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Indiana University: New Portraits of the Bloomington Campus by Indiana University Press 9780253063243
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Set 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... -
Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications by Sandra P. Rosenblum
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.98Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this point of view, Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the... -
Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A. B. Christa Schwarz
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50"Heretofore scholars have not been willing-perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal-to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented. . . . An... -
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry by Jim Elledge
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49"Every lovesick summer has its song, And this one I pretended to despise. But if I were alone when it came on, I turned it up full-blast to sing along- A primal scream in croaky baritone, The notes... -
Kinsey: A Biography by Cornelia V Christenson
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Alfred C. Kinsey was perhaps the most controversial figure in the US during the 1950s. His books on sexual behavior in the human male and female made best-seller lists and were translated into... -
The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language by Gabriele Schwab
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52"The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informed contemporary reading; it offers a rare readerly pleasure in...exploring the wider cultural significance of gender and the body and... -
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty... -
The Living Art of Greek Tragedy by Marianne McDonald
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living... -
Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film by Patricia R. Zimmermann
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount... -
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era by Harvey E. Goldberg
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52"Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new... -
Beauty Matters by Peg Zeglin Brand
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair?... -
Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising by Alexander Rabinowitch
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23" . . . an expert work . . . remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, and its sure handling of the available evidence." -Political Science Quarterly" . . . a fine piece of historical writing."... -
Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture by Bill Nichols
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film,... -
Outrage in Ohio: A Rural Murder, Lynching, and Mystery by David Kimmel 9780253034229
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church. She never arrived. The horrific death of this young girl inspired an illegal interstate... -
Gone the Hard Road: A Memoir by Lee Martin 9780253053862
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.50"Count your blessings," his mother told him, "Think of everything good in your life." Building from Lee Martin's acclaimed first memoir, From Our House, which recounts the farming accident that cost... -
Beekeeping in the End Times by L Jaarevi 9780253068125
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together... -
The Dark Didn't Catch Me by Crystal Thrasher 9780253216854
Booksplease Price: $17.43The Dark Didn't Catch Me tells the story of the Robinson family during the Great Depression in Greene County, Indiana. Seely Robinson is the tenacious 11-year-old heroine, and it is from her... -
Death to Beauty by E Helveston 9780253067807
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott... -
Re-reading Levinas by Robert Bernasconi 9780253206244
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy... -
Ultra-Cabin by Kimberly Lambright 9780983074779
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983074779Author Kimberly LambrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint -
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " -Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields... -
Five Plays by Langston Hughes by Webster Smalley
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.24"His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down . . . " -Long Beach Press-TelegraphBook InformationISBN 9780253201218Author Webster SmalleyFormat Paperback -
Feminism Meets Queer Theory by Naomi Schor
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50". . . innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than... -
Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century: A Reader by Patrick O'Meara
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $16.24"If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start." -The Economist A blue... -
Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives by Jane Stadler
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A... -
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this... -
Sartre's Political Theory by William L. McBride
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Sartre's Political Theory presents the first detailed study of Jean-Paul Sartre's political philosophy. Taking Sartre's twin ideals of "Socialism and Freedom" as his guiding theme, William L. McBride... -
Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, Yvonne Daniel explores the surprising relationship between dance and the profound, complex changes in contemporary... -
Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution by Glenn E. Robinson
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51" . . . an analysis that is as intricate and flawless as it is devastating . . . [Robinson's] presentation is powerful and compelling and his scholarship impeccable." -MESA Bulletin". . . [an]... -
Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body by John Paul Ito
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they... -
The Silvae of Statius by Betty Rose Nagle
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Publius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s C.E. Born in Naples, he was the son of a professional poet and teacher. In his teens he moved to Rome, and there, some years later, he... -
Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy by David Farrell Krell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23"Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." -John LlewelynDisclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked... -
Quick Hits for Service-Learning: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers by Mary A. Cooksey 9780253223302
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Service-learning, the integration of classroom instruction with community service projects, is rapidly gaining momentum as a successful teaching and learning strategy that benefits both students and... -
Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana by Jane Simon Ammeson 9780253029836
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Even 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... -
Making Your Own Luck: From a Skid Row Bar to Rebuilding Indiana University Athletics by Fred Glass 9780253059451
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52One man's odyssey from skid row to rebuilding a major collegiate sports program. In Making Your Own Luck, former Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass recounts how even a self-described... -
101 Trees of Indiana: A Field Guide by Marion T. Jackson 9780253069818
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23For decades, 101 Trees of Indiana has provided all you need to identify a tree in the Hoosier State, whatever the season. This revised edition includes over 100 species of trees, mostly native to the... -
Pioneers of the Hardwood: Indiana and the Birth of Professional Basketball by Todd Gould 9780253211996
Booksplease Price: $19.66As fire is to prairie or water to fish, so is basketball part of the natural environment in Indiana. Round ball, or Hoosier Hysteria is so much a part of the state's heritage that many people believe... -
Penrod by Booth Tarkington 9780253203618
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Penrod's escapades have delighted generations of readers. The stories in this Indiana classic will captivate still another generation of young readers and awaken nostalgia in many an adult.Book... -
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 9780253205469
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63[FYI: Named one of the 100 Best Novels by the editors of the Modern Library; 7/20/98 New York Times, p. B1] "Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons is a delightful novel. In addition, it is a... -
Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States by James H. Madison 9780253205766
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23" . . . an impressive collection of essays . . . gives as clear a picture of the Midwest as a whole as one is likely to get." -Journal of American History" . . . excellent insight into how and why...