
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.58Pura Belpre Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire... -
Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba by Ruth Behar
Booksplease Price: £36.92For fifty-five years U.S.-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and... -
Pepita Meets Bebita by Ruth Behar 9780593566992
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593566992Author Ruth BeharFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Pepita Meets Bebita by Ruth Behar 9780593566985
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593566985Author Ruth BeharFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar 9780593323403
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.71"As lyrical as it is epic, Across So Many Seas reminds us that while the past may be another country, it's also a living, breathing song of sadness and joy that helps define who we are." --Alan... -
Tia Fortuna's New Home by Ruth Behar 9780593172414
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593172414Author Ruth BeharFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar 9780593323427
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Spanning over five hundred years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their... -
Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys by Ruth Behar 9780822357209
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and... -
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it 'Hotel Cuba'. But as... -
The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World by Ruth Behar 9780230600768
Booksplease Price: £46.28Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching... -
The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World by Ruth Behar 9780230604773
Booksplease Price: £46.74Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching... -
Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys by Ruth Behar 9780822354673
Booksplease Price: £40.86Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and... -
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Tia Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth Behar
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593172421Author Ruth BeharFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Everything I Kept - Todo Lo Que Guarde by Ruth Behar 9780997228724
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries... -
Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estevez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigia by Ruth Behar 9781683401520
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Handmade in Cuba is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigia, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from simple supplies during some of Cuba's most dire economic periods... -
I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America by Stephen A. Sadow 9780826365781
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish,... -
Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora by Iraida H. Lopez 9780813061030
Booksplease Price: £65.11Since travel restrictions from the United States to Cuba began to ease, thousands of Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans have been able to reunite with family and visit their homeland. Yet the subject... -
Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriage by James M. Taggart
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Spanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. In this book James... -
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The "Prairie Schooner" Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing by Hilda Raz 9780803289710 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Bringing together a wide selection of contemporary poets, essayists, and fiction writers, this vivid collection demonstrates the continuing vitality of Jewish American writing. Featured are... -
Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society by Ellen Badone
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience... -
DIALOGIC EMERGENCE CULTURE by Dennis Tedlock 9780252064432
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Major figures in contemporary anthropology present a dialogic critique of ethnography. Moving beyond sociolinguistics and performance theory, and inspired by Bakhtin and by their own... -
Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora by Iraida H. Lopez 9780813064666
Booksplease Price: £23.03While the stories and resettlement patterns of Cubans who have left their home island have been widely documented, the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied. In this... -
Departing Radically in Academic Writing: Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research by Elizabeth Mackinlay 9781032419992
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) seeks to show qualitative researchers that there are ways to embrace creatively alternative approaches to writing, whilst fulfilling the demands of an... -
The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our... -
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Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader by Diane P. Freedman 9780822332008 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £8.77Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating... -
Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader by Diane P. Freedman 9780822332138
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating... -
On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories by Chris Baron 9781419767296
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95A joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover—from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators! Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for... -
Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay by Cristina Kirklighter 9780791454688
Booksplease Price: £25.65Scholarship on the personal essay has focused on Western European and U. S. varieties of the form. In Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay, Cristina Kirklighter extends these boundaries by... -
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore 9781803283814
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom... -
How Things Fall Apart: The Slow Death of the Cuban Revolution - An Oral History by Elizabeth Dore
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £16.96A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom... -
Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork by Fran Markowitz
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and... -
Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork by Fran Markowitz 9780253008565
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and... -
Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz by Mauricio A. Font 9780739109687
Booksplease Price: £44.31While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar... -
A Not So Perfect Start (The Caring Classroom, Book 1) Trudy Ludwig 9798217028672
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Welcome to The Caring Classroom! A new series that gives kids the building blocks they need to be a kind and caring person in the classroom and beyond, from a trusted expert in social development. In... -
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives... -
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women by Sandra Guzman 9780063052574
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist... -
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt 9781978806559
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.70The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives...