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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, And The Evolution Of A Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein 9780465041268
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.82In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic... -
Close The Deal: Smart Moves For Selling: 120 Checklists To Help You Close The Very Best Deal by Lyle Sussman 9780738200385
Booksplease Price: £18.99Deep and Sussman's Smart Moves and Smart Moves for People in Charge gave readers checklists for climbing the corporate ladder and taking on leadership tasks. Now, teamed with one of the country's... -
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater by William Buckley 9780465018055
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.06In Flying High , William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement's first presidential standard-bearer,... -
You Can't Enlarge The Pie: Six Barriers To Effective Government by Max H. Bazerman 9780465006328
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Why do our government leaders continually make decisions and craft policies that everybody knows are foolish? Because they, like the rest of us, remain trapped in foolish and unproductive habits of... -
What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News by Eric Alterman 9780465001774
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As... -
Call To Home: African-Americans Reclaim The Rural South by Carol Stack 9780465008087
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.06The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many... -
Disability And The Family Life Cycle by Laura E. Marshak 9780465016327
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.75The study of disability and its clinical treatment has become exponentially more complex as ever more interventions are developed that increase the life span. Consequently, developmental challenges... -
Letters to a Young Actor by Robert Brustein 9780465008148
Booksplease Price: £18.06The founder and director of the Yale Repertory theatre, as well as Harvard's American Repertory theatre, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in... -
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War by Edwin Burrows 9780465020300
Booksplease Price: £20.82Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New... -
The Ways Of The Will: Selected Essays, Expanded Edition by Leslie H. Farber 9780465023585
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as... -
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature by Douglas Kenrick 9780465032341
Booksplease Price: £18.06&ldquoKenrick writes like a dream."- Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University author of A Primate's Memoir and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers What do sex and murder... -
The Rise Of The Corporate Commonwealth by Louis Galambos 9780465070282
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.93A panoramic survey of the interactions between American business and public policy, from J.P. Morgan to Lee Iacocca.About the AuthorLouis Galambos is professor of History and editor of the Dwight D... -
Out Of The Barrio: Toward A New Politics Of Hispanic Assimilation by Linda Chavez 9780465054312
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Are Hispanics making it",achieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups? This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million His panics,fast becoming the nation's... -
Retelling A Life by Roy Schafer 9780465069385
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Here is the long-awaited new book by the influential, always provocative psychoanalyst, Roy Schafer. It focuses on a vacuum that has developed between psychoanalysis and critical thinkers in the... -
Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America's Largest Service Industry by Regina E. Herzlinger 9780738201368
Booksplease Price: £23.33What happens when the demanding consumers who nearly brought the U.S. automobile industry to its knees focus the same kinds of pressure on the industry that represents one-seventh of the U.S... -
The Haunting of Torre Abbey by Carole Bugge 9780786753291
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786753291Author Carole BuggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint < -
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid by Ralph H. Magnus 9780813340197
Booksplease Price: £20.82In this broad introductory volume, Ralph Magnus and Eden Naby detail Afghanistan's physical situation, human environment, and modern history, as well as the rise and fall of competing internal... -
On Being A Superpower: And Not Knowing What To Do About It by Seymour J. Deitchman 9780813367750
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.40As the sole remaining superpower, shouldn't the United States be able to call the tune on establishing a secure world to our liking? While most international strategists conjure up history and theory... -
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land by Conevery Valencius 9780465089871
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47In this vivid history of American western expansion, Conevery Bolton Valencius captures the excitement, romanticism, and confusion of the frontier experience as well as another, less renowned reality... -
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America by Steven Fraser 9780465006939
Booksplease Price: £18.06The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic... -
Exodus And Revolution by Michael Walzer 9780465021635
Booksplease Price: £18.06A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus - from oppression to deliverance and the promised land.About the AuthorMichael... -
Teenagers: An American History by Grace Palladino 9780465007660
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Nobody worried about teenagers" prior to the 1940s. In fact, as a culturally or economically defined entity they did not exist. But in the 50 years since the last world war, when the term was first... -
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology by Clifford Geertz 9780465041626
Booksplease Price: £21.93In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our... -
Linus Pauling: A Life In Science And Politics by Ted Goertzel 9780465006731
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes,one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large... -
To Open Minds by Howard Gardner 9780465086290
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.93In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an... -
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative by Henry Gates 9780465027088
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.77Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the... -
Death Or Glory: The Legacy Of The Crimean War by Robert B. Edgerton 9780813337890
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair, with officers and soldiers alike taking to the fray with phrases like death or glory" on their tongues and in their hearts. Nothing... -
Who Killed Dorian Gray? by Carole Bugge 9780786753352
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786753352Author Carole BuggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Soul Healing: A Spiritual Orientation In Counseling And Therapy by Dorothy S. Becvar 9780465095520
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.64In this ground-breaking book, Dorothy Becvar shows how a spiritual orientation can be used to facilitate healing at the deepest level. By incorporating a " soul healing " perspective into their... -
Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Martin Duberman 9780813339542
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00This is the tenth anniversary edition of Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey , Martin Duberman's classic memoir of growing up gay in pre-Stonewall America. The tale of his desperate struggle to cure" himself... -
Revolution In Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale by Don Petterson 9780813342689
Booksplease Price: £20.82The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, Cuban-trained factions headed the rebels, making Zanzibar (in... -
Thinking For A Living: Education And The Wealth Of Nations by Ray Marshall 9780465085576
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Why should employers pay American workers much more to work far fewer hours a year than the competition? They won't,unless Americans know more and can do more than the workers with whom they compete... -
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter Huber 9780465026241
Booksplease Price: £20.82A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used,and the courts have accepted,spurious claims by so-called expert... -
Engendered Lives: A New Psychology Of Women's Lives by Ellyn Kaschak 9780465013494
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A noted feminist psychologist takes a fascinating look at the lived and ordinary experience of women to present the first psychology of women that integrates all aspects of experience, from the... -
Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward Kohn 9780465024292
Booksplease Price: £31.89Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical cowboy" president,a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great... -
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress by Lawrence Harrison 9780465031764
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in... -
Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa by Keith B. Richburg 9780465001880
Booksplease Price: £20.82Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where... -
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John R. Lukacs 9780465018208
Booksplease Price: £18.06On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe Neville Chamberlain's government had... -
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work by Barbara Schneider 9780465015412
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are... -
Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think by David Lindley 9780465067862
Booksplease Price: £18.06Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching,but less understood,than the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday experience cannot prepare us for the sub-atomic world, where quantum...