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The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two Ghazaleh Alizadeh 9780815602941
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $28.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602941Author Ghazaleh AlizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint -
Warrior In Two Camps by 9780815624950
Booksplease Price: $49.18Winner of the John Ben Snow Manuscript Prize, 1977, this book is about one of the most interesting and little known officers of the American Civil War. Parker was a Seneca Indian, military secretary... -
Schizophrenia by 9780815602248
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.72Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their... -
Tracing the Ether: Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia by Moneera Al-Ghadeer 9780815611967
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.57An expansive bilingual anthology, Tracing the Ether showcases twenty-six acclaimed Saudi poets who are reimagining their place in our interconnected, digital world. Breaking away from the traditional... -
Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty Malcolm Sen 9780815612070
RRP: $128.70Booksplease Price: $104.23In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with climate change issues. Drawing upon concepts of sovereignty, precarity, and disaster,... -
O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918 by Suzanne R. Thurman
Booksplease Price: $71.80Compelling, in-depth analysis of Shaker villages that sheds light on how communal attitudes helped to liberate Shaker women. Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and... -
America in the Seventies by Stephanie A. Slocum-Schaffer
Booksplease Price: $89.86In assessing this tumultuous period in American history, Stephanie A. Slocum-Schaffer provides readers with a visceral experience of the seventies and a comprehensive survey of the important events... -
Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas by Thomas S. Abler
Booksplease Price: $44.38The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. As the most influential Seneca leader of his time, Cornplanter led his people in war and... -
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey by Eray Cayli 9780815637547
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $111.85Commemoration is considered essential to any project of confronting a nation's violent past. Opinions on commemoration tend to focus on representation and reception: how the commemoration narrates... -
Complete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning by Estelle F. Sinclaire 9780815627401
Booksplease Price: $156.12This history of the Corning glass industry is a rich storehouse of information for anyone trying to identify pieces of cut or engraved glass. It combines a study of craftsmen and technique in Corning... -
Lucinda: or, The Mountain Mourner by P.D. Manvill 9780815632085
Booksplease Price: $42.55In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manvill's ""Lucinda""; or, ""The Mountain Mourner"". Over the next five decades no fewer than ten printings of the novel... -
Helene Schweitzer: A Life of Her Own by Patti M. Marxsen 9780815610519
Booksplease Price: $49.71Born in Berlin, Helene Schweitzer came of age in Strasbourg during a time of great social, architectural, and historical developments. It was in this cultural milieu, as a history professor's... -
Women, Insecurity, and Violence in a Post-9/11 World by Bronwyn Winter 9780815635253
Booksplease Price: $81.59September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world's brutal entry into the third millennium. Nearly all discussions of world politics today include a tacit, if not overt, reference... -
Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities by Laura Gonzales 9780815637301
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.26Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited... -
Scholar in the Wilderness: Francis Adrian Van der Kemp by Harry F. Jackson 9780815604402
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.15When Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams: ""There is a Mr. Vanderkemp of New York, a correspondent, I believe, of yours, with whom I have exchanged some letters, without knowing who he is. Will you... -
Canal Town by Samuel Hopkins Adams 9780815602286
Booksplease Price: $42.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602286Author Samuel Hopkins AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Im -
The Midnight Court: A Critical Edition by Brian O'Conchubhair 9780815632603
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07Banned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be one of the greatest comic Irish poems. Despite its simple story line, Merriman's... -
... and the Hits Just Keep on Comin' by Peter E Berry 9780815601357
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.59A well-known radio personality surveys popular-music history from 1955 to 1976, calling attention to leading artists and their greatest hits and including annual charts of the top fifty songs.Book... -
The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950 by Roger Hecht 9780815607595
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.29The Erie Canal Readerpoems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major American and British writerscaptures the colorful landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York... -
War in the Shadow of Auschwitz: Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps by John Wiernicki 9780815607823
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.821943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death... -
Onondaga Iroquois Prehistory: A Study in Settlement Archaeology by James A. Tuck 9780815625117
Booksplease Price: $41.36The book opens with a brief historical outline of Onondaga culture and a sketch of the major developments in Iroquois prehistory. Each site is described, with a short account of its discovery,... -
House of Refuge: Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 by Robert Pickett 9780815627364
Booksplease Price: $41.05The New York House of Refuge, the first institution in America to deal with the juvenile delinquent as a special problem, opened its doors in 1825. Deeply concerned with the plight of the thousands... -
Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories by Walter Dumaux Edmonds 9780815602149
Booksplease Price: $42.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602149Author Walter Dumaux EdmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 467 -
Nepali Migrant Women: Resistance and Survival in America by Shobha Hamal Gurung 9780815637127
Booksplease Price: $43.21In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of... -
Unknown Museums of Upstate New York: A Guide to 50 Treasures by Chuck D'Imperio 9780815610281
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.74Unknown Museums of Upstate New York is an informative and entertaining guide to the rich resources available at fifty small, often overlooked, regional museums. D'Imperio tells each museum's story,... -
Writing Suburban Citizenship: Place-Conscious Education and the Conundrum of Suburbia by Robert E. Brooke 9780815634164
Booksplease Price: $71.08In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities. As a result, the majority of American youth are educated in the suburbs,... -
Graves of Upstate New York: A Guide to 100 Notable Resting Places by Chuck D'Imperio 9780815635758
Booksplease Price: $112.01Graves of Upstate New York presents a fascinating look at the lives and deaths of 100 legendary Americans who are laid to rest in Upstate New York. D'Imperio takes readers on a journey across the... -
God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at the New York Times by Robert H. Phelps 9780815609148
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.39For nearly twenty years Robert H. Phelps ran interference for, cheered on, and sometimes scolded star reporters and top editors at the ""New York Times"". Starting his career as a cub reporter for... -
Decolonization Models For America's Last Colony: Puerto Rico by Angel Collado Schwarz 9780815609636
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $46.20The island of Puerto Rico suffers from a stagnant economy, devastating unemployment, and severely limited political autonomy. In this book, Collado- Schwarz addresses Puerto Rico's more than a... -
Conservatism Among the Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve by Annemarie Anrod Shimony 9780815626305
Booksplease Price: $43.84Annemarie Anrod Shimony's classic work clearly shows the contemporary cultural and religious crises that face the Longhouse Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario. Shimony presents a lucid and... -
From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland 9780815637578
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12In New York in 1907, a group of avant-garde Yiddish poets came together to transform Yiddish literature. Seeking a pure artistic expression, they would rid Yiddish poetry of foreign influences and... -
From Cold War To Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change, and the OSCE by Janie Leatherman 9780815630326
Booksplease Price: $52.05On November 19, 1990, the states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe gathered in Paris to end the Cold War. How was this seemingly inevitable conflict avoided? This study looks... -
Mara: A Novel by Tova Reich 9780815606598
Booksplease Price: $31.20This is the story of Mara, a Jewish girl from Riverside Drive, and a hippie from Israel whom everyone distrusts, and the Orthodox wedding that unites them.Book InformationISBN 9780815606598Author... -
A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories by Jonah Rosenfeld 9780815611646
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $40.95With his intense, quickfire psychological fiction and consistent portrayal of characters’ subconscious minds, Jonah Rosenfeld is a standout among Yiddish authors of the early twentieth century. In... -
The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement by Amy Young Evrard 9780815633501
Booksplease Price: $79.81Among various important efforts to address women's issues in Morocco, a particular set of individuals and associations have formed around two specific goals: reforming the Moroccan Family Code and... -
Shadowy Heroes: Irish Literature of the 1890s by Wayne E. Hall 9780815622314
Booksplease Price: $75.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815622314Author Wayne E. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint -
Bociany Chava Rosenfarb 9780815611714
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the... -
The Hammam through Time and Space by Julie Peteet 9780815638322
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.56Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred structures date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages and... -
Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narrative from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others Anthony Wonderley 9780815606949
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815606949Author Anthony WonderleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century Nelly Hanna 9780815638506
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has...