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The Lay Saint: Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350 by Mary Harvey Doyno
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $57.34In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of... -
The Way of the English Mystics: An Anthology and Guide for Pilgrims by Gordon Miller 9780860122098
Booksplease Price: $32.77A distinctive feature of Western religous life in recent years has been the rediscovery of the contemplative tradition in Christianity. Within the Christian mystical tradition, England holds a unique... -
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama by Eric Csapo 9780521748339
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.54The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed from religious ritual has been commonplace since the... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 10 by Robin Netherton 9781843839071
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $77.71The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three... -
Trajectory Analysis in Health Care by David W. Hollar 9783319596259
Booksplease Price: $157.82This innovative volume introduces Trajectory Analysis, a new systems-based approach to measuring nonlinear dynamics in continuous change, to public health and epidemiology. It synthesizes influential... -
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama by Eric Csapo
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $91.59The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed from religious ritual has been commonplace since the... -
The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome Damien Stone 9781836391098
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $17.88The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults, shrouded in secrecy, promised initiates a transformative afterlife. While many rituals remain... -
Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture by Georgia A. Persons 9781412804684
Booksplease Price: $66.59The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This new volume, Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture... -
Princes of the Church: Bishops and their Palaces by David Rollason 9780367266844
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring the importance of bishops' palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology. It... -
The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers by Nancy Toff 9780195373080
Booksplease Price: $62.82Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff's The Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into four main parts--The Instrument, Performance, The... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe by Joseph E. Inikori
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the... -
The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers by Nancy Toff 9780195373073
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $100.74Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff's The Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into four main partsThe Instrument, Performance, The Music,... -
Ether and Modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century by Jaume Navarro 9780198797258
Booksplease Price: $134.48Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as... -
Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries: A Tavistock Open Systems Approach by W. Gordon Lawrence 9780367105082
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $144.03One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through their roles, to their various groupings (such as families, communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider... -
Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars by Gary W. Peterson 9780789020895
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $151.28Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field of family studies! In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40... -
Africans: The History of a Continent by John Iliffe 9781316648124
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have... -
Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective by Mark Crispin Miller 9781589010253
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $34.00The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing... -
1001 Beds: Performances, Essays and Travels by Tim Miller 9780299216948
Booksplease Price: $20.32If I continue to tour for another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds..... -
Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Intervention, and Effective Instruction by Milton J. Dehn
RRP: $67.02Booksplease Price: $60.33"This book will be a valuable resource for psychologists and educators who work with children or adolescents who are having difficulties with memory and learning. Translating theory and research into... -
Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality by Ronald Jeffrey Ringer 9780814774410
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue... -
The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein 9780691628301
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.10Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic comparative study of major European slave traders based... -
Reconceiving Women's Equality in China: A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality by Lijun Yuan 9780739112281
Booksplease Price: $52.62According to the author, the subordination of Chinese women continued under different models of sex equality in China in twentieth century. In Reconceiving Women's Equality in China Lijun Yuan... -
Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages: Essays to Honor John Van Engen by David C. Mengel 9780268035334
Booksplease Price: $85.80This volume celebrates the remarkable scholarly career of medieval historian John Van Engen with eighteen exceptional essays contributed by Van Engen's colleagues and former doctoral students, a... -
The Llano County Mermaid Club: A Novel Kathleen M. Rodgers 9780826368263
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.14A wonderful new work from the author of The Flying Cutterbucks that tells a story of childhood friendships, an adult affair, and the lost innocence of a group of young girls longing for the sea... -
Child Slaves in the Modern World by Gwyn Campbell
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of... -
Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine by Thomas M. Walshe 9780190218560
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $69.87Neurological history claims its earliest origins in the 17th century with Thomas Willis's publication of Anatomy of the Brain, coming fully into fruition as a field in the late 1850s as medical... -
The Hittites: Lost Civilizations by Damien Stone
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.36An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BC. They... -
Psychological Assessment: A Problem-Solving Approach Julie A. Suhr 9781462519583
Booksplease Price: $84.22This authoritative clinical reference and text provides a complete guide to conducting empirically based assessments to support accurate diagnoses and better clinical care. The book builds crucial... -
Optimization of Hydraulic Fracture Stages and Sequencing in Unconventional Formations by Ahmed Alzahabi
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55Shale gas and/or oil play identification is subject to many screening processes for characteristics such as porosity, permeability, and brittleness. Evaluating shale gas and/or oil reservoirs and... -
Applying the Results of Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments: A Manual for Teachers and Specialists Dawn E. Burau (Lesley University, MA, USA) 9781138238961
Booksplease Price: $67.91Neuropsychological and psychological evaluations in school settings are often rich in detail about a child's cognitive, academic and emotional functions, and come with specific recommendations to... -
Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis by Andrew M. Dorman
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In... -
Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis by Andrew M. Dorman 9780804790666
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In... -
Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World by Ludovic Orlando 9780691264127
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.79From one of today's leading experts on ancient DNA, a sweeping genetic history that unravels the mystery of where horses were first domesticatedLudovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping to... -
Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues by Maurice Hamington 9780742550407
Booksplease Price: $57.74Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume... -
Writing African History by John Edward Philips 9781580462563
Booksplease Price: $65.80A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace... -
The Handbook of Operator Fatigue Gerald Matthews 9781138077812
Booksplease Price: $85.89Fatigue is a recognized problem in many facets of the human enterprise. It is not confined to any one area of activity but enters all situations in which humans have to perform for extended intervals... -
Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change: Definitions and Frameworks by Alan A. Lew 9780367667665
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite... -
Understanding and Managing Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Pediatric Treatment Guide Denise Maricle 9781032703954
Booksplease Price: $56.28Children are being identified with more neurodevelopmental disorders than in previous decades and understanding these medically complex disorders has become critical as more children are living with... -
Stories of Stroke: Key Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas by Louis R. Caplan
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $94.21Stroke is one of the most important and most feared conditions known to man. The threat of stroke is important to all people. What could be more devastating than to lose the ability to speak, move a... -
Children in Slavery through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly...