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The Complete Funky Winkerbean: Volume 8, 1993-1995 by Tom Batiuk 9781606353615
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €35.94Follow award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk as he chronicles Funky's evolution from gags to situational humor to behavioral humor In this eighth volume, Funky Winkerbean continues to move forward in... -
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf 9781606352113
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.48It s a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender... Oliver Bendorf... -
Founding 49ers: The Dark Days before the Dynasty by Dave Newhouse 9781606352540
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.80The San Francisco 49ers are among the most dynamic franchises, not only in the National Football League but in all of professional sports. They have won five Super Bowl titles and have produced some... -
From My Experience: The Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm by Louis Bromfield 9781606354605
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.66Bromfield's continuing reflections about life and work at Malabar Farm A sequel of sorts to his earlier book, Pleasant Valley, this book significantly adds to Louis Bromfield's body of work on... -
Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 by Jan Cigliano 9780873384452
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €40.08Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating... -
Cadence by Hannah Stephenson 9781606353509
Booksplease Price: €6.24Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is... -
The '63 Steelers: A Renegade Team's Chase for Glory by Rudy Dicks 9781606351437
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43How a team of vagabonds made a charge at football historyThe year 1963 percolated with dreams-big dreams. Martin Luther King Jr. had one, and he articulated it to an audience of a quarter of a... -
The Killing of Julia Wallace by Jonathan Goodman 9781606353110
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain's great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.Julia was the... -
Beyond Trochenbrod: The Betty Gold Story by Betty Gold 9781606351994
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.97Few are familiar with one of the Holocaust's most monstrous acts, the systematic murder of 5,000 Jewish residents in a Nazi-occupied Polish town, Trochenbrod, on August 11, 1942. Of the 33 who... -
Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State by James A. Willis 9781606352601
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60Ohio's premier paranormal researcher looks for the spirits behind the stories Many of Ohio's historically significant locations have developed a reputation for being haunted. While it might be almost... -
Spare Not the Brave: The Special Activities Group in Korea by Richard L. Kiper 9781606352038
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.89The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and... -
The Complete 'Funky Winterbean', Volume 1 (1972-1974) by Tom Batiuk 9781606351123
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €36.89Tom Batiuk was a junior high school art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, when he created a comic panel aimed at teens for the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. That panel was the precursor to what became Batiuk's... -
Darling Ro and the Benet Women by Evelyn Helmick Hively 9781606350966
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920sThe Benet name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize-winning poets... -
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh 9781606353844
Booksplease Price: €35.91In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph L. Harsh analyzes the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War... -
White Coats: Three Journeys through an American Medical School by Jacqueline Marino 9781606351307
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.37Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline... -
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook by Carolyn V. Platt 9781606352854
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.99Stretching between Cleveland and Akron in heavily urban northeastern Ohio, Cuyahoga Valley National Park has been called a "Green-Shrouded Miracle," preserving precious green space and offering a... -
![Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2795358/2794694/9781606352823__82996.1714851842.jpg?c=1 "Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823")
Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823
Booksplease Price: €44.91In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a... -
As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation by Rana B. Khoury 9781606352809
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we... -
Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools by Robert A. Simons 9781606352564
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €35.37Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well... -
The Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey: Geologist, Surveyor, Military Engineer, Civil War Strategist by Stanley M. Totten 9781606354360
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €43.77An essential biography of one of Ohio's most influential-but overlooked-historical figuresThe Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey offers the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding... -
No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra 9781606354100
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €44.13A scrupulous analysis of Rodes's conduct during the Battle of Gettysburg Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee's... -
Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and the Lord of the Rings by Willow Wilson DiPasquale 9781606354926
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354926Author Willow Wilson DiPasqualeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Kent State... -
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by 9780873387446
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was... -
Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe by 9780873389242
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.99Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art teacher before creating the comic strip Funky Winkerbean in 1972. Originally a ""gag-a-day"" comic strip that portrayed life in high school,... -
Any Kind of Excuse by 9780873387576
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.99These quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems range from topics such as clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath... -
My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840-1860 by 9780873388375
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €52.60During the nineteenth century - a time of great technical and cultural change - fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic... -
Above the Thunder: Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II by 9780873389808
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.22The son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer, Raymond Kerns dropped out of high school after the eighth grade to help on the farm. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and, after training as a radio operator in... -
Teaching Hemingway and Race by Gary Edward Holcomb 9781606353578
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Teaching Hemingway and Race provides a practicable means for teaching the subject of race in Hemingway's writing and related texts-from how to approach ethnic, nonwhite international, and tribal... -
Teaching Hemingway and War by Alex Vernon 9781606352571
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €35.01In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that "the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds... -
The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival by Jacqueline Lapidus 9781606352045
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94The Widows' Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir... -
Sundays in the Pound: The Heroics and Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns by 9780873388665
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.36A look at the last championship seasons of the BrownsBefore Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore, and before the frustrating expansion years and countless front office mistakes of the twenty-first... -
Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century by Kevin Adams 9781606352694
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had... -
A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line Nina Mandell 9781606355077
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they’re expected to win. That’s because they’ve won... -
The Next of Us is About to be Born: The Wick Poetry Series Anthology in Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center by 9781606350218
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60The Next of Us Is About to Be Born is an anthology of fifty-five poets published in the ""Wick Poetry Series"" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State... -
Fort Laurens, 1778-79: The Revolutionary War in Ohio by The Kent State University Press 9780873382403
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873382403Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint Kent State University... -
Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by The Kent State University Press 9780873386418
Booksplease Price: €35.25A companion volume to ""Taken at the Flood"", this work identifies areas of research and in-depth source material for studies of the Maryland Campaign of 1862.Book InformationISBN 9780873386418Author... -
Classic Tribe: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Indians History by 9781606350171
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.09A countdown of the Cleveland Indians' greatest gamesIt's far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders' views of their professional sports teams. While the... -
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Reading Hemingway's ""Men without Women: Glossary and Commentary by 9780873389433
Booksplease Price: €30.31In their close line-by-line annotations of and commentaries on Ernest Hemingway's major works, the volumes in the ""Reading Hemingway Series"" provide up-to-date, factual... -
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease by 9781606350072
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.53This is a literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in... -
One Nation Divided by Slavery: Remembering the American Revolution While Marching Toward the Civil War by Michael F. Conlin 9781606352403
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.12In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in "history wars" every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the...