Filter By
Books (399)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State by Na Na 9781403973948
RRP: $157.48Booksplease Price: $149.48A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg's account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy's history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy. Ginsborg... -
Communicating with the World: U. S. Public Diplomacy Overseas by Na Na 9780312048099
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $81.31"Communicating with the World" defines and examines public diplomacy in the context of a government's conduct of foreign affairs and identifies its rationale as an outgrowth of the worldwide... -
Reconsidering Drugs: Mapping Victorian and Modern Drug Discourses by Na Na 9780312222727
Booksplease Price: $98.15Lawrence Driscoll's fresh examination of the meaning of drugs from the Victorians to the present asks us to listen to historical and current voices whose positions on drugs are at variance with our... -
Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries by Na Na 9780312230333
Booksplease Price: $190.18Speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills. This book looks at the way advice, which is needed by all executives, is provided to the summit of government in twelve advanced industrialized... -
Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership by Na Na 9780312163723
Booksplease Price: $97.19Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause:... -
Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and. Fundamentalist Thought by Na Na 9780312215804
Booksplease Price: $97.82Also available in paperback as "Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam"During the second half of the nineteenth century, a group of prominent Muslim theologians began to critically examine... -
Crime and Punishment in England, 1100-1990: An Introductory History by Na Na 9780312163310
Booksplease Price: $95.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312163310Author NA NAFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint -
Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991 by Na Na 9780312213527
Booksplease Price: $190.18Wars and Peace is a historical look at how Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the... -
Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions: A Brief History with Documents by Na Na 9781349634859
Booksplease Price: $148.85Whether one views Mao Zedong as a hero or a demon, the "Great Helmsman" was undoubtedly a pivotal figure in the history of 20th-century China. The first part of this volume is an introductory essay... -
The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives by Na Na 9780312222819
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book examines the contentious subject of human rights in China. However, in contrast to the majority of the literature which focuses on alleged Chinese abuses of human rights, the author... -
Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education: A Cross-National Empirical Survey by Na Na 9780312234645
Booksplease Price: $190.18Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education reviews the most recently published empirical research findings on these subjects as well as results from a survey of the attitudes of 10,000 college and... -
The Eclipse of Keynesianism: The Political Economy of the Chicago Counter-Revolution by Na Na 9780312235758
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book examines the process by which Keynesianism, with its sympathetic view of the role of government in the economy and society, lost influence among economists and policy makers and was... -
Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform by Na Na 9781349512867
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in... -
Reforming the Reforms in Latin America: Macroeconomics, Trade, Finance by Na Na 9781349627295
Booksplease Price: $186.06Development has been elusive for Latin America in the 1990s. Notwithstanding tough neoliberal reforms, defeated hyperinflation, and large capital inflows, development of productive capacity and... -
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico by Na Na 9781349626328
Booksplease Price: $232.28Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz's 1632 account of the Spanish victory and from testimonies - many recently uncovered - of indigenous Nahua survivors gathered by Bernardino de Sahagun,... -
Japan and the European Union: A Partnership for the Twenty-First Century? by Na Na 9780312226169
Booksplease Price: $190.18The changing global geopolitical balance in the 1990s has prompted Japan to reassess its international role and to question the bases upon which its foreign economic policies have rested for the past... -
Transforming China: Economic Reform and its Political Implications by Na Na 9780312229122
Booksplease Price: $190.18Transforming China provides an insider's comprehensive and perceptive examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. With wide-ranging primary materials, including interviews,... -
Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 by Na Na 9780312221683
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $97.19Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post-Unification period,... -
East of West: Cross-cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference by Na Na 9780312228156
Booksplease Price: $98.15This ambitious collection offers an innovative look at crosscultural theatrical exchanges. Overturning the argument that Western culture has been imposed on subject cultures in favor of the paradigm... -
Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England by Na Na 9781403972125
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $97.19For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition of Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim... -
The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism by Na Na 9780312173029
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $131.84Since the collapse of communism, the relationship between the Polish armed forces and the Polish government and society has been undergoing a transformation. This book dissects that relationship,... -
The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic by Na Na 9780312223571
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $132.34Why has Russian democracy apparently survived and even strengthened under a presidential system, when so many other presidential regimes have decayed into authoritarian rule? And what are the origins... -
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact by Na Na 9780312234942
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $74.24At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President... -
Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991 by Na Na 9781349385263
Booksplease Price: $192.82Wars and Peace is a historical look at how Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the... -
Imperial Policies and Perspectives Towards Georgia, 1760-1819 by Na Na 9780312229900
Booksplease Price: $190.18The image of an Empire relentlessly gobbling up the Eurasian steppe has dominated Western thinking about Russia for centuries, but is it accurate? Far from being motivated by a well-organized plan... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections by Na Na 9780312232269
Booksplease Price: $97.19Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments by Nathaniel and Sophia... -
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America by Na Na 9780312229788
Booksplease Price: $98.15In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary - in the areas of civil rights, gay and... -
English Travel Writing From Pilgrimages To Postcolonial Explorations by NA NA 9780312226633
Booksplease Price: $190.18Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. This volume provides a concise introduction to the basic... -
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America by Na Na 9780312235048
Booksplease Price: $76.55In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary - in the areas of civil rights, gay and... -
Women At Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse by Na Na 9781349621309
Booksplease Price: $190.18From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely... -
Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters by Jerome Beker
Booksplease Price: $126.17At last, here is a compassionate, humane, and informative volume on the most unique and vulnerable group in our society today--homeless children. Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters is... -
America and the World, 1898-2025: Achievements, Failures, Alternative Futures by Na Na 9780312228781
Booksplease Price: $98.15This book surveys US achievements and failures in the world across the 20th century. The analysis builds upon surveys of experts at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and several... -
Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture by Na Na 9781349624171
Booksplease Price: $190.18When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals... -
Teacher Education in America: Reform Agendas for the Twenty-First Century by Na Na 9780312224547
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $59.28Teacher Education in America is a thought-provoking analysis of the major issues and problems surrounding teacher preparation. Christopher Lucas offers valuable insights into this ongoing debate... -
France, NATO and the Limits of Independence, 1981-97: The Politics of Ambivalence by Na Na 9780312229313
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It also provides a critical assessment of these policies. It argues that France's arms-length... -
Re-Examining Sovereignty: From Classical Theory to the Global Age by Na Na 9780312230913
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book provides a complete documentary history of the idea of sovereignty from classical theory to the global age. By examining documents on sovereignty by major as well as little-known thinkers,... -
Hands-On Data Science for Librarians by Sarah Lin 9781032080826
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $120.81Librarians understand the need to store, use and analyze data related to their collection, patrons and institution, and there has been consistent interest over the last 10 years to improve data... -
Romania Versus the United States: Diplomacy of the Absurd 1985-1989 by Na Na 9781349608157
RRP: $167.98Booksplease Price: $122.64This book is a revealing insiders' account of the deteriorating special relationship between the United States and Romania in the last years of the Ceausescu dictatorship. The authors were the two... -
Global Strategies and Local Realities: The Auto Industry in Emerging Markets by Na Na 9780312233075
Booksplease Price: $190.18The emerging markets have shifted rapidly from being the key growth points of the global auto industry in the mid 1990s, to being in crisis and recession at the end of the decade. This volume... -
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Na Na 9780312210564
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45While scholarship in lesbian/gay studies, queer studies, and studies of gender and sexuality has had an enormous impact on medieval studies, little attention has been paid thus far to women who chose...