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The Extraordinary Spirit of Green Chimneys: Connecting Children and Animals to Create Hope by Samuel B. Ross
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Green Chimneys is a nationally renowned US nonprofit organisation that helps improve the lives of at-risk urban children by incorporating animals and environmental activities into their educational... -
Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review by Jeremy Schoenberg
Booksplease Price: £26.74The relationship between Jews and the United States is necessarily complex: Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and, of course, Jewish culture and religion have likewise been... -
Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy by Jonathan Beever
Booksplease Price: £26.73In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science,"... -
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust by Dr. Rafael Medoff
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many... -
Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences: Identity and the Politics of Feeling by Kimberly Chabot Davis
Booksplease Price: £44.84Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological... -
Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative by Derek Parker Royal
Booksplease Price: £46.13Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish... -
Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate by Alan Greenspoon
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there's something (a birth, bar or bat... -
Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel and the National-popular State by Ryan Long
Booksplease Price: £44.88The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines... -
Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas by Lauren Rule Maxwell
Booksplease Price: £45.68Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels-Kincaid's... -
Inside Animal Hoarding: The Story of Barbara Erickson and Her 552 Dogs by Arnold Arluke 9781557535115
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Inside Animal Hoarding: The Story of Barbara Erickson and Her 552 Dogs profiles one of the largest and most intriguing cases of animal hoarding in recent history. Celeste Killeen's investigation... -
Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda by Robert X. Browning 9781557537348
Booksplease Price: £36.92Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference,... -
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging, Revised Edition by Denise L. Calhoun 9781612498638
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and communication skills among older adults. Featuring simple... -
Complementing Latin American Borders by Floyd Merrell 9781557534156
Booksplease Price: £24.83The idea of complementing borders is appropriately ambiguous with respect to Latin America. People inhabiting cultural borders do not belong to either of the two sides, yet they are contained within... -
Tuning into Mom: Understanding America's Most Powerful Consumer by Michal Clements 9781557535856
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.66American mothers are household CFOs, in charge of an estimated $2.45 trillion in direct spending. They are also an important influence on other family members' buying habits. Many organizations have... -
The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon by Zachary Michael Kjack 9781557536198
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.62From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new... -
A Life Constructed: Reflections on Breaking Barriers and Building Opportunities by Delon Hampton 9781557536587
Booksplease Price: £20.11Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having... -
Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland by Michal Piotr Pregowski 9781557537409
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.75What has changed in the last twenty-five years in the relationship of Poles with their dogs? How have the free market and capitalism influenced Poland and the human-canine bond there? Are dogs... -
Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away by Dejan Jovic 9781557534958
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of many factors, not of a single one, but the primary one - the author argues - was commitment of the Yugoslav political elite to the Marxist ideology... -
Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World by Susan Bulkeley Butler 9781557535696
Booksplease Price: £20.18Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what's next? It's time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in... -
Understanding the Global Energy Crisis by Eugene D. Coyle 9781557536617
Booksplease Price: £29.37We are facing a global energy crisis caused by world population growth, an escalating increase in demand, and continued dependence on fossil-based fuels for generation. It is widely accepted that... -
Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World by Steven Simpson 9781612497839
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.15What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal... -
A Pictoral History of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, 1911-2011 by Phillip C. Wankat 9781557536211
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19This coffee-table book uses color photographs and captions to tell the story of the first one hundred years of the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering. Formed four years after a chemical... -
Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-moral Treatment of the Other by Clark Butler 9781557534279
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.00Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of... -
Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German-Danish Borderlands by Peter Thaler 9781557535245
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Of Mind and Matter analyzes identity formation in the multicultural border region of Sleswig. It highlights the changeability of national sentiments and explores what has motivated local inhabitants... -
Disaster Recovery Project Management: Bringing Order from Chaos by Randy R. Rapp 9781557537775
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.05The scope of disasters ranges from man-made emergency to natural calamity, from a kitchen grease fire to a hurricane or volcanic eruption. It may be just one house that is destroyed, or perhaps a... -
Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the Shelter Pet by 9781557535450
Booksplease Price: £20.17What happens behind the doors of the animal shelter? This book will introduce the reader to the work culture of animal shelter employees, volunteers, activists, educators, and pets. By weaving... -
History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by John F. Stover 9781557530660
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.04The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist LuciusBeebe once called the "Mother of Railroads," was the brainchild of Baltimorecity planners who hoped to outstrip New York in the race for... -
Vietnam: Four American Perspectives by Patrick J. Hearden 9781557530035
Booksplease Price: £20.17This collection of speeches delivered in 1987 presents the widely diverging opinions of four influential men: an eminent politician, a professional soldier, a government consultant, and a... -
Striking Their Modern Pose: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdos, Pardo Bazan, and Picon by Dorota Heneghan 9781557537256
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their... -
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 by Julie Johnson 9781557536136
Booksplease Price: £38.43The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation... -
The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation by 9781557535795
Booksplease Price: £61.45There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of... -
Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right and Other Bugdacious Tales by Tom Turpin 9781557534170
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.71If you want to get downright buggy, pick up this wonderful collection of insect tales from the ""Bug Bowl"" guru, Tom Turpin. After you're through, you'll know more about the six-leg kingdom and its... -
The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry by 9781557531353
Booksplease Price: £33.01The Gendered Lyric argues that gender difference contributes to the definition of aesthetic values and, indeed, shaped the representation of masculine and feminine subjectivity in nineteenth-century... -
The Modern Land-Grant University by Robert J. Sternberg 9781557536778
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.32In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university... -
Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism by 9781557534941
Booksplease Price: £24.94Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism analyzes the various ways in which the nation's newspaper editors, reporters, and war correspondents covered the biggest story of their lives - the... -
Politics and the Intellectuals: Conversations with Irving Howe by 9781557535511
Booksplease Price: £33.72Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope. Many of... -
Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, The Bahamas by 9781557533340
Booksplease Price: £46.79Although The Bahamas is not alone, either in the Caribbean, or elsewhere in having a pet over-population problem, this publication appears to be the first to provide a systematic study of dog... -
Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Booksplease Price: £36.78Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such... -
Successfully Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Classrooms: Research in K-12 and Teacher Education by Thomas Brush
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more... -
Of Levinas and Shakespeare: To See Another Thus by Moshe Gold
Booksplease Price: £52.09Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work or dedicated volume has brought this thoughtful lens...