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The 1910s by David Blanke 9780313361166
Booksplease Price: £26.90The decade of the 1910s saw the United States rise above strictly European cultural influences as the mixing of race, ethnicity, class, and gender yielded colorful fusions within American society... -
The 1910s by David Blanke 9780313312519
Booksplease Price: £66.89The decade of the 1910s saw the United States rise above strictly European cultural influences as the mixing of race, ethnicity, class, and gender yielded colorful fusions within American society... -
Introduction to Naval Engineering by David Blank 9781591140771
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £39.31This second edition of the basic textbook in shipboard engineering presents the latest information on steam, gas turbine, and nuclear propulsion, as well as auxiliary systems, ship stability, and... -
A Destiny of Choice?: New Directions in American Consumer History by David Blanke 9781498515085
Booksplease Price: £46.74In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however... -
A Destiny of Choice?: New Directions in American Consumer History by David Blanke 9780739172193
Booksplease Price: £81.47In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however... -
Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940 by David Blanke
Booksplease Price: £41.77The emergence of the automobile on the American scene represented many things - excitement, freedom, progress - but also danger, death, and injury. David Blanke tells how the automobile pulled... -
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest by David Blanke
Booksplease Price: £30.63From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was... -
Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture: 1910-1960 by David Blanke 9783030083410
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £62.86This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille's success... -
Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture: 1910-1960 by David Blanke 9783319769851
Booksplease Price: £105.10This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille's success... -
The Future of Marriage by David Blankenhorn 9781594030819
Booksplease Price: £19.09In their current demands, Blankenhorn points out, gay and lesbian leaders are not asking for marriage with an adjective in front of it, but marriage itself. Therefore, what marriage is and why it... -
Thrift: A Cyclopedia by David Blankenhorn 9781599471426
Booksplease Price: £25.96In today's consumer-driven society, extolling the virtues of thrift might seem like a quaint relic of a bygone era. Americans have embraced the ideas of easy credit, instant gratification, and... -
Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn 9780060926830
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.Book InformationISBN 9780060926830Author David BlankenhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 328 -
Does Christianity Teach Male Headship by David Blankenhorn 9780802821713
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802821713Author David BlankenhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an American Virtue by David Blankenhorn 9781599471488
Booksplease Price: £26.87Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value-a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don't even think of thrift at all anymore... -
Handling the Hard Stuff: Conversations on the Philosophy of Alcohol by Bryce David Blankenship 9781793517241
Booksplease Price: £82.70Handling the Hard Stuff: Conversations on the Philosophy of Alcohol provides students with a collection of articles that helps them consider the implications of living in an alcohol-saturated world... -
The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium by Michael Frassetto 9781403960290
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.46This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and... -
The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium by Michael Frassetto
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and... -
Science, Religion and Deep Time Lowell Gustafson (Villanova University, USA) 9781032188614
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old,... -
Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 with Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 by David L. Blank 9781780938615
Booksplease Price: £40.38This book is about determinisism. It contains the two most important commentaries on the determinists' sea battle argument, and on other deterministic arguments besides. It includes the earliest full... -
Becoming SRE: First Steps Toward Reliability for You and Your Organization by David N Blank-Edelman 9781492090557
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £26.29Do you wish the existing books on site reliability engineering started at the beginning? Do you wish someone would walk you through how to become an SRE, how to think like an SRE, or how to build and... -
Car Country: An Environmental History by Christopher W. Wells 9780295994291
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.52For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country-a nation dominated... -
The Good Poem According to Philodemus by Michael McOsker
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.71This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his... -
Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society by Arwen P. Mohun 9781421407906
Booksplease Price: £55.20"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk-threats to... -
Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity: Guardians of a Changing Language by Adam Gitner 9780197611975
Booksplease Price: £62.71Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural... -
The Juvenile Court and Progressives by Victoria Getis 9780252025723
Booksplease Price: £38.59Today's troubled juvenile court system has its roots in Progressive-era Chicago, a city one observer described as "first in violence" and "deepest in dirt." Examining the vision and methods of the... -
Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South by Peter M. Ascoli
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli brings to life a portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the man and his work. The son... -
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The Juvenile Court and Progressives by Victoria Getis 9780252025723 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £1.20Today's troubled juvenile court system has its roots in Progressive-era Chicago, a city one observer described as "first in violence" and "deepest in dirt." Examining the vision and methods of the... -
Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America by Ronald R. Kline
Booksplease Price: £28.58From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies-the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power-transformed the rural United States. But... -
Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination by John Tolan 9780231123334
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of... -
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino by John A. Heitmann 9781421412979
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.08As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the... -
Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages: A Reader by Jarbel Rodriguez 9781442600669
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as well as commerce,... -
Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America by Kevin L. Borg 9780801894855
Booksplease Price: £30.55The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study-for the first...