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Spring in Washington by Louis J. Halle
Booksplease Price: $35.36Since first published in 1947, Spring in Washington has become a beloved classic of nature writing. It is now brought back into print, complete with the original drawings by Francis L. Jaques. "As I... -
Shelley: A Critical Reading by Betty T. Bennett
Booksplease Price: $42.97Concentrating on the major poems, Earl R. Wasserman provides a comprehensive critical reading that is organized in terms of conceptual structure of Shelley's work. This achronological structure... -
Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas Bender
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $26.03'About the AuthorThomas Bender is Dean for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, University Professor of the Humanities, and professor of history at New York University. He is the author of ... -
Structural Equation Modeling with LISREL: Essentials and Advances by Leslie Alec Hayduk
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $57.12Hayduk is equally at ease explaining the simplest and most advanced applications of the program ...Hayduk has written more than just a solid text for use in advanced graduate courses on statistical... -
Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs by Larry R. Ford
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $27.36In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America. From... -
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions by Edward L. Ayers
Booksplease Price: $37.28Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places-these regions-come from? What makes them... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.92Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These... -
Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
Booksplease Price: $37.67Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of... -
14 Stories by Stephen Dixon
Booksplease Price: $33.69Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that... -
Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History by Tim G. Parkin
Booksplease Price: $37.89Classical authors such as Cicero and Plutarch would have us believe that the elderly were revered, active citizens of ancient Rome. But upon closer inspection, it appears that older people may not... -
General Psychopathology: Volume 2 by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $36.17In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that through his work and the work of Hans Gruhle and Kurt... -
The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche by Ralph Harper
RRP: $31.61Booksplease Price: $23.99In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, the author finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude... -
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Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
Booksplease Price: $33.69Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 8 by Edmund Spenser
Booksplease Price: $50.59Originally 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... -
Public Health and Aging by Tom Hickey
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $27.36Current issues in the public health arena have challenged the system to broaden its traditional focus on infectious disease to include chronic disease as well. As this change in emphasis takes place,... -
Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity by Arthur O. Lovejoy
RRP: $36.77Booksplease Price: $28.64Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity was intended to be the first volume of a four-part series of books covering the history of primitivism and related ideas, but the outbreak of World War II,... -
Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe by Jane S. Jaquette
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $23.54Women and Democracy offers a unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world-Latin America and Eastern and Central Europe-which have moved from authoritarian to... -
The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer
Booksplease Price: $35.36In the last decades of the eighteenth century, old arguments about what constituted true Christianity resumed with the newly refined tools and methods of linguistics, history, and comparative... -
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America by Merilee Serrill Grindle
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $23.54Audacious Reforms examines the creation of new political institutions in three Latin American countries: direct elections for governors and mayors in Venezuela, radical municipalization in Bolivia,... -
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
Booksplease Price: $36.87Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged... -
From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations by Nitza Berkovitch
Booksplease Price: $38.78It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that many countries began granting women the right to participate in public institutions as individuals. Until then, women were incorporated... -
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing by Pamela Walker Laird
Booksplease Price: $64.55Originally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation... -
Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles by Irwin Gellman
RRP: $62.57Booksplease Price: $46.38Originally published in 1995. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down, but he concealed the extent of his disability from a public that was never permitted to see him in... -
The Mind of a Poet: <I>The Prelude, </I>Commentary: Volume 2 by Raymond Dexter Havens
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $35.78This book seeks to study the mind of a poet, specifically by picking William Wordsworth as a case study. The reason for signaling out Wordsworth as the person in whom to study the mind of a poet is... -
Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench by Helen Shirley Thomas
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $39.33Originally published in 1960. Felix Frankfurter, a controversial figure in American judicial history, completed more than twenty-one years of service on the Supreme Court. This book is the first... -
Youth, University, and Democracy by Gottfried Dietze
Booksplease Price: $34.96Originally published in 1970. This book examines whether Weber's approach has a greater humanizing value than has been conceded by his opponents and will attempt to demonstrate the humanistic mission... -
Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945 by Irwin Gellman
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $35.78Originally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exception-the United States' relations with Latin America... -
Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation by Michael Ryan
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $35.78Originally published in 1982. Aside from Jacques Derrida's own references to the "possible articulation" between deconstruction and Marxism, the relationship between the two has remained largely... -
What's Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley 9781421448169
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $13.85A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma... -
Designing America's Waste Landscapes by Mira E. Engler 9780801878039
Booksplease Price: $59.47One of the physical costs of our society's breakneck consumption, sprawl, and technological innovation and production is the increasing amount of terrain relegated to accommodating the resulting... -
Brains by Leif Østergaard 9781421446042
RRP: $9.03Booksplease Price: $6.50A short but engaging exploration of the brain.In Brains, scientist Leif Østergaard explores our most complicated and mysterious organ. From the dissection of Einstein's brain to research on how to... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
Booksplease Price: $39.37In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that... -
The Global Eighteenth Century by Felicity A. Nussbaum 9780801868658
RRP: $62.57Booksplease Price: $46.38Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the... -
Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes by George Bibel 9780801886317
Booksplease Price: $51.86The black box is orange-and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident... -
Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer 9781421441030
RRP: $110.30Booksplease Price: $73.87T. S. Eliot's juvenilia were written by an adolescent who showed little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited. By contrast, the poems of his... -
A Caregiver's Guide to Communication Problems from Brain Injury or Disease by Barbara O'Connor Wells 9781421442549
RRP: $49.67Booksplease Price: $37.11An all-in-one guide for helping caregivers of individuals with brain injury or degenerative disease to address speech, language, voice, memory, and swallowing impairment and to distinguish these... -
Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 by Howard Markel 9781421443669
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $23.54This riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that tackles the COVID-19 pandemic. Winner, 2003 Arthur J... -
Shays's Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America by Sean Condon 9781421417424
Booksplease Price: $61.07Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Ourida Mostefai 9780801873805
Booksplease Price: $52.28This volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the revolutions in culture, politics, and art that took place throughout the eighteenth century. The first section of the book focuses... -
Amish Women and the Great Depression by Katherine Jellison 9781421447971
RRP: $49.67Booksplease Price: $37.11A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order...