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Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves 9780252078644
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.50A pivotal member of the hugely successful bluegrass band Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Dobro pioneer Josh Graves (1927-2006) was a living link between bluegrass music and the blues... -
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism Sandra Zalman (University of Houston) 9781138548251
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard... -
I Hear a Pickle: and Smell, See, Touch, & Taste It, Too! by Rachel Isadora
Booksplease Price: $24.98Smelling, hearing, seeing, touching, tasting - there are so many ways to experience the world! Rachel lsadora's simple, familiar scenes of boys and girls using all five senses, sometimes to humorous... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald 9780811226158
Booksplease Price: $23.09The Rings of Saturn-with its curious archive of photographs-records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and... -
Quantum Physics, Mini Black Holes, and the Multiverse: Debunking Common Misconceptions in Theoretical Physics by Yasunori Nomura 9783319417080
Booksplease Price: $85.04"Modern physics is rife with provocative and fascinating ideas, from quantum mechanics to the multiverse. But as interesting as these concepts are, they are also easy to understand. This book,... -
Mexican Messiah: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by George W. Grayson 9780271032627
Booksplease Price: $73.55The emergence of Latin American firebrands who champion the cause of the impoverished and rail against the evils of neoliberalism and Yankee imperialism-Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in... -
Photography: History and Theory Jae Emerling 9780415778558
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of... -
Mexican Messiah: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by George W. Grayson 9780271032634
Booksplease Price: $55.63The emergence of Latin American firebrands who champion the cause of the impoverished and rail against the evils of neoliberalism and Yankee imperialism-Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in... -
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy by Amy Catalinac
Booksplease Price: $62.63Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and a key ally of the United States. Yet the determinants of Japanese security policy are not well understood. The question of why Japan never sought... -
Whisperin' Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music by Bill Anderson 9780820352916
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $36.08Whisperin' Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music. Mega country music hits... -
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an... -
Introduction to Nanophotonics by Sergey V. Gaponenko 9780521763752
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $102.20Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter interaction. Describing the basic... -
Japan Decides 2014: The Japanese General Election by Robert J. Pekkanen 9781137551993
Booksplease Price: $179.61Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major... -
Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments by Matthew S Shugart 9780192897053
RRP: $199.88Booksplease Price: $191.45Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats in the legislature. This book offers a theory of how political parties assign their elected members -- their "personnel" -- to... -
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics by Ulf Danielsson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand... -
The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.86Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come... -
Waiting by Kevin Henkes 9780062368430
Booksplease Price: $27.22Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor Book What are you waiting for? An owl, a puppy, a bear, a rabbit, and a pig-all toys arranged on a child's windowsill-wait for marvelous things to happen in this... -
The Neutrino Hunters: The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe by Ray Jayawardhana 9781780746470
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.32Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to science's greatest... -
Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we... -
Caring Matters Most: The Ethical Significance of Nursing by Mark Lazenby 9780199364541
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.30Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can develop this moral character in themselves by... -
Dr Seuss: American Icon by Philip Nel 9780826417084
Booksplease Price: $88.34Dr Seuss: American Icon celebrates one of the most influential authors and artists of the 20th century: Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as 'Dr Seuss'. Dr Seuss's ascendance from children's author to... -
Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico by Ted Genoways 9781324130611
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.14At the dawn of the twentieth century, Jose Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojena, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise... -
Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber 9780674046061
Booksplease Price: $56.18"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading... -
Tunnels by Rutu Modan
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.08A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the international antiquities trade. When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection... -
The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics: A Primer for the LHC Era by John Campbell 9780199652747
Booksplease Price: $178.35This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The Black Book... -
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton by Lydia R. Hamessley 9780252043529
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.60Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's... -
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.20new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed... -
Forensic Mental Health Practice and the Law: A Primer for Clinicians, Researchers, and Consultants David DeMatteo 9780197686560
Booksplease Price: $81.98Forensic mental health professionals provide a range of services to courts, attorneys, law enforcement agencies, and correctional facilities. Yet despite the importance of understanding the law, most... -
My Life in the Purple Kingdom by BrownMark
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records-Prince's bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince... -
My Life in the Purple Kingdom by BrownMark 9781517913755
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records-Prince's bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince... -
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson 9781501163944
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.91The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke-"a tremendous... -
The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is by Roberto Trotta
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries... -
Supposing... by Alastair Reid
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Follow unexpected possibilities on fanciful and humorous journeys, powered by the limitlessness of the imagination and the openness of the human spirit. SUPPOSING I looked in the mirror one day and... -
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer 9780811231947
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.75While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog,... -
Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas 9780861540099
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.53'Monumental, funny, potent, and fresh' Carlos Fonseca, author of Natural History Antonio is living a double life - and doing a pretty good job of it. By day he's Antonio, mild-mannered... -
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE by Omer Friedlander 9781399803953
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA'A... -
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio 9781439192375
Booksplease Price: $25.74We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And that includes five of the greatest scientists in history -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, Albert Einstein. But... -
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel 9780190932879
Booksplease Price: $40.37Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is... -
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Omer Friedlander 9781399803946
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'Friedlander's shimmering prose and admirably versatile points of view make his stories compelling' SARAH MOSS'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden... -
Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811229326
Booksplease Price: $25.35Jenny Erpenbeck's highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany's most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood...