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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition: Busting Myths about Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.84A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological... -
Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine by Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? ... -
Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White by Shannon E. Reid
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Alt-Right Gangs provides a timely and necessary discussion of youth-oriented groups within the white power movement. Focusing on how these groups fit into the current research on street gangs,... -
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life by Janet Kraynak
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.46Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a... -
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals by Amanda J. Lucia
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this... -
The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century by E. Bradford Burns
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.71From the Preface by Bradford Burns:If this essay succeeds, it will open an interpretive window providing a different perspective of Latin America's recent past. At first glance, the view might seem... -
Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I by J.L. Heilbron
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.29The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance... -
Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia by Sara Ronis
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.33The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across... -
Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era by Natali Valdez
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on... -
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation by Prof. Yigal Bronner
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a... -
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms: On the Phenomenology of Theater by Bert O. States
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.77This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a... -
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.68In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became... -
Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition by David Arnold
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £47.25Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity,... -
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana by Kwame Edwin Otu
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men-known in local... -
Vision and Place: John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin by Jason Robison
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The Colorado River Basin's importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument,... -
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race by Rebecca Peabody
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and... -
Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) by Atsuko Ueda
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a... -
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization by Lynn Welchman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in... -
Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia by Kate Franklin
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization,... -
Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question by Tom Slater
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence,... -
The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath by Paige Sweet
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.06For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a "good victim" is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence were a disease:... -
A Guide to EU Environmental Law by Josephine van Zeben
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Written by two internationally respected scholars, this unique primer distills European Union environmental law and policy into a practical guide for a nonlegal audience, as well as for lawyers... -
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 by Meron Benvenisti
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian... -
A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.13With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and... -
Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.63Charity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on writings of... -
Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists by Christine L. Williams
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The oil and gas industry is one of the richest and most powerful industries in the world. In recent years, company avowals in support of diversity, much-touted programs for "women in STEM," and, most... -
Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television by Annie Berke
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25A rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV:... -
Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean by Chelsea Schields
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of... -
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Reentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished... -
The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Israel Knohl
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is... -
Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film by Juan Sebastian Ospina Leon
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastian Ospina Leon draws on extensive archival research to reveal how... -
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture by Mika Ahuvia
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as... -
Working across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction by Corrie Grosse
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and... -
Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile by Joshua Frens-String
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states... -
Labor and Punishment: Work in and out of Prison by Erin Hatton
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the criminal justice system... -
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia by Rustamjon Urinboyev
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on... -
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay by Samhita Sunya
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizeable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the... -
Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China by Amitav Acharya
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century... -
Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value by Edward F. Fischer
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25An anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep... -
Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley by Anne Marie Todd
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world...