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Harvard University Press: A History by Max Hall 9780674380813
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £21.57A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of... -
A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader by Ring T. Carde 9780674046191
Booksplease Price: £27.22As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects' experience of the world... -
Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue by Chancellor's Professor of Law Catherine L Fisk
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96Required to sign away their legal rights as authors as a condition of employment, professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Writing for Hire... -
Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays by Stanislaw Baranczak
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £54.48Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed... -
Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Jonathan E. Zwicker
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £27.41The history of the book in 19th Century Japan follows an uneven course that resists the simple chronology often used to mark a divide between pre-modern and modern literary history. By examining the... -
Holding Bishops Accountable: How Lawsuits Helped the Catholic Church Confront Clergy Sexual Abuse by Timothy D. Lytton
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £37.09The sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is arguably the most acute crisis Catholicism has faced since the Reformation. The prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by... -
The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations and Their Consequences by Mark S. Mizruchi
RRP: £83.95Booksplease Price: £70.91Are large American corporations politically unified or divided? This question, which has important implications for the viability of American democracy, has frustrated social scientists and political... -
Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £29.36Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825, an elegant new book created by a team of leading historians in collaboration with The New York Public Library, traces Russia's development from an insular,... -
Niccolo Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470-1493 by Lorenz Boeninger
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £35.92A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz Boeninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story... -
Bird Coloration, Volume 1: Mechanisms and Measurements by Geoffrey E. Hill
RRP: £117.95Booksplease Price: £94.36One cannot help being struck with wonder at the vivid pink of 10,000 flamingos rising from Lake Nakuru or the glowing red gorget of a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding outside the kitchen window. How... -
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance by Dag Nikolaus Hasse
RRP: £57.95Booksplease Price: £46.97The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe's relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak... -
Church, Politics, and Society in Spain, 1750-1874 by William J. Callahan
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £41.74This contribution to European historical literature--based on extensive research in Madrid--provides a clear and dispassionate account of successive ecclesiastical-secular conflicts and... -
Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America by Francois Weil
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £29.36The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and... -
Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855-1884 by Takahiro Yamamoto
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £33.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674291386Author Takahiro YamamotoFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Harvard University... -
An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of upa dhi in the Upa dhidarpan a by Eberhard Guhe
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674273412Author Eberhard GuheFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harvard University... -
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry by Robert Cliver
RRP: £62.95Booksplease Price: £50.24Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the... -
Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £36.32Few concepts evoke the twentieth century's record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to... -
A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic by Bruce Dain
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £29.36The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this... -
No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America by Waldo E. Martin, Jr. 9780674015074
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the... -
As Good as it Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin by Larry Cuban 9780674035546
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96Take an economically and racially diverse urban school district emerging from a long history of segregation. Add an energetic, capable, bridge-building superintendent with ambitious district-wide... -
Lincoln's Political Thought by George Kateb 9780674368163
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincoln's political thought. At the center of Lincoln's career is an intense passion for equality, a... -
Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film by Andreas Huyssen 9780674416727
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £32.45In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe's modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with... -
The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic by Edward Dickinson 9780674688629
RRP: £74.95Booksplease Price: £59.53The model of the development of child welfare policy presented here illuminates the complexity of the struggles from which modern social policy emerged, and accounts for the ways in which similar... -
Toumba Tou Skourou: A Bronze Age Potters Quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus by Emily Vermeule 9780674896352
RRP: £92.95Booksplease Price: £76.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674896352Author Emily VermeuleFormat HardbackPage Count 562Imprint Harvard University... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume IV: From Disunionism to the Brink of War: 1850-1860 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526631
RRP: £122.95Booksplease Price: £98.26The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive... -
Scandinavia: Revised and Enlarged Edition by Franklin D. Scott 9780674790001
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £64.92North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR-these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 73 by Harvard University Department of Classics 9780674379190
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.00Included in this latest volume are: "A Structural Analysis of the Digressions in the Iliad and the Odyssey," by Julia Haig Gaisser; "Bacchylides' Ode 5: Imitation and... -
Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women's Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education Carol Gilligan 9780674548329
Booksplease Price: £31.46In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Carol Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In a Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life... -
Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier by C. Patterson Giersch 9780674021716
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £54.88C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He... -
The Economics of Multi-Plant Operation: An International Comparisons Study by F. M. Scherer 9780674233409
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.00Why should manufacturing firms in many national industries maintain multiple small scale plants when they might produce the same output at a lower unit cost in a single large establishment? What... -
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826 by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674484511
RRP: £134.95Booksplease Price: £107.01Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man and thinker, will be fully revealed for the first time in this new edition of his journals and notebooks. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created... -
Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction by Gustav Heldt 9780674295827
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £40.19Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of its most enigmatic... -
The American Political Economy: Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics by Douglas A. Hibbs 9780674027367
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £35.55Here is the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on relationships between the economy and politics in the years from Eisenhower through Reagan. Extending and deepening his earlier work,... -
Letters to Kennedy by John Kenneth Galbraith 9780674528376
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £32.83A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith. In... -
Some Problems of Philosophy by William James 9780674820357
RRP: £146.95Booksplease Price: £117.87Some Problems of Philosophy, William James's last book, was published after his death in 1910. For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics... -
Israel Has Moved by Diana Pinto 9780674073425
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe's shadow, haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today, Europe is hardly relevant, and the country's ties to... -
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: Essays: First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674139800
RRP: £108.95Booksplease Price: £86.75Some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's finest and most famous essays, such as "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," and "The Over-Soul," appeared in his Essays of 1841, published when he was thirty-seven years old... -
Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition by Richard Drake 9780674010369
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £48.29One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 and 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary... -
Liberal Arts at the Brink by Victor E. Ferrall, Jr. 9780674049727
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market-no more than 2 percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America's leaders in virtually... -
The Warping of Government Work by John D. Donahue 9780674027886
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £36.69Government has become a refuge, and a relic, of America's crumbling middle-class economy. As the public and private worlds of work have veered in different directions, the gaps between them are...