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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind 9780300281910
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.32An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing... -
On Dangerous Ground: A Theory of Bargaining, Border Settlement, and Rivalry by Toby J. Rider 9781108794541
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $50.54As a rule, countries consider clearly defined international borders to be paramount for their survival and prosperity. Most borders gain definition peacefully and, once they do, these definitions... -
The Templar Estates in Lincolnshire, 1185-1565: Agriculture and Economy by J. M. Jefferson
Booksplease Price: $213.19A new survey of major Templar landholdings offers fresh insights into key questions about their medieval history. Much has been written about the history of the Knights Templar, the legendary... -
Rediscovering Abundance: Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income, and Their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition by 9780268020279
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $42.76The essays in Rediscovering Abundance provide a complex and interdisciplinary analysis of the question of wealth creation and distribution in light of the moral and spiritual insights of the Catholic... -
Defeated: Losing Presidential Candidates in American History Martin Gitlin 9781538192955
Booksplease Price: $56.90A unique examination of U.S. politics and history told through the lives and campaigns of the losing presidential candidates. As time marches on, more political history seems to get lost in American... -
Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement by Carrie Noland 9780230102729
Booksplease Price: $90.25Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities... -
African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity by Sharrell D. Luckett 9781684481521
Booksplease Price: $75.82Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monae, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the... -
Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest by John Whalen-Bridge 9780230100244
Booksplease Price: $91.14Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest... -
On Dangerous Ground: A Theory of Bargaining, Border Settlement, and Rivalry by Toby J. Rider 9781108840347
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $232.79As a rule, countries consider clearly defined international borders to be paramount for their survival and prosperity. Most borders gain definition peacefully and, once they do, these definitions... -
Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin
RRP: $47.76Booksplease Price: $43.86How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the... -
Euro-Librarianship: Shared Resources, Shared Responsibilities by 9781560242666
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $178.39Euro-Librarianship focuses on strategies for working toward cooperation between libraries throughout Europe and the United States to provide the best access and information to research materials as... -
Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 by Timothy Yu
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81A groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American... -
Sports Fields: Design, Construction, and Maintenance James C. Puhalla 9781394281473
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $156.90Leading text on sports field management, now updated with the latest developments in, and on, the field Sports Fields is a comprehensive reference on the design, construction, renovation, and... -
Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang by Scott M. Deitche
Booksplease Price: $61.48In the mid-1970s, there were a series of gangland murders, committed by unknown killers, often wielding .22-caliber revolvers. At first these murders seemed unconnected, but law enforcement started... -
The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family Terrence P. Dwyer 9798881842550
Booksplease Price: $56.30The Badge Between Us is a raw, unfiltered account of policing that tracks the impact of secondary trauma and moral injury, infused by instances of organizational betrayal and police officer... -
Recovery from Addiction: A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own by William Cloud 9780814716083
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Millions of people enter or seriously consider entering alcohol or drug treatment each year. In their understandable state of urgency, most first-time treatment seekers and their loved ones may rush... -
An Analysis of Two Decades of Educational Technology Publications: Who, What and Where by Gloria Natividad 9789811343377
Booksplease Price: $179.36This book presents a challenging and multi-faceted research project that required state-of-the-art methodological approaches. The project involved analyzing data collected from 10,000 research... -
Optically Anomalous Crystals by Alexander Shtukenberg 9781402052873
Booksplease Price: $177.18Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this... -
Climate Rationality: From Bias to Balance by Jason S. Johnston
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $59.96Most environmental statutes passed since 1970 have endorsed a pragmatic or 'precautionary' principle under which the existence of a significant risk is enough to trigger regulation. At the same time,... -
Recovery from Addiction: A Practical Guide to Treatment, Self-Help, and Quitting on Your Own by William Cloud
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.26Millions of people enter or seriously consider entering alcohol or drug treatment each year. In their understandable state of urgency, most first-time treatment seekers and their loved ones may rush... -
New Directions in Congressional Politics by Jamie L. Carson
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66As the U.S. Congress has steadily evolved since the Founding of our nation, so too has our understanding of the institution. The second edition of New Directions in Congressional Politics offers an... -
Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology by Edith Desiree de Leeuw 9780471745310
Booksplease Price: $195.92A complete and comprehensive collaboration providing insight on future approaches to telephone survey methodology Over the past fifteen years, advances in technology have transformed the field of... -
Crises, War, and Diplomacy: Lessons for World Politics by John A. Vasquez 9781009652070
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.12Why do some international crises between major states escalate to war while others do not? To shed light on this question, this book reviews fifteen such crises during the period 1815-present,... -
The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death by Justin Bozung 9781501325502
Booksplease Price: $74.30The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer... -
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller 9780822362173
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $200.27In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence... -
The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi
Booksplease Price: $94.05Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and... -
The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi 9780199232383
Booksplease Price: $224.60Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and... -
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music by Dick Weissman 9781501344145
Booksplease Price: $60.14Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of... -
Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos by Heidi K. Gardner 9781633691100
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.94Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right. Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems--everything from... -
Operation Ebola: Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak by Sherry M. Wren 9781421422121
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $32.25One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the area's already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors-afraid of catching... -
Archipelagic American Studies by Brian Russell Roberts 9780822363354
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $163.70Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by... -
Elections and Exit Polling by Fritz J. Scheuren 9780470291160
RRP: $163.70Booksplease Price: $162.32"An understanding of the relationship between the product and the process in election polling is often lost. This edited volume unites ideas and researchers, with quality playing the central role."... -
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence... -
Archipelagic American Studies by Brian Russell Roberts 9780822363460
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by... -
High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference by Graham W. Pulford 9780750684378
RRP: $155.98Booksplease Price: $142.90High-Security Mechanical Locks comprehensively surveys and explains the highly technical area of high security locks in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. Well over 100 different locks... -
Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach to Regression, ANOVA, and Beyond Josh Correll 9781032572086
RRP: $154.03Booksplease Price: $135.39This essential textbook provides an integrated treatment of data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences. It covers all the key statistical models in an integrated manner that relies on the... -
Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang by Scott M Deitche 9781538196946
Booksplease Price: $33.97From the author of the star reviewed Garden State Gangland comes an in-depth expose on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a media obsession and Mafia lynchpin.In the... -
Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action Jim A. Kuypers 9781442252721
RRP: $106.98Booksplease Price: $96.12Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters... -
Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk by Ira David Socol 9781475828566
Booksplease Price: $53.78Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is... -
Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk by Ira David Socol 9781475828559
Booksplease Price: $99.86Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is...