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Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell 9781606353592
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73Following 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: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Using 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: $42.12How 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... -
The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial by Laura James 9781606353943
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.47Justice 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23How 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: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25Encapsulating 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: $49.02Booksplease Price: $39.35The 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... -
So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature by Kathleen J. O'Shea 9781606354032
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.33"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... -
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: $56.76Booksplease Price: $47.45One 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... -
Slavery: Interpreting American History by Aaron Astor
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33A 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... -
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Archetypal Figures in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality by David L. Anderson 9781606353882
Booksplease Price: $52.61A 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... -
A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio by James M. Greiner 9781606353820
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25A 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... -
A Century of Flight at Paton Field: The Story of Kent State University's Airport and Flight Education by William D. Schloman 9781606353868
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73Celebrating 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... -
Blanton's Browns: The Great 1965-69 Cleveland Browns by Roger Gordon
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.08Great 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: $43.86Booksplease Price: $40.87At 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... -
Bank Robbers and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.36The 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: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.59Ernest 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: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Remarkable 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... -
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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.55Shared 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25How 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... -
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War by Angela M. Zombek 9781606353554
Booksplease Price: $59.31Penitentiaries, 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... -
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby 9781606353486
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $43.34George 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: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.08The 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: $33.11This 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.29George 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: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.80Exploring 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... -
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton 9781606354162
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.91The 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... -
Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865 by J. Gregory Acken 9781606353721
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.80In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Travelling from... -
The Faun's Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie W. Starr 9781606353493
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie notices a bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with these... -
Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi 9781606354445
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeAbout the AuthorFarnaz Fatemi is a founding member of the Hive Poetry Collective and was a writing instructor at the University of California, Santa... -
The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien's Myth of Wilderness by Amber Lehning 9781606354421
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $51.15Examining the mythic importance of wilderness in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earthA study of myth suggests that the stories we human beings tell ourselves about who we are make us who we are. Amber... -
What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians by Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $23.99Personal essays relating key issues and insights from women in medicine What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine brings together a collection of short essays from women physicians working in diverse... -
The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992 by Lincoln A. Mitchell
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Searching for a home and a homerun-an overlooked era of Giants and San Francisco historyThe San Francisco Giants have been one of the most successful franchises in baseball in the twenty-first... -
The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns by Richard Peterson
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.63Seven decades of the intense Steelers-Browns rivalry.Football historians regard the games between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers as the basis for one of the greatest rivalries in... -
From Reading to Healing: Teaching Medical Professionalism through Literature by Susan Stagno 9781606353691
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Learning how to behave and engage professionally can be one of the most challenging parts of embarking on a career in the medical field. But using the 'power of stories' can teach, heal, and... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 15, 2014-2016 Tom Batiuk 9781606355008
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $46.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606355008Author Tom BatiukFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War by James A. Tyner
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.31President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic... -
Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and theEclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania by David Alan Johnson 9781606353448
Booksplease Price: $46.48The absence of medical licensing laws in most states during the years following the American Civil War made it possible for unscrupulous individuals to exploit the weak oversight and unregulated... -
Discovery and Renewal on Huffman Prairie: Where Aviation Took Wing by David Nolin 9781606353462
Booksplease Price: $40.94In 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright returned to their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, from North Carolina, where they had piloted their powered flying machine for several short flights. They wanted to... -
Dressing à la Turque: Ottoman Influence on French Fashion, 1670-1800 by Kendra Van Cleave 9781606354599
Booksplease Price: $79.53Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, the cultural influences that inspired it are often...