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Billy Budd Melville Volume 11 by Northwestern University Press
Booksplease Price: $105.81The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a... -
The Authentic Death & Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film by Paul Seydor
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Long before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor... -
Schools of Our Own: Chicago's Golden Age of Black Private Education by Worth Kamili Hayes
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.73As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally important movement emerged in Chicago. Following World War... -
Venus in Fur: A Play by David Ives
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive... -
Bait by David Albahari
Booksplease Price: $185.93David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious, understated explorations of the self have influenced many writers of... -
The Ethiopian Army: From Victory to Collapse, 1977–1991 by Fantahun Ayele
Booksplease Price: $139.89The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military governmentthat created one of the largest and... -
Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $49.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810126046Author Jean Moorcroft WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 504I -
The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy by Mark Neuzil
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.21This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda, evolving from a tradition that includes the works of authors such as Pliny the Elder,... -
Fundamental Issues in Law and Society by Garth.
Booksplease Price: $171.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810114340Author Garth.Format HardbackPage Count 259Imprint -
Loner Forensics: Poems by Thea Brown
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.59The third collection of poetry from Thea Brown, author of Think of the Danger In Loner Forensics, Thea Brown dreams up and dissects a city beset by unexplained disappearances, roving silences, and... -
Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education by Wendy Lower
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Lessons and Legacies XII explores new directions in research and teaching in the field of Holocaust studies. The essays in this volume present the most cutting-edge methods and topics shaping... -
Judgment: A Novel by David Bergelson 9780810135918
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90Never before available in English, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. Set in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, Judgment... -
Eardrums: Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare by Tyler Whitney 9780810140219
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on... -
An Appealing Act: Why People Appeal in Civil Cases by Scott Barclay 9780810116962
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.86What makes people sue? Why do individuals who have lost their cases decide to appeal? In this book, the author offers a comprehensive description of the motives and concerns underlying an... -
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard 9780810127913
Booksplease Price: $59.14Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers... -
Eight Plays: Performance Texts by Arthur Schnitzler 9780810119338
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70This collection represents Schnitzler's dramatic work from 1886 to 1915 in the most accurate English translation available. Included are the popular ""Roundelay"" and ""Anatol"" (with additional... -
Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration, Theater, and Embodiment in Twenty-First Century Paris by Emine Fisek 9780810135666
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Aesthetic Citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions regarding immigration, citizenship, and the formation of national identity. Focusing on Paris in the... -
Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History by Cindy Crosby 9780810142305
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.40Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History is an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history... -
Katrina on Stage: Five Plays by Suzanne Trauth 9780810127500
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $37.48The plays collected in this volume give artistic expression to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In so doing, they also illuminate many social, political, and environmental issues central... -
The Linguistic Dimension of Kant's Thought: Historical and Critical essays by Frank Schalow 9780810129962
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $151.50Among modern philosophers, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has few rivals for his influence over the development of contemporary philosophy as a whole. While the issue of language has become a key fulcrum... -
You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South by Stephanie Deutsch 9780810131279
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.66Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the lives of these... -
Quiet Armor: Poems by Stevie Edwards 9780810146464
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.86New poetry from Stevie Edwards, author of Sadness WorkshopQuiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships... -
The Wolf at the End of the Block: A Play by Ike Holter 9780810141605
Booksplease Price: $25.76Ike Holter's taut and fast-paced The Wolf at the End of the Block tells the story of a young Latino named Alejandro, known as Abe, who seeks justice after being beaten by a Chicago policeman. A... -
A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides by Eric Sanday 9780810134850
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato's "theory of forms" is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle to understanding the theory... -
Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown 9780810125131
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.18Carolyn Brown, one of the most renowned dancers of the last half-century, lived at the center of New York's bold and vibrant artistic community, which included not only dancers and choreographers but... -
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France Chad Augustine Córdova 9780810148277
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148277Author Chad Augustine CordovaFormat HardbackPage Count 320 -
World Is A Prison by 9780810160514
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.00This classic of war literature is the story of Guglielmo Petroni--not only his experiences in the hands of Fascist police and the Gestapo, but a meditation on the survival and growth of his... -
Dollhouse: A Play 9780810126312
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.41Nora seems to have it all: a successful husband, three adorable children, and a beautiful home in the tiny Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. But what looks like the perfect life is woefully... -
Life and Acting by Jack Garfein 9780810126732
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07Arriving in America as a teenage Holocaust refugee, Jack Garfein would soon rise to the top of his field. Life and Acting is the product of more than sixty years in the world of theatre and film,... -
Hegel on Hamann by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 9780810124929
Booksplease Price: $121.25In 1828, G. W. F. Hegel published a critical review of Johann Georg Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany's most enigmatic and challenging thinkers and writers. While... -
Luisa & the Silence by Piersanti 9780810160804
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810160804Author PiersantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint -
Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy Anne Libera 9780810149366
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable-and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that "either you are funny, or you... -
The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra 9780810140417
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $151.50Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But “dictator novels” do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a... -
Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance by Giulio J. Pertile 9780810139190
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of... -
The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Kant, Hegel, and Cassirer by Donald Phillip Verene 9780810127784
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.97The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms marks the culmination of Donald Phillip Verene's work on Ernst Cassirer and heralds a major step forward in the critical work on the twentieth-century... -
A Herzen Reader by Alexander Herzen 9780810128477
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a... -
A Writer's Diary Volume 2: 1877-1881 by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780810115170
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.95This is the second volume of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and... -
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D. D. Guttenplan 9780810128316
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.20Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907-1989)- magnetic, witty, indefatigable-left a permanent mark... -
The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.58The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors... -
Metamorphoses Play by Mary Zimmerman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.80This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the...