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Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films by Joyce E. Jesionowski
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.34This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom by Sahar F. Aziz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz's groundbreaking book demonstrates... -
Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities by Cindy L. Griffin
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Beyond Gender Binaries uses a feminist, intersectional, and invitational approach to understanding identities and how they relate to communication. Taking readers outside the familiar binary... -
Slant Steps: On the Art World's Semi-Periphery by Jacob Stewart-Halevy
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50Slant Steps explores the vital role of the semi-periphery-artistic communities working between the provinces and the metropole. Premised on the collective fascination with the found object Slant... -
The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 by Thomas E Burman
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.05The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the... -
Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda by Philipp Schulz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are... -
The Conquest of Tuberculosis by Selman A. Waksman
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The Conquest of Tuberculosis chronicles the long and arduous battle against one of humanity's most devastating diseases. Tuberculosis, often called the "great white plague," has plagued humankind for... -
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity by L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.63This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman... -
Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture by Corrina Laughlin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Redeem All examines the surprising intersection of American evangelicalism and tech innovation. Corrina Laughlin looks at the evangelical Christians who are invested in imagining, using, hacking,... -
The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In The Celluloid Specimen,... -
The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861–1921 by Stephen Rumph
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £47.25Gabriel Faure's melodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Faure... -
Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism by Ellen M. Wood
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Turkey: A Past Against History by Christine M. Philliou
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the... -
What's the Matter with Liberalism? by Ronald Beiner
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.13This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania by Adrienne E. Strong
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a... -
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages by Bonnie Effros
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £56.44Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed... -
The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television by Caetlin Benson-Allott
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in,... -
Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk by Thomas R. Wellock
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately... -
Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture by Jon Lewis
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture. By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties... -
Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook by Gordon Matta-Clark
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy... -
The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450-1700 by Hakan T. Karateke
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.13The Ottoman lands, which extended from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. The Ottoman World is the first primary source reader to... -
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines by Victor Roy
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Capitalizing a Cure takes readers into the struggle over a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of... -
Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism by Laurel Westbrook
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Anti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended... -
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25"Black & Blue" is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients... -
Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State by Jesse Wozniak
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Policing Iraq chronicles the efforts of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to rebuild their police force and criminal justice system in the wake of the US invasion. Jesse S. G. Wozniak... -
Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement by Christopher Seeds
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and... -
In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East by Aaron Rock-Singer
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08This book is an intellectual and social history of Salafism that moves beyond a focus on specific organizations or a commitment to the boundaries of particular nation states to trace the emergence of... -
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate by Kenneth H. Kolb
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the... -
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey by Sarah-Neel Smith
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25In this vivid portrait of the art world of 1950s Turkey, Sarah-Neel Smith offers a new framework for analyzing global modernisms of the twentieth century: economic development. After World War II, a... -
Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism by Dr. Jarrod Hore
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.63Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite... -
Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition by Lisa Haushofer
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new... -
Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness by Brandon Andrew Robinson
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson... -
Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds by Colin McFarlane
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. Fragments of the City examines the fragments themselves, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience,... -
A Field Guide to White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence,... -
The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219 by Delmer Brown
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.26This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality by Claire W. Herbert
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert lived in the city... -
Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650-1650 by Thomas E Burman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle... -
Terrible Freedom: The Life and Work of Lucia Dlugoszewski by Amy C. Beal
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for... -
Networked Feminism: How Digital Media Makers Transformed Gender Justice Movements by Rosemary Clark-Parsons
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Networked Feminism tells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in... -
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. Guth
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their...