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Native North Americans in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12 by Alice Crosetto 9780810891890
Booksplease Price: £113.11Native North Americans have rich and diverse cultures and traditions. However, many misconceptions, prejudices, and stereotypes exist due to the lack of understanding and ignorance of these cultures... -
Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly by Marty Appel 9781578860036
Booksplease Price: £31.53Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it... -
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton 9781578860098
Booksplease Price: £40.16After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the... -
Reminiscing in Tempo: The Life and Times of a Jazz Hustler by Teddy Reig 9780810823266
Booksplease Price: £77.37Teddy Reig (1917-1984) was a larger-than-life character, a self-described hustler who had a profound effect on the music world from the 1940s to the 1970s. As a record producer, he captured the work... -
Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party by Lawrence R. Sullivan 9780810872257
Booksplease Price: £112.43The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably important role in global politics. Founded in a boarding school in... -
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges by Andrew P. Jackson 9780810882454
Booksplease Price: £112.43The 1970 and 1994 editions of The Black Librarian in America by E.J. Josey singled out racism as an important issue to be addressed within the library profession. Although much has changed since... -
Making the Most of the Cloud: How to Choose and Implement the Best Services for Your Library by Robin M. Hastings 9780810891098
Booksplease Price: £56.66Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through "the cloud" are growing by the day. Making the Most of the Cloud: How to Choose and Implement the Best... -
Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film by Douglas Brode 9780810892958
Booksplease Price: £80.33Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire-male or female-has represented the libido, a "repressed force"... -
Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide by Stephen Walker 9780810852457
Booksplease Price: £113.41Written for the traveler who needs information beyond what is provided in a general guidebook, Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide introduces the reader to comprehensive and specialized travel... -
The A to Z of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by P. R. Kumaraswamy 9780810855908
Booksplease Price: £51.20For over a century, the conflict between the Arabs and Jews has remained the most intractable problem confronting the world. Hardly a day passes that the Arab-Israeli Conflict is not headlined in the... -
Suzanne Fisher Staples: The Setting Is the Story by Megan Lynn Isaac 9780810857575
Booksplease Price: £66.59After spending more than a decade as a journalist in South Asia, Suzanne Fisher Staples turned to writing realistic novels about young people coming of age in modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India,... -
The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins by Alexandru Madgearu 9780810858466
Booksplease Price: £90.57The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe." However, it would be more accurate to refer to this area as the "melting pot of Europe." Author Alexandru Madgearu discusses... -
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir by Herbert Coleman 9780810859128
Booksplease Price: £53.55As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and... -
Reach for the Top: The Turbulent Life of Laurence Harvey by Anne Sinai 9780810859142
Booksplease Price: £56.12The popular screen and stage star Laurence Harvey (1928-1973) is best remembered for his stellar performance in the film The Manchurian Candidate-a 20th century classic. Of his 50 films, Room At the... -
Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work by B. J. Rahn 9780810859395
Booksplease Price: £56.12In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a... -
Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics by Gary S. Rosenkrantz 9780810859500
Booksplease Price: £112.43Metaphysics is what Aristotle described as "the First Philosophy" or "first science," a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality. As such, metaphysics consists of a systematic study... -
Hmong-Related Works, 1996-2006: An Annotated Bibliography by Mark Edward Pfeifer 9780810860162
Booksplease Price: £71.54The Hmong (pronounced "mong" in English) are a mountain-dwelling subgroup of the Miao of southwest China. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hmong began migrating southeast to Vietnam, Laos, and... -
Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program by Esther Rosenfeld 9780810860315
Booksplease Price: £66.76This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and... -
A Bibliographical Companion by Roy Stokes 9780810860476
Booksplease Price: £61.62During even a cursory reading of the "literature about books," students of bibliography frequently have initial difficulties in understanding some of the terms they encounter. In A Bibliographical... -
Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds by Laurence Raw 9780810860490
Booksplease Price: £76.50Considered one of the greatest of American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) created a memorable body of literature, which included the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables,... -
Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly by Elsie M. Walker 9780810861220
Booksplease Price: £85.48Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors: An... -
Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography by James H. North 9780810862098
Booksplease Price: £90.87In Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography, James H. North gathers all the information about Boston Symphony musical recordings into one volume, capturing over 90 years of recorded... -
The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer by Bernd Herzogenrath 9780810867000
Booksplease Price: £75.80Considered the "King of Poverty Row," Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was an auteur of B productions. A filmmaker with an individual voice, Ulmer made independent movies before that category even existed... -
The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook by Professor C. Richard King 9780810867314
Booksplease Price: £66.27Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies... -
The A to Z of the Druzes by Samy Swayd 9780810868366
Booksplease Price: £51.20The Druzes are one of the smallest, least studied, and most esoteric religious communities in the Middle East. This is because the Druze teachings remain inaccessible not only to outsiders but also... -
The A to Z of the Early American Republic by Richard Buel, Jr. 9780810868403
Booksplease Price: £51.50The formative period of the United States, running roughly from 1789 to 1829, has become remote and perhaps overly idealized. While the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, James... -
The A to Z of Anglicanism by Colin Buchanan 9780810868427
Booksplease Price: £51.50Anglicanism arguably originated in 1534 when Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, which transferred papal power over the Church of England to the king. Today, approximately 550 dioceses are... -
The A to Z of World War I by Ian V. Hogg 9780810868625
Booksplease Price: £51.20One of the most devastating armed conflicts in history, World War I completely transformed the social and political landscape of the world in four short years. It also marked the appearance of the... -
The A to Z of the Puritans by Charles Pastoor 9780810868762
Booksplease Price: £51.50Members of the Church of England until the mid-16th century, the Puritans thought the Church had become too political and needed to be "purified." While many Puritans believed the Church was capable... -
The A to Z of the Nixon-Ford Era by Mitchell K. Hall 9780810868861
Booksplease Price: £51.20The presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford encompassed some of the most turbulent and significant years of the 20th century. Nixon was elected near the end of a decade... -
Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot by Konrad Dryden 9780810869707
Booksplease Price: £90.57Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot is the first fully documented biography in any language of Italy's last verismo composer, Franco Alfano (1875-1954), the composer chosen to complete Giacomo... -
The A to Z of Islam by Ludwig W. Adamec 9780810871601
Booksplease Price: £51.50There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people who can be explained solely by their normative texts: the Koran and the Sunnah. Muslims differ vastly in... -
The A to Z of Turkey by Metin Heper 9780810872196
Booksplease Price: £52.00Turkey is both an old and a new country. While the Turks have been living in Anatolia for the last millennium, the country has gone through extensive Westernization since the end of the 18th century... -
Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion by Hilary S. Crew 9780810874466
Booksplease Price: £66.59Donna Jo Napoli has received acclaim for her young adult works and is especially known for her historical novels and her retellings of myth and fairy tales. In this full-length critical study, Hilary... -
The A to Z of United States-Japan Relations by John Sant 9780810875555
Booksplease Price: £51.70The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan. Despite the geographical and cultural differences between these two... -
The A to Z of Kant and Kantianism by Helmut Holzhey 9780810875944
Booksplease Price: £51.20Few philosophers stand out as boldly as Immanuel Kant. While he did not write as much as others, his principle works, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgment,... -
The A to Z of Logic by Harry J. Gensler 9780810875968
Booksplease Price: £51.20The A to Z of Logic introduces the central concepts of the field in a series of brief, non-technical, cross-referenced dictionary entries. The 352 alphabetically arranged entries give a clear, basic... -
The A to Z of Shamanism by Graham Harvey 9780810876002
Booksplease Price: £51.20Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been... -
The A to Z of Old Time Radio by Robert C. Reinehr 9780810876163
Booksplease Price: £51.70The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the... -
The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies by Ludwig W. Adamec 9780810876248
Booksplease Price: £51.50Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have...