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Native American Folklore In 19 Century by William M. Clements 9780804008723
Booksplease Price: £39.29Though study of American Indian cultures had been fostered for several centuries by missionaries and explorers, it was not until he nineteenth century that a disciplined and systematic approach to... -
A Literary Guide to Provence by Daniel Vitaglione 9780804010351
Booksplease Price: £33.30Provence through the eyes of its writers-those who wrote of it in Provencal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty-that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence... -
And Still Birds Sing: New and Collected Poems by Lucien Stryk 9780804010047
Booksplease Price: £40.46Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry. Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books... -
One-Smoke Stories by Mary Austin 9780804010610
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.20One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the... -
Tales Never Told Around Campfire: True Tales Of Frontier America by Mark Dugan 9780804009553
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Ten outlaws, ten states, ten stories of nineteenth-century fugitives remarkable because the events really took place. Mark Dugan's latest outlaw chase reins in enough evidence to corral the cynics... -
The Inclusive Corporation: A Disability Handbook for Business Professionals by Griff Hogan 9780804010566
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Because of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the enormous market of aging adults coping with impairments, disability has become an important issue for all businesses. The Inclusive Corporation... -
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism by Garrick Davis 9780804011082
Booksplease Price: £39.38Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since thattime,... -
The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession by Rennard Strickland 9780804011105
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look... -
On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard 9780804011150
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36William Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin,... -
Searching for Soul: A Survivor's Guide by Bobbe Tyler 9780804011198
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77To dive deep into your inner life. To navigate its complexity and explore your story in depth. To discover who you are exactly-the courage you have when life breaks apart, how conscious you become in... -
Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners by Katherine J. Black 9780804011624
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68For two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a rich variety of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners is the... -
The Common Lot and Other Stories: The Published Short Fiction, 1908–1921 by Emma Bell Miles 9780804011747
Booksplease Price: £26.65The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma... -
Sick to Death: An Andy Hayes Mystery Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804012539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91After years of personal and professional turmoil, things are finally looking up for Columbus, Ohio, private eye Andy Hayes. As Sick to Death opens, Andy is relishing his new gig: a drama-free,... -
Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin 9780804011556
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Anais Nin's Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their... -
Woman Speaks: Lectures, Seminars, Interviews Anais Nin by Evelyn J. Hinz 9780804006941
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationships, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of woman, the artist... -
The Tiki King: Stories by Stacy Tintocalis 9780804011266
Booksplease Price: £39.65A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocalis's... -
Treasure Tales Of Rockies by Perry Eberhart 9780804009355
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Here is a whopping collection of tales of lost mines and buried treasure to stir the blood of any adventurous spirit and to satisfy the most lively imagination. Maps and photos galore accompany the... -
The Bassett Women by Grace McClure 9780804008778
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In the late nineteenth century, Brown's Park, a secluded valley astride the Utah-Colorado border, was a troubled land of deadly conflict among cattle barons, outlaws, rustlers, and small ranchers... -
Fourth Down and Out: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011532
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The job seems easy enough at first for private investigator Andy Hayes: save his client's reputation by retrieving a laptop and erasing a troublesome video from its hard drive. But that's before... -
Drawing Your Stress Away: A Draw-It-Yourself Coloring Book by Lucia Capacchione 9780804011860
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58With Drawing Your Stress Away and Hello, This Is Your Body Talking, art therapist and educator Dr. Lucia Capacchione presents a new concept in adult coloring: the draw-it-yourself coloring book... -
Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories by Anais Nin 9780804011822
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.57Written when Anais Nin was in her twenties and living in France, the stories collected in Waste of Timelessness contain many elements familiar to those who know her later work as well as revelatory,... -
DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good by Bernard DeVoto 9780804010726 [USED COPY]
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £4.00Social commentator and preeminent western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. By the time of his death in 1955, DeVoto had published... -
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture by Dan Gearino 9780804012133
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the... -
Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past by Judith M. Taylor
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.92Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens. Few give any thought at all to how this incredible... -
Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940 by Anais Nin
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.18The incestuous affair between the writer Anais Nin and her father, the pianist-composer Joaquin Nin, is well documented in the volume of her unexpurgated diary published under the title Incest. What... -
Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement by Suzi Parron
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public... -
Secure the Shadow: A Novel by Michael Henson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson's latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes... -
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History by Donna M. DeBlasio 9780804011174
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories... -
An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz by Cynthia L. Haven 9780804011327
Booksplease Price: £57.10Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw... -
Duncan’s Colony by Natalie L.M. Petesch 9780804004015
Booksplease Price: £35.10"During the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic... -
Politics Of Compassion: And Transformation by Dick Simpson 9780804009034
Booksplease Price: £52.58In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of "progress," we might expect to look with confidence to the... -
Making of Legends: More True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan 9780804009959
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £20.27Some of the American West's grandest legends are about people who in reality were remorseless killers, robbers, and bandits. These outlaws flourished during the 1800s and gained notoriety throughout... -
Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin by Anita Jarczok 9780804011761
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and... -
Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest: A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties by Scott A. Zanon 9780804011518
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and... -
Poems Old & New 1918-1978 by Janet Lewis 9780804003728
Booksplease Price: £14.73Kenneth Rexroth wrote: "Janet Lewis uses reason to veil and adorn the flesh of feeling and intuition. This is the way the greatest poetry has always been written." The poems in this collection range... -
Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis by Savina J. Teubal 9780804008440
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis, which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic stories dealing with her. On the surface, these stories tell us very... -
The New Effective Voluntary Board of Directors: What It Is and How It Works by William R. Conrad 9780804010337
Booksplease Price: £39.60More than one million nonprofit or voluntary organizations have been incorporated in the United States, and there are countless others throughout the world. Although they range in size and purpose... -
The Handywoman Stories by Lenore McComas Coberly 9780804010443
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £19.72Sometimes it's possible to pick up a book and hear the words being spoken by the characters as if you were sitting across the table from them. This is the sensation you'll have as you read through... -
Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California by Alison Lake 9780804010849
Booksplease Price: £40.13California would be a different place today without the imprint of Spanish culture and the legacy of Indian civilization. The colonial Spanish missions that dot the coast and foothills between Sonoma... -
For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States by Diane L Beers 9780804010870
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Animal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the...