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The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca 9780803279957
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose... -
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay 9780803280045
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and... -
Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis by Laurie Lawlor 9780803280465
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.27Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful than mere shadows. When the twentieth century was just... -
Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier by Merrill J. Mattes 9780803281578
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.07During the years of the Indian uprisings in the West, Elizabeth Burt followed her husband, Major Andrew Burt, from one lonely outpost to another, with their three small children, a crate of chickens,... -
Moon of Popping Trees by Rex Alan Smith 9780803291201
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds... -
Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust by Naomi Samson 9780803292727
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.13In 1942 German Nazis and Polish collaborators drove nine-year-old Naomi Rosenberg and her family from the town of Goray, Poland, and into hiding. For nearly two years they were forced to take refuge... -
Elsie's Business by Frances Washburn 9780803298651
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.04Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her childhood and, perhaps, the depths... -
Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord 9780803240001
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place... -
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard 9780803228122
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.90For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same... -
All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins 9780803239739
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores... -
Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972-2008 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803259652
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.79With Final Innings Dean Sullivan concludes his four-volume documentary history of baseball, whose three earlier volumes have been called "a broad array of illuminating and often unexpected materials"... -
Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak by Jayme Lynn Blaschke 9780803262393
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.22As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre and more relevant. Voices of Vision... -
The World Before Mirrors by Joan Connor 9780803264557
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.36"What do you do for a living?" the podiatrist (or the photographer or the woman in the train station) asks, and Joan Connor answers, "I'm a writer," waiting with a cringe for the... -
The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn 9780803278059
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Celebrated sports writer Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. The Era begins in 1947 with Jackie... -
The Abysmal Brute by Jack London 9780803279940
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.35Before anyone knew there was such a thing, Jack London gave us the natural: Young Pat Glendon has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He loves nature, is afraid of cities, and is shy of women... -
The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth by Marguerite Merington 9780803281387
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.30During separations enforced by the military, Lieutenant General George A. Custer and his wife, Elizabeth, corresponded about the Civil War, the perils of frontier life, and the chain of events that... -
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin 9780803281714
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family-these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths... -
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris 9780803282674
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Novel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsNovel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsAbout the AuthorWright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The... -
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry 9780803282780
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23The best compact history of the Atlanta campaign ever writtenAbout the AuthorRichard M. McMurry is the author of John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence (also available in a Bison Books... -
Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities by Devon A. Mihesuah 9780803282926
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Continuing the thought-provoking dialogue launched in the acclaimed anthology Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines... -
Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov 9780803283510
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25'Two Leggings ...was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian ...This is... -
Family Farming: A New Economic Vision, New Edition by Marty Strange 9780803217485
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.63Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social,... -
Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vaz 9780803217904
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.92The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these... -
In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America, Second Edition by Earl Pomeroy 9780803228207
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.45The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous "palace cars" and stayed at luxury hotels... -
The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene by Reg Saner 9780803236349
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.45The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit... -
Chair of Tears by Gerald Vizenor 9780803238404
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny,... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780803245716
Booksplease Price: $18.06Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired."... -
Nebraska Moments by Donald R. Hickey 9780803260399
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.70Nebraska author Mari Sandoz remarked that most people see Nebraska as "that long flat state that sets between me and any place I want to go." If so, they're missing plenty, as this... -
Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books by Warren Motte 9780803261396
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.11Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full... -
Games of the North American Indian, Volume 2: Games of Skill by Stewart Culin 9780803263567
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally... -
Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272699
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.35John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond... -
The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy by Charley Hester 9780803273467
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.29A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, bound to make a life for himself on the great American frontier. In the winter of his life seven... -
Cripple Creek Days by Mabel Barbee Lee 9780803279124
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.11Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole... -
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 by Milo Milton Quaife 9780803279308
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The son of French immigrants who settled in Maryland, Charles Larpenteur was so eager to see the real American West that he talked himself into a job with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1833. When... -
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The Skylark of Space by E. E."Doc" Smith 9780803292864
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.60Brilliant government scientist Richard Seaton discovers a remarkable faster-than-light fuel that will power his interstellar spaceship, The Skylark. His ruthless rival, Marc DuQuesne, and the... -
An Ambush of Shadows: The Pelbar Cycle, Book Five by Paul O. Williams 9780803298521
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.27An Ambush of Shadows is the fifth book in the classic series of postapocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar. Despite the tentative peace established in the eleven hundred years since the... -
The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition by Theodore Winthrop 9780803298637
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.92In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington,... -
Nebraska: An Illustrated History, Second Edition by Frederick C. Luebke 9780803280427
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.89A unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke's lifelong commitment to the... -
Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying by W. Scott Olsen 9780803211445
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.32Hard Air is a book about extraordinary flying-flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad-a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to... -
Chasing Geronimo: The Journal of Leonard Wood, May-September 1886 by Leonard Wood 9780803225275
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.35This diary of Leonard Wood, a medical officer, tells the dramatic story of the last campaign against the Apache chief Geronimo. It is the only journal kept by anyone on that expedition. Under the...