10 Books Every Student Should Read this September

Welcome back this September!

The start of the academic year has got us thinking about the books that transformed our thinking and ignited our love of learning.

The team at MUP have decided to mark this exciting time with a special discount offer across selected academic titles for the month of September to ease you back into learning.

Whether you’ve had a summer break from reading or kept up your academic studies, we have a list of the top 10 books you to read this September to ease you back into the academic term.

Want to explore more? See what other titles are available at 30% off this September.
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Killing Men & Dying Women

$37.95

Griselda Pollock

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

Foundational Economy

$22.95

The Foundational Economy Research

This book shows how the foundational economy - public services, infrastructure, education and health care - was built up between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This system of provision has been undermined in the age of privatisation and outsourcing.

The futures of feminism

$37.95

Valerie Bryson

This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour will make it attractive to a wide market.

The free speech wars

$22.95

Charlotte Lydia Riley

This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as well as providing a strong historical and comparative context.

Foucault's theatres

$29.95

Tony Fisher, Kélina Gotman

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought.

The politics of everyday China

$19.95

Neil Collins, David O'Brien

Providing both an overview of the political situation and context in China with ethnographic insights, The Politics of Everyday China aims to give both the new student of China and those who have encountered the subject before an insight that goes beyond the usual cliché and surface description.

Adapting Frankenstein

$37.95

Dennis R. Cutchins, Dennis R. Perry

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies.

The history of emotions

$26.95

Rob Boddice

The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.

Migration into art

$45.95

Anne Ring Petersen

Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher

Beginning theory

$17.95

Peter Barry

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best...

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