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The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America by James Mahoney 9780801865527
Booksplease Price: £59.21Despite their many similarities, Central American countries during the twentieth century were characterized by remarkably different political regimes. In a comparative analysis of Guatemala, El... -
The Political University: Policy, Politics, and Presidential Leadership in the American Research University by Robert M. Rosenzweig 9780801868191
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £16.54Research universities are unique in American education in the degree to which they are sensitive to policies of the national government. According to Robert Rosenzweig, it is impossible to understand... -
The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman 9780801867552
Booksplease Price: £45.28In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way into... -
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 by James L. Baughman 9780801883156
Booksplease Price: £40.69The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had on the established mass media-radio, film, newspapers, and... -
Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education by Judith Glazer-Raymo 9780801888625
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £35.32This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education-and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and... -
Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy by Larry Diamond 9781421405674
Booksplease Price: £50.09The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy... -
The Maryland Master Gardener Handbook by University of Maryland Extension - Master Gardener Program 9781421451855
RRP: £69.50Booksplease Price: £52.97The definitive guide to gardening in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic—from the experts at the University of Maryland Extension.Whether you're a novice or an expert gardener, The Maryland Master Gardener... -
Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use by Raymond J. Burby 9780801856235
Booksplease Price: £44.64"The message of this book is one of cautious optimism. New challenges to planning are coming forth...These have caused some state legislatures to be reluctant to create or strengthen... -
The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy by Leon Schlossberg 9780801856518
Booksplease Price: £66.79With more than 200,000 copies sold, The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy is a trusted and authoritative source of information about the human body for general readers and students at... -
Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery by John W. Crowley 9780801860072
Booksplease Price: £27.46"Twelve-step" recovery programs for a wide variety of addictive behaviors have become tremendously popular in the 1990s. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements-including... -
Care That Works: A Relationship Approach to Persons with Dementia by Jitka M. Zgola 9780801860256
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £52.29In her widely acclaimed Doing Things, Jitka M. Zgola offered practical and much-needed advice for those caring for persons with Alzheimer disease. Now, in Care That Works, Zgola shows how caregivers... -
ADHD in Adulthood: A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Margaret Weiss 9780801861413
Booksplease Price: £72.11How does ADHD manifest itself in adult life? In general, the authors write, hyperactivity tends to diminish with age, impulsivity changes quality, and attention problems remain the same although they... -
What You Really Need to Know about Moles and Melanoma by Jill R. Schofield 9780801863936
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £34.96Throughout the world, the incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing at an alarming rate. This dramatic rise is largely due to more frequent and prolonged exposure to intense sun, the result of... -
Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War by Mark Voss-Hubbard 9780801869402
Booksplease Price: £49.68Captivating disgruntled voters, third parties have often complicated the American political scene. In the years before the Civil War, third-party politics took the form of the Know Nothings, who... -
Student Movements for Multiculturalism: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education by David Yamane 9780801870996
Booksplease Price: £27.31Beginning with the premise that a comprehensive understanding of American life must confront the issue of race, sociologist David Yamane explores efforts by students and others to address racism and... -
Making Government Manageable: Executive Organization and Management in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas H. Stanton 9780801878329
Booksplease Price: £28.60What are the basic concepts of executive organization and management? How does executive organization affect management? How can executive organization and management be improved? In Making... -
Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America by Robert R. Kaufman 9780801880490
Booksplease Price: £53.68Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives studies the politics of efforts to reform education and health services in Latin America in the 1990s. Both sectors were common targets of reform-education because of... -
World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America by Philip G. Altbach 9780801886614
Booksplease Price: £81.30Nations with strong research universities are better able to compete in the international marketplace of ideas and innovation. Any country-especially in the developing world-striving to participate... -
Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech by Sarah McLaughlin 9781421452807
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.86A revealing exposé on how foreign authoritarian influence is undermining freedom and integrity within American higher education institutions.In an era of globalized education, where ideals of freedom... -
Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff by Rebecca Pope-Ruark 9781421452524
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84An empowering essay collection on fostering a more inclusive, compassionate mental health culture in higher education.In the competitive and achievement-driven world of higher education, the mental... -
University Keywords by Andy Hines 9781421452357
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.17How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original... -
A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging: Staying Smart, Strong, and Active by Edward H. Thompson, Jr. 9781421453262
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.64Updated and revised! An essential guide to healthy aging for men.In A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging, Edward H. Thompson, Jr., and Lenard W. Kaye explore the new and evolving landscape of men's health... -
Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy by Dafeng Xu 9781421453545
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £34.28How disaster remade San Francisco's Chinatown—and revealed the limits of belonging in America.San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese... -
Your Kid Belongs Here: An Insider's Guide to Parenting Neurodiverse Children by Katie Rose Guest Pryal 9781421453347
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.86A compassionate and comprehensive guide to parenting neurodivergent children.Your Kid Belongs Here is a heartfelt, practical guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them—or their... -
Precepting Medical Students in the Office by Paul M. Paulman 9780801863660
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84"Medical knowledge and training have evolved dramatically over the centuries, but the tradition of dedicated physicians sharing their knowledge, skills, experience, and wisdom with the next... -
Mend or Move On: A Guide to Healing or Leaving Toxic Relationships by Kate King 9781421453477
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.53A therapeutic guide to recognizing, releasing, and recovering from relationships that harm your mental and emotional health.Relationships are meant to nourish us—but what happens when they cause harm... -
An Educator's Guide to ADHD: Designing and Teaching for Student Success by Karen Costa 9781421453507
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.56A strengths-based guide for teaching ADHD college students that promotes inclusive, supportive, and high-structure learning environments for all.The college learning environment is a place of both... -
Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports by Karen Weaver 9781421454962
Booksplease Price: £27.10Coming soon: Understanding College Athletics by Karen Weaver.Book InformationISBN 9781421454962Author Karen WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
A History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin 9781421454931
RRP: £61.50Booksplease Price: £44.59Coming soon: A History of American Higher Education (fourth edition) by John R. Thelin.Book InformationISBN 9781421454931Author John R. ThelinFormat HardbackPage Count 608 -
Eroticism and the Body Politic by Lynn Hunt
Booksplease Price: £29.07By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to... -
The <I>Trojan Epic</I>: <I>Posthomerica</I> by Quintus of Smyrna
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.38Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed down from ancient Greece. Also known as the ... -
Religious Politics and Secular States: Egypt, India, and the United States by Scott W. Hibbard
Booksplease Price: £29.07This comparative analysis probes why conservative renderings of religious tradition in the United States, India, and Egypt remain so influential in the politics of these three ostensibly secular... -
A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education by Marjorie Hass
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.64For years, Marjorie Hass, now the president of Rhodes College, was approached by women in higher education looking for advice and support as they took on leadership roles and navigated challenging... -
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments by Callimachus
Booksplease Price: £28.58Having found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. -D.S. Carne-RossA Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic... -
Reinventing Marxism by Howard J. Sherman
Booksplease Price: £29.39The collapse of the Soviet Union provides economist Howard Sherman the opportunity to re-evaluate Marxism as an alternative to conventional pro-capitalist perspectives. Arguing that Soviet Marxism... -
Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990 by Helen Nader
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended... -
Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters by Steven M. Stowe
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.About the AuthorSteven M. Stowe is associate professor of history... -
Louis Pasteur by Patrice Debre
Booksplease Price: £33.16Distinguished French immunologist and physician Patrice Debre offers an extensive, balanced, and detailed account of Louis Pasteur's life, struggles, and contributions. Drawing heavily on Pasteur's... -
The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900 by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £25.63In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Bowler examines the completing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which... -
Keeping Control: Understanding and Overcoming Fecal Incontinence by Marvin M. Schuster
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £13.78Keeping Control is a compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the possible causes of fecal incontinence, learn about important...