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There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he... -
The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC by The Kent State University Press 9780873386869
Booksplease Price: £33.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-poets by The Kent State University Press 9780873388481
Booksplease Price: £22.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 11, 2002-2004 by Tom Batiuk
Booksplease Price: £37.60Long-running character Funky Winkerbean reminds us that we all have to grow upRelationships move to the front of the stage in this eleventh volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean as the lighthearted... -
Cleveland A to Z: An Essential Compendium for Visitors and Residents Alike by John J. Grabowski 9781606353905
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.31A richly illustrated celebration of Cleveland history and culture.Cities around the globe, whether large or small, have characteristics that create a particular identity. So what about Cleveland?... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 9, 1996-1998 by Tom Batiuk 9781606353929
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.00Balancing humor with sensitivity to tell stories we need to hear .Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips that allows its characters to grow and age. With this... -
Guide Book for the Tourist and Traveler Over the Valley Railway!: The Short Line Between Cleveland, Akron and Canton, 1880 by 9780873387354
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Founded in 1871 by a group of entrepreneurs from Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, the Valley Railway paralleled the Cuyahoga River Valley, stretching from southeast Cleveland to Akron and then on to... -
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction by Holly M. Kent 9781606353172
Booksplease Price: £54.29Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of... -
The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot by Janice Brown 9781606353387
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.20As bombs fell on London almost nightly from the autumn of 1940 through the summer of 1941, the lives of ordinary people were altered beyond recognition. A reclusive Oxford lecturer found himself... -
Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham by Larry E. Wood 9781606353851
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Emma Molloy temperance revivalist, prohibitionist, and accessory to murder.In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known... -
Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections: Caring for Problematic Twentieth-Century Textiles, Apparel, and Accessories by Kelly L Reddy-Best 9781606354285
Booksplease Price: £36.76A manual and guide for preserving unique materials in fashion such as rayon, paper, and plasticsContinuous innovation and experimentation with the materials used in constructing textiles, apparel,... -
Portraits in Steel: An Illustrated History of Jones and Laughling Steel Corporation by The Kent State University Press 9780873386241
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Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell 9781606353592
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers... -
The Health Humanities and Camus's The Plague by Woods Nash 9781606353226
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Using Camus's classic novel as a touchstone for health humanities educationCamus's The Plague, first published in 1947, is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century fiction and as an interesting... -
From Garfield to Harding: The Success of Midwestern Front Porch Campaigns by Jeffrey Normand Bourdon 9781606353806
Booksplease Price: £32.65How front porch campaigns transformed candidate interaction with the public In 1880, James Garfield decided to try something new: rather than run the typical passive campaign for president, he... -
Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Girl Who Connected Them All by James M Scythes 9781606354520
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78One young woman's correspondence with her community's servicemen, maintaining connection and boosting morale throughout the Civil WarDuring the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters... -
So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature by Kathleen J. O'Shea 9781606354032
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51"English," wrote Virginia Woolf, "which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his... -
The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial by Laura James 9781606353943
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.87Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes... -
How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore 9781606354278
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body... -
Hemingway's Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Frederic Svoboda 9781606353875
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Encapsulating all of Hemingway's interests, his short stories are essential for understanding him.Sometimes characterised as the most significant author since Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway was an... -
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War by Paul Taylor 9781606353530
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.50The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering... -
Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals and Civil War Letters of Orlando B.Wilcox by The Kent State University Press 9780873386289
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £29.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Slavery: Interpreting American History by Aaron Astor
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people... -
![Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9357766/10391869/9781606353882__95201.1759297804.jpg?c=1 "Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882")
Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882
Booksplease Price: £40.78A new and provocative analysis of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Hemingway's short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," has secured a place among the greatest works in that genre-the story is widely... -
Blanton's Browns: The Great 1965-69 Cleveland Browns by Roger Gordon
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.24Great players, great coaches, great fans, and a great stadium-the 1965-69 Cleveland Browns Two very exciting games in Cleveland Browns history-their upset of the Baltimore Colts in 1964 and the... -
Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers by Steve French 9781606353097
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.68At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union... -
A Century of Flight at Paton Field: The Story of Kent State University's Airport and Flight Education by William D. Schloman 9781606353868
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Celebrating Kent State's historic contributions to flight in northeast Ohio and beyond In this detailed and well-illustrated study, A Century of Flight at Paton Field explores the hundred-year... -
Bank Robbers and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.36The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National... -
Hemingway in Comics by Robert K. Elder
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.39Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with... -
Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Laura Godfrey 9781606353813
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Remarkable connections between Hemingway's time and our own digital eraHow can we convince readers, and especially students, to slow down to the crawl that is often necessary to see the real power in... -
A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio by James M. Greiner 9781606353820
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A sensational murder, trial, and a young woman's execution in Depression-era New YorkAt first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore 'Sam' Antonio had all the trademarks of a... -
I Hear the World Sing (Sento cantare il mondo): Italian and American Children Joined in Poetry (Bambini italiani e americani uniti in poesia) by David Hassler
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.70Shared joys and concerns across cultures and language, expressed in the poetry of children.When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about... -
I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake: Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott by Leslie Lambert Rounds
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his... -
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby 9781606353486
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £33.60George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac,... -
America's First Interstate: The National Road, 1806-1853 by Roger Pickenpaugh 9781606353974
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.22The story of America's first government-sponsored highway.The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837,... -
Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project by The Wick Poetry Center 9781606353776
Booksplease Price: £25.67This beautiful and moving book, featuring a representative collection of Traveling Stanzas poetry illustrations, celebrates the tenth anniversary of this award-winning community arts project... -
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby 9781606354759
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.50George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac,... -
Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region by Guy L. Denny 9781606354377
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.00Exploring and appreciating the fascinating ecosystems of bogs and fensPeatlands-and specifically "bogs"-have long been a source of fascination for humans, and these amazing places are truly living... -
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War by Angela M. Zombek 9781606353554
Booksplease Price: £45.98Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and ahistorical rupture in America's otherwise linear and... -
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton 9781606354162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.01The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National...