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The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation by Charles H. House
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $90.03The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes... -
Lessing's Theological Writings: Selections in Translation by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.93A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804703352Author Gotthold LessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University... -
The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive... -
State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu by Ronald P. Toby
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804719520Author Ronald P. TobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University... -
The Japanese Through American Eyes by Sheila K. Johnson
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804719599Author Sheila K. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University... -
Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution by John Israel
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.77In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing's two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading... -
Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 by Timothy J. Coates
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $129.72This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and... -
'No Mentor but Myself': Jack London on Writing and Writers, Second Edition by Dale L. Walker
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Jack London, one of the most read and recognized figures in American literature, produced an immense body of work, including 22 novels, 200 short stories, memoirs, newspaper articles, book reviews,... -
The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany by Eric Michaud
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $176.30The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of... -
Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England by David R. Como
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $117.22This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in pre-revolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscripts and printed material to... -
Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization by Gili S. Drori
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national... -
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate,... -
Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War by Nancy Mitchell
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $65.79In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the... -
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Reynders Ristaino
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $54.37This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and... -
Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China by Ban Wang
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government,... -
Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality and Supplementary Financiers by Erica R. Gould
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $103.47Money Talks argues that, contrary to conventional explanations, the changes in the terms of International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality agreements are best explained by shifts in the sources for... -
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County by William T. Rowe
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.65This brilliantly crafted narrative explores the roots of violence in Chinese rural society over the past seven hundred years, based on the study of a single highland county, Macheng, Hubei province,... -
Romanticism After Auschwitz by Sara Guyer
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $104.10Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how post-Holocaust testimony remains romantic, and shows why romanticism must therefore be rethought. The book argues that what literary historians have... -
The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era by Martin H. Redish
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $50.65This book demonstrates that neither the current liberal nor conservative position on the McCarthy era provides the basis for an appropriate normative perspective. Adding the perspective of the theory... -
Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life by Gerhard Richter
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and... -
Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.34Russian psychological prose has made a distinct contribution to world culture-not only to literature, but also to practical psychology and even to neuropsychology. Consequences of Consciousness... -
Indigenous Citizens: Local Liberalism in Early National Oaxaca and Yucatan by Karen D. Caplan
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism. By comparing the experiences of two Mexican states,... -
Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia by Alya Guseva
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.02Into the Red explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. In her analysis, Alya Guseva locates the dynamics of market building... -
Anatomy of the Passions by Francois Delaporte
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67The study of facial expression and its musculature undertaken by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne in 1862, an attempt to secure biological meaning in the natural language of the emotions,... -
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Too often, Levinas's thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. It is put into the service of directly normative ends such as a call for respect for... -
Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times by Cristina Vatulescu
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police... -
Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis by Erik Martinez Kuhonta
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative... -
Flesh of My Flesh by Kaja Silverman
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we... -
The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist by Rudiger Campe
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he... -
Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability by Djelal Kadir
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make... -
Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that... -
Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 by Oliver J. Dinius
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $110.02Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. It focuses on... -
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II by V. A. Kolve
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39Telling 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... -
America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures (1929-2001) by Jerome Christensen
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Contrary to theories of single person authorship, America's Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio... -
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel by Gary Morson
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works-wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy... -
The Secrets of Law by Austin Sarat
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $109.62The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones... -
The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with... -
Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume I, 1750-1880 by Susan Groag Bell
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in... -
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of...