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Civil War Camps and Soldier Health: Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army Earl J. Hess 9781606355053
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in... -
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose by Jeanne Bryner 9781606353585
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how... -
Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War Ian T. Iverson 9781606354797
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The importance of political moderation in preserving the UnionHolding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory of Illinois from the introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in... -
Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354827Author Cam CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Where East Meets (Mid)West: Exploring an American Regional Divide by Jon K Lauck 9781606354964
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.30Essays on midwestern regional identity Somewhere west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River, the Midwest begins. Just where exactly, and how, and why are the questions explored in Where... -
Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970 by Howard Ruffner 9781606353677
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.10A student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner... -
My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor by Paul Taylor 9781606354070
Booksplease Price: £55.40An epistolary chronicle of love and reflection from the Civil War front.More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (1832-1895)... -
Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and Commentary by Bickford Sylvester 9781606353424
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare... -
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture by Anneliese Abbott 9781606354315
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movementEstablished in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King 9781606354506
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.20The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's... -
The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 by Susan J. Erenrich
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.33The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 is a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls... -
Classic 'Burgh: The 50 Greatest Collegiate Games in Pittsburgh Sports History by David Finoli 9781606353639
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.21The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games When sports fans think of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania, most think of football at the... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis Don W. King 9781606355107
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. Lewis Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2023 Bronze Medal Winner in World History Detailing the life of Warren... -
The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History by James Jessen Badal 9781606353912
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.95A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary... -
Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps Rebecca Jumper Matheson 9781606355015
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.61One couple's bold vision for American fashion Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for "slow fashion," William and Elizabeth Phelps, a... -
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970 by David Hassler 9781606351659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.09Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theater On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead... -
The First 649 Days: Essays and Other Acts of Love Eric LeMay 9781606355060
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24How do we wrestle with unimaginable loss? How does love open us to new worlds and even new versions of ourselves? In The First 649 Days, Eric LeMay explores the everyday moments and momentous events... -
The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Using a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and understand C. S. Lewis's writingsDrawing on C. S. Lewis's essays, sermons, and fiction, The Lion's Country offers a comprehensive... -
Medspeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by Francois I Luks 9781606354438
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.54Guiding us to better communication about illness, treatment, and health through simple art practicesLiving at the intersection of medicine and art, medical illustration is a field that is not well... -
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago 9781606354636
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and... -
Peace and Security in Kenya: The USAID Approach Galeeb Kachra 9781606354971
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354971Author Galeeb KachraFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
The Peace Corps in Tanzania: A History by Lawrence E y Mbogoni 9781606354889
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61An examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania-surveyors, engineers, and geologists-arrived in Dar es Salaam with... -
The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford in Spring 1863 Erik F. Nelson 9781606354803
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.72Military operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they are overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where... -
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves Martin H Bush 9781606354940
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.08The unlikely story of one of baseball's greatest comeback seasons The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place... -
More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee by Jonathan Engel 9781606354896
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The Union's forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the cause More Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee's junior officers--the company and field... -
The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories by 9780873389181
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.06When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician... -
Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and Commentary by Carl P. Eby 9781606354582
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Close reading and analysis of Hemingway's most ambitious posthumous novel Published in 1986, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Garden of Eden is a literary landmark. Hemingway periodically worked on the... -
A Singular People: Images of Zoar by 9780873387675
Booksplease Price: £25.92The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the... -
The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to Cleveland by Norm N. Nite
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Featured in Rolling Stone!The behind-the-scenes battle for the Rock Hall.For 25 years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has defined Cleveland's image as the "Rock and Roll Capital of the World." But... -
Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation Christopher P. Briem 9781606355022
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.53Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds"),... -
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 by Gordon H. Shufelt 9781606354124
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.58An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American... -
Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts by George R. Dekle Sr 9781606353707
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with... -
The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband by Gary Sosniecki 9781606354049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia... -
Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage Deborah Fleming 9781606354933
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.72In the Ohio counties of the Alleghany Plateau, 9th-century barns hewn from old-growth wood rest near remnant forests, reminders of the state's deep agricultural roots and rich ecological past... -
Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey by John Rosegrant 9781606354353
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Tolkien's enchanted worldview as literary form and as psychological struggleFocusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements... -
The Governor's Pawns: Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia by Randall S. Gooden 9781606354575
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £39.40An in-depth look at the unique actions of the newly formed state of West Virginia during the Civil War While the taking of hostages by both the Union and the Confederacy was common during the Civil... -
Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, A Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI by Eileen Welsome 9781606354254
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later.A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a... -
Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition by J. Gregory Acken
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40The insightful letters of a Harvard-educated staff officer's experience in the Army of the PotomacaCharles J. Mills, the scion of a wealthy, prominent Boston family, experienced a privileged... -
In the Heart of It All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service by Richard F Celeste 9781606354452
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Former Ohio governor Richard Celeste's remarkable journey from humble beginnings in northeast Ohio to Yale, Oxford, Washington DC, India, the governor's residence, and beyond"Dick, remember this... -
Redemption in '64: The Champion Cleveland Browns by John M. Harris 9781606353431
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and '50s, but when they won the National Football League championship in 1964 it came as a...