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Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics by Amahl A. Bishara
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-and news coverage itself is always a subject of debate. But rarely do these debates incorporate an on-the-ground... -
Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In. An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics by Brian Rotman
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The... -
Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning by Peter Schwenger
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination-all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements... -
James Joyce's Judaic Other by Marilyn Reizbaum
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce's writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This... -
The New Institutionalism in Sociology by Mary C. Brinton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Institutions play a pivotal role in structuring economic and social transactions, and understanding the foundations of social norms, networks, and beliefs within institutions is crucial to explaining... -
AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation by Ranu Samantrai
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a... -
Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction by Michael Naas
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. It... -
The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy by Ian Balfour
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and, to a lesser extent, classical oracle again became viable models for poetry and even... -
Why Internet Porn Matters by Margret Grebowicz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and... -
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan by Larry Diamond
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies. Numerous works deal with... -
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act by David C. Mowery
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among other authorities, have... -
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map by Kirsten A. Seaver
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since-in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a... -
Village Governance in North China: 1875-1936 by Huaiyin Li
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices... -
Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer by Gary D. Libecap
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In the contemporary West, pressures to more effectively reallocate water to meet growing urban and environmental demands are increasing as environmental awareness grows and climate change threatens... -
Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America by Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin America. Many people have not only called for harsher... -
The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models by J. G. Manning
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very... -
The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis by Jacob Rogozinski
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Is our ego but an illusion, a mere appearance produced by a reality that is foreign to us? Is it the main source of violence and injustice? Jacob Rogozinski calls into question these prejudices that... -
Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia by Edward Aspinall
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and... -
In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Douglas Biow
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the... -
Re-Figuring Hayden White by Frank Ankersmit
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature... -
Theological Tractates by Erik Peterson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The essays in Theological Tractates were published between 1925 and 1937, during which time Erik Peterson converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. They deal with a range of theological... -
Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi by Erica Bornstein
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on... -
Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson by Jonathan Brody Kramnick
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In... -
Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases by Edward Hess
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management challenges that... -
Paris, 1200 by John Baldwin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclose the new, larger limits of the city. Pope Innocent... -
Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ian Crowe
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Patriotism and Public Spirit is an innovative study of the formative influences shaping the early writings of the Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke and an early case-study of the relationship... -
The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars by Joshua C. Wilson
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social... -
In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 by Vincent Lemire
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its narrow... -
Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Flowers That Kill is an impressive, wide-ranging feat of scholarship that illuminates a fascinating topic: the capacity of flowers to shift imperceptibly... -
The Freudian Subject by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This masterly book will be indispensable to all future discussions of Freud."-Jean-Luc NancyBook InformationISBN 9780804718394Author Mikkel... -
Profits, Priests, and Princes: Adam Smith's Emancipation of Economics from Politics and Religion by Peter Minowitz
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804721660Author Peter MinowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University... -
The Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautreamont by Suzanne Guerlac
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804717861Author Suzanne GuerlacFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American... -
The Modern Condition: Essays at Century's End by Dennis Hume Wrong
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In this collection, a leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late... -
Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture by George K. Behlmer
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27This volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. Today, at the beginning of a new millennium, the mass media would have us believe that Britain is suffering an identity... -
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic... -
Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities by Mitchell J. Chang
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the... -
Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming by Roger V. Des Forges
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government... -
Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community by Yong Chen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese traveling between the Old World and the New, San...