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Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines 9780801836435
Booksplease Price: $41.72In Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture." Martines traces the... -
Greenways for America by Charles E. Little 9780801851407
Booksplease Price: $31.76From Brooklyn's parks and parkways, across the Iowa prairie, to Big Sur's coastal highway, people are drawing green lines on local maps and building "greenways"-linear open spaces that preserve and... -
The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era by Hugh Davis Graham 9780801880636
Booksplease Price: $41.55Before the Second World War, few universities in the United States had earned high respect among the international community of scholars and scientists. Since 1945, however, the distinctive... -
Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity by Philip Sheldrake 9780801868610
Booksplease Price: $33.98In Spaces for the Sacred, Philip Sheldrake brilliantly reveals the connection between our rootedness in the places we inhabit and the construction of our personal and religious identities. Based on... -
Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster by Eric A. Cheezum 9781421449050
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $17.78The incredible true story of the mysterious sea creature who captured hearts and imaginations during the turbulent 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.In the summer of 1978, residents along the Virginia side of... -
Regulating Abortion: The Politics of Us Abortion Policy by Deborah R McFarlane 9781421448701
RRP: $54.83Booksplease Price: $40.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448701Author Deborah R McFarlaneFormat HardbackPage Count 312Impri -
Doing Dignity: Ethical PRAXIS and the Politics of Care by Christa Teston 9781421448763
RRP: $54.83Booksplease Price: $40.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448763Author Christa TestonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Mindset Matters: The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth by Daniel R. Porterfield 9781421449289
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $23.04How colleges can foster growth mindsets among students—and why this approach matters.We live in an era of escalating, tech-fueled change. Our jobs and the skills we need to work and thrive are... -
Suicide: Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy John Bateson 9781421449418
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $23.04An urgent call to action on a rising—and preventable—trend.Each year in the United States alone, nearly 50,000 individuals die by suicide; more than 1.2 million others attempt it. John Bateson,... -
Sober Love: How to Quit Drinking as a Couple Joseph Nowinski 9781421449142
RRP: $54.83Booksplease Price: $40.67This engaging guide offers strategies to help couples who drink together get sober together.Are you and your partner curious about sobriety or better managing your drinking? In Sober Love, Dr. Joseph... -
The Bliss of Your Attention: Stories David Borofka 9781421450544
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $19.10A powerful story collection that celebrates those who strive and fail and strive again.If Joseph Campbell's dictum—"follow your bliss"—has become inspiration and goad, accusation and cliché, then the... -
Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History by Robert J. Brugger 9780801823824
Booksplease Price: $37.89More concerned than ever with questions of theory and method in their work, contemporary historians find themselves turning to other disciplines for the ideas that help them piece together the puzzle... -
The Boy under the Bed by Philip Dacey 9780801826023
Booksplease Price: $35.36This second collection by award-winning poet Philip Dacey runs the gamut from existential mysteries to domestic dramas. Dacey writes in both traditional and free verse forms, and organizes these... -
State and Countryside: Development Policy and Agrarian Politics in Latin America by Merilee Serrill Grindle 9780801829352
Booksplease Price: $34.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801829352Author Merilee Serrill GrindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272 -
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams 9780801841064
Booksplease Price: $34.96LIke other languages, Latin contained certain words its speakers considered obscene as well as a rich stock of sexual euphemism and metaphor. Our sources for this information range from surviving... -
The Amendments to the Constitution: A Commentary by George Anastaplo 9780801849602
Booksplease Price: $35.35A companion to the widely acclaimed The Constitution of 1787, this new book by eminent constitutional scholar George Anastaplo examines the nature and effects of the twenty-seven amendments to the U... -
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy by Alejandro Portes 9780801855191
Booksplease Price: $33.06The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries-Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica-during the 1980s and 1990s when the region's economy shifted from one... -
Colonial Living by Edwin Tunis 9780801862274
Booksplease Price: $36.87Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America-of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively... -
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 by Williamjames Hull Hoffer 9780801886553
Booksplease Price: $64.16How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the... -
All Gone: 18 Short Stories by Stephen Dixon 9780801861734
Booksplease Price: $34.08A collection of 18 short stories by a "very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far... -
The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 by Laurence F. Gross 9780801863639
Booksplease Price: $37.28Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile... -
On Torture by Thomas C. Hilde 9780801890260
Booksplease Price: $33.69Globally, no single issue resonates today as much as torture or allegations thereof. Under the current rubric of the war on terror, the governments of the United States and other democratic nations... -
So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series by John T. Irwin 9780801881787
Booksplease Price: $27.98Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was... -
Edison and the Business of Innovation by Andre Millard 9780801847301
Booksplease Price: $42.97This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison-not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research... -
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood by Christopher E. Forth 9780801883859
Booksplease Price: $33.44In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it reveals about... -
All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis by Barbara D. Webster 9780801861628
Booksplease Price: $38.78A "thought-provoking and probing (book) which forces the reader to consider critically the lot of a large segment of our population today" (Stephen C. Reingold).About the AuthorBarbara D. Webster... -
Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom by Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr. 9781421418391
Booksplease Price: $29.89Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech. The reason lay in... -
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna by Nicholas Terpstra 9781421439242
Booksplease Price: $44.48Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring... -
Policy Documents and Reports by AAUP 9781421451886
RRP: $44.51Booksplease Price: $33.97The essential guide to the AAUP's best practices and policies for higher education, now in its twelfth edition.Coming soon! Policy Documents and Reports, twelfth edition, by the American Association... -
The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook by Mckay Jenkins 9781421451589
RRP: $49.67Booksplease Price: $37.50An essential guide to Maryland's ecosystems, history, and conservation.Immerse yourself in the wonders of Maryland's diverse ecosystems with The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook. Edited by... -
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine by Simon Flexner 9780801845017
Booksplease Price: $67.88During American medicine's "Heroic Age," when medical training and practice underwent revolutionary change, William Henry Welch emerged as a singular, revolutionary hero. The first full-time faculty... -
Water Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic by Dave Feldman 9780801851254
Booksplease Price: $36.66This text argues that water resources decision-makers have traditionally made policies that favour development and economic efficiency over "noneconomic" principles such as fairness, environmental... -
The State of Public Management by Donald F. Kettl 9780801852763
Booksplease Price: $38.38Public management stands at the unique intersection of theory and practice. It seeks to help scholars frame questions that will improve their understanding of how policy ideas become transformed into... -
The French Book: Religion, Absolutism and Readership, 1585-1715 by Henri-Jean Martin 9780801854194
Booksplease Price: $32.51The book as the subject of a distinct historical discipline dates from the landmark publication of L'Apparition du livre by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin in 1958. In this further contribution... -
Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America by Gerald Sorin 9780801854477
Booksplease Price: $40.40Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as... -
After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years by Ann K. Finkbeiner 9780801859144
Booksplease Price: $32.73After a child dies, the parent's world changes entirely. Years later, this new world has changed the parents. The exact nature of this change-the long-term effects of the death-illuminates the nature... -
Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom by Brian Black 9780801863172
Booksplease Price: $72.89In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and... -
The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 by Clifford Siskin 9780801862847
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $22.23As today's new technologies challenge the reign of writing, Clifford Siskin puts our current concerns about such change into history. In the 18th and early 19th centuries in Britain, he argues, the... -
What Goes without Saying: Collected Stories of Josephine Jacobsen by Josephine Jacobsen 9780801863387
RRP: $31.61Booksplease Price: $24.30The recipient of nearly every major literary award in the United States, Josephine Jacobsen has enjoyed a career that spans more than six decades, from the publication of her first poem at age eleven... -
The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America by James Mahoney 9780801865527
Booksplease Price: $76.38Despite their many similarities, Central American countries during the twentieth century were characterized by remarkably different political regimes. In a comparative analysis of Guatemala, El...