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WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue by Angie Klink 9781612497693
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue documents the fascinating history of WBAA, Indiana's first radio station founded at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 4, 1922. Richly... -
Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries by Michelle Flinchbaugh 9781557538451
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of... -
Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe by John Paul Newman 9781612496399
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £37.95Balkan Legacies is a study of the aftermath of war and state socialism in the contemporary Balkans. The authors look at the inescapable inheritances of the recent past and those that the present has... -
A History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic 9781557538383
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.25Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do... -
Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China by Li Guo
Booksplease Price: £45.93In Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women's tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in... -
Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Booksplease Price: £47.68Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile andreturn in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from... -
Is Judaism Democratic?: Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Booksplease Price: £36.71As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not... -
The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.86The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction for the first time... -
On Many Routes: Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire by Annemarie Steidl 9781557539816
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.63On Many Routes is about the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long... -
Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged by Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities by Patty Dobbs Gross 9781557534088
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.96In The Golden Bridge, Patty Dobbs Gross provides both personal and professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other... -
Manufacturing Facilities Design & Material Handling by Matthew P. Stephens
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £81.32Designed for junior- and senior-level courses in plant and facilities planning and manufacturing systems and procedures, this textbook also is suitable for graduate-level and two-year college courses... -
Wandering Jews: Global Jewish Migration by Steven J. Gold 9781557539984
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Despite the importance of historical and contemporary migration to the American Jewish community, popular awareness of the diversity and complexity of the American Jewish migration legacy is limited... -
Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Values and Landscaping Use by Sally S. Weeks 9781557536105
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.54As the definitive identification guide to the shrubs and woody vines of Indiana, this book also provides coverage of 90% of the species to be found in surrounding Midwestern US states. As well as... -
Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science by Jonathan E. Martin 9781612496528
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check... -
Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science by Jonathan E. Martin 9781612496368
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check... -
Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism by Steven G. Kellman 9781557538727
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations... -
Democracy and the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 7 by Robert X. Browning 9781612497235
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19Volume 7 of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series focuses on the relationship between democracy and the media. Using the extensive collection of the C-SPAN Video Library, chapters cover Trump... -
Doing Business in America: A Jewish History by Hasia R. Diner 9781557538369
Booksplease Price: £27.83American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the... -
Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 2, Upper-Level and Graduate Courses by Grace Veach
Booksplease Price: £42.42This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches toteaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduatecourses. Contributors to the volume describe... -
Native Trees of the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Value, and Landscaping Use by Sally S. Weeks 9781557535726
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Native Trees of the Midwest is a definitive guide to identifying trees in Indiana and surrounding states, written by three leading forestry experts. Descriptive text explains how to identify every... -
Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs by Sandra B. Barker 9781557538154
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.49Growing literature around the benefits ofanimal-assisted intervention (AAI) spurs health care professionals andadministrators to start new programs. Yet the trend also raises questions ofhow best to... -
The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity by 9781557532572
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Hegel is one of the most importantmodern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development ofexistentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. YetHegel's central text, the... -
Library Technical Services: Adapting to a Changing Environment by Stacey Marien 9781557538420
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.75Libraries are experiencing major changes concerning the role of technical services. Technical services librarians also are being challenged about their relevance and role, sometimes revealed by a... -
Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History by Maurice Barnwell 9781612496658
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.60Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the... -
Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed by Jason A. Bartles 9781612496665
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Arteletra analyzes the Sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the... -
Pledge and Promise: Celebrating the Bond and Heritage of Fraternity, Sorority, and Cooperative Life at Purdue University by Angie Klink 9781612497488
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.45Pledge and Promise documents the important historical significance of fraternity, sorority, and cooperative life at Purdue University. Featuring more than 250 photos, this pictorial volume tells the... -
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War by Mate Nikola TokiAE 9781557538918
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.75Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian... -
A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen 9781557539694
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more... -
Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria by Scott O. Moore 9781557538956
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.85Teaching the Empire explores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United... -
Project and Program Management: A Competency-Based Approach by Mitchell L. Springer
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Choosing the right people to carry out a project is essential to its success, and when multiple projects are combined into a complex program, the human aspect becomes even more important. Project and... -
Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher by Pavel Soukup 9781557538765
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.75Jan Hus was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Thanks to his contemporary... -
Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg 9781557538222
Booksplease Price: £38.08In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana's land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education... -
Lemberg, Lwow, L'viv, 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City by Christoph Mick
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Known as Lemberg in German and Lwow in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the... -
Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction Jill Massino 9781612499703
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers,... -
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman 9781557538376
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the... -
Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind by James R. Hansen 9781557538741
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20,1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2002, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from... -
New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson by Glenn Dynner 9781612499239
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have created pioneering ways of... -
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors by Dara M. Wald 9781557538871
Booksplease Price: £19.29Cats and Conservationists is the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the... -
New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society by David N. Myers 9781612499925
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.75Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of... -
Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson Maoz
Booksplease Price: £41.35Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadowof the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on themultifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics...