-
Simone weil
Situates Weil's writing within the French literary tradition, and recognizes her as a master stylist.Simone Weil created a memorable œuvre remarkable for its lucid, striking, and seemingly transparent prose. Aphoristic and impersonal in tone, it is the instrument of a master stylist. The first to...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The first chief justice
Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years.Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History Category The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay face...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The celluloid atlantic
Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries came to be an integrated, transnational un...
Read MoreRegular price £95.00Sale price £95.00 Regular price £95.00Unit price per -
At millennium's end
Collected essays by noted scholars covering the breadth and influence of Kurt Vonnegut's literature."When I look back at my incredibly lucky career as a writer, it seems that there was never time to think. It was as though I were skiing down a steep and hazardous mountain slope. When I look back ...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Building pedagogues
An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.Antiracist professional development for white teachers often follows a one-size-fits-all model, focusing on narrow notions of race and especially white privilege at the expense of more radical analy...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The phantom of a polarized america
Indicates how the rightward shift in the ideology of House Republicans has been mistaken for a broader "polarization" of both parties as well as voters.There is a widespread belief that American politics is becoming more polarized, in the sense that the Republican Party and electorate are becomin...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Art in the social order
Seeks to replace the dominant approaches to the question of the nature of art in contemporary English-speaking (analytic) philosophy with a historicist approach that emphasizes localized, cultural-historical narratives.Art in the Social Order makes a compelling case for the need to develop a prop...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Counterpublics and the state
Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," political dissidents or "counterpublics" challenge the state and assert themselves upon the public stage. At...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
American stranger
Reconstructs how Ray became a "rebel auteur" in cinema culture.How does cinema culture imagine one of its favorite figures, the rebel? The reputation of the American director Nicholas Ray provides a particularly notable example. Most famous for Rebel Without a Cause, Ray has since been canonized ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Dutch and indigenous communities in seventeenth-century northeastern north america
Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.This volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settle...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Native recognition
Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the ...
Read MoreRegular price £27.50Sale price £27.50 Regular price £27.50Unit price per -
Autonomy and social interaction
This book makes a distinctive contribution to the growing discussion of autonomy. As the ability to determine one's life in both thought and action, autonomy is foundational among our many and varied values. Other philosophical treatments tend to emphasize the significance of autonomy for moral t...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Engendering the subject
Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author argues that fe...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The quest for equity in higher education
A critical examination of current sociopolitical issues surrounding equity and diversity and their impact on higher education.Investigating the role of equity, diversity, and affirmative action in colleges and universities in the United States, this book critically examines the issues in light of...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
The golden mean
The Golden Mean reappraises the relationship among the three forms of good that exist in modern Western thought: the good of aesthetic beauty and performance, the good of right and wrong, and the forces of social resentment that shape the public debate about what is appropriate to society's needs...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Sole impression
New poems by the author of Winter Crows.It takes shapeas flocksrising upstop us cold to watchtheir dark bondwith dawnbecome groundsfor going, a presenceborn againin every sensewhen winds spreadthe wordand brown fields bristle likedense furdown the backof the earth.-from "November"
Regular price £11.50Sale price £11.50 Regular price £11.50Unit price per -
Interpretation and literature in early medieval china
Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China's Han dynasty.Covering a time of great intellectual ferment and great influence on what was to come, this book explores the literary and hermeneutic world of early medieval China. In additio...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Cross reference guide and index
Examines how globalization, technology, community, gender, identity, family, and the environment will change over the next century.With the coming of the new millennium, this collection of articles examines how globalization, technology, community, gender, identity, family, and the environment wi...
Read MoreRegular price £24.00Sale price £24.00 Regular price £24.00Unit price per -
The crusades
Examines the effects of the Crusades from a variety of perspectives.The Crusades examines how the Crusades affected peoples and terrains; agriculture, art, and archeology; military and urban architecture; literature and music; and the attitudes of the Christian West towards the Muslim East and vi...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Implementation of environmental policies in developing countries
Uses Brazil as a case study of how governments implement environmental policies despite urgent needs for economic development.Environmental policy implementation in developing countries faces a number of institutional obstacles. Using the case of protected areas and tourism development in the sta...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Approaches to global governance theory
Showcases diverse theoretical approaches in the emerging area of global governance.As the debate over global governance heats up, Approaches to Global Governance Theory offers a guide to this new terrain. The contributors advocate approaches to global governance that recognize fundamental politic...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Between reason and history
The first book-length treatment in English of Habermas's theory of social evolution and progress.Between Reason and History examines the role of the idea of progress both in Jurgen Habermas's critical social theory and in critical social theory in general. The reception to Habermas's magnum opus,...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Shakespeare's political realism
Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.This book provides fresh interpretations of five of Shakespeare's history plays (King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V), each guided by the often criticized assump...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Circles and settings
Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as well as social science, commentary. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, with role seen as a set of negotiated relations...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
A light too bright
Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dom...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Beyond romance
Critiques the predominant romantic ideal.Beyond Romance critiques the romantic ideal that predominates contemporary thought and practice-it defines, explores, and advocates authentic love as a preferable alternative. The author claims that you can't genuinely love a person you don't know, and tha...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Wearing cultural styles in japan
Explores how tradition and modernity coexist in regional Japan, arguing that the rural/urban dichotomy is outmoded for understanding this contemporary society.This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rura...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Bodies of water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.Honorable Mention, for the 2025 British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies Best Publication PrizeRivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Racism and resistance
Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.African American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell-an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and pu...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Multicultural education as social activism
Explores connections between multicultural education, social activism, and critical analyses of oppression.Connecting multicultural education with political issues of power and struggle, this book explores what multicultural education means to white people, given the unequal racial power relation...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Contesting the global order
Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Will...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
Yiddish cinema
Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.In this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little-known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed ...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
The state, society, and limited nuclear war
An examination of the extent to which nuclear weapons policy has been democratically controlled, showing that a policy elite insulated from society eventually lost its autonomyThis book highlights the role that domestic politics has played in the evolution of U.S. nuclear weapons policy up to the...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per -
José maría heredia in new york, 1823–1825
An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.This volume offers the most complete English transl...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Obscenity, anarchy, reality
Examines the consequences of utter affirmations of our world as it is, exploring the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment.Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely a...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
The deities are many
Provides a theology of polytheism—the belief in many deities—using examples from a wide range of world religions.The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide in...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world
Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.This book offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual pr...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Narrating muḥammad's night journey
Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad's night journey to the divine realm and back again.This book provides an exhaustive examination of the historical development of a key story in the life of Muḥammad, the tale told of his journey to the divine rea...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Reconsidering feminist research in educational leadership
A critical reflection on the field of feminist research in educational leadership.Ten prominent feminist researchers from diverse backgrounds examine educational leadership by focusing on critical questions about the theories, methods, and epistemologies feminist researchers use. The contributors...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Men of uncertainty
A fascinating exploration of the subculture of Japanese day laborers, whose lives depart radically from the traditions of stability Westerners associate with Japan.Men of Uncertainty presents an unknown side of Japanese society-the world of Japan's day laborers (hiiyatoi rodosha), the urban labor...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The oprah affect
Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah's Book Club.The Oprah Affect explores the cultural impact of Oprah's Book Club, particularly in light of debates about the definition and purpose of literature in American culture. For the critics collected here, Oprah's Book Club stands, in the c...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Hegel and whitehead
Hegel and Whitehead presents a careful exploration of the similarities between these two formidable representatives of systematic philosophy. Some of the most distinguished scholars in European and American philosophy converge herein to explore the similarities in Hegel's and Whitehead's contempo...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
The sunday of the negative
A comprehensive philosophical introduction to the thought of Georges Bataille.Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought, Georges Bataille was a pivotal precursor to a generation of poststructuralist and postmodern thinkers-including Baudr...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Capital in the mirror
Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism's darkest dynamics.Aesthetic objects, crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit, are simultaneously theorized an...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
The darkness and the light
In this book Charles Hartshorne continues his contribution to the field with autobiographical reflections, showing the causal conditions which made his career possible. "There is some advantage in associating philosophical beliefs with specific life situations. The reader will find suggestions fo...
Read MoreRegular price £27.50Sale price £27.50 Regular price £27.50Unit price per -
Fichte's addresses to the german nation reconsidered
Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works.One of J. G. Fichte's best-known works, Addresses to the German Nation is based on a series of speeches he gave in Berlin when the city was under French occupation. They feature Fichte's diagnosis of his own era in European history...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Grappling with the good
Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, Grappling with the Good offers a vision of public education in which students learn to ...
Read MoreRegular price £72.50Sale price £72.50 Regular price £72.50Unit price per -
Philosophy, theology, and hegel's berlin philosophy of religion, 1821-1827
This book examines Hegel's contribution to the debate about the relationship between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. The author locates the debate within the philosophy of religion, displaying that there is a need for philosophy to enter into dialogue with, and to reflect upon, the con...
Read MoreRegular price £25.50Sale price £25.50 Regular price £25.50Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
