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Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence

Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy...

Author: Dr Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Professor Riccardo Panattoni (Verona University, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350240292
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Taking seriously Jacques Lacan’s claim that ‘the unconscious is politics’, this volume proposes a new understanding...  Read More >>

Intimate Interiors: Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir

Intimate Interiors: Sex, Politics, and Material Culture...

Author: Tara Zanardi ,  Christopher M. S. Johns
ISBN: 9781350277632
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces – motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive...  Read More >>

The Imperial School for Tribes: Educating the Provincial Elite in the Late Ottoman Empire

The Imperial School for Tribes: Educating the Provincial...

Author: Mehmet Ali Neyzi
ISBN: 9780755649778
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: On the Contradiction between System and Freedom

The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: On the...

Author: Birgit Sandkaulen (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) ,  Matt Erlin
ISBN: 9781350235755
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte...  Read More >>

Adventure Awaits: Following God’s Direction to Discover Your Dreams

Adventure Awaits: Following God’s Direction to Discover...

Author: Kristin Lenz
ISBN: 9780736988827
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Women seeking to fulfill their dreams will discover new tools and strategies for decision making, practical action...  Read More >>

Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in...

Author: Nikki A. Greene
ISBN: 9781478026341
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Focusing on the art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nikki A. Greene examines...  Read More >>

A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019

A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019

Author: Lindsay McLaren ,  Donald W.M. Juzwishin
ISBN: 9781773855455
Format: Paperback
$188.89

Drawing on extensive research, including interviews with members of Alberta’s public health communities, A History...  Read More >>

Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers

Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers...

Author: Matthew R Sparks ,  Olivia Sizemore
ISBN: 9781985900967
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers is a collection of weird, otherworldly, and supernatural...  Read More >>

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition:...

Author: Ryan Holiday
ISBN: 9780593719916
Format: Hardback
$73.92

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents...  Read More >>

Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems

Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems...

Author: A B Spellman ,  Lauri Scheyer
ISBN: 9780819501196
Format: Hardback
$79.20

""A comprehensive collection of the poetry of A. B. Spellman, who is an influential poet with a long career reaching....  Read More >>

The City in the Distance

The City in the Distance

Author: Jean-Luc Nancy ,  Cory Stockwell
ISBN: 9781531508968
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Nancy’s book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense...  Read More >>

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making...

Author: Saul Noam Zaritt
ISBN: 9781531509163
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture,...  Read More >>

Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place

Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism,...

Author: John J. Kucich
ISBN: 9781625348340
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Drawing on Indigenous studies and critiques of settler colonialism, as well as new materialist approaches that illustrate...  Read More >>

The Resilience of Multiculturalism: Ideas, Politics, Practice

The Resilience of Multiculturalism: Ideas, Politics,...

Author: Thomas Sealy ,  Varun Uberoi
ISBN: 9781399537261
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Illuminates contemporary debates on citizenship, identity and multiculturalism through the lens of Tariq Modood's...  Read More >>

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We...

Author: Jessica Valenti
ISBN: 9780593800232
Format: Hardback
$66.00

In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of...  Read More >>

The Second Shot: A Green Beret's Last Mission

The Second Shot: A Green Beret's Last Mission

Author: Gene Yu
ISBN: 9781662510564
Format: Hardback
$76.53

The riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former...  Read More >>

Oil Spill Science and Technology

Oil Spill Science and Technology

Author: Mervin Fingas (Scientist, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
ISBN: 9780443217036
Format: Hardback
$726.00

Provides scientists, engineers and practitioners with the various methods used for identifying and eliminating spills...  Read More >>

Grey Sex: Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination

Grey Sex: Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination

Author: Alexandra Kogl (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
ISBN: 9781509558872
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Grey sex is saying “yes” but thinking “no.” It’s feeling invisible, like you’re not even in the room. It’s wondering...  Read More >>

Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston Woman's Journal, 1904

Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston...

Author: Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780826366535
Format: Hardback
$198.00

An annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent American feminist...  Read More >>

My Last Gift: An Essential End-of-Life Planner Important Guidance for You and Your Loved Ones

My Last Gift: An Essential End-of-Life Planner Important...

Author: Kim Boyer (Kim Boyer)
ISBN: 9780593689844
Format: Hardback
$50.13

Create a road map for your loved ones and peace of mind for yourself with this invaluable end-of-life planner. Written...  Read More >>

A Man With No Title

A Man With No Title

Author: Xavier Le Clerc ,  William Rodarmor
ISBN: 9780863569821
Format: Hardback
$28.44

Living in France but ravaged by memories of war in Algeria, Mohand-Said has withdrawn into his own world. Xavier...  Read More >>

Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean

Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Shelene Gomes ,  Scott Timcke
ISBN: 9780820366364
Format: Hardback
$316.67

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine

Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine

Author: Marta Dyczok (Western University)
ISBN: 9781009365574
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's...  Read More >>

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