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Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance--Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica by Carmelo Mesa-Lago
RRP: $93.45Booksplease Price: $70.77How can we determine which economic model best provides for economic development and social welfare? In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American... -
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery by Elizabeth Haiken
Booksplease Price: $47.63Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections-the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part... -
The New Medievalism by Marina Scordilis Brownlee
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $38.33"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research... -
Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy by James M. Lindsay
Booksplease Price: $60.69Lindsay offers a timely and comprehensive examination of the role the modern Congress plays in foreign policy, and of the ways members use their control of procedure and access to the news media to... -
The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $42.38Originally published in 1864 as La Cite Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a... -
Watermen by Randall S. Peffer
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $36.18For three hundred years, generations of Tilghman Islanders have lived by harvesting the waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. They are watermen, an old English term for commercial fishermen, and their... -
Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts by Elizabeth A. Flynn
Booksplease Price: $60.02"An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it... -
Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government by Jameson W. Doig
Booksplease Price: $60.69Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support... -
The World of Samuel Beckett by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $38.33"The World of Samuel Beckett" brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's... -
Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America by Abraham F. Lowenthal
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $42.38The idea that the United States can and should help Latin America achieve democracy has been a recurrent theme in U.S. foreign policy throughout the twentieth century. By the 1990s, it has become... -
Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins
Booksplease Price: $61.05Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories -- most of them contemporary works... -
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era by Marc Shell
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $41.66In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of... -
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society by Stanley Chojnacki
Booksplease Price: $55.48In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the... -
Merging Colleges for Mutual Growth: A New Strategy for Academic Managers by James Martin
RRP: $59.85Booksplease Price: $45.99In Merging Colleges for Mutual Growth, James Martin and James E. Samels bring together a distinguished group of higher education professionals to provide the first comprehensive handbook for those... -
Graphs on Surfaces by Bojan Mohar
Booksplease Price: $160.86Graph theory is one of the fastest growing branches of mathematics. Until recently, it was regarded as a branch of combinatorics and was best known by the famous four-color theorem stating that any... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: $59.85Booksplease Price: $46.62In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on... -
Long Made Short by Stephen Dixon
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming... -
Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $42.38A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.About the AuthorWilliam Kerrigan is... -
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling: Volume 2 by Susanne K. Langer
Booksplease Price: $64.16The second volume of Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling contains Part IV of the six parts which will eventually compose Susanne Langer's masterwork. It confronts the crucial issue of "The Great Shift"... -
The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading by Barbara Johnson
Booksplease Price: $51.74Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism are "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies... -
Abuse and Victimization across the Life Span by Martha B. Straus
RRP: $51.45Booksplease Price: $39.06"Abuse and Victimization across the Life Span" addresses the problem of family violence from a developmental perspective. Rather than limiting the focus to a specific state of development, the book... -
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries by Alejandro Portes
Booksplease Price: $54.43A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up "shop" on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells... -
Medicine in America: A Short History by James H. Cassedy
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83How did the challenge and the timetable of America's westward expansion affect American medical practice? What have the principles and obligations of American democracy brought to the character of... -
American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by William G. Rothstein
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83In American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century, William G. Rothstein sombines sociological with historical analysis to explain the devlopment of the medical profession in nineteenth-century America... -
Sultanistic Regimes by H. E. Chehabi
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $42.38Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the... -
Rights across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship by David Jacobson
Booksplease Price: $50.72In Rights across Borders, political sociologist David Jacobson argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of citizenship and the state since World War II. Jacobson shows how citizenship... -
America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois by Gregory C. Randall
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, and their families. Designs such as the garden... -
The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action by Jeffrey T. Jackson
Booksplease Price: $73.04In The Globalizers, author Jeffrey T. Jackson studies globalization and development aid in Honduras. While many scholars focus on the transnational corporation, Jackson believes that the... -
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America by Sean Patrick Adams
Booksplease Price: $60.02In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!"... -
Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail by Lowell Edmunds
Booksplease Price: $56.91Originally published in 1998. From its contested origins in nineteenth-century California; through its popularity among the smart set of the 1930s, world leaders of the 1940s, and the men in the gray... -
What Women Know, What Men Believe by Wyatt Prunty
RRP: $26.25Booksplease Price: $20.43Poems deal with the past, parenthood, mortality, nature, loneliness, violence, beauty, neighbors, and sleepAbout the AuthorWyatt Prunty is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently ... -
Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis by Richard Ned Lebow
Booksplease Price: $60.02When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms? When is it brought about by miscalculation? What causes policy-makers to misjudge the... -
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling Susanne K. Langer 9780801825118
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $46.70Volume III complete the publication of Susanne Langer's monumental treatise on the rise and development of mind-an exclusively human phenomenon- by evolution from animal intelligence to intellectual... -
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $44.54Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician... -
Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians by Owsei Temkin
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $46.70In Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians, Temkin shows how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic... -
Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement by David L. Chappell
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $41.66Winner of the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America Award from the Gustavus Myers Center "In the movement, we always said that, like in a washing machine, it was the... -
Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution by Haleh Esfandiari
Booksplease Price: $40.38The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won... -
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France by Anne C. Vila
Booksplease Price: $60.65In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France... -
Savagism and Civilization by Roy Harvey Pearce
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83Pearce presents a study of the concept of savagism as reflected in the American writings on Indians that appeared in political pamphlets, drama, poetry, and other writings.About the AuthorRoy Harvey... -
Stronger than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel by Terry S. Reynolds
Booksplease Price: $64.79Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical...