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Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis Louise J. Ravelli 9781138499119
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse... -
New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction by David Rio 9783034315906
RRP: $151.13Booksplease Price: $134.63This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Recent fictional representations of Nevada possess a... -
The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln by 9780809318957
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMark E. Neely Jr. is the McCabe Greer Professor in the American Civil War Era at Pennsylvania State... -
A John Graves Reader by John Graves 9780292727960
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.59Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas' most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the borders of... -
Conversations with Texas Writers by Frances Leonard 9780292706415
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $58.05Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else... -
The Essential West: Collected Essays by Elliott West 9780806146539
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on... -
The Devil's Backbone by Bill Wittliff
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.81The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy,... -
Following the Harvest by Fred L Harris 9780806137131
Booksplease Price: $40.60Following the Harvest tells the story of sixteen-year-old Will Haley, who journeys north in the summer of 1943 as a member of a wheat-harvesting crew.Traveling with his father, along with a... -
Talking With Texas Writers: Twelve Interviews by Patrick Bennett 9780890961056
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Texas has a whole remuda of writers, some native-born and Texas-raised and some immigrants to the state. They range from poets and playwrights to newspapermen and novelists. Pat Bennett has rounded... -
Wolves of Eden: A Novel by Kevin McCarthy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm labourers, they re-enlist in the army and are thrown... -
The Aeneid Virgil 9781324096436
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $46.18This new Aeneid-the first collaborative translation of the poem in English-is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter that engages modern readers while preserving the epic dignity and pathos of the... -
Our Diverse Middle School Students: A Guide to Equitable and Responsive Teaching by Elizabeth D. Dore
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83Learn how to be more responsive to the diversity among your middle schoolers. This important book, co-published with the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), helps you understand racial,... -
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times by Jerome Charyn 9781631496660
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.04Widely considered "one of our most rewarding novelists," Jerome Charyn "has upped the ante" (Larry McMurtry) by re-creating the voice of Theodore Roosevelt through his derring-do adventures as New... -
A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier by Frederick Law Olmsted 9780292740082
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $70.88Early in the year 1854 Frederick Law Olmsted, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. In A Journey through Texas he... -
Bugles in the Afternoon by Ernest Haycox 9780806135663
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.38Rumors of a campaign against Sitting Bull cut through the ranks like a cold wind. Who would lead the charge? In Bugles in the Afternoon, legendary Western writer Ernest Haycox relates a compelling... -
Ion Flux in Pulmonary Vascular Control by E. Kenneth Weir 9781461360162
Booksplease Price: $90.836 Ions can pass through a single membrane channel at a rate of 10 ions/second. Over the last decade the ability to measure ion flux so precisely and to document the opening and closing of individual... -
Writing the Wild Frontier: 200 Years of the Best Western Writers and Their Novels by Stephen J. May 9781476688985
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $77.43For over 200 years, the American Western novel has chronicled much of the American experience, especially those of James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte, Andy Adams, Jack Schaefer and Larry McMurtry... -
Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization by Jennifer Sumner 9780802095275
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24Often used but little understood, the word 'sustainability' is potent in its ability to evoke a better world based on economic, social, and environmental justice. The concept of sustainability,... -
The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East by Sharon Hudgins 9781585444045
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.07Award-winning author Sharon Hudgins takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia - from the ""high-rise villages"" of Vladivostok and Irkutsk to Lake Baikal and the... -
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie 9780393338331
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.87With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and... -
The Postcolonial and the Global by Revathi Krishnaswamy 9780816646098
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.15This interdisciplinary work brings the humanities and social sciences into dialogue by examining issues such as globalized capital, discourses of antiterrorism, and identity politics. Essayists from... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West by Steven Frye
Booksplease Price: $51.89This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 7: From the Pacific to the Rockies by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280144
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
Legacy of Lies by Robert Bailey
Booksplease Price: $20.38A small-town attorney takes on prejudice and corruption in this powerful legal thriller. Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis... -
The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told: Enduring Tales Of The Western Frontier by Stephen Brennan
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.84The cowboy, one of the greatest fictional characters in American literary history, is more than a man or a myth; he is an identity, the soul of a country that started out as the wild and unruly and... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 6: Down the Columbia to Fort Clatsop by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280137
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History Steve Harris 9780500029602
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $70.10Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual book, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives,... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 7 - Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture by Emily Jeremiah
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.41There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more... -
Space Odes R. T. A. Parker 9781913861346
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76RTA Parker's Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re-writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding,... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 3: Up the Missouri to Fort Mandan by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280106
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
True to the Roots: Americana Music Revealed by Monte Dutton 9780803266612
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.85Americana music isn't just a musical form--it's a state of mind. In this book, Monte Dutton charts the coordinates of this state of mind with a series of interviews and intimate portraits from the... -
Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World by Derek J. Penslar 9781487526245
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Antisemitism 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... -
American Exceptionalism by Deborah L. Madsen 9781578061082
Booksplease Price: $62.19Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of American history. It is the single most powerful force in... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $40.37For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy Brent Davis 9781032792231
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting... -
Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Chris Packard 9781403975973
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $90.25Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds?... -
Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land by John Graves 9781477309353
Booksplease Price: $29.72"A kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan... -
Our White Boy by Jerry Craft 9781682830321
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.86At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft had no more enticing options than to stay home and help on the family ranchaEURO"so the telephoned offer to play for a semipro... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 5: Through the Rockies to the Cascades by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280120
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
Tales with a Texas Twist: Original Stories And Enduring Folklore From The Lone Star State by Donna Ingham 9780762738991
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $19.21Storytelling is both an art form and a means of passing on significant elements of a culture--the history, the traditions, the humor, the pathos. It is a way of entertaining and being entertained...