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A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations by Barbara K. Rodes
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.61Here are more than 3,700 quotations in 143 categories--from Acid Rain to Zoos--that provide a comprehensive collection of wise and witty observations about our natural environment. Quotations have... -
The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History by Richard A. Goldthwaite
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £22.20'Awarded'' the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.' "Always fascinating...The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 7 by Edmund Spenser
Booksplease Price: £39.22Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life... -
The Fathers of the Towns: Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England by Edward M. Cook, Jr.
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New... -
The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley by Michael P. Branch
Booksplease Price: £29.37This is an anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing about one of America's premier regions-the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Beginning with Captain John Smith's... -
Liberty Under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life by William M. Wiecek
Booksplease Price: £28.90The two-hundredth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and the intense debates surrounding the recent nominees to the Supreme Court have refocused attention on one of the most fundamental documents... -
Asa Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin by A.Hunter Dupree
Booksplease Price: £32.82The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in... -
The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle by Sander L. Gilman
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In The Case of Sigmund Freud, Sander Gilman traces the "medicalization" of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to... -
A Guide to Documentary Editing by Mary-Jo Kline
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £24.65First published in 1987 and widely acclaimed, A Guide to Documentary Editing is now available in a new and completely revised edition. Drawing on the experience of dozens of editorial projects, the... -
Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845: Volume 3 by Robert Remini
Booksplease Price: £30.64Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion,... -
Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University by Sheila Slaughter
Booksplease Price: £28.90The globalization of the political economy at the end of the twentieth century is destabilizing the traditional patterns of university professional work. One of the major changes that has taken place... -
Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology by Alan L. Boegehold
Booksplease Price: £28.90In Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology, Alan Boegehold and Adele Scafuro bring together a distinguished group of scholars who explore the nature and meaning of Athenian citizenship. Departing from... -
Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America by James Turner
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Until the 19th century, atheism and agnosticism were viewed as bizarre aberrations. But atheism emerged as a viable alternative to other ideologies. How and why it became possible is the subject of... -
Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.51Such organizations as AT&T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass... -
The Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe by Zoltan Barany
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25The volume pays special attention to the impact of the Communist legacies on four areas: politics, society, the economy, and the environment. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 looks at these... -
Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema James Goodwin (Professor, UCLA) 9780801846618
Booksplease Price: £28.58In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that... -
The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe by Shawn Rosenheim
Booksplease Price: £27.10"The problem of Poe's place in American culture cannot be settled canonically, since, unlike the works of Melville or Hawthorne, Poe's texts have not been primarily transmitted through the schools... -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study by C. R. Whittaker
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly... -
A Midwife through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life by Timothy E. Quill
Booksplease Price: £27.60Approximately two-thirds of deaths in the United States involve a doctor's partnership with an individual, whether it be for the administration of pain relief or sedation or for the act of... -
Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes by Francisco E. Thoumi
Booksplease Price: £26.42Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics-social, economic, and political-of countries with these industries forms the subject... -
A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems by Richard S. Katz
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the problem of how a given electoral system affects the role of political... -
Philosophy and the Turn to Religion by Hent de Vries
Booksplease Price: £42.66Originally published in 1999. If religion once seemed to have played out its role in the intellectual and political history of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. In... -
The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £25.28Named one of the Ten Best Books about New York City by the New York TimesAbout the AuthorDiane Ravitch is Research Professor in the School of Education at New York University and holds the Herman... -
On Signs Marshall Blonsky 9780801830075
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.23Contributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Thomas A. Sebeok, and others.About the... -
A World of Difference by Barbara Johnson
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical... -
Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science by Edward Lurie
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.17A giant of nineteenth-century natural history study, Louis Agassiz made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontology, and zoology. Agassiz's fame in America was largely as a... -
Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective by Jonathan M. Samet
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £25.97During the last two decades, outdoor air pollution has decreased in the United States and in many other industrial nations. But many hazardous pollutants have been found in offices, cars, homes, and... -
America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy by Helen F. Ladd
Booksplease Price: £28.58In the past two decades powerful economic, social, and fiscal forces have buffeted America's major cities. The urbanization of poverty, the shift in employment from manufacturing to services,... -
Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 by Mary P. Ryan
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any woman who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subject to prosecution as a prostitute. Not all... -
Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel
Booksplease Price: £29.56Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who... -
Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (University of Glasgow) 9780801853098
Booksplease Price: £24.64"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian... -
William Faulkner: His Life and Work by David Minter
Booksplease Price: £26.42In this highly acclaimed biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories, and... -
Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.91From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he... -
How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay by Stephen Aron
Booksplease Price: £27.10Eighteenth-century Kentucky was a place where Indian and European cultures collided-and, surprisingly, coincided. But this mixed world did not last, and it eventually gave way to nineteenth-century... -
Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece by Lowell Edmunds
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the... -
Eros in Mourning: From Homer to Lacan by Henry Staten
Booksplease Price: £30.06Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as... -
The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris by Dora B. Weiner
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.14In The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris, Dora B. Weiner examines the experiences of the sick and handicapped indigent men, women, and children in Paris during the French... -
Novels into Film by George Bluestone
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87First published in 1957, this seminal work of film theory analyzes the process-"the mysterious alchemy"-by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits... -
The New York Irish by Ronald H. Bayor
Booksplease Price: £36.08When Ellis Island opened in 1892, nearly four million Irish men and women had already made the journey to America. By the 1990s, Ireland had sent another million or more. New York has been both port... -
Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem by Frank Doggett
Booksplease Price: £27.10Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of...