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Public Health and Aging by Tom Hickey
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21Current issues in the public health arena have challenged the system to broaden its traditional focus on infectious disease to include chronic disease as well. As this change in emphasis takes place,... -
Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity by Arthur O. Lovejoy
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £22.20Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity was intended to be the first volume of a four-part series of books covering the history of primitivism and related ideas, but the outbreak of World War II,... -
Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe by Jane S. Jaquette
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Women and Democracy offers a unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world-Latin America and Eastern and Central Europe-which have moved from authoritarian to... -
The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer
Booksplease Price: £27.41In the last decades of the eighteenth century, old arguments about what constituted true Christianity resumed with the newly refined tools and methods of linguistics, history, and comparative... -
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America by Merilee Serrill Grindle
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Audacious Reforms examines the creation of new political institutions in three Latin American countries: direct elections for governors and mayors in Venezuela, radical municipalization in Bolivia,... -
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
Booksplease Price: £28.58Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged... -
From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations by Nitza Berkovitch
Booksplease Price: £30.06It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that many countries began granting women the right to participate in public institutions as individuals. Until then, women were incorporated... -
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing by Pamela Walker Laird
Booksplease Price: £50.04Originally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation... -
Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles by Irwin Gellman
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £35.95Originally published in 1995. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down, but he concealed the extent of his disability from a public that was never permitted to see him in... -
The Mind of a Poet: <I>The Prelude, </I>Commentary: Volume 2 by Raymond Dexter Havens
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74This book seeks to study the mind of a poet, specifically by picking William Wordsworth as a case study. The reason for signaling out Wordsworth as the person in whom to study the mind of a poet is... -
Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench by Helen Shirley Thomas
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £30.49Originally published in 1960. Felix Frankfurter, a controversial figure in American judicial history, completed more than twenty-one years of service on the Supreme Court. This book is the first... -
Youth, University, and Democracy by Gottfried Dietze
Booksplease Price: £27.10Originally published in 1970. This book examines whether Weber's approach has a greater humanizing value than has been conceded by his opponents and will attempt to demonstrate the humanistic mission... -
Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945 by Irwin Gellman
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exception-the United States' relations with Latin America... -
Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation by Michael Ryan
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1982. Aside from Jacques Derrida's own references to the "possible articulation" between deconstruction and Marxism, the relationship between the two has remained largely... -
What's Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley 9781421448169
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.74A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma... -
Designing America's Waste Landscapes by Mira E. Engler 9780801878039
Booksplease Price: £46.10One of the physical costs of our society's breakneck consumption, sprawl, and technological innovation and production is the increasing amount of terrain relegated to accommodating the resulting... -
Brains by Leif Østergaard 9781421446042
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.04A short but engaging exploration of the brain.In Brains, scientist Leif Østergaard explores our most complicated and mysterious organ. From the dissection of Einstein's brain to research on how to... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
Booksplease Price: £30.52In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that... -
The Global Eighteenth Century by Felicity A. Nussbaum 9780801868658
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £35.95Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the... -
Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes by George Bibel 9780801886317
Booksplease Price: £40.20The black box is orange-and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident... -
Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer 9781421441030
RRP: £85.50Booksplease Price: £57.26T. S. Eliot's juvenilia were written by an adolescent who showed little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited. By contrast, the poems of his... -
A Caregiver's Guide to Communication Problems from Brain Injury or Disease by Barbara O'Connor Wells 9781421442549
RRP: £38.50Booksplease Price: £28.77An all-in-one guide for helping caregivers of individuals with brain injury or degenerative disease to address speech, language, voice, memory, and swallowing impairment and to distinguish these... -
Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 by Howard Markel 9781421443669
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25This riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that tackles the COVID-19 pandemic. Winner, 2003 Arthur J... -
Shays's Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America by Sean Condon 9781421417424
Booksplease Price: £47.34Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Ourida Mostefai 9780801873805
Booksplease Price: £40.53This volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the revolutions in culture, politics, and art that took place throughout the eighteenth century. The first section of the book focuses... -
Amish Women and the Great Depression by Katherine Jellison 9781421447971
RRP: £38.50Booksplease Price: £28.77A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 43 by Timothy Erwin 9781421413761
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture reflects new and highly promising directions of research in the field. The latest volume contains essays by Paula R. Backscheider on theatrical spectacle and by... -
Rethinking Education and Poverty by William G. Tierney 9781421417677
Booksplease Price: £68.58In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century... -
Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration by William G. Resh 9781421418490
Booksplease Price: £38.42Why do presidents face so many seemingly avoidable bureaucratic conflicts? And why do these clashes usually intensify toward the end of presidential administrations, when a commander-in-chief's... -
The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution by Lorri Glover 9781421420011
Booksplease Price: £47.52In May 1788, the roads into Richmond overflowed with horses and stagecoaches. From every county, specially elected representatives made their way to the capital city for the Virginia Ratification... -
Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do by Kathleen Trainor 9781421420097
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £26.03Ten million children in the United States-two million of them preschoolers-suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to... -
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning by Regina Lee Blaszczyk 9781421437248
Booksplease Price: £42.36Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History from The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History ConferenceSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 49 by Eve Tavor Bannet 9781421439259
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74The essays in volume 49 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture feature equal attention to multifarious aspects of eighteenth-century culture and archives and to the theories, pedagogies, and media... -
Ocean State by Jean McGarry 9780801896583
Booksplease Price: £29.67The stories of Ocean State roll over the reader like a wave. Family pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441481
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £28.61American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, international relations, military affairs, and American... -
Healing the Traumatized Brain: Coping after Concussion and Other Brain Injuries by Sandeep Vaishnavi 9781421446622
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.11The essential guide to recovering from concussion and other brain injuries.Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged process. Learn how to maximize your recovery from the... -
Take Control of Your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Alcohol Moderation, Sobriety, and When to Get Professional Help by Michael S. Levy 9781421439433
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £33.55Accepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation or... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Catherine E. Ingrassia 9780801881923
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £28.34With this well-illustrated new volume, the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Essays include:Misty Anderson, Our Purpose... -
Fortune's Faces: The <I>Roman de la Rose</I> and the Poetics of Contingency by Daniel Heller-Roazen 9780801871917
Booksplease Price: £43.83Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to... -
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen G. Alter 9780801872440
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £21.90In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the...