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Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make by Don Hossler
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £18.60Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors... -
An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas by Michael Lewis Goldberg
Booksplease Price: £27.41Looking at both the private and public lives of women and men in rural and urban Kansas, Michael Lewis Goldberg offers sweeping evidence of the role gender played in influencing Gilded Age politics... -
Roman Architecture and Society by James C. Anderson, Jr.
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £22.20Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, jr., describes the training, career path, and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how the... -
German-Soviet Relations Between the Two World Wars by Edward Hallett Carr
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsBook makes absorbing reading. Recommended for college and larger public libraries Library JournalBook... -
Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America by Ronald R. Kline
Booksplease Price: £28.58From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies-the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power-transformed the rural United States. But... -
Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales by Edward P. St. John
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives... -
The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment by Gregory E. Kaebnick
Booksplease Price: £48.26Going back at least to the writings of John Stuart Mill and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, people have argued for and against maintaining a state of nature. Is there an inherent virtue in leaving alone a... -
Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas by Hent de Vries
Booksplease Price: £50.54Originally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 6 by Edmund Spenser
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.04Originally 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... -
A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 by Richard H. Sewell
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84What caused the Civil War? Perhaps no question in American history has attracted more interest or sparked more debate. A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the... -
The Pursuit of Love: The Meaning in Life: Volume 2 by Emily Singer
Booksplease Price: £25.63In his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literaure from the Greeks to the twentieth century. Now in a sequel to... -
Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860 by Peter Way
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 2 by Edmund Spenser
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.04Originally 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 Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America by James Mahoney
Booksplease Price: £29.37Despite their many similarities, Central American countries during the twentieth century were characterized by remarkably different political regimes. In a comparative analysis of Guatemala, El... -
Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in The Tatler and The Spectator Erin Mackie (Syracuse University) 9780801872532
Booksplease Price: £28.58In Market a la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced... -
Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance--Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica by Carmelo Mesa-Lago
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £33.70How can we determine which economic model best provides for economic development and social welfare? In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American... -
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery by Elizabeth Haiken
Booksplease Price: £22.68Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections-the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part... -
The New Medievalism by Marina Scordilis Brownlee
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research... -
Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy by James M. Lindsay
Booksplease Price: £28.90Lindsay offers a timely and comprehensive examination of the role the modern Congress plays in foreign policy, and of the ways members use their control of procedure and access to the news media to... -
The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Originally published in 1864 as La Cite Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a... -
Watermen by Randall S. Peffer
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.23For three hundred years, generations of Tilghman Islanders have lived by harvesting the waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. They are watermen, an old English term for commercial fishermen, and their... -
Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts by Elizabeth A. Flynn
Booksplease Price: £28.58"An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it... -
Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government by Jameson W. Doig
Booksplease Price: £28.90Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support... -
The World of Samuel Beckett by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25"The World of Samuel Beckett" brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's... -
Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America by Abraham F. Lowenthal
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18The idea that the United States can and should help Latin America achieve democracy has been a recurrent theme in U.S. foreign policy throughout the twentieth century. By the 1990s, it has become... -
Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins
Booksplease Price: £29.07Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories -- most of them contemporary works... -
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era by Marc Shell
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of... -
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society by Stanley Chojnacki
Booksplease Price: £26.42In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the... -
Merging Colleges for Mutual Growth: A New Strategy for Academic Managers by James Martin
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90In Merging Colleges for Mutual Growth, James Martin and James E. Samels bring together a distinguished group of higher education professionals to provide the first comprehensive handbook for those... -
Graphs on Surfaces by Bojan Mohar
Booksplease Price: £76.60Graph theory is one of the fastest growing branches of mathematics. Until recently, it was regarded as a branch of combinatorics and was best known by the famous four-color theorem stating that any... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £27.24In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on... -
Long Made Short by Stephen Dixon
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming... -
Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.About the AuthorWilliam Kerrigan is... -
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling: Volume 2 by Susanne K. Langer
Booksplease Price: £30.55The second volume of Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling contains Part IV of the six parts which will eventually compose Susanne Langer's masterwork. It confronts the crucial issue of "The Great Shift"... -
The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading by Barbara Johnson
Booksplease Price: £24.64Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies... -
Abuse and Victimization across the Life Span by Martha B. Straus
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £18.60"Abuse and Victimization across the Life Span" addresses the problem of family violence from a developmental perspective. Rather than limiting the focus to a specific state of development, the book... -
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries by Alejandro Portes
Booksplease Price: £25.92A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up "shop" on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells... -
Medicine in America: A Short History by James H. Cassedy
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87How did the challenge and the timetable of America's westward expansion affect American medical practice? What have the principles and obligations of American democracy brought to the character of... -
American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by William G. Rothstein
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century, William G. Rothstein sombines sociological with historical analysis to explain the devlopment of the medical profession in nineteenth-century America... -
Sultanistic Regimes by H. E. Chehabi
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the...