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Supporting Learning and Teaching by Christine Bold
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $46.18Supporting Teaching and Learning brings together theoretical perspectives, practical educational ideas and current academic debates to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of core... -
Progression in Primary Design and Technology Christine Bold 9781853466052
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $45.72First Published in 1999. Progression in Primary Design and Technology is a book that places the issue of progression firmly into the classroom situation. It encourages the reader to explore practice... -
The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 by Christine Bold 9780199731794
RRP: $56.75Booksplease Price: $44.71The Frontier Club is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most... -
Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History by Catherine Coffin Phillips
Booksplease Price: $19.35A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C... -
Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism by Daniel Worden 9781137360694
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen... -
Mythic Frontiers: Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism by Daniel R. Maher 9780813064185
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting... -
America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson by J. Matthew Gallman 9780195161458
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.98One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress,... -
Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power by Sherry L. Smith 9780199855599
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $45.42Through much of the 20th century, Federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose... -
The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower by Victoria Lamont 9781496236210
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first author to make a living writing popular westerns, creating more than sixty novels and hundreds of short stories that were read by millions of Americans... -
Reading "The Virginian" in the New West by Melody Graulich 9780803271043
Booksplease Price: $38.02Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of... -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster 9780195166828
RRP: $40.62Booksplease Price: $32.42"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to... -
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality by Elizabeth D. Leonard 9780803240711
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.00In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. More than 180,000 black men heeded his call to... -
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Joseph Farrell 9781848668812
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last... -
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 by Nina Baym 9780252078842
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them... -
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 by Nina Baym
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them... -
Playing House in the American West: Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987 by Cathryn Halverson
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Examines an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts-canonical and otherwise-Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by... -
Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon by Tim Lehman 9781421425894
Booksplease Price: $71.03How did cattle drives come about-and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human... -
Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon by Tim Lehman 9781421425900
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $17.78How did cattle drives come about-and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human... -
Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonce by Elizabeth Cobbs 9780674258488
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.23"A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most." Tiya Miles,... -
Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power by Sherry L. Smith 9780190217853
RRP: $49.65Booksplease Price: $34.71Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose...