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NATO before the Korean War: April 1949-1950 by Lawrence S. Kaplan 9781606351697
Booksplease Price: €66.25Conventional wisdom has the Korean War putting the O in NATO. Prior to that time, from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, to the North Korean invasion of South Korea on June... -
The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader by Zink 9781606350614
RRP: €45.16Booksplease Price: €25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606350614Author ZinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won by Perry Bush 9781606352243
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.64Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other... -
Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths by Heikki Seppa 9780873382120
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that... -
Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War by The Kent State University Press 9780873384865
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32First published in 1958, ""Red River Campaign"" examines how partisan politics, economic needs and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the... -
Such a Rare Thing: The Art of Sherwood Anderson's ""Winesburg, Ohio by 9780873389815
Booksplease Price: €24.63This book is an important contribution to the field of American literary studies.This critical study of Sherwood Anderson's most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, ""Winesburg, Ohio"",... -
Intaglio by 9780873388917
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorA native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis received an M.F.A. from the University of... -
Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice by 9781606350317
Booksplease Price: €41.20This is a collection of scholarly essays on democratic peace theory. Historical patterns suggest that democratic governments, which often fight wars against authoritarian regimes, maintain peaceful... -
Meet Me At Ray's: A Celebration of Ray's Place in Kent, Ohio by Patrick J. O'Connor 9781606351734
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.66Stories and trivia from a beloved Kent Institution Meet Me at Ray's celebrates more than seventy-five successful years (and counting) of Ray's Place, a restaurant and bar located near the Kent State... -
The Prairie Peninsula by Gary Meszaros 9781606353202
Booksplease Price: €25.04The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the... -
More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era by 9780873389129
Booksplease Price: €35.52For more than a decade, Marquette University has honored Frank L. Klement, a longtime member of its history department whose reputation as a historian was established with his ""alternative view"" of... -
Evolution and the Sex Problem: American Narratives During the Eclipse of Darwinism by 9780873388092
Booksplease Price: €58.95A noteworthy investigation of the Darwinian element in American fiction from the realist through the Freudian eras. In Evolution and ""the Sex Problem"" author Bert Bender argues that Darwin's... -
The Last Leaf: Lisa's Story Concludes by Tom Batiuk 9781606353264
Booksplease Price: €20.46Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les... -
Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger 9781606350942
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.74A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship With the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien's... -
The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation by Dinah Hazell 9781606352656
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.49A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien's Middle-earth."Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien... -
Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador by Ellis O. Briggs 9780873385886
Booksplease Price: €44.91Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years he was ambassador to seven countries; the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia,... -
No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. Tidball by Eugene C. Tidball 9780873387224
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96This exhaustive study chronicles the life of career army officer John C. Tidball, from action in major Civil War battles to postwar service in the West.Beginning with the first Battle of Bull Run,... -
Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms by Allan Peskin 9780873387743
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €39.98Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He... -
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree that Gripped a Nation by James G. Hollock 9781606350973
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.69INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2012 IN TRUE CRIME FINALIST, FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSA small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in AmericaStanley Barton Hoss was a burglar,... -
When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images by Cortney Davis 9781606352304
Booksplease Price: €19.17In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of... -
Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints by Judith Giesberg 9781606353400
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €37.78The scholarship on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War is rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern peoples... -
Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer's by Tom Batiuk 9781606352342
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.90Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Created by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, the... -
Hemingway and French Writers by Ben Stoltzfus 9781606350393
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.46A collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authorsIn a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, Jean-Paul Sartre writes: "The greatest literary... -
I've Been Collecting This to Tell You by Lisa Ampleman 9781606351109
Booksplease Price: €5.99In the old story of love and loss, Lisa Ampleman's I've Been Collecting This to Tell You cuts to the core of the matter with concision and subtlety. Hearts are laid bare, dissected, even grown anew... -
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden: The United States, the Horn of Africa and the Demise of Détente by Louise P. Woodroofe 9781606351840
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €43.77When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 14, 2011-2013 Tom Batiuk 9781606354810
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €37.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354810Author Tom BatiukFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
A Hero to His Fighting Men: Nelson A.Miles, 1839-1925 by 9780873385947
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €29.23In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's... -
Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960 by 9780873389266
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €37.62Economic ties with the United States were important to Colombia even in the early twentieth century, as the U.S. was the major market for coffee, Colombia's leading export and source of revenue. A... -
Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon 9780873388610
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.13Ripperology - a sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper - is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a... -
Creative Essence: Cleveland's Sense of Place by 9780873388191
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.81Arising out of the Cleveland Artists Foundation's Dialogue Series, a 22-hour-long collection of forums held in cultural institutions and broadcast on National Public Radio, Creative Essence examines... -
Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages by 9780873389792
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.51A beautifully illustrated collection of some of the finest examples of liturgical artNo work of art can be fully appreciated if divorced from the culture that produced it. This examination of... -
The Election of 1860 Reconsidered by A. James Fuller 9781606351482
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.40The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate... -
Translation by Matthew Minicucci 9781606352625
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.25Winner of the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeJane Hirshfield, Judge "What are we to do with anger? What are we to do with love? What are we to do with one another, given all that happens and has... -
General Grant by 9780873385244
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.73This text reproduces Arnold's essay of 1886 on Grant, and Twain's rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. Arnold's essay praised Grant, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing... -
OSS Against the Reich: World War Two Diaries by 9780873384278
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16OSS against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war... -
Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading by Richard O'Keefe 9780873385183
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €28.55Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the American writer's essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of Emerson's works. Richard O'Keefe uses the... -
MAN OF DISTINCTION AMONG THEM by 9780873387002
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23A Man of Distinction among Them represents an important step in under standing the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and... -
Medical Histories of Confederate Generals by 9780873386494
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23From official records, personal letters, and postwar memoirs, Jack D. Welsh, M.D., has compiled the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. The generals' early military experience, at West... -
Translation and Time: Migration, Culture, and Identity by James St. André 9781606354087
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €50.69Essays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and... -
Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 by Hampton Newsome 9781606355039
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.55A study of Grant's and Lee's battles in the weeks before the 1864 election In the fall of 1864, the Civil War's outcome rested largely on Abraham Lincoln's success in the upcoming presidential...