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Origins of the Modern Chinese State by Philip A. Kuhn
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51What is "Chinese" about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the... -
What Should Think Tanks Do?: A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact by Andrew Dan Selee
Booksplease Price: $16.23Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions-a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve... -
Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet by James Karman
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and... -
Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert by Elizabeth Rottenberg
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and... -
James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government by Samuel Kernell
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $18.14In recent years, the study of James Madison and his contributions to early American politics has enjoyed a growing audience among scholars and students of modern American politics. Not only did... -
A Life in Shadow: Aime Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817-1858 by Stephen Bell
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.95French naturalist and medical doctor Aime Bonpland (1773-1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked... -
People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier by Ruha Benjamin
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments-good or bad,... -
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.91Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation... -
The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics by David Kishik
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unifying power of the politics to come. Informed by this... -
The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by... -
Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Shaun Irlam
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.97Elations rewrites the history of early-eighteenth-century English literature around the politics and poetics of "Enthusiasm." It examines the aesthetic theory of the period and reassesses the poetry... -
An Essay on the Tragic by Peter Szondi
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two... -
Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico by Ben Vinson
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining... -
Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political... -
The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials by Paul Celan
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most... -
Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary by Marie-Jose Mondzain
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy... -
Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao by Stanley B. Lubman
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $45.81Since 1979, China has been building new legal institutions made necessary by economic reforms that have reduced the role of state planning, and by the decline of Maoist totalitarianism. This book... -
Aesthetic Democracy by Thomas Docherty
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism... -
Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution? by Michel Serres
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world's contemporary environmental problems. He does so... -
In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina by Karen Ann Faulk
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $20.45Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions. An "exporter" of... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Eleven by Joel Hecker
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $73.01Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has captivated readers ever since it emerged in Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in a lyrical Aramaic, the Zohar, a masterpiece of Kabbalah, features... -
The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System, and Processes by Edward Hess
Booksplease Price: $16.23Organic business growth is governed by its own natural laws-underlying truths that set the stage for growth and innovation, much in the way that Einstein's law of relativity accounts for the movement... -
Who Is Man? by Abraham Joshua Heschel
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25One of the world's most illustrious and influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical and religious questions of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three... -
Unfashionable Observations: Volume 2 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27This new translation is the first to be published in a twenty-volume English-language edition of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the first complete, critical, and annotated translation of... -
Crescent Moon over the Rational: Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee by Stephen H. Watson
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $55.50Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers? His art and his writing inspired leading philosophers to produce key texts in... -
<I>What Is Life?</I>: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schroedinger by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780804769167
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961) is best known as a co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical description of quantum mechanics. Today, many experts also... -
The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Joyful Science (Spring 1881–Summer 1882): Volume 6 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503632325
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.92Written on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful Science (frequently translated as The Gay Science) is one of... -
Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia by Franklin Lindsay 9780804725880
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.69At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were... -
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804784061
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? ... -
A Guide to the Zohar by Arthur Green 9780804749084
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.09The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes,... -
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The "New" Terrorism: Myths and Reality by Thomas R. Mockaitis 9780804759700
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.36As shocking as the attacks of 9/11 were, we have been too quick to view the post-9/11 struggle against terrorism as entirely new and unprecedented. Without denying certain novel aspects of Al Qaeda... -
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran by Orkideh Behrouzan 9780804799416
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of... -
Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guide by Curtis N. Runnels 9780804740500
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $19.39This book, a guide and companion to the prehistoric archaeology of Greece, is designed for students, travelers, and all general readers interested in archaeology. Greece has perhaps the longest and... -
Us&Them: A Novel by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 9781503606852
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on... -
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller 9780804701112
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and understanding of... -
China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age by John Wilson Lewis 9780804728041
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.69Using major new documentary sources, this book tells the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of that development on the nation's politics, technology,... -
Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition by Asef Bayat 9780804783262
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such... -
Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India by Craig Jeffrey 9780804770743
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic... -
U. S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina by William J. Duiker 9780804722834
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $80.07From the end of World War II down to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the primary objective of U.S. foreign policy has been to prevent the expansion of communism. Indeed, that objective was... -
Waging War: Alliances, Coalitions, and Institutions of Interstate Violence by Patricia A. Weitsman 9780804788977
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of...