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The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley by Warren R. Hofstra 9780801874185
Booksplease Price: £44.13In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "New Virginia," the region west of the Blue Ridge... -
Newspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906: Volume 2 by H. L. Mencken 9780801885341
Booksplease Price: £26.12With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's... -
The Color Wheel by Timothy Steele 9780801849527
Booksplease Price: £27.41Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and... -
Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience by Dagmar Barnouw 9780801862830
Booksplease Price: £25.92Hannah Arendt still makes people angry. Her writings on the modern German-Jewish experience are deliberately challenging -- and sometimes shocking -- to an audience used to thinking of the Jewish... -
Combinatorics and Partially Ordered Sets: Dimension Theory by William T. Trotter 9780801869778
Booksplease Price: £34.48Primarily intended for research mathematicians and computer scientists, Combinatorics and Partially Ordered Sets: Dimension Theory also serves as a useful text for advanced students in either field... -
Managing Your Depression: What You Can Do to Feel Better by Susan J. Noonan 9781421409467
Booksplease Price: £30.55As a physician who personally suffers from depression, Susan J. Noonan draws on her own expertise and empathy to create a guide for people who suffer from the disease. Explaining the basics of mental... -
Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign by Murray Krieger 9781421431208
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 1992. What, in apparently pictorial poetry, do words represent? Conversely, how can words in a poem be picturable? Murray Krieger develops a systematic theoretical statement... -
Great Thinkers and Doers: Networking Black Feminism in the Black Press, 1827–1927 by Teresa Zackodnik 9781421451961
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £39.72A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great... -
American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794–1948 by David C. Hoffman 9781421451800
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.68A history of how the freethought movement fought to maintain a secular United States.Although today it has largely faded from public memory, the American freethought movement played an important role... -
American English Spelling: An Informal Description by D. W. Cummings 9780801834431
Booksplease Price: £82.89In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and... -
Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality by Emily W. Sunstein 9780801842184
Booksplease Price: £35.14Winner of the Prize for Independent Scholars from the Modern Language AssociationNotable Book of the Year from The New York TimesDaughter of pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and radical... -
Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response by James L. Machor 9780801844379
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.08"Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of... -
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise by Robert Martello 9780801897573
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £40.08Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another... -
The Run of the House by Wyatt Prunty 9780801846267
Booksplease Price: £20.46In his latest book of poems, Wyatt Pruncy finds beauty, violence, mystery, and humour in a variety of public and private worlds. Wyatt Prunty's previous collections of poems, "The Times Between, What... -
Walking in Baltimore: An Intimate Guide to the Old City by Frank R. Shivers 9780801848681
Booksplease Price: £27.00Outsiders had called it "Mob Town" when, on April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked Yankee soldiers and shed the first blood of the Civil War. According to Frank Shivers, Baltimore's unique... -
A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 by Eli Faber 9780801851209
Booksplease Price: £27.46Volume I: A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 In the autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard the bark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of New Amsterdam to establish the first... -
Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States: Final Report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing by Neil A. Holtzman 9780801859724
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £28.69Despite remarkable progress, much remains unknown about the risks and benefits of genetic testing. No effective interventions are yet available to improve the outcome of most inherited diseases;... -
The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance by William G. Tierney 9780801862601
Booksplease Price: £28.90In The Responsive University, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group of practitioners and scholars to describe how colleges and universities might respond effectively to changing... -
Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750 by Anne Jacobson Schutte 9780801865480
Booksplease Price: £53.07Between 1618 and 1750, sixteen people-nine women and seven men-were brought to the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities in Venice because they were reporting visions, revelations, and special... -
A Strike like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. 9780801869013
Booksplease Price: £50.78The miners' strike against Pittston Coal in 1989-1990, which spread throughout southwestern Virginia, southern West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, was one of the most important strikes in the... -
Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation by John Johnston 9780801857058
Booksplease Price: £31.96"With the birth of information theory and cybernetics in the late 1940s and early 1950s," writes John Johnston, "a decisive step was taken toward the immense techno-scientific transformation of the... -
Spinach Days by Robert Phillips 9780801864513
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected "transition generation"-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length... -
The New England Village by Joseph S. Wood 9780801866135
Booksplease Price: £33.14The New England village, with its white-painted, black-shuttered, classical-revival buildings surrounding a tree-shaded green, is one of the enduring icons of the American historical imagination... -
Place and Belonging in America by David Jacobson 9780801867798
Booksplease Price: £52.92How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And... -
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: Correspondence: First Session, March - May 1789 by United States Congress 9780801871603
Booksplease Price: £119.79Three new volumes in this acclaimed series present letters written by and to members of the First Federal Congress and communications from other informed individuals at the seat of government in New... -
The Burnout Solution: 7 Steps from Exhausted to Extraordinary by Sharon Grossman 9781421451992
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.95An empowering guide to understanding the causes of burnout, recovering your energy, and rebuilding a balanced life.Are you tired of feeling drained, overwhelmed, and uninspired? You're not alone... -
The Burnout Solution: 7 Steps from Exhausted to Extraordinary by Sharon Grossman 9781421451985
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £50.43An empowering guide to understanding the causes of burnout, recovering your energy, and rebuilding a balanced life.Are you tired of feeling drained, overwhelmed, and uninspired? You're not alone... -
Managing Your Depression: Strategies to Help You Feel Better by Susan J. Noonan 9781421453194
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.83The indispensable guide to managing mood disorders—now completely revised and updated.In this updated edition of the classic guide to managing your depression, Dr. Susan J. Noonan provides... -
The Rise of Mammals in Africa by Emmanuel Gheerbrant 9781421452395
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £42.13A beautifully illustrated account of the evolutionary journey of mammals in Africa.For more than 80 million years, "Island Africa" was a vast, isolated landmass south of the ancient Tethys Sea... -
Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-Based Learning in College and Beyond by Douglas Haynes 9781421453903
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Reimagining college as a space for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.Teaching Toward Slow Hope reveals what happens when higher education dares to become something more than... -
Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives by Norman C. Ellstrand 9780801881909
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24With the advent of genetic engineering, "designer" crops might interbreed with natural populations. Could such romances lead to the evolution of "superweeds", as some have suggested? But haven't... -
Citizen Beast: The Place of Animals in the Roman Empire by Martin Devecka 9781421455181
Booksplease Price: £51.21Coming soon: Citizen Beast by Martin Devecka.Book InformationISBN 9781421455181Author Martin DeveckaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Getting to Emeritus: A Financial Guide for Faculty at Every Career Stage by Daniel Fagan 9781421454689
Booksplease Price: £24.94Coming soon! Emeritus by Daniel Fagan.Coming soon! Emeritus by Daniel Fagan.Book InformationISBN 9781421454689Author Daniel FaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 43 -
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era by Michael N. Pearson
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world... -
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe Juan J. Linz 9780801820229
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18'About the AuthorAlfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, coauthor, with Juan J. Linz, of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern... -
On the Causes of Fever (1839): On the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland by William Budd
Booksplease Price: £27.41W. Goodall and Margaret Pelling, this book sets forth Williams Budd's thoughts on typhoid by reference to an unsuccessful essay he submitted for the Thackeray Prize in 1840.Book InformationISBN... -
In Time and Place by John Hollander
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. "In Time and Place" features a generous offering of... -
The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution by Sheldon Wolin
Booksplease Price: £24.15All constitutions are ultimately about power, Sheldon Wolin writes: about how power is used and by whom, according to what understandings, and to whose advantage. The provisions of our own... -
Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education by Estela Mara Bensimon
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book... -
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism Charles Bernheimer 9780801850059
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced...