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Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition by Jeremy M. Downes 9780817358181
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.27Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent... -
Planning the Urban Region: A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations by Peter Self 9780817359430
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government.In tandem with an analysis of the basic purpose and rationale of urban planning, Peter Self discusses the... -
Company K by William March 9780817304805
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's... -
Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry by Lorenzo Thomas 9780817310158
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 21: Ritual, Religion, and Theatre by E. Bert Wallace 9780817370084
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from... -
Free Speech On Trial: Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions by Richard A. Parker 9780817350253
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.90Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 23: Theatre and Youth by David Samuel Charles Thompson 9780817370107
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama.The curtain... -
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State by William Warren Rogers 9780817359171
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $63.46A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama's history to celebrate the state's bicentennial.Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the... -
Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations by Roy Hoffman 9780817359034
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for... -
The Clays of Alabama: A Planter-lawyer-politician Family by Ruth Ketring Nuermberger 9780817351250
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThis volume gives evidence of many years of careful research and reflection. It is a sound study of the influence of... -
Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 by Melanie Dawson 9780817357641
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.25The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction,... -
What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics by Christina R. Foust 9780817358938
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas... -
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama During World War I by Martin T. Olliff 9780817354923
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $48.74How did the state step up to the challenges? There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the... -
Patterson for Alabama: The Life and Career of John Patterson by Gene L. Howard 9780817357702
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31John Patterson, Alabama governor from 1959 to 1963, was thrust into the Alabama political arena after the brutal murder of his father, attorney general Albert Patterson in 1954. Allowed by the... -
The Naval Air War in Korea by Richard P. Hallion 9780817356583
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $48.74"In The Naval Air War in Korea, Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feeling, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, including the highly significant facets of the transition from... -
Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley by Janet Rafferty 9780817354893
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.00This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to... -
A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation As You Go by David W. Beckwith 9780817360528
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Explores Mississippi's school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of... -
The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art by Claudia Durst Johnson 9780817300517
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.25A solid, . . . well-written contribution to Hawthorne criticism . . . The author is thoroughly in control of what has been written about Hawthorne and skillfully places her own work in the context of... -
Conflict in the Great Outdoors: Toward Understanding and Managing for Diverse Sportsmen Preferences by C. Hobson Bryan 9780817355234
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42Conflict in the Great Outdoors addresses the different orientations and behaviors within sportsmen categories. A major problem of outdoor recreation management addressed in Hobson Bryan's work is the... -
Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory by Maureen Warner-Lewis 9780817355821
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $43.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsAn important and innovative contribution to several related fields of study ranging from social sciences to African... -
Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico by L. Antonio Curet 9780817351854
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Tainos or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception... -
Heritage or Heresy: Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera by Cameron Jean Walker 9780817355142
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59How can we effectively interpret and present one culture to another without stereotypes or over-simplifications? What is the best way to present an authoritative version of a national heritage... -
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton by Kathy A. Fedorko 9780817359133
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59An investigation into Wharton's extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton is an innovative study that provides fresh insights... -
Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival by Patricia Barker Lerch 9780817351243
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival sheds light on North Carolina Indians by tracing the story of the now state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan tribe from its beginnings in the... -
Richmond's Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era by Douglas E. Thompson 9780817360542
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.25Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with... -
Treatise On Laughter by Laurent Joubert 9780817359638
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817359638Author Laurent JoubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint -
Language Variety in the South Revisited by Thomas E. Nunnally 9780817357443
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $67.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817357443Author Thomas NunnallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint -
Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering by Judith Hillman Paterson 9780817359607
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59An exquisitely written memoir-combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing-that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit. Judith Paterson was just... -
Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary by Michael A. Kaplan 9780817359386
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.25Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can... -
Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court by Kevin A. Johnson 9780817361457
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.27A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer a... -
Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court by Kevin A. Johnson 9780817321963
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer a... -
Financial Markets Principles by Christoph Lymbersky 9783941579309
RRP: $146.98Booksplease Price: $124.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783941579309Author Christoph LymberskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 830Impr -
A Sanskrit Grammar by Manfred Mayrhofer 9780817312855
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817312855Author Manfred MayrhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945 David D Vail 9780817362331
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled... -
Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945 by David D. Vail 9780817319731
Booksplease Price: $75.71An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled... -
Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric by Christian Lundberg 9780817359201
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.25Lacan in Public argues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work... -
Hair Spider by Jennifer Kvam 9798987324288
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987324288Author Jennifer KvamFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint -
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy: Public Administration in the Information Age by Akhlaque Haque 9780817359881
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Investigates public administration's increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many... -
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of ""In Cold Blood"" by Ralph F. Voss 9780817358310
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $48.74Ralph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by "four shotgun blasts that,... -
Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life 9780817355852
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life', and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars...