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Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology by Rachel Schurman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68When scientists working in the agricultural biotechnology industry first altered the genetic material of one organism by introducing genes from an entirely different organism, the reaction was... -
Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture by Alexander R. Galloway
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there... -
The Ethics of Earth Art by Amanda Boetzkes
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art movement has sought to make visible the elusive presence of nature. Though most often associated with monumental land-based sculptures, earth art... -
Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema by Karl Schoonover
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that... -
Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially "ideas that work," are now... -
Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene by Lydia Pyne
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.62Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes... -
Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson BayUnrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and... -
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory by Adam J. Frank
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) have inspired the turn to... -
Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation by Andrew R. Johnston
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema Animation and technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn flipbooks to stop-motion... -
It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching by Tom Rademacher
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write... -
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature by Monica Gagliano
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental... -
Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment by Louis Sala-Molins
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu are best known for their humanist theories and liberating influence on Western civilization. But as renowned French intellectual Louis... -
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.26The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we... -
Manual for Using the MMPI-2 as a Therapeutic Intervention by Stephen E. Finn
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34This manual provides a step-by-step procedure, tested in controlled research and illustrated with case examples, for using the MMPI-2 as a therapeutic intervention. Finn covers all stages of the... -
Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design by Greg Castillo
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon... -
Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now by Gary Hall
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56How open access can transform academia for the betterIn the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access-the electronic publishing model that gives readers free, irrevocable, worldwide, and... -
Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War by Grace M. Cho
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Since the Korean War-the forgotten war-more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through... -
Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City by Erik Harms
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh... -
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson by Robert Hofler
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many... -
Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema by Todd McGowan
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates... -
The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment by Jesse LeCavalier
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart's more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime... -
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life by Grant Farred
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.12In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves... -
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt by Mona Atia
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation-the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls "pious neoliberalism." Though the phenomenon spans... -
Louis Sullivan's Idea by Tim Samuelson
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.93A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America's renowned architect The story of Louis H. Sullivan is considered one of the great American tragedies. While Sullivan reshaped... -
Object-Oriented Feminism by Katherine Behar
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.25The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses-like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism-that... -
F Is For Phony: Fake Documentary And Truth'S Undoing by Jesse Lerner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is... -
Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife by Akira Mizuta Lippit
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A fascinating exploration of the symbolic place animals hold within our culture.Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now... -
Epicurus and His Philosophy by Norman Wentworth DeWitt
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £37.95Epicurus and His Philosophy was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the... -
The Social Project: Housing Postwar France by Kenny Cupers
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016... -
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds by Timothy Murray
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a... -
Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time by Alev Cinar
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of... -
How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism by Tina Fetner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious right's Goliath. At the same time, the... -
Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome by John David Rhodes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini-but it's not the classical Rome you imagine... -
Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003,... -
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership by Erica R. Edwards
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership-this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we... -
Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life by Diane C. Fujino
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the... -
The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City by Eric Avila
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a... -
Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota by Rick Shefchik
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44If you didn't experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock... -
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations Remote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees,... -
Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and...