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Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace by Mohammad Taeb 9781557534828
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $24.78Covering more than the conventional 'food-only' role of the agriculture, the international contributors to ""Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace"" detail how the solution to agricultural... -
Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century by Gabriela C. Weaver 9781557537249
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $36.15Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them... -
The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People by Arnold Arluke 9781557534323
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.23The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in... -
Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver by Robert Hershberger 9781612497341
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.95One year shy of her fiftieth wedding anniversary, Dee Hershberger was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Her husband, Bob, serving as her primary caregiver, kept a journal the following four and a... -
From Boston to Berlin: A Journey Through World War II in Images and Words by Christopher E. Mauriello 9781557539762
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $20.58When Roland Regan and Frederick Mauriello went off to fight the Germans in World War II, they packed cameras and notepaper and documented their experiences, Roland with photos, Frederick with letters... -
The Significance of Children and Animals: Social Development and Our Connections to Other Species by Gene Myers 9781557534293
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.10What role does an animal play in a child's developing sense of self? Are children and animals interacting in ways no longer recognizable to adults? The Significance of Children and Animals addresses... -
A Pictorial History of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University by David F. Radcliffe 9781557537713
Booksplease Price: $28.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDavid Radcliffe is the Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and the Epistemology... -
Westward We Came: A Norwegian Immigrant's Story, 1866-1898 by Erling E. Kildahl 9781557534712
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Westward We Came is a memoir of Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. and his family pulling up roots in Norway and immigrating to the United States in 1866. It is a vivid description of their travels and... -
A Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home by Mark Warner 9781557532022
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $38.18Written by a practising architect and gerontologist, this text explains how to create a home environment that will help coping with the many difficulties associated with Alzheimer's. The text is... -
Kirby's Way: How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built Their Company on Kitchen-Table Values by Angie Klink 9781557536143
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.69The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself ""a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash."" He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free... -
The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research and Application by Frank R. Ascione 9781557535658
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $52.63Animal abuse as a predictor of abuse against humans has been documented extensively. Society's ever-rising violence has prompted experts to ask what alternatives are available to identify the early... -
Just Call Me Orville: The Story of Orville Redenbacher by Robert W. Topping 9781557535955
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Based on extensive interviews and archival research, this book traces the career of Orville Redenbacher, the "popcorn king," from his agricultural studies at Purdue University to his emergence as an... -
My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me by Kathy M. Finley 9781612498737
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me is the story of how an adorable, spunky, gray-and-white kitten helped the author regain the courage to face life's challenges and realize... -
The Body Mutinies by 9781557530837
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and... -
Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoirs of a Bosnian Serb by 9781557533593
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Concurrent with the dawn of multiparty politics in 1990, Mirko Pejanovic emerged in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the leader of the Socialist Alliance. His organization was in charge of implementing policies... -
Managing Risk and Complexity through Open Communication and Teamwork by Phillip K. Tompkins 9781557537126
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Along with increased complexities in work and life in general in the twenty-first century come new and dangerous risks to workers, customers, and the general public. Drawing on decades of experience... -
Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mario De Andrade by 9781557534224
Booksplease Price: $58.09Aesthetics of Equilibrium is the first book-length comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mario de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and... -
A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies by Michael R. Adamson 9781557536341
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $41.09While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as... -
Your Ideal Cat: Insights into Breed and Gender Differences in Cat Behavior by Benjamin L. Hart 9781557536488
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.29For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behavior. This is the advice of the Harts, two experts in animal communication and behavior,... -
Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction by 9781557530912
Booksplease Price: $41.72Plotting the Past stands out as a serious work marked by sharp analytical skills and an unusual breadth of subject matter encompassing questions of genre and ideology that are central to present-day... -
In Search of the Alzheimer's Wanderer: A Workbook to Protect Your Loved One by Mark Warner 9781557533999
Booksplease Price: $30.96Each year, there are an estimated 125,000 people with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia who leave the safety of their homes and families, unable to find their way back. As a workbook, ""In... -
An Engineer's Diary of the Great War by 9781557531704
Booksplease Price: $21.79Harry Spring kept detailed diaries throughout most of his life. Harry died in 1974, but through his diaries he lives to tell us about his experiences. His diary for the time from November 28, 1917 to... -
Earthly Treasures: Material Culture and Metaphysics in the Heptameron and Evangelical Narrative by Catharine Randall 9781557534491
Booksplease Price: $58.58Earthly Treasures maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. There is a wide selection of objects, ranging from... -
One Small Step: The History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University by Alten F. Grandt 9781557535993
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $74.95Purdue University has played a leading role in providing the engineers who designed, built, tested, and flew the many aircraft and spacecraft that so changed human progress during the 20th century... -
Kundera and Modernity: English/Spanish Edition by Liisa Steinby 9781557536372
Booksplease Price: $72.09While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a... -
The Psyche of Feminism by 9781557533296
Booksplease Price: $44.54The Psyche of Feminism argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. After reviewing the relation between feminism and psychoanalysis and... -
Balkan Anschluss: The Annexation of Montenegro and the Creation of the Common South Slavic State by Srdja Pavlovic
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Balkan Anschluss tackles the thorny issue of the disappearance of Montenegro as a sovereign state in the course of and as a result of the First World War - a problem with clear contemporary relevance... -
Moose! The Reading Dog by Laura Bruneau 9781557538130
Booksplease Price: $13.31Moose! The Reading Dog is inspired by the true story of a therapy dog. Moose shares his story about finding his forever home and learning how to become a registered therapy dog. In the final chapter,... -
Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe by Philipp Ther 9781557536754
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have... -
The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon: 300 Years in the Making by Misty M. Jackson 9781612498775
Booksplease Price: $52.04The French fur trade post of Fort Ouiatenon was founded more than 300 years ago on the Wabash River in what is now Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon is a... -
Playing with My Dog, Katie: An Ethnomethodological Study of Canine-Human Interaction by David Goode 9781612499178
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.84The relationship between dogs and humans has been contemplated since the beginning of human culture, with lasting expressions found in art, philosophy, literature, and science. At present, there is a... -
Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science by Diann Jordan
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.51Author Diann Jordan took a journey to find out what inspired and daunted black women in their desire to become scientists in America. Letting 18 prominent black women scientists talk for themselves,... -
Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments Matthew P. Stephens 9781612498454
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $86.95Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments embraces a holistic approach by building a solid foundation of the theoretical aspects followed by easily relatable numerical examples. Examples are... -
Engineering in Pre-College Settings: Synthesizing Research, Policy, and Practices by Şenay Purzer 9781612499116
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.95In science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in pre-college, engineering is not the silent "e" anymore. There is an accelerated interest in teaching engineering in all grade... -
Commemorating Epimetheus by Les Amis 9781557534972
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.58Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency... -
Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication by Pat Arneson 9781557534316
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.92Perspective on Philosophy of Communication provides readers with an appreciation of philosophy of communication as central to understanding and guiding communicative action in a postmodern culture... -
Communicative Praxis & the Space of Subjectivity: Doing Philosophy with Others by Calvin O. Schrag 9781557533012
Booksplease Price: $29.06Communicative Praxisand the Space of Subjectivity spans the fields of philosophy andcommunication, illustrating how the amalgam of discourse and action, andlanguage and social practices, is... -
Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses by Grace Veach
Booksplease Price: $55.12This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to foregrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses. Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway... -
A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State by John T. Hanou 9781557539946
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.33Rounds barns are architectural phenomena that have graced rural America for over a century. Today the few that survive stand as symbols of another generation's innovation and ingenuity. To understand... -
Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.30Eva and Otto is a truestory about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate...