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Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics: Comparing Regional and National Contexts by Kurt von Mettenheim
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25While many comparative analysts see parliamentary government as essential for stable democracy, this volume argues that the American presidential system that separates and diffuses power can provide... -
On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices by Roger Chartier
Booksplease Price: £25.63The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and... -
Social Authorship and the Advent of Print Margaret J. M. Ezell (Texas A&M University) 9780801877377
Booksplease Price: £27.41How did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish their careers and find audiences for their work? What factors influenced the choices of essayists and dramatists... -
Child Health in America: Making a Difference through Advocacy by Judith S. Palfrey
Booksplease Price: £30.06Who will speak for the children? is the question posed by Judith S. Palfrey, a pediatrician and child advocate who confronts unconscionable disparities in U.S. health care-a system that persistently... -
Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis by Greg Hise
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order. Using Los... -
The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84The Anarchy of the Imagination colects the most important interviews, essays, and working notes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the most influential cultural figures to emerge from postwar... -
Staying Dry: A Practical Guide to Bladder Control by Kathryn L. Burgio
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £18.60This highly acclaimed book offers help to the millions of adult Americans who deal with urinary incontinence. Based on a program developed at the National Institute on Aging in association with the... -
The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers Allen Grossman 9780801842436
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.80During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of... -
Likelihood by A. W. F. Edwards
Booksplease Price: £29.07This new and expanded edition of A. W. F. Edwards' classic volume on scientific inference presents his most important published articles on the subject. Edwards argues that the appropriate axiomatic... -
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin
Booksplease Price: £28.88In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borges' efforts to "double" the genre's... -
Death and Burial in the Roman World by J.M.C. Toynbee
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to... -
America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton by William C. Berman
Booksplease Price: £25.63In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare... -
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance by Edward Muir
Booksplease Price: £26.42Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals-the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular... -
Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America by Gustave de Beaumont
Booksplease Price: £26.42Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an... -
Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 by James Rodger Fleming
Booksplease Price: £30.06Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a legitimate science and a government service in America. Challenging the widely held assumption that meteorologists were mere "data-gatherers" and... -
Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective by Edward L. Gibson
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties in Latin America? What does this augur for the stable representation of the propertied and socially privileged in political parties?... -
The Islamic Law of Nations: Shaybani's<I> Siyar</I> by Majid Khadduri
Booksplease Price: £29.07From its origins Islam has been an expansionist religion, understanding itself as a matter of faith to be in a permanent state of war with the non-Muslim world. After the initial consolidation of the... -
The Truth about College Admission Workbook: A Family Organizer for Your College Search by Brennan Barnard
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.44College admission has always been complicated-and COVID-19 has changed the college search and selection process in profound and challenging ways. But the authors behind the best-selling The Truth... -
What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference by Shoshana Felman
Booksplease Price: £24.15'What does a woman want?'-the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte-is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal... -
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function by Robert Weimann
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large... -
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile by Arturo Valenzuela
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtergreifung by Hitler through the downfall of democracies. In a... -
Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottman by Jean Gottmann
Booksplease Price: £27.10In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for... -
Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning by Timothy Beatley
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21"That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology", wrote Aldo Leopold in 1933, "but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics". Since then, every generation has taken... -
Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £22.20The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions... -
The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History by James Kugel
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.17Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of ... -
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson
Booksplease Price: £27.10Lionel Casson offers a comprehensive introduction to the people of ancient Egypt. He describes the structure of Egyptian society-the levels from peasant to pharaoh, the nature of the family, and the... -
Basil Bunting on Poetry by Basil Bunting
Booksplease Price: £29.07"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what... -
The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity among Black Women in College by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £35.65Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as... -
Ovid's Poetry of Exile Ovid 9780801839160
Booksplease Price: £27.60"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are."--Richard Wilbur.Someone clever,... -
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyre
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the... -
Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 by Bentley Glass
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £24.27Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are... -
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks
Booksplease Price: £30.55In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an... -
The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II by Louis Galambos
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.19'About the AuthorLouis Galambos is a research professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and an editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.ReviewsA timely and well-conceived collection of... -
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency by Larry Berman
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the Reagan legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? "Looking Back on the... -
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature by Susan Stewart
Booksplease Price: £28.58From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional... -
Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management by JoAnne Yates
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.About the AuthorJoAnne... -
A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder by J. R. Partington
Booksplease Price: £29.37For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful... -
Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution by Roger H. Brown
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia convention -- ostensibly called to revise the Articles of Confederation -- so intent on scrapping the old system and drawing up a completely new frame of... -
The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education by D. G. Hart
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £18.60In The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education, historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of religion to its current place as one of the largest academic disciplines in...