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I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake: Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott by Leslie Lambert Rounds
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his... -
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby 9781606353486
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £33.60George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac,... -
America's First Interstate: The National Road, 1806-1853 by Roger Pickenpaugh 9781606353974
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.22The story of America's first government-sponsored highway.The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837,... -
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby 9781606354759
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.50George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac,... -
Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region by Guy L. Denny 9781606354377
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.00Exploring and appreciating the fascinating ecosystems of bogs and fensPeatlands-and specifically "bogs"-have long been a source of fascination for humans, and these amazing places are truly living... -
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton 9781606354162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.01The 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... -
Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865 by J. Gregory Acken 9781606353721
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Travelling from... -
The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien's Myth of Wilderness by Amber Lehning 9781606354421
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £33.13Examining the mythic importance of wilderness in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earthA study of myth suggests that the stories we human beings tell ourselves about who we are make us who we are. Amber... -
Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi 9781606354445
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeAbout the AuthorFarnaz Fatemi is a founding member of the Hive Poetry Collective and was a writing instructor at the University of California, Santa... -
What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians by Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.60Personal essays relating key issues and insights from women in medicine What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine brings together a collection of short essays from women physicians working in diverse... -
The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992 by Lincoln A. Mitchell
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Searching for a home and a homerun-an overlooked era of Giants and San Francisco historyThe San Francisco Giants have been one of the most successful franchises in baseball in the twenty-first... -
The Faun's Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie W. Starr 9781606353493
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie notices a bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with these... -
Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War by James A. Tyner
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.77President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic... -
Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and theEclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania by David Alan Johnson 9781606353448
Booksplease Price: £36.03The absence of medical licensing laws in most states during the years following the American Civil War made it possible for unscrupulous individuals to exploit the weak oversight and unregulated... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 15, 2014-2016 Tom Batiuk 9781606355008
Booksplease Price: £36.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606355008Author Tom BatiukFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic by Naomi Shihab Nye
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.45People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetryWhen so much in our lives ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, no one knew how long the COVID-19 pandemic... -
The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns by Richard Peterson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.99Seven decades of the intense Steelers-Browns rivalry.Football historians regard the games between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers as the basis for one of the greatest rivalries in... -
From Reading to Healing: Teaching Medical Professionalism through Literature by Susan Stagno 9781606353691
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Learning how to behave and engage professionally can be one of the most challenging parts of embarking on a career in the medical field. But using the 'power of stories' can teach, heal, and... -
The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Virginia A. McConnell 9781606353660
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century-ultimately ending in murderAt the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the... -
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray 9781606354247
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78The definitive biography of a Civil War scoundrel and streetwise politico Largely forgotten by historians, Billy Wilson (1822-1874) was a giant in his time, a man well known throughout New York City,... -
The Fifth Star: Ohio's Fight for Women's Right to Vote by Jamie Capuzza 9781606354551
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.14How Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a... -
Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.85An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's works-in-progress, offering both... -
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose by Jeanne Bryner 9781606353585
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how... -
Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War Ian T. Iverson 9781606354797
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The importance of political moderation in preserving the UnionHolding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory of Illinois from the introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in... -
Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354827Author Cam CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Where East Meets (Mid)West: Exploring an American Regional Divide by Jon K Lauck 9781606354964
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.30Essays on midwestern regional identity Somewhere west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River, the Midwest begins. Just where exactly, and how, and why are the questions explored in Where... -
Civil War Camps and Soldier Health: Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army Earl J. Hess 9781606355053
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King 9781606354506
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.20The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's... -
The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 by Susan J. Erenrich
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.33The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 is a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls... -
Classic 'Burgh: The 50 Greatest Collegiate Games in Pittsburgh Sports History by David Finoli 9781606353639
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.31The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games When sports fans think of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania, most think of football at the... -
Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and Commentary by Bickford Sylvester 9781606353424
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare... -
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture by Anneliese Abbott 9781606354315
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movementEstablished in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once... -
The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History by James Jessen Badal 9781606353912
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.95A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary... -
Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps Rebecca Jumper Matheson 9781606355015
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.61One couple's bold vision for American fashion Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for "slow fashion," William and Elizabeth Phelps, a... -
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970 by David Hassler 9781606351659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.09Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theater On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis Don W. King 9781606355107
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. Lewis Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2023 Bronze Medal Winner in World History Detailing the life of Warren... -
The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Using a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and understand C. S. Lewis's writingsDrawing on C. S. Lewis's essays, sermons, and fiction, The Lion's Country offers a comprehensive... -
Medspeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by Francois I Luks 9781606354438
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.54Guiding us to better communication about illness, treatment, and health through simple art practicesLiving at the intersection of medicine and art, medical illustration is a field that is not well... -
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago 9781606354636
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and... -
Peace and Security in Kenya: The USAID Approach Galeeb Kachra 9781606354971
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354971Author Galeeb KachraFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint