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Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines by 9781557531223
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $14.13Ample evidence has been provided that women historically have suffered numerous social, political, and institutional barriers to their entrance and success in the sciences. The articles in this... -
Conserving Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes: Model-based Planning Tools for Systems with Sharp Edges by 9781557533272
Booksplease Price: $82.59Habitat loss and fragmentation arguably pose the greatest threats to biological diversity. Agriculture is a dominant land use that, along with urban sprawl and residential development, can reduce the... -
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Kinship and Polity in the ""Poema de Mio Cid by 9781557530394
Booksplease Price: $42.60This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Chapters are devoted to such... -
What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lights and Beetles by Tom Turpin 9781557535092
Booksplease Price: $13.65The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Find out about Aesop's insects, Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug,... -
Possum in the Pawpaw Tree: Seasonal Guide to Midwestern Gardening by 9781557530547
Booksplease Price: $22.38One of the latest trends in home horticulture is regional gardening, but most popular garden books and syndicated columns are written by authors on the East and West coasts. Possum in the Pawpaw Tree... -
Andre Gide Dans Le Labyrinthe De La Mythotextualite Vol 8 by 9781557530677
Booksplease Price: $65.51This is an intelligent study of an important topic, one not treated in this manner and deserving of a new investigation. It brings to bear, in particular, various recent critical concepts such as... -
People, Property, or Pets? by 9781557533807
Booksplease Price: $26.87A child can't be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child's care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights... -
Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory and Performance by Charles Ganelin
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90Drawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on research conducted in Spanish archives, this pioneering group of English-speaking scholars offers... -
Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace by Professor Alexander C. Y. Huang
Booksplease Price: $53.42Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a century of Asian readings of plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth are now... -
Vidas Impropias: Transformaciones del Sujeto Femenino en la Narrativa Espanola Contemporanea by Maria Pilar Rodriguez
Booksplease Price: $41.56Through the analysis of six Spanish novels, one for each decade from the 1940s through the 1990s, Rodriguez proposes a new concept of the novel of feminine development and emphasizes the importance... -
Perspectives on Science and Culture by Kris Rutten
Booksplease Price: $59.71Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an... -
Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France by R. Regina Felix
Booksplease Price: $59.16Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter,... -
The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735- 1950 by Lev Hakak
Booksplease Price: $52.80This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), their Hebrew creativity and the fact that this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it... -
The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature by Rebecca Riger Tsurami
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.36In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the... -
Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process by Michael Fosmire
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses... -
Jewish Cultural Aspirations by Ruth Weisberg
Booksplease Price: $35.28In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class-particularly the more affluent families-began to enter the cultural spheres of public... -
Reading Boileau: An Integrative Study of the Early Satires by Robert T. Corum
Booksplease Price: $35.17In French literary history Nicolas Boileau (1636-17'1) has enjoyed legendary status as the great codifier of French classicism, the discerning critic who could demolish or elevate several generations... -
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Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the ""Bibliotheca Mexicana"" and the ""Rusticano Mexicana by Antony Higgins
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27This book constitutes an attempt to theorize the process of the emergence, in eighteenth-century New Spain, of a position of intellectual subjectivity differentiated from that established by the... -
Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Daniela D'Eugenio
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.34Proverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process... -
Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom by George R. Leopold 9781557538291
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.63Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. ""Gus""Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crewin a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his... -
The Interpretation of Illness by Frederic D. Homer 9780911198881
Booksplease Price: $21.18Georg Groddeck (1866-1934), who was trained as a physicianbut became famous for his success as a healer, introduced a radical concept inThe Book of It: that we virtually always cause our own illness... -
Forget-Me-Not: A Memoir of Anne Bashkiroff's Alzheimer's Crusade by Gail Bernice Holland 9781557534255
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.76Anne Bashkiroff was a pioneer in the fight for Alzheimer's awareness. Her dear husband, Sasha, suffered for nine years with this terrible brain- and soul-damaging illness. Anne was faced with... -
![Becoming a Self: Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Merold Westphal 9781557530905](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2732539/2731877/9781557530905__30778.1714675561.jpg?c=1 "Becoming a Self: Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Merold Westphal 9781557530905")
Becoming a Self: Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Merold Westphal 9781557530905
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Soren Kierkegaard (1818-55) is perhaps best known for his existentialism, and his critique of the Western metaphysical tradition makes him a religiously committed postmodernist. Becoming a Self... -
The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 by Gary B. Cohen 9781557534040
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the... -
Essential Readings in Problem-Based Learning: Exploring and Extending the Legacy of Howard S. Barrows by Andrew Walker 9781612499130
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.96Like most good educational interventions, problem-based learning (PBL) did not grow out of theory, but out of a practical problem. Medical students were bored, dropping out, and unable to apply what... -
Unleashed Fury: The Political Struggle for Dog-Friendly Parks by Julie Walsh 9781557535757
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.65The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States. In the last two decades, 'leash-law... -
Slow Ball Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune by Tony Garel-Frantzen 9781557537300
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.83Slow Ball Cartoonist takes readers on a journey to an earlier era in America when cartoonists played a pivotal role each day in enabling major daily newspapers to touch the lives of their readers. No... -
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging by Denise L. Calhoun 9781557538185
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.01Effective communication in eldercare settings enables better caregiving and enhances understanding and a sense of well-being in those cared for. Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for... -
Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890 by Victor Lincoln Albjerg 9781557539625
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.34Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he... -
Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners' Hospital in Buna-Monowitz by Ewa Bacon 9781557538246
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek-newly graduated from medical school in Krakow-was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz... -
Brute Force: Policing Animal Cruelty by Arnold Arluke 9781557534507
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.09Brute Force looks at people having the most contact with everyday animal abuse- humane law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing anti-cruelty statutes. The author spent one year... -
The Deans Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality by Angie Klink 9781557537652
Booksplease Price: $25.37Like pearls threaded one-by-one to form a necklace, five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland from the 1930s to the 1990s. Individually, each... -
Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home by Angie Klink 9781557535917
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.32In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's... -
Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity by Mark Mathis 9781557533975
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.59Would you participate in a contest in which you do not know the rules? What if the success of your organization or your personal reputation were at stake? Don't answer so quickly. Every day millions... -
Flying the Beam: Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941 by Henry R. Lehrer 9781557536853
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.06With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil... -
An Enduring Quest: The Story of Purdue Industrial Engineers by Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler 9781557535443
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.83The process of industrialization that began over two hundred years ago is continuing to change the way people work and live and doing it very rapidly in places like China and India. At the forefront... -
Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism by Kevin Corrigan 9781557532343
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23This title provides a practical reading guide to the thought of Plotinus, the great philosopher who was born in Alexandria in the third century AD, lived in Rome and wrote in Greek. Deeply immersed... -
The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde by Robert W. Topping 9781557539618
Booksplease Price: $20.61This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and... -
Grand Dragon: D.C.Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana by M.William Lutholtz 9781557530462
Booksplease Price: $20.46The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen... -
Giving Much/Gaining More: Mentoring for Success by Emily M. Wadsworth 9781557532916
Booksplease Price: $27.70Transitions are difficult. From high school to college, college to the job force, from one job to another. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find your place in society because of the impersonal...