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The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Blue 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... -
Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories by Meredith Sue Willis
Booksplease Price: $104.18Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural... -
Amilcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary by Peter Karibe Mendy
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.28Amilcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprising contributed significantly to the collapse of a fascist... -
Ritual Cosmos: Sanctification Of Life In by Evan M. Zuesse
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59In the West we are accustomed to think of religion as centered in the personal quest for salvation or the longing for unchanging Being. Perhaps this is why we have found it so difficult to understand... -
Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image by Julia Thomas
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $77.07The 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... -
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest by David Blanke
Booksplease Price: $65.71From 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 Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Mary Ingouville Burton 9780821422786
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48In 1995, South Africa's new government set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a lynchpin of the country's journey forward from apartheid. In contrast to the Nuremberg Trials and other... -
Memoirs Of Bookman by Jack Matthews 9780821409374
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $30.98These memoirs are the reminiscences of Jack Matthews: his adventures in seeking out, collecting, and reading old and rare books, along with reflections upon time, memory, and other mysteries. In one... -
Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time by Christine L. Krueger 9780821414613
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03We 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... -
Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II by Frank Lavin 9780821423431
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Carl 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: $67.20Booksplease Price: $30.79For 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... -
Language & Social Change Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity by Joseph J. Errington 9780896801202
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $28.90Errington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java. Employing data from texts, interviews, observed speech, and... -
Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s by Susan Currell 9780821416914
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $97.52The motto "Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution" was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. However, by the 1930s, the disturbing legacy of this... -
Communism, Religion, and Revolt in Banten in the Early 20th Century: Mis Sea#86 by Michael C. Williams 9780896801554
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74Twice in this century popular revolts against colonial rule have occured in the Banten district of West Java. These revolts, conducted largely under an Islamic leadership, also proclaimed themselves... -
Introduction To Hegel: Stages Of Modern Philosophy by Howard P. Kainz 9780821411421
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31In a sense it would be inappropriate to speak of "Hegel's system of philosophy," because Hegel thought that in the strict sense there is only one system of philosophy evolving in the Western world... -
Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan by Julie K. Rubini 9780821423752
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future... -
The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World by Nancy Roe Pimm 9780821422168
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.33In this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the story of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world. In her trusty Cessna, The Spirit of Columbus-also... -
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Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic by 9780821419014 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $13.44The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic... -
Faces in the Revolution: The Psychological Effects of Violence on Township Youth in South Africa by Gill Straker 9780821410400
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.82One of South Africa’s most serious problems is the large number of youths in the black townships who have been exposed to an incredible depth and complexity of trauma. Not only have they lived... -
Landmarked: Land Claims and Land Restitution in South Africa by Cherryl Walker 9780821418703
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $29.59The year 2008 is the deadline set by President Mbeki for the finalization of all land claims by people who were dispossessed under the apartheid and previous white governments. Although most experts... -
Seeking One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw & Nineteenth-Century Reform by Lorien Foote 9780821414996
Booksplease Price: $103.78A radical abolitionist and early feminist, Francis George Shaw (1809-1882) was a prominent figure in American reform and intellectual circles for five decades. He rejected capitalism in favor of a... -
Gravel and Hawk: Poems by Nick Norwood 9780821419892
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Gravel 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... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Every 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... -
Ken Saro-Wiwa by Roy Doron
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time... -
Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland-The Politics of Boleslaw Piasecki by Mikolaj Stanislaw Kunicki
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue... -
Robert Mugabe by Sue Onslow
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Zimbabwe'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... -
Stories Of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study by Kirk Nesset
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80Raymond 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: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In 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... -
Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen by Samuel Crowl 9780821410646
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03In 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... -
Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 by Karen E. Flint 9780821418505
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners... -
Hometown for an Hour: Poems by Jennifer Rose 9780821416563
Booksplease Price: $43.51In her second collection of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcard's conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in some instances, humor, these poems are... -
Clouds without Rain: An Amish Country Mystery by P. L. Gaus 9780821410813
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.18Written in the tradition of Tony Hillerman, in Clouds without Rain, P. L. Gaus once again provides compelling intrigue and insight into Amish culture and tradition alongside contemporary American... -
On the Fringes of History: A Memoir by Philip D. Curtin 9780821416457
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.11In the 1950s, professional historians claiming to specialize in tropical Africa were no more than a handful. The teaching of world history was confined to high school courses, and even those were... -
A Paris Year: Dorothy And James T. Farrell, 1931-1932 by Edgar Marquess Branch 9780821412367
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $10.37The Depression that follows the 1929 stock market crash is emptying Paris of many American expatriates. Two exceptions are Dorothy and James T. Farrell, the naive young couple who have fled their... -
Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future of America's Local Government by George V. Voinovich 9780821422663
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48America's cities are increasingly acknowledged as sites of renewal and economic opportunity-but how can city leaders facing physical and financial constraints harness this positive energy to create... -
Fifty Must-Try Craft Beers of Ohio by Rick Armon 9780821422670
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Every 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86Today, 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Planted 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... -
Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941 by Brad D. Lookingbill 9780821413760
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the "dirty thirties" unearthed anxieties buried deep in America's ecological imagination...