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Rigoberta Menchu Controversy by Arturo Arias
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636266Author Arturo AriasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint < -
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48From the cultural critic Wired called "provocative and cuttingly humorous" comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the... -
Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture by Adrienne Shaw
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people... -
Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain by John Hartigan Jr.
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual-from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual... -
Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy by Danielle Giffort
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs... -
A Third University Is Possible by la paperson
RRP: $18.90Booksplease Price: $17.05A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la... -
Curating As Ethics by Jean-Paul Martinon
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $42.32A new ethics for the global practice of curating Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity... -
Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary by Karen Pinkus
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises-most produced long... -
Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics by Jose Esteban Munoz
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority... -
Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama by Chris Thompson
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on a... -
The Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20First published in 1939 and extensively revised in 1943, The Book of the Dead, loosely inspired by the tale of Isis and Osiris from ancient Egypt, is a sweeping historical romance that tells a gothic... -
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu
RRP: $18.90Booksplease Price: $17.05A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative... -
Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children's Literature before 1900 by Katharine Capshaw
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked... -
Anthropocene Feminism by Richard Grusin
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative... -
Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44In "The Cinematic Body", Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's... -
The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music by Craig L. Wilkins
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L. Wilkins observes, that diary includes far too few... -
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations by Roberto Simanowski
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting... -
Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa by Ashley Currier
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Visibility matters to activists-to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. Out in... -
Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age by Ericka Beckman
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During... -
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Deborah Cowen
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt... -
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism by Madhavi Menon
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou's suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being... -
Speech Begins after Death by Michel Foucault
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to... -
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent by Joseph J. Fischel
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It... -
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory by Vinciane Despret
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon... -
To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art by Rachel Weiss
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $50.99The new Cuban art grew up in the supercharged and conflicting currents of revolution, sometimes tracking to its optimism and at others scalded by it. But even more than that it was an art with... -
Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature by Jeffrey Angles
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siecle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. Writing the Love... -
Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World by Mr. Mick Smith
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of... -
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism by Steven Shaviro
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way... -
Does the Earth Care?: Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology by Mick Smith
RRP: $18.90Booksplease Price: $17.05Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future but any earlier sense of Earth as "providential" seems of merely... -
The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life by Jamie Lorimer
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $152.69Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In fact, the... -
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa by C. Anne Claus
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $42.32How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of... -
194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front by Andrew M. Shanken
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.66During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the... -
Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos
Booksplease Price: $65.50Architecture's Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source... -
Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines by Dominic Pettman
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines? The common answers that immediately come to mind-like art, empathy, or technology-fall apart under close inspection... -
The Art of Making Do in Naples by Jason Pine
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82"In Naples, there are more singers than there are unemployed people." These words echo through the neomelodica music scene, a vast undocumented economy animated by wedding singers, pirate TV, and... -
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia by Rachmi Diyah Larasati
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of... -
Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species by Kelsi Nagy
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen... -
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary by Dennis Childs
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nation's past by abolishing slavery and ushering in an inexorable march... -
The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $42.32Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us-again and again-to the image of the... -
Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America by Alex V. Barnard
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste-while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing...