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Introduction to Claudia Rankine by Kathy Lou Schultz 9781941423080
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Kathy Lou Schultz's Introduction to Claudia Rankine provides the first book-length introduction to this vitally important poet. Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers, Schultz's... -
The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing by Robert Archambeau 9780982315606
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.41This inaugural volume of "The &Now Awards" recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2004-2009... -
Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region by Joseph P Schwieterman 9780982315613
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $31.12Beyond Burnham provides a fascinating account of a century of visionary planning for metropolitan Chicago. From Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's famed 1909 Plan of Chicago to the push for... -
There Will Be No More Daughters: Poems by Christine Larusso 9781941423035
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.55At once sharp and tender, this debut collection from Christine Larusso (winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize) overflows with all the sorrows and ecstasies, the... -
The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing by Davis Schneiderman 9780982315644
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.92This second volume of The &Now Awards recognises the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2009-11. The... -
Two Short Plays: The Wonder Hat and Back of the Yards by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman 9781941423943
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.88Two Short Plays by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman breathes new life into Chicago's historic Little Theater Movement. This illustrated edition of two of Goodman's best-known plays, The Wonder Hat and Back of... -
Pike and Bloom by Matthew Nye 9781941423929
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.20An American odyssey in miniature, Pike and Bloom maps the trajectories of three characters-Pike, Bloom, and Clytie-as they spiral through ""the serious blues of Indianapolis,"" attempting to... -
Housebound by Elizabeth Gentry 9780982315668
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $20.88Elizabeth Gentry's debut, Housebound, is a novel like no other: a disquieting and interior fairy-tale adventure through one family's secrets and lies. Maggie, the eldest daughter, is preparing to... -
There’s No Place Like Time: A Retrospective by Andi Olsen 9781941423936
Booksplease Price: $25.41There's No Place Like Time is a strange beast: a fictional catalogue of a real retrospective of experimental films by a videographer who never existed.A collection of critical and biographical... -
Hunting is Painting by Jessica Savitz 9780982315620
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $16.20Hunting is Painting is the debut collection by Jessica Savitz, winner of the inaugural Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize from Lake Forest College Press / &NOW Books. This... -
At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry by Sean Pears
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.08For more than fifty years, in literary circles certainly, 'Buffalo' has signalled not just the rust belt city in western New York but an active centre for poetry and speculative poetics in America... -
Throng by Jose Perez Beduya 9780982315675
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.78Jose Perez Beduya's first book Throng takes us ""inside the bright wheel"" where selfhood and community whirl along the event horizon of an elusive centre-the fused question of the Singular and the... -
gauguin's notebook: a retrospective by Christopher Rey Perez 9781941423967
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $22.95A poetic roman a clef, gauguin's notebook follows an anonymous protagonist - who keeps a diary while reading through Paul Gauguin's Tahiti - as he travels clandestinely across the U.S. - Mexico... -
Titanic by Cecilia Corrigan 9781941423998
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03Winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize.Cecilia Corrigan's first book, Titanic, is an epic love poem depicting the eternal gothic romance between man and machine... -
Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day: Stories by JD Scott 9781941423059
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.93In this debut collection of short stories by the winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize, the sly fabulism of JD Scott's fiction casts its own peculiar spell upon the... -
Callbacks by M. Whiteford 9781941423011
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.93The Starling sisters, Pearl, Minny, and Esther are being raised by film, by what they hear on the radio, and by the hottest new pop culture phenomenon: television. They spend their feral trailer park... -
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema by David William Foster 9780292725102
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian... -
The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War by Frank L. Klement 9780823218905
Booksplease Price: $175.05Frank L. Klement reassesses Clement L. Vallandigham, the passionate critic of Lincoln's policies, and history's judgment of him.About the AuthorFrank L. Klement was a Professor of History at... -
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings by Ferdowsi 9781631494468
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $179.87Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes... -
Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home by Siobhan Moroney 9780252087622
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53"Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and... -
Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias by Robert Archambeau
Booksplease Price: $150.66The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received... -
Make - The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory Windell Oskay 9781457186899
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.93Raymond E. Barrett's Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory is a classic book that took on an audacious task: to show young readers in the 1960s how to build a complete working science lab for... -
Ensemble-Made Chicago: A Guide to Devised Theater by Chloe Johnston 9780810138780
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Ensemble-Made Chicago brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble: About Face Youth Theater, Albany... -
Talking About God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel Daniel F. Polish 9781594732720
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15To wrestle with the ideas these thinkers present is to find ourselves challenged to look at our own religious lives in new ways and to appreciate the spiritual endeavours of others, whatever form... -
Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border by Carolyn Tuttle
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a... -
Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make Julia Tang Peters 9781118894736
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.41A Roadmap for Transforming Ambition into Achievement In the sea of thrown-together, stereotypical leadership advice, Julia Tang Peters' Pivot Points stands out like a beacon. This book is not the... -
Gnostic Writings on the Soul: Annotated & Explained by Andrew Phillip Smith 9781594732201
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.12Just what is a soul, exactly? Where did the idea come from? How do we experience our souls? Two ancient Gnostic texts - The Exegesis on the Soul and The Hymn of the Pearl, both presented here in... -
Propaganda and the Role of the State in Inter-War Britain by Mariel Grant 9780198204442
Booksplease Price: $98.88This is a study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux and information services in Whitehall. She shows... -
The Gospel of Philip: Annotated & Explained by Andrew Phillip Smith 9781594731112
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.24This ancient Gnostic text can be a companion for your own spiritual quest. The Gospel of Philip is one of the most exciting and accessible of the Gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in... -
Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components by Windell Oskay
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $41.03Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered, but none intended to be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed... -
Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion by Benjamin E. Zeller
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.352015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The captivating story of the people of Heaven's Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking... -
Now What? by Brenda Faatz
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.70The book title begs the question and the answers come through obstacles which become opportunities in this comical romp. Curiosity, frustration, imagination, and a unique perspective are at the heart... -
Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese 'New' Religion by Erica Baffelli
Booksplease Price: $69.15"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book examines the trajectory and development of the Japanese... -
Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps by Alan Axelrod 9781493032891
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.20Now in paperback!Military Book Club (R) Main Selection History Book Club (R) Featured Alternate*The battle that transformed a group of common soldiers into the modern-day Marine CorpsMiracle at... -
It's Just a Bunnypalooza by Brenda Faatz 9780997085174
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $24.88It's Just a Bunnypalooza for our red-headed protagonist Lizzy! Ever rambunctious and creative, Lizzy is learning new dance moves from her furry bunny friends just in time for the school talent show...