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The Gift Paradigm - A Short Introduction to the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences by Alain Caille
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $13.44In his classic essay The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued that gifts can never be truly free; rather, they bring about an expectation of reciprocal exchange. For over one hundred years, his ideas on... -
The Defense Vladimir Nabokov 9780241720486
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of... -
Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. by Charles O'Brien
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an... -
Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850 by Joanna Innes 9780198738817
Booksplease Price: $67.84Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.45The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's... -
The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan by Ann Bowman Jannetta
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born-most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa... -
The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design by Bares Raffaelli
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07New in the architectural series (previous published in this series: The Fast Guide to Architectural Form) is The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design. Written by Baires Raffaelli, this book explores... -
Pasta: 50 Easy Recipes by Academia Barilla 9788854407268 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $2.93Pasta is truly a gastronomic galaxy. An ever new adventure in terms of shapes, colors, scents, styles, and flavours; and in terms of cooking, histories, condiments. Conquering the world with its... -
The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault by Aphrodite Matsakis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36Victims of rape often suffer from symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as well as depression, addiction and other emotional problems.In this new handbook, an expert in the treatment of... -
Public Hospital Systems by Victor Rodwin 9780814774229 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52With sixteen hospitals and almost 10,500 beds, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation(HHC) is the largest municipal hospital system in the United States. With forty-seven hospitals and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet by A. D. Cousins 9780521735537
Booksplease Price: $35.66Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it... -
Democracy in Kingston: A Social Movement in Urban Politics, 1965-1970 by Richard Harris 9780773505834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $3.70A reform movement in Kingston emerged in 1965, developed steadily over five years, and then rapidly disintegrated. The two major strands of reformers, the New Left and a more diffuse movement of the... -
Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the Supreme Court by Rosalee A. Clawson 9781592139026 [USED COPY]
RRP: $81.74Booksplease Price: $8.17The first comprehensive examination of Black AmericansThe first comprehensive examination of Black Americans' attitudes toward the Supreme CourtAbout the AuthorRosalee A. Clawson is Associate... -
The Little Book of Cracking Christmas Jokes by OH 9781035440054
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42Knock, knock!Who's there?Chris.Chris who?Christmas.Don't worry, the jokes get better than that, though not much more, admittingly. Welcome to Cracking Christmas Jokes!This tiny tome is full of... -
Paths to Prison – On the Architecture of Carcerality by Isabelle Kirkham–lewitt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the "path to prison," which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as... -
Folklore Methodology: Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers by Kaarle Krohn
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials. For centuries scholars had collected folkloristic texts and had commented... -
Evelyn and Avery Book 1 Elle Pierre 9780358681564
Booksplease Price: $9.21Set in a whimsical world with both human and animal friends, this debut graphic novel series is about besties who make crafts, mistakes, and friendships.Eight-year-old Evelyn is beyond excited to... -
Polarons by David Emin 9780521519069 [USED COPY]
RRP: $105.86Booksplease Price: $10.59Emin provides experimental and theoretical graduate students and researchers with a distinctive introduction to the principles governing polaron science. The fundamental physics is emphasized and... -
Modifying the Aerodynamics of Your Road Car by Julian Edgar 9781787112834
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $36.73This unique handbook assumes no starting knowledge of vehicle aerodynamics. It begins with simple ideas and finishes with sophisticated and effective aerodynamic modifications that work. Three... -
Civil Service: Poems by Claire Schwartz
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.13While the spectacle of state violence fleetingly commands a collective gaze, Civil Service turns to the quotidian where political regimes are diffusely maintained-where empire is the province of not... -
A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Kamau Brathwaite, Gordon Rohlehr Correspondence by Gordon Rohlehr 9781845235840
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.07For fifty years, Gordon Rohlehr was the regular correspondent, sometimes confidant and always the critic who best understood the nature of Kamau Brathwaite's vision and what his poetry achieved. In... -
Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art: Devotional image and civic emblem by Katherine T. Brown 9780367331153
RRP: $61.63Booksplease Price: $55.86Mater Misericordiae-Mother of Mercy-emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian... -
Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World by Derek J. Penslar 9781487526245
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Antisemitism is reappearing in disturbing new ways and in unexpected strength. This resurgence is of deep concern to politicians, practitioners of law, the academic community, and to informed... -
Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse Colleen A. Dunlavy 9781509561735
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.40We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods - from beds to batteries to printer paper - are available in a... -
Understanding Misunderstandings: A Practical Guide to More Successful Human Interaction by Robert L. Young
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Have you ever meant one thing, but said another? Reacted angrily when no offense was intended? Wished that the earth would open up and swallow you? Understanding Misunderstandings will help you get... -
AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics Katie Batza 9781469690490
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicenters of the crisis. The Midwest, if considered at all, appears as a footnote to the social, medical, and... -
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (Sherlock Complete Set 2) Arthur Conan Doyle 9780755334490
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.46'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement'. Whilst the seamy streets of London drown in a sea of smog,... -
Natural Glow: Facial Yoga, Reflexology, Oils, and More for Radiant Skin Glenda Taylor 9781800654686
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.00Look FRESHER, YOUNGER and HEALTHIER in a matter of minutes with easy facial massage and other techniques. Discover how simple facial exercises - face yoga and facial reflexology - can not only... -
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their... -
The Position by Meg Wolitzer 9780099485056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.51Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their... -
Neil Jordan by Maria T. Pramaggiore
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical... -
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Paul J. Nahin 9780691207841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.76An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793893 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
Dragons on the Inside (and Other Big Feelings) by Valerie Coulman 9781631985409
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.22Imaginative picture book helps children recognize their inner feelings and discover ways to regulate big emotions.Inner feelings arena t always visible on the outside. Dragons on the Inside (And... -
The Anchor’s Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy 9781803092935
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.82An experiment with the sonnet form by one of the foremost French poets of his generation. Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. First published in France in... -
Lavendar: 50 Self-Care Recipes for Natural Wellness by Louise Bonnie Gillis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84Unlock the power of one of nature's most beneficial herbs--and explore the many modern applications of lavender. Learn to make nourishing, all-natural, and affordable remedies for mind and body, as... -
The Fox of Glencoe : Hamish Macinnes by Hamish MacInnes 9781907233630
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $17.84'At 3:00 am, with headlamps probing the gloom, we crept up Cotopaxi's glaciated flanks, turning sinister-looking crevasses and ascending steep icy walls. It was bitterly cold, and by the time we... -
Make Difficult People Disappear: How to Deal with Stressful Behavior and Eliminate Conflict Monica Wofford 9781118273807
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.70Save your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challenge is to find creative ways to handle these... -
The Atmosphere: A Very Short Introduction by Paul I. Palmer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72The atmosphere is the thin, diffuse fluid that envelops the Earth's surface. Despite its apparent fragility, the existence of this fluid is vital for human and other life on Earth. In this Very... -
Social Network Analysis for Startups by Maksim Tsvetovat 9781449306465
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.77SNA techniques are derived from sociological and social-psychological theories and take into account the whole network (or, in case of very large networks such as Twitter -- a large segment of the...