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A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt by Nancy Reynolds
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £47.19Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time... -
Human Capital and Economic Growth by Andreas Savvides
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £56.93This book provides an in-depth investigation of the link between human capital and economic growth. The authors take an innovative approach, examining the determinants of economic growth through a... -
Theoretical Research Programs: Studies in the Growth of Theory by Joseph Berger
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £75.93A Stanford University Press classic.About the AuthorJoseph Berger is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. His most recent publication is... -
Solomon's Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of London by William T. Lynch
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £57.33This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon's program for the methodological reform of... -
Isolate or Engage: Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy by Geoffrey Wiseman
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £93.40The U.S. government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states: isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for U... -
Mark Twain in China by Selina Lai-Henderson
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £46.79Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a... -
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life by Farah Al-Nakib
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £78.92As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick... -
Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities by Andrew J. Policano
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.21Public No More examines the quickly changing environment within higher education, including the permanent decline in state support for public universities. This book raises the question of how... -
Can One Live after Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.61This is a comprehensive collection of readings from the work of Theodor Adorno, one of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. What took place in Auschwitz revokes what... -
Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume I: Theoretical Prerequisites by Ronald W. Langacker
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.52This is the first volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. The central claim of cognitive grammar... -
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives on the History of Congress by David W. Brady
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.58In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has... -
Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization: An Assessment of Trends and New Directions by Edward E. Lawler, III
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.56Corporations are undergoing dramatic changes that have significant implications for how human resources are best managed and organized. There is growing consensus that human capital is critical to an... -
Romanticism and the Rise of English by Andrew Elfenbein
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £85.74Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the... -
The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq by Orit Bashkin
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £86.14The Other Iraq challenges the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence. Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, this... -
Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 by Timothy Yu
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.41A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American... -
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener by Mikhail Krutikov
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £57.33From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926... -
Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde by Andrew Hewitt
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £85.74A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"An exciting and original discussion of the relationship between aesthetic modernism and political fascism. Hewitt draws productively from various... -
Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 by Gordon H. Chang
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.50A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A swift-paced, absorbing account of the dangerous political maneuvers that engaged America with both China and the Soviet Union during the years between... -
Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Zephyr Frank
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £85.74Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual... -
Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £64.45What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment... -
Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States by Herbert M. Kritzer
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £47.19Risks, Reputations, and Rewards looks at a variety of interrelated questions about contingency fee legal practice: What is the nature of the contingency fees that lawyers charge? How do lawyers get... -
Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 by Xiaoyuan Liu
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £60.71The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced... -
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.52This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating... -
The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 by Matthew Restall
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.90This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to... -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £72.11The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King... -
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America by Leland T. Saito
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £64.45From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction... -
War and State Building in Medieval Japan by John A. Ferejohn 9780804763707
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £68.71The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe,... -
The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers by Frank Donoghue 9780804725637
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £46.79A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804725637Author Frank DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University... -
The Cadillac Story: The Postwar Years by Thomas E. Bonsall 9780804749428
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.58The Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself- which, as much as any industry, drove America's growth in the... -
The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £75.53The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of... -
Transformation Through Global Value Chains: Taking Advantage of Business Synergies in the United States and China by Behnam N. Tabrizi
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.52China is inevitably becoming a giant in the world economy. All international companies in the United States have a presence in China, and many international Chinese companies have a presence in the... -
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £72.11The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of... -
Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family, Volume 2, Lexicon by Joseph H. Greenberg
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.56The basic thesis of this two-volume work (Volume I. Grammar was published in 2000) is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger... -
Song in an Age of Discord: <I>The Journal of Socho</I> and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan by H. Mack Horton
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £64.85Song in an Age of Discord is a companion volume to the author's translation of The Journal of Socho, the travel diary and poetic memoir of Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), the preeminent linked-verse... -
A Humanist Science: Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry by Philip Selznick
Booksplease Price: £34.00Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly... -
The Budget Puzzle: Understanding Federal Spending by John F. Cogan
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.17In the United States, the size and composition of the federal budget is arguably the most important single issue of the 1990's, yet most debates and commentaries on the subject are largely uninformed... -
From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 by Jeffrey G. Barlow
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £61.31This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer,... -
Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side by Antonius C.G.M. Robben
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £60.31Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations,... -
The Muses by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £85.74This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not... -
Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity by Ira Chernus
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £57.33For eight years President Dwight Eisenhower claimed to pursue peace and national security. Yet his policies entrenched the United States in a seemingly permanent cold war, a spiraling nuclear arms...