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Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine by Neil A. Grauer 9781421406572
Booksplease Price: £65.81The first comprehensive history of Hopkins Medicine in more than twenty years, "Leading the Way" not only recounts the exceptional achievements of Hopkins physicians, researchers, teachers, and... -
The Harriet Lane Handbook: The Johns Hopkins Hospital: The Johns Hopkins Hospital The Johns Hopkins Hospital 9780443287510
Booksplease Price: £62.50Trusted for 70 years for fast, accurate information on pediatric diagnosis and treatment, The Harriet Lane Handbook remains the #1 source of pediatric point-of-care clinical information for pediatric... -
Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University by Michael T. Benson 9781421444161
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.53One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due.Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained... -
Lost Cactus: The First Treasury John P. Hopkins 9780996506755
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996506755Author John P. HopkinsFormat PaperbackImprint John HopkinsPublisher John... -
Menswear by John Hopkins
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.39Whether it's a military inspired trench coat or a Savile Row tailored suit, menswear design increasingly demands originality, innovation and above all, choice. Menswear, 2nd edition explores the... -
The Harriet Lane Handbook: The Johns Hopkins Hospital by The Johns Hopkins Hospital
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £45.94Your #1 source of pediatric point-of-care clinical information. Every three years, The Harriet Lane Handbook is carefully updated by residents, edited by chief residents, and reviewed by expert... -
Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935-1985 by Karen Kruse Thomas 9781421421087
Booksplease Price: £45.54Between 1935 and 1985, the nascent public health profession developed scientific evidence and practical know-how to prevent death on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to public health workers, life... -
Leading the Change: Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2012 to 2022 by Karen Nitkin 9781421448015
RRP: £58.50Booksplease Price: £44.12Chronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphs and challenges during the last ten years, including the institution's global leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.In Leading the Change: Johns Hopkins... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
Who Will Hear Your Secrets? by Robley Wilson 9781421404622
RRP: £10.50Booksplease Price: £8.37A federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded. A woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be cruelly out of reach. An American visitor... -
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era by Michael N. Pearson
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world... -
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe Juan J. Linz 9780801820229
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18'About the AuthorAlfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University, coauthor, with Juan J. Linz, of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern... -
On the Causes of Fever (1839): On the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland by William Budd
Booksplease Price: £27.41W. Goodall and Margaret Pelling, this book sets forth Williams Budd's thoughts on typhoid by reference to an unsuccessful essay he submitted for the Thackeray Prize in 1840.Book InformationISBN... -
In Time and Place by John Hollander
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. "In Time and Place" features a generous offering of... -
The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution by Sheldon Wolin
Booksplease Price: £24.15All constitutions are ultimately about power, Sheldon Wolin writes: about how power is used and by whom, according to what understandings, and to whose advantage. The provisions of our own... -
Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education by Estela Mara Bensimon
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book... -
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism Charles Bernheimer 9780801850059
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced... -
The Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer
Booksplease Price: £25.92"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."-Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a... -
Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 by Mary C. Neth
Booksplease Price: £28.90Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of... -
The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority Thomas L. Haskell (McCann Professor of History, Rice University) 9780801865732
Booksplease Price: £27.60Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now... -
Tet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War by Don Oberdorfer
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Finalist for the 1971 National Book Award In early 1968, Communist forces in Vietnam launched a surprise offensive that targeted nearly every city, town, and major military base throughout South... -
Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin by Peter Tracey Connor
Booksplease Price: £28.90When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a "new mystic," he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy-especially dangerous... -
The Siddhantasundara of Jnanaraja: An English Translation with Commentary by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
Booksplease Price: £72.67A treasure for anyone interested in early modern India and the history of mathematics, this first English translation of the Siddhantasundara reveals the fascinating work of the scholar-astronomer... -
Mennonite Society by Calvin Redekop
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCalvin W. Redekop is a professor of sociology emeritus at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo,... -
Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective: Selections from Quaderni Storici by Edward Muir
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84How we did the "fallen" women of Bologna regain their lost honor as wives or nuns? Why did the church need to control the "quasi-magical" power of female fertility? What did working women do to... -
The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject by Toby Miller
Booksplease Price: £25.63In "The Well-Tempered Self", Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Miller argues that capitalism's... -
Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African American Children by Janice E. Hale
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In her highly acclaimed work Black Children, Janice Hale argued that the difficulties many African American children have in school result from differences in learning style that are deeply rooted... -
Tales from a Greek Island by Alexandros Papadiamantes
Booksplease Price: £27.60Set in Skiathos, these 12 stories capture the folk ways of the culture of Greece and how traditional life there is both beautiful and harsh.About the AuthorAlexandros Papadiamantis (1851-1911) was... -
Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832: Volume 2 by Robert Remini
Booksplease Price: £30.36Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion,... -
The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 by W. Scott Haine
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84"[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of... -
The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania by James T. Lemon
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its... -
The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies by Stuart J. Youngner
Booksplease Price: £29.37The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies is the first comprehensive review of the clinical, philosophical, and public policy implications of our effort to redefine the change in status... -
Romanticism and Colonial Disease by Alan Bewell
Booksplease Price: £29.20Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before... -
Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City by John Jeffries Martin
Booksplease Price: £27.41Renaissance Venice is generally portrayed as a city of harmony and consensus. This book offers a sharply different view by highlighting the history of religious dissent in this early modern city... -
American English Spelling: An Informal Description by D.W. Cummings
Booksplease Price: £35.77In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and... -
Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece by Nancy Demand
Booksplease Price: £32.52Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes... -
Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America by Robert F. Jefferson
Booksplease Price: £48.56This fascinating history shows how African-American military men and women seized their dignity through barracks culture and community politics during and after World War II. Drawing on oral... -
Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600 by Paul F. Grendler
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £22.20'About the AuthorPaul F. Grendler is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto and former president of the Renaissance Society of America. He is the editor-in-chief of the... -
Love and Love Sickness by John Money
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Until recently, the study of sex roles, sexual behavior, and the differences between the sexes came under the aegis of such disciplines as psychiatry, sociology, or medicine. Love and Love Sickness... -
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £24.27Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a...