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On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar 9781606354063
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.04Winner of the 2019 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.Natalie Diaz, judgei say / my mother's name, / cristina & desert marigolds / crack through a boulder. / i say my father's name, martin / & all the... -
Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 by Haller Jr, John S 9780873385770
Booksplease Price: $59.55Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted... -
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South by Gracjan Kraszewski 9781606354995
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.20How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitments in the recently formed Confederacy? How did... -
African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War by Reid 9781606352557
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $40.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606352557Author ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe by L. Kerr Dunn 9781606352724
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.44Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in... -
Hover Over Her by Leah Poole Osowski 9781606352977
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82"In Leah Osowski's exquisite debut, hover over her, the poet immerses us in geographies of unrealized adolescence, where young women are singular amidst their cacophonous backdrops, whether beside a... -
The World Underneath by 9780873389488
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.67This is an intimate second book of poems.The locus of Richard Tayson's second book of poems, ""The World Underneath"", is a series of poems related to a home birth, an event that leads the poems'... -
The Poems of Herman Melville by Douglas Robillard 9780873386609
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.62Unlike his fiction, which has been popular and often reprinted, Melville's poetry remains obscure. The last "collected poems" appeared in 1947 and "selected poems" in the 1970s, and only two books... -
Creatures of Change: Album of Ohio Animals by 9780873385855
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $52.14Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals. However, the effects of native settlement upon animal species varied widely, and the fortunes of many rose and... -
The Adventuress: Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age by 9781606350348
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.34This book tells the engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow. Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder - all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New... -
Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady through War, Assassination and Secret Disability by Carl Sferrazza Anthony 9781606351529
Booksplease Price: $86.68Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847- 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United... -
Reading Hemingway's ""The Sun Also Rises by H.R. Stoneback 9780873388672
Booksplease Price: $68.29The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway "The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingway's major works of fiction, short stories, and novels are... -
War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I 9780873389723
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.84German leaders believed that in the event of a war among European powers, they could organize and exploit a unified Islam. In addition to providing military assistance to the Ottomans, they... -
The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines by Rona Simmons 9781606353981
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $36.99The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines.For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and... -
Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride 9781606353967
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $70.98Demonstrating the unity of Tolkien's created world across Middle-earth's Ages.An in-depth examination of the role of divine beings in Tolkien's work, Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and... -
Scars to Prove it: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction by 9781606350157
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26This examination of the interaction between fictional representations of the Civil War and the memoirs and autobiographies of Civil War soldiers argues that veterans' accounts taught later... -
America's Football Factory: Western Pennsylvania's Cradle of Quarterbacksfrom Johnny Unitas to Joe Montana by Wayne Stewart 9781606353516
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.57A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarterbacks enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That percentage is wildly... -
The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Amy Amendt-Raduege 9781606353059
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $37.58In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece... -
The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach 9781606353738
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.29Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeThe Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood; its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. This... -
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he... -
Cleveland A to Z: An Essential Compendium for Visitors and Residents Alike by John J. Grabowski 9781606353905
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $45.45A richly illustrated celebration of Cleveland history and culture.Cities around the globe, whether large or small, have characteristics that create a particular identity. So what about Cleveland?... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 9, 1996-1998 by Tom Batiuk 9781606353929
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.06Balancing humor with sensitivity to tell stories we need to hear .Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips that allows its characters to grow and age. With this... -
Guide Book for the Tourist and Traveler Over the Valley Railway!: The Short Line Between Cleveland, Akron and Canton, 1880 by 9780873387354
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.31Founded in 1871 by a group of entrepreneurs from Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, the Valley Railway paralleled the Cuyahoga River Valley, stretching from southeast Cleveland to Akron and then on to... -
Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham by Larry E. Wood 9781606353851
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Emma Molloy temperance revivalist, prohibitionist, and accessory to murder.In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known... -
Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell 9781606353592
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $54.02Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers... -
So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature by Kathleen J. O'Shea 9781606354032
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.84"English," wrote Virginia Woolf, "which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his... -
Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Girl Who Connected Them All by James M Scythes 9781606354520
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $71.72One young woman's correspondence with her community's servicemen, maintaining connection and boosting morale throughout the Civil WarDuring the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters... -
The Health Humanities and Camus's The Plague by Woods Nash 9781606353226
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.23Using Camus's classic novel as a touchstone for health humanities educationCamus's The Plague, first published in 1947, is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century fiction and as an interesting... -
The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial by Laura James 9781606353943
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.95Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes... -
How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore 9781606354278
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body... -
Hemingway's Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Frederic Svoboda 9781606353875
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Encapsulating all of Hemingway's interests, his short stories are essential for understanding him.Sometimes characterised as the most significant author since Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway was an... -
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War by Paul Taylor 9781606353530
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $59.48The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering... -
A Century of Flight at Paton Field: The Story of Kent State University's Airport and Flight Education by William D. Schloman 9781606353868
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $54.02Celebrating Kent State's historic contributions to flight in northeast Ohio and beyond In this detailed and well-illustrated study, A Century of Flight at Paton Field explores the hundred-year... -
Blanton's Browns: The Great 1965-69 Cleveland Browns by Roger Gordon
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.82Great players, great coaches, great fans, and a great stadium-the 1965-69 Cleveland Browns Two very exciting games in Cleveland Browns history-their upset of the Baltimore Colts in 1964 and the... -
Bank Robbers and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.20The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National... -
Hemingway in Comics by Robert K. Elder
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.71Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with... -
Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding by Laura Godfrey 9781606353813
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.26Remarkable connections between Hemingway's time and our own digital eraHow can we convince readers, and especially students, to slow down to the crawl that is often necessary to see the real power in... -
Slavery: Interpreting American History by Aaron Astor
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people... -
A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio by James M. Greiner 9781606353820
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12A sensational murder, trial, and a young woman's execution in Depression-era New YorkAt first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore 'Sam' Antonio had all the trademarks of a... -
I Hear the World Sing (Sento cantare il mondo): Italian and American Children Joined in Poetry (Bambini italiani e americani uniti in poesia) by David Hassler
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.72Shared joys and concerns across cultures and language, expressed in the poetry of children.When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about...