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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy 9780804797610
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about... -
The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin by David Assaf 9780804744683
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £62.07This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin... -
The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought by Zachary Braiterman
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57The Shape of Revelation explores the overlap between revelation and aesthetic form from the perspective of Judaism. It does so by setting the Jewish philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig... -
No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941 by Willy Cohn
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £52.69With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social Democrat, show how the process of marginalization under the Nazis unfolded within the vibrant Jewish community of Breslau-until... -
Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France by Julia Elsky
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a... -
The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.90S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive... -
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Race and Political Theology by Vincent W. Lloyd 9780804773140 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80In this volume, senior scholars come together to explore how Jewish and African American experiences can make us think differently about the nexus of religion and politics, or political theology... -
![The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization by Ariel C. Armony 9780804748988 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484926/10518774/9780804748988__31308.1768985959.jpg?c=1 "The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization by Ariel C. Armony 9780804748988 [USED COPY]")
The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization by Ariel C. Armony 9780804748988 [USED COPY]
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £5.09It is often argued that civic activity, such as the participation of average citizens in voluntary associations, benefits all democracies. But sometimes the involvement of citizens contributes to the... -
![Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914 by Richard T. Gray 9780804724029 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484959/10518807/9780804724029__22054.1768986000.jpg?c=1 "Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914 by Richard T. Gray 9780804724029 [USED COPY]")
Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914 by Richard T. Gray 9780804724029 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This fine book is a cohesive and comprehensive argument regarding the vicissitudes of German culture from the Enlightenment to the First World War, notably... -
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Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County by Marc Blecher 9780804725651 [USED COPY]
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £5.60A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804725651Author Marc BlecherFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams)... -
![Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You by Peter G. Stromberg 9780804761109 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484893/10518741/9780804761109__23208.1768985917.jpg?c=1 "Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You by Peter G. Stromberg 9780804761109 [USED COPY]")
Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You by Peter G. Stromberg 9780804761109 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these... -
![Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias by Ariel I. Ahram 9780804773584 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484877/10518725/9780804773584__89200.1768985898.jpg?c=1 "Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias by Ariel I. Ahram 9780804773584 [USED COPY]")
Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias by Ariel I. Ahram 9780804773584 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security-the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. ... -
Rogues: Two Essays on Reason by Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: £58.06Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £58.06Subtotal: -
Hegel's Laws: The Legitimacy of a Modern Legal Order by William E. Conklin 9780804750301
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57Hegel's Laws serves as an accessible introduction to Hegel's ideas on the nature of law. In this book, William Conklin examines whether state-centric domestic and international laws are binding upon... -
Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche by Michael S. Roth
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £65.19A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804723091Author Michael S. RothFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004 by Evan S. Medeiros
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear... -
How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms by Marc Caplan
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £49.57In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century... -
The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party by Richard Rhodes 9780804756419
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and... -
Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America by Marcia J. Carlson 9780804770880
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £71.14American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation,... -
Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class by Katherine Porter 9780804777018
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial... -
Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second Edition by James L. Watson 9780804749886
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02McDonald's restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? The widely read-and widely... -
An Anticlassical Political-Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century by Yasusuke Murakami 9780804735193
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.51In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher confronts three crucial questions facing the world at... -
Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach by Seth Lerer 9780804725453
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the... -
Political Theory Today by David Held 9780804718981
Booksplease Price: £26.82What is the proper subject matter for political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive... -
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert G. Angevine 9780804742399
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82The Railroad and the State is the first book to examine as a coherent whole the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century. It... -
Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 by Gerald McKevitt
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34Brokers of Culture examines the interactions among multiple ethnic groups in the American West and a group of nearly four hundred Italian Jesuits who emigrated to the United States after 1848 in the... -
Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics by Stephen L. Morgan 9780804752497
RRP: £133.00Booksplease Price: £102.70How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers... -
The Political Economy of Environmental Justice by Spencer Banzhaf 9780804780612
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist... -
Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective by Sylvia Paletschek 9780804754941
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by... -
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780804731812
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and... -
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Civilization and Its Contents by Bruce Mazlish 9780804750820 [USED COPY]
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £7.60"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the... -
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II by V. A. Kolve 9780804755832
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.19Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions in Geoffrey Chaucer's major poetry and their relationship to the visual culture of his time. With more than 150 illustrations, it continues an... -
Other Ways of Growing Old: Anthropological Perspectives by Pamela T. Amoss
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48As anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three contributions. First, this book will help to remedy a massive neglect of old... -
Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value by Evan Watkins
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This book shares with a number of recent studies an interest in the historical development of English in the United States, in how it became a central discipline in the humanities, and in what the... -
Reinventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France by Catherine Raissiguier
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of... -
Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity by Emily Barman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into... -
Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo by Thomas Blenman Hare
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This is the first full-length study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognized as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical Noh theater. The book begins with a biography based on the... -
Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil by Scott P. Mainwaring 9780804730594
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Among the many countries that underwent transitions to democracy in recent decades, only Russia is as important to the United States and the world as Brazil. The fifth-largest country and population... -
Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present by Amanda Vickery 9780804742849
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how... -
Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States by Dru C. Gladney 9780804730488
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally,...