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Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy by Larry Diamond
Booksplease Price: £27.10After an introduction by the volume editors, the book offers a look at the complex relationship between nationalism and democracy. The authors then examine the special challenges facing democracy in... -
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America by William Roseberry
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common... -
Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre Sharon Cameron (The Johns Hopkins University) 9780801821165
Booksplease Price: £28.90"Lyric Time" offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important... -
The Theory of Money by Jurg Niehans
Booksplease Price: £25.92Exploring the function of money as a medium of exchange and a store of value, this major work provides a comprehensive introduction to the pure theory of money and monetary policy. Jurg Niehans... -
Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925 by Reese V. Jenkins
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.04From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between... -
Narration in Light: Studies in Cinematic Point of View by George M. Wilson
Booksplease Price: £29.07A full understanding and appreciation of narrative film, George Wilson argues, requires a concept of point of view necessarily distinct from, yet comparable to, contemporary theories of point of view... -
Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them by Charles C. Euchner
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.81Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants-a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms-by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 9 by Edmund Spenser
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life... -
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America by Angela Lakwete
Booksplease Price: £28.90"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the... -
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Tangires
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 2003. In Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Helen Tangires examines the role of the public marketplace-social and architectural-as a key site in... -
Arnold's Poetic Landscapes by Alan Roper
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1969. Alan Roper studies the degree to which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal landscape. If landscape poetry is to rise above the level of what Roper... -
Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism by Joshua Logan Wall
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £52.99A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of... -
The Form of American Romance by Edgar Dryden
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit-or at least devalue-the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American... -
Science at the White House: A Political Liability by Edward J. Burger
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Originally published in 1980. In 1973 the US president's Office of Science and Technology was eliminated, a victim of its own incongruity. It was not, as was popularly proclaimed at the time, simply... -
Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore by Michael Olesker
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of Baltimore's melting pot in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence. The stories come... -
The Play and Place of Criticism by Murray Krieger
Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 1967. In The Play and Place of Criticism, Professor Krieger addresses basic questions related to criticism in the title essay that forms the introduction to this collection... -
Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms by Coburn Freer
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1972. This book tries to study the affinities in form and matter between the versified translation of the Psalms and George Herbert's lyrics. Coburn Freer reads Herbert's... -
Labor and Industrial Relations: Terms, Laws, Court Decisions, and Arbitration Standards by Matthew A. Kelly
Booksplease Price: £28.58Comprehensive and current, "Labor and Industrial Relations" is an essential, three-part reference and source book for students, teachers, and practitioners of labor-management relations. Drawing from... -
Dreams: Brief Books about Big Ideas by Melanie Gillespie Rosen 9781421447124
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.98A short but engaging look at why we dream.In Dreams, researcher Melanie Gillespie Rosen explores the philosophy, biology, and psychology of dreaming. She introduces historical theories from Aristotle... -
Questions: Brief Books about Big Ideas by Pia Lauritzen 9781421447148
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.98A short but engaging look at how questions shape our thinking.Why do we ask questions? In Questions, Pia Lauritzen explores the philosophy behind questions and probes how they function as both a... -
Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845 by Erin Forbes 9781421443768
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421443768Author Erin ForbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease by Jennifer R. Stelter 9781421441078
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74The only guide to caring for those with advanced Alzheimer disease. Caring for someone living with advanced Alzheimer disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you're on a hamster... -
Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition by Ian Afflerbach 9781421440910
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24A revisionist history of American liberalism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War. In Making Liberalism New, Ian Afflerbach traces the rise, revision, and fall of a modern liberalism in the... -
FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon by Sara Polak 9781421442839
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £32.90How was FDR's image constructed-by himself and others-as such a powerful icon in American memory? In polls of historians and political scientists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among... -
Bizarre Bioethics: Ghosts, Monsters, and Pilgrims by Henk A.M.J. ten Have 9781421443027
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £55.76The focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying values-like justice and community-that would lend to a broader, more well-rounded understanding of today's world. ... -
Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845 by Erin Forbes 9781421443751
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £52.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421443751Author Erin ForbesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities by William Marsiglio 9780801888298
Booksplease Price: £59.60Men on a Mission provides the first comprehensive study of men who work and volunteer with kids in a variety of public settings. This engaging book brings to life diverse histories and experiences of... -
The Constitutional Presidency by Joseph M. Bessette 9780801892950
RRP: £52.50Booksplease Price: £39.09Since 1981, when Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis first published The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, the study of the constitutional powers of the presidency has advanced... -
Debates on Democratization by Larry Diamond 9780801897764
Booksplease Price: £60.91For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary... -
The Provost's Handbook: The Role of the Chief Academic Officer by James Martin 9781421416250
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £41.21As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration... -
Seneca: The Tragedies by Seneca 9780801843099
Booksplease Price: £29.87The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled. -- Eleanor... -
Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress by Helen E. Veit 9780801841002
Booksplease Price: £28.58Aside from the declaration of Independence, with its ringing cries for liberty, no public document has become as sacred to the American people as the Bill of Rights-the first ten amendments to the... -
Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution by Anthony M. Bertelli 9780801882623
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £40.80Combining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States... -
Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900–1939 by Guillaume de Syon 9780801886348
Booksplease Price: £28.60"Whenever the airship flew over a village, or whenever she flew over a lonely field on which some peasants were working, a tremendous shout of joy rose up in the air towards Count Zeppelin's miracle... -
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene Rivers 9781421440309
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £26.71This first-of-its-kind biography tells the story of Rev. James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century to become a religious and political leader among African Americans as well as an... -
The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School by Marybeth Gasman 9781421404431
Booksplease Price: £33.01The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United... -
The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked by Benjamin F. Alexander 9781421424552
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £43.07Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America's... -
Refinancing the College Dream: Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers by Edward P. St. John 9781421415789
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 44 by Michelle Burnham 9781421418629
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Volume 44 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture acknowledges recent changes in the field of eighteenth-century studies while reaffirming SECC's commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 45 by Michelle Burnham 9781421419367
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74The volume's first section treats the politics of genre: Maria Soledad Barbon on the colonial politics of panegyric in Peru; Amanda Johnson on Thomas Jefferson's use of Ossianic romance; Catherine M...