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The A to Z of Aesthetics by Dabney Townsend 9780810875814
RRP: $94.50$82.93Aesthetics is not a "factual" discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for "feeling" and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within... -
The A to Z of United States-China Relations by Robert G. Sutter 9780810875524
RRP: $94.50$82.28The relationship between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China is traced in this dictionary containing hundreds of cross-referenced entries on the presidents and prime ministers, the secretaries of state and foreign ministers,... -
The A to Z of United States-Africa Relations by Robert Anthony, Waters 9780810875517
RRP: $94.50$83.12The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease,... -
The A to Z of the Gilded Age by T. Adams Upchurch 9780810871557
RRP: $94.50$82.28The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in technology and industry, of... -
The A to Z of Journalism by Ross A. Eaman 9780810871540
RRP: $94.50$83.12Journalism is the discipline of gathering, writing, and reporting news, and it includes the process of editing and presenting news articles. Journalism applies to various media, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and... -
The A to Z of the Puritans by Charles Pastoor 9780810868762
RRP: $94.50$83.12Members of the Church of England until the mid-16th century, the Puritans thought the Church had become too political and needed to be "purified." While many Puritans believed the Church was capable of reform, a large number decided that... -
The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations by Robert F. Gorman 9780810868748
RRP: $94.50$83.12While the idea of human rights and humanitarian assistance has ancient roots-evidence can be seen in such examples as the Ten Commandments, the Bhagavad Gita, and the teachings of Confucius and Socrates-it wasn't until the 1800s that the first modern... -
The A to Z of the Early American Republic by Richard Buel, Jr. 9780810868403
RRP: $94.50$83.12The formative period of the United States, running roughly from 1789 to 1829, has become remote and perhaps overly idealized. While the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams set the country on... -
The A to Z of the Vikings by Katherine Holman 9780810868137
RRP: $94.50$82.28The A to Z of the Vikings traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands... -
Hmong-Related Works, 1996-2006: An Annotated Bibliography by Mark Edward Pfeifer 9780810860162
RRP: $140.70$121.40The Hmong (pronounced "mong" in English) are a mountain-dwelling subgroup of the Miao of southwest China. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hmong began migrating southeast to Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Then in the second half of the 20th... -
Women Engaged in War in Literature for Youth: A Guide to Resources for Children and Young Adults by Hilary S. Crew 9780810849297
RRP: $157.50$137.28Women have always been involved in war; a fact that has generally been acknowledged, but not always documented. The importance of the availability of good print, nonprint, and Internet resources for the study of women's involvement in war is especially... -
The A to Z of Epistemology by Ralph Baergen 9780810875876
RRP: $94.50$82.28Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs, evidence, and claims of knowledge. It is one of the core areas of philosophy, and is relevant to an astonishingly broad range of issues and situations. Epistemological issues arise... -
Farmers that Helped Shape America: A Van Sickles Family History by Joseph Vincent Collins 9780761837428
RRP: $75.60$66.26Farmers That Helped Shape America chronicles the settling of the untamed wilderness that is today's western Maryland and the participation of Isaac Van Sickle and his relatives in the Civil War. It also explores other historical developments, such as... -
Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism by Peter Dauvergne 9780810858046
RRP: $147.00$128.60The Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim of producing an inclusive, wide-ranging, and... -
Provinces and Provincial Capitals of the World by Morris Fisher 9780810817586
RRP: $107.10$93.70This concise one-volume reference lists and indexes the thousands of states, provinces, and provincial capitals of the world for researchers, students, and pursuers of trivia.Book InformationISBN 9780810817586Author Morris FisherFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Historical Dictionary of Norway by Jan Sjovik 9780810857537
RRP: $199.50$174.55One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious... -
Banned Books by DK 9780744056280
RRP: $37.78$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744056280Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DKWeight(grams) 148g -
The Information-Literate Historian by Jenny L. Presnell 9780197749869
RRP: $77.70$73.90The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students is the only book specifically designed to teach today's history students how to successfully select and use sources--primary, secondary, and electronic--to carry out and present... -
The Evolution of Modern Liberty: An Insightful Study of the Birth of American Freedom and How It Spread Overseas by George L. Scherger 9781629143903
RRP: $23.08$19.51Published for the first time in 1904, The Evolution of Modern Liberty was originally intended to be a comparison study of the American and French bills of rights. However, Scherger expanded his volume into much morea timeless look at the modern idea of... -
Design and Historic Preservation: The Challenge of Compatability by David L. Ames 9781611492347
RRP: $168.00$147.42Design and Historic Preservation: The Challenge of Compatability addresses two questions central to design and historic preservation: what are the parameters of "compatability" in the design of additions to historic buildings and of new infill... -
Loulou: Selected Extracts from the Journals of Lewis Harcourt (1880-1895) by Patrick Jackson 9781611473377
$233.39Loulou is a selection of extracts from the unpublished journals of Lewis Harcourt. Harcourt was the constant companion and confidential secretary of Sir William Harcourt, his father, who was home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer in the last... -
The A to Z of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon 9780810875630
RRP: $94.50$83.12The A to Z of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa includes over 660 entries on notable women in history, politics, religion, the arts, and other sectors; on events particularly associated with women; on women's organizations and publications; and on a range of... -
Nicknames and Sobriquets of U.S. Cities, States, and Counties by Joseph Nathan Kane 9780810847040
RRP: $157.50$138.12From Scrapple City to City of Little Wedding Churches, this listing includes almost 12,500 official and unofficial nicknames and sobriquets of American states, cities, towns, and counties.Book InformationISBN 9780810847040Author Joseph Nathan KaneFormat... -
Milestones in Western Civilization: Selected Readings, Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages by Joan Mickelson-Gaughan 9780810821880
$233.39This three-volume anthology contains excerpts and full-length articles from primary source materials in European history. Documents have been selected on the basis of their inherent historical value, their ability to illuminate a particular period, and... -
Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology by Sarah Milledge Nelson 9780759110816
RRP: $201.60$175.79Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the... -
Desperately Seeking Women Readers: U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership by Dustin Harp 9780739114919
RRP: $88.20$76.94Desperately Seeking Women Readers delves into the history of U.S. newspapers to examine the construction of female readership. Pages designed specifically for women transformed over time as the newspaper industry looked for ways to capture women readers... -
Modern America and the Legacy of Founding by Ronald J. Pestritto 9780739114179
RRP: $88.20$76.94This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_identified in the first two books of the series_have... -
Don't Know Much about the Bible by Kenneth C. Davis 9780380728398
$27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380728398Author Kenneth C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide by Donald A. Ritchie 9780199395194
RRP: $241.50$175.64Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community... -
Dictionary of American History by Michael Rheta Martin 9780822601241
RRP: $81.90$61.45This easy-to-use dictionary contains succinct descriptions of more than 4,000-significant people, places, laws, institutions, events, political and social movements, catchphrases, and other terms important in American history. An ideal reference guide... -
History of the Byzantine Jews: A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire by Elli Kohen 9780761836230
RRP: $184.80$161.43The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was... -
Media in an American Crisis: Studies of September 11, 2001 by Elinor Kelley Grusin 9780761831846
RRP: $109.20$94.73September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and pervasive media coverage of our time. The need for information is the instinctive human reaction to... -
Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom by Leonard L. Bethel 9780761808480
RRP: $174.30$151.62The history of how blacks came to America is generally not found in city hall documents, but in the old Black churches and in the hearts and minds of elderly blacks who attended those churches. Through oral history and participant observation, this book... -
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary by Kent J. McGaughy 9780742533851
RRP: $96.60$84.04Richard Henry Lee played a pivotal role during the American Revolution, yet he remains one of the most misunderstood revolutionaries. His contemporaries, as well as modern historians, deemed him a political opportunist or dismissed him as an enigma. In... -
Desperately Seeking Women Readers: U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership by Dustin Harp 9780739114902
RRP: $182.70$158.80Desperately Seeking Women Readers delves into the history of U.S. newspapers to examine the construction of female readership. Pages designed specifically for women transformed over time as the newspaper industry looked for ways to capture women readers... -
Modern America and the Legacy of Founding by Ronald J. Pestritto 9780739114162
RRP: $220.50$191.92This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought-identified in the first two books of the series-have... -
Just Curious About History, Jeeves by Erin Barrett 9780743427098
RRP: $29.40$18.73Is it true that King Louis XIV never bathed? Was Doc Holliday really a doctor? Who were the twelve knights of King Arthur's Round Table? And what do Scots traditionally wear under their kilts? You'll get the answers to these fascinating questions and... -
Tibbits' Boys: A History of the 21st New York Cavalry by Thomas J. Reed
$233.58Tibbit's Boys is a new form of a combined regimental and campaign history. The 21st New York Cavalry regiment's unit history is the means by which readers may experience the Shenandoah valley campaign of the summer of 1864. As the story of this late war... -
List of radio stations of the world by Frank A Hart
$20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354033995Author Frank A HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Jeselsohn Collection of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea by Ada Yardeni
RRP: $228.80$206.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652173942Author Ada YardeniPage Count 757Imprint Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications,IsraelPublisher Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications,IsraelWeight(grams)...