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The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Blue Ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens-this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more... -
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it... -
Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar: The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad by G. Thomas Burgess
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.94Zanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a... -
G.W.F. Hegel: Philosophical System by Howard P. Kainz
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, perhaps the most influential of all German philosophers, made one of the last great attempts to develop philosophy as an all-embracing scientific system. This system... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between... -
Robert Mugabe by Sue Onslow
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country's history and political culture. As a symbol of African liberation and a stalwart opponent of... -
Boko Haram by Brandon Kendhammer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world's most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram's bloody,... -
Stories Of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study by Kirk Nesset
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the "godfather of minimalism," has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story. (See the link on this page to a 2008... -
Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana by Bianca Murillo
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and... -
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest by David Blanke
Booksplease Price: $40.36From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was... -
The Cuban Counterrevolution by Jesus Arboleya 9780896802148
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33For forty years the Cuban Revolution has been at the forefront of American public opinion, yet few are knowledgeable about the history of its enemies and the responsibility of the U.S. government in... -
Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen by Samuel Crowl 9780821410646
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In this lively study of both modern film and stage productions of Shakespeare, Samuel Crowl provides fascinating insights into the ways in which these productions have been influenced by one another... -
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present by Jan Bender Shetler 9780821417508
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.66Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated... -
The Art and Science of Book Publishing by Herbert Smith Bailey 9780821409701
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Now back in print, this volume discusses with authority every aspect of the editorial and financial operations of the modern publishing house. Unlike other books on this subject, The Art and Science... -
Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time by Christine L. Krueger 9780821414613
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52We are over a a century removed from Queen Victoria's death, yet the culture that bears her name is alive and well across the globe. Not only is Victorian culture the subject of lively critical... -
Penumbra: Poems by Michael Shewmaker 9780821422731
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.80Penumbra-Michael Shewmaker's debut collection-explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt. From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of a... -
Guerrillas and Terrorists by Richard L. Clutterbuck 9780821405925
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Terrorism and guerrilla warfare, whether justified as resistance to oppression or condemned as disrupting the rule of law, are as old as civilization itself. The power of the terrorist, however, has... -
Philena's Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio by Lynda Salter Chenoweth 9780821418581
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In Philena's Friendship Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio, Lynda Salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853. Chenoweth practices what she calls "fabric... -
Topologies of the Flesh: A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld by Steven M. Rosen 9780821416761
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.34The concept of "flesh" in philosophical terms derives from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This was the word he used to name the concrete realm of sentient bodies and life processes that has... -
The Voice of the Night: Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar by Chairil Anwar 9780896801707
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Chairil Anway (1922-1949) was the primary architect of the Indonesian literary revolution in both poetry and prose. In a few intense years he forged almost ingle-handedly a vital, mature literary... -
Cracks in the Invisible: Poems by Stephen Kampa 9780821419526 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $1.94Stephen Kampa's poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith. They range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and... -
Little Otter Learns to Swim by Artie Knapp
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23In this endearing and beautifully illustrated picture book, a baby river otter learns to swim, dive, and play in her natural habitat. Encouraged by her mother, the little otter soon sets out to... -
Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image by Julia Thomas
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $47.34The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with... -
Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II by Frank Lavin 9780821423431
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the... -
Pebbles Monochromes & Other Modern Poems: 1891-1916 by William Dean Howells 9780821413180
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $18.91For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his... -
Nostos by V. Penelope Pelizzon 9780821412992
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: "With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and... -
Fifty Must-Try Craft Beers of Ohio by Rick Armon 9780821422670
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Every craft beer has a story, and part of the fun is learning where the liquid gold in your glass comes from. In Fifty Must-Try Craft Beers of Ohio, veteran beer writer Rick Armon picks the... -
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice by Marlene Targ Brill 9780821423301
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43Today, we know Dolores Huerta as the cofounder, with Cesar Chavez, of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. We know her as a tireless advocate... -
Planted by the Signs: Poems by Misty Skaggs 9780821423813
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Planted by the Signs brings us the contemporary Appalachian poetry-cultivated in the dirt of Elliott County, Kentucky-of Misty Skaggs. With an eye for details that exquisitely balance personal and... -
Revisiting U.S. Trade Policy: Decisions In Perspective by Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. 9780821413234
Booksplease Price: $51.72In trade policy, as in many other areas of public policy, decision makers often confront present and future problems with little understanding of how similar disputes were resolved in the past. Too... -
Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia: Essays in Interpretation by D. M. Roskies 9780896801752
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $17.75How does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This question is at the heart of this volume which deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945... -
The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics by Giacomo Macola 9780821422120
Booksplease Price: $45.28Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough... -
Gravel and Hawk: Poems by Nick Norwood 9780821419892
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Gravel and Hawk dwells on the physical and cultural landscapes of the Texarkana border region, an area of stark natural beauty and even starker manifestations of its human habitation: oil derricks... -
Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Barbara Kreiger 9780821412954 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $1.94Barbara Kreiger's intriguing narrative presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Coming prompted her to leave a comfortable life in... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.76Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his... -
Emperor Haile Selassie by Bereket Habte Selassie
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number... -
The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda by David Newbury
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.97The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case... -
Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature by Michael West 9780821413241
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.50Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in... -
Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture by Dr Barry J. Faulk 9780821420959
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural...