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Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era by Melinda E. Cooper
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.70Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United... -
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $45.19Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains... -
High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users by Ingrid Walker
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $58.36Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or... -
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $34.88Fred Korematsu's decision to resist F.D.R.'s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man... -
Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China by Yunchiahn C Sena
RRP: $155.30Booksplease Price: $126.32Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960-1279) demonstrated little concern for... -
Mind's World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism by Alexander M. Schlutz
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $58.65Winner of the 2009 International Conference on Romanticism's Jean-Pierre Barricelli Award for the best book in Romanticism studiesAs the mental faculty that mediates between self and world, mind and... -
Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits by Joana Breidenbach
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $61.15Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain... -
Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond by Margaret Willson
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.26An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street... -
Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination by Laurie Arnold
Booksplease Price: $59.87Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status... -
Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas by Kurkpatrick Dorsey
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.52Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory... -
Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture by Leonard Grob
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.13In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a... -
American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense by Marisol Berrios-Miranda
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $54.18Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical... -
High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration by Amy Bhatt
RRP: $226.70Booksplease Price: $214.14Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However,... -
Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road by Greg Robinson
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.50"To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past... -
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China by Nicholas K. Menzies
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $65.67Longlisted for the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn RedwoodChina's vast and ancient body of documented knowledge... -
Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound by Murray Morgan
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $44.14With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern... -
Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature: Tales and Commentary by Wilt L. Idema
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.13In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex,... -
Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China by BuYun Chen
Booksplease Price: $151.31Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and... -
Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective by Frances Colpitt
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.52In this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period--enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to... -
Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments by Eric Ames
Booksplease Price: $73.71The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman,... -
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age by Alice Tilche
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.49The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movementAs India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented... -
On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems by Paul Rouzer
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $63.50In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems... -
The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China by Yingcong Dai
RRP: $123.80Booksplease Price: $115.27A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe White Lotus War (1796-1804) in central China marked the end of the Qing dynasty's golden age and the fatal weakening of the imperial system itself. What started... -
The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir by Tam T. T. Ngo
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $27.49In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and,... -
Homebase: A Novel by Shawn Wong
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.38Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during... -
Squamish-English Dictionary by Squamish Nation Education Department
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $92.67This dictionary is the first published compilation by the Squamish Nation of Skwxwu7mesh Snichim, one of ten Coast Salish languages. The Squamish peoples' traditional homeland includes the territory... -
Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China by Emily Chao
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $69.78Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao... -
The Weather of the Pacific Northwest by Cliff Mass
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $50.59The definitive local weather guide for newcomers and longtime residents alikePowerful Pacific storms strike the region. Otherworldly lenticular clouds often cap Mount Rainier. Rain shadows create... -
Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader by Cyd Cipolla
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $59.87Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women's, gender, and sexuality studies and science and... -
Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation by Herbert J. Ellison
Booksplease Price: $68.36Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender... -
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors by Charlotte Cote
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $63.57Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives,... -
Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice by Ananya Chatterjea
Booksplease Price: $59.87Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-makingThrough empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance... -
Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice by Cleo Woelfle Hazard
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $59.87Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Woelfle Hazard, their future vitality requires... -
TheZuo Tradition / ZuozhuanReader: Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History by Stephen Durrant
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $67.39Essential passages from a classic Chinese history, organized topically, introduced, and annotatedZuo Tradition, China's first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events... -
The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays by Frank Chin
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $49.01When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a... -
Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India by Rebecca M. Brown
Booksplease Price: $66.65From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves-these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of... -
Reclaimers by Ana Maria Spagna
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $28.41For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a... -
Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic by Hongmei Sun
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.09Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the... -
Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $67.12The reign of Emperor Yongle, or "Perpetual Happiness," was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the... -
Contrasts: A Glass Primer by Vicki Halper
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $37.53A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones.Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an...