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Indiana University: New Portraits of the Bloomington Campus by Indiana University Press 9780253063243
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Set in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, Indiana University Bloomington is widely acknowledged to be one of the most picturesque college campuses in the United States Indiana University: New... -
Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-Sky
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44S. A. An-sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity... -
Trains across the Continent, Second Edition: North American Railroad History by Rudolph L. Daniels
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Trains Across the ContinentNorth American Railroad History Second EditionRudolph Daniels A wonderfully readable, illustrated guide to the history of railroads in America."Trains Across the Continent... -
Orson Welles in Italy by Alberto Anile
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year... -
Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema by Juan A. Suarez
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.32"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture... -
Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01John Dewey (1859-1952), hailed during his lifetime as "America's Philosopher," is now recognized as one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. His critical work ranged more broadly than... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a... -
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World by Felicitas D. Goodman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07"An important book which deserves the careful attention of serious students of religion." -Religious Studies Review Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field... -
The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries by Halina Goldberg
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections... -
Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 by Jane Boulden
Booksplease Price: $44.83How has the United Nations dealt with the question of terrorism before and after September 11? What does it mean that the UN itself has become a target of terrorism? Terrorism and the UN analyzes how... -
Time, Narrative, and History by David Carr
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07"For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everyday life, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there is no better treatment than Time, Narrative, and... -
The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars by Ezra Mendelsohn
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05" . . . a carefully crafted and important book . . . a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." -American Historical Review" . . . valuable . . . the first historical work to... -
Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown by David Chidester
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.96Praise for the first edition:"[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." -Journal of the... -
Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality by Andrew Sobanet
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played... -
Rape in Marriage by Diana E. H. Russell
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $58.58"This is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of sexual assault and family violence." -Susan Brownmiller"[Russell] has done a superb study which yields comprehensive and undeniable... -
Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS by David Roman
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53From cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as Angels in America and Rent, over the past 15 years public performances and dramatic texts have shaped, and been shaped... -
Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food by Deane W. Curtin
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Philosophy has often been criticized for privileging the abstract; this volume attempts to remedy that situation. Focusing on one of the most concrete of human concerns, food, the editors argue for... -
!["Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview by Wolfgang Mieder](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1001562/1001268/9780253040343__37363.1694789315.jpg?c=1 ""Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview by Wolfgang Mieder")
"Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview by Wolfgang Mieder
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $121.04In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb,... -
Medical Education in East Asia: Past and Future by Lincoln C. Chen
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $96.08Pivotal to Asia's future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which... -
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings by Richard Bauman
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97Between 1895 and 1920, the United States saw a sharp increase in commercial sound recording, the first mass medium of home entertainment. As companies sought to discover what kinds of records would... -
Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana by Jane Simon Ammeson
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81Even the most sensational and scandalous crimes can disappear into history, the spine-chilling tales forgotten by subsequent generations. Murders that Made Headlines reveals some of these... -
Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.26Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar, and... -
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05". . . an important volume for scholar and student alike, and a tribute to the enduring contributions of its authors." -Renaissance Quarterly"These thought-provoking essays run the gamut of feminist... -
The Well House Reader: Students Reflect on Indiana University Bloomington through the Years. by Donald J. Gray 9780253063908
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.12What did generations of Indiana University students think about their years on campus-the faculty, courses, administration, pressing social issues, and each other? Through student writings and art... -
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky 9780253011992
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote business letters, romantic letters, and... -
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Radical French Thought and the Return of the "Jewish Question" by Eric Marty 9780253016720
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.56For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the... -
Transformations on the Ground: Space and the Power of Land in Botswana by Anne Griffiths 9780253043566
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms-local, international, legal, familial-affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and... -
A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor by Mona Oraby 9780253064103
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16How can we foster a more inclusive, responsible, and communicative future? What if illustrated scholarship is one way to get there? Organized around eight terms in the study of religion, the... -
Cultivating Perception through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture by Helen A. Fielding 9780253059352
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of... -
The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature by Marina Zilbergerts 9780253059444
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence of Hebrew literature in... -
The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory by Irina Kopchenova 9780253067302
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $114.35For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look... -
Crawdad Creek by Scott Russell Sanders 9780253034748
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek. That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find an arrowhead in the mud... -
Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust: An Integrative Approach by Howard Tinberg 9780253011329
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16Classroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through... -
Queen of Flowers and Pearls: A Novel by Gabriella Ghermandi 9780253015464
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.89Mahlet, a young Ethiopian girl with a gift for storytelling, has a special bond with Yacob, the oldest in her household. When Yacob tells her stories of how he and the other warriors fought in the... -
The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1928-1935 by Lilya Kaganovsky 9780253032645
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $120.45As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politically, and ideologically from the heterogeneous film... -
Intimacy, Performance, and the Lied in the Early Nineteenth Century by Jennifer Ronyak 9780253035776
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16The German lied, or art song, is considered one of the most intimate of all musical genres-often focused on the poetic speaker's inner world and best suited for private and semi-private performance... -
Mental Health and Palestinian Citizens in Israel by Itzhak Levav 9780253043061
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $127.12Minorities face particular social strains, and these are often manifested in their overall mental health. In Israel, just under a quarter of the citizens are Arab Palestinians, yet very little has... -
Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Sarah Justina Eyerly 9780253047663
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $114.35In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania... -
Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation by Issa Boulos 9780253057549
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54While the musical culture in the Arabian Gulf and Peninsula is often misunderstood, Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive music to reveal diverse... -
Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History by Barbara N. Ramusack 9780253212672
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.40"These four volumes in this major series . . . provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded. . . . A basic set for all...