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The Wingless Crow by Charles Fergus
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.08The Wingless Crow joins together thirty-three superb short essays on nature, science, country living, and self. They are written by a man who-watchful, inquisitive, at times prickly-is animated by... -
Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and Barbarism by David O'Brien
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugene Delacroix's artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject... -
The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government by Mary Parker Follett
Booksplease Price: £44.33Having organized neighborhood discussion groups before World War I, Follett traces the dynamics she noticed in these forums and develops some core concepts useful for those working on questions of... -
On Race and Racism in America: Confessions in Philosophy by Roy Martinez
Booksplease Price: £30.47"Given the racial complexity of the United States-not to mention the racism of its foundations and its persistence-why is it that the most influential white philosophers have not addressed the issue... -
Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film by Ranen Omer-Sherman
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.59In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history's most successfully sustained communal enterprise... -
Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement by Ethan Nadelmann
Booksplease Price: £37.69Cops Across Borders is the first book to examine the policies and issues that lie at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and U.S. criminal justice. Drawing on interviews with nearly 300 U.S. and... -
The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity by Rex Ferguson
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £88.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780271090573Author Rex FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Pennsylvania State University... -
New Perspectives on Public Health Policy by James Mohr 9780271027579
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.17The makers of public health policy face enormous challenges in the twenty-first century. In the past, their field has been imprecisely defined, deeply conflicted, poorly organized, and constantly... -
An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates by David N. McNeill 9780271035857
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £59.56In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and... -
Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls by Ruth Abbey 9780271061795
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £59.23In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a... -
Jewish Literary Cultures: Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods by David Stern 9780271084848
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.42In this second of three planned volumes of Jewish Literary Cultures, David Stern explores diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature and book history.Stern uses... -
Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran 9780271037523
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £38.26This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as "virtues" and considers their importance for contemporary ethics... -
Genius Envy: Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900 by Adrianna M. Paliyenko 9780271077086
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £78.61In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women's poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the... -
On Race and Racism in America: Confessions in Philosophy by Roy Martinez 9780271036397
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £54.04'Given the racial complexity of the United States - not to mention the racism of its foundations and its persistence - why is it that the most influential white philosophers have not addressed the... -
Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species by Jennifer Clary-Lemon 9780271095431
RRP: £77.99Booksplease Price: £70.54As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction, humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but are also engaging more directly with species to help mitigate their... -
Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism by Carl Niekerk 9780271096865
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £82.65In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and... -
Zen and the Unspeakable God: Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience by Jason N. Blum 9780271070803
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.62Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology... -
Rhetoric in Debt by Kellie Sharp-Hoskins 9780271095295
Booksplease Price: £31.08In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in history. From mortgages to student loans, from credit card bills to US deficit spending, debt is widespread... -
More Than Tongues Can Tell: Theological Generosity in Black Pentecostal Thought by Eric Lewis Williams 9780271101330
Booksplease Price: £115.72Pentecostalism is often characterized as an ecstatic movement—centrally involving spirited worship, speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing—as well as an exclusivist one, primarily aligned with... -
The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation by Peter M. Siavelis 9780271019475
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £67.66As many formerly authoritarian regimes have been replaced by democratic governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, questions have arisen about the stability and durability of these... -
At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania by Joseph M. Speakman 9780271028767
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £40.51The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most popular programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Over the nine years of the program, from 1933 to 1942, over two and one-half... -
A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania by Anna Margetta Archambault 9780271034614
Booksplease Price: £44.33This guidebook to the art, architecture, and historic interests of Pennsylvania was compiled before World War I by Anna Margaretta Archambault in association with the State Federation of Pennsylvania... -
Michelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its Maker by Paul Barolsky 9780271006956
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £58.27An exploration of the ways in which Michelangelo created himself.Book InformationISBN 9780271006956Author Paul BarolskyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pennsylvania State University... -
The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725–1907 by Frances S. Connelly 9780271013053
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £76.72Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native American imagery. The drawbacks of such... -
The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature by Deborah A. Green 9780271037677
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £63.19In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature,... -
The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson by Anne M. Ousterhout 9780271023113
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £42.89During the era of the American Revolution and long after, the name Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson was well known in Philadelphia, recognized as belonging to one of British North America’s most... -
Peru and the United States, 1960-1975: How Their Ambassadors Managed Foreign Relations in a Turbulent Era by 9780271036328
Booksplease Price: £36.28The period of 1960 to 1975 was a time when the United States paid more than the usual amount of attention to relations with Latin America, contending with Fidel Castro's efforts to export the... -
How to Belong: Women's Agency in a Transnational World by Belinda A. Stillion Southard 9780271082004
Booksplease Price: £80.60In How to Belong, Belinda Stillion Southard examines how women leaders throughout the world have asserted their rhetorical agency in troubling economic, social, and political conditions. Rather than... -
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania by Owen S. Ireland 9780271025995
Booksplease Price: £37.39In September 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new Federal Constitution to replace the beleaguered Articles of Confederation. Each state then had to call a convention of... -
Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty by 9780271036298
Booksplease Price: £44.03When Richard Rorty died on June 8, 2007, obituaries lionized him as one of the 'world's most influential cultural philosophers', and as a thinker whose work covered a wide and varied terrain of... -
The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726 by Rachel Cope 9780271082226
Booksplease Price: £99.42This comprehensive collection brings together every extant text known to have been penned by Elizabeth Webb, a missionary for the Society of Friends who traveled and taught in England and America... -
Emerson's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye by David Jacobson 9780271026459
Booksplease Price: £37.39The long ignored philosophical content of Emerson's writings has recently emerged as a central topic in Emerson studies. In Emerson's Pragmatic Vision, David Jacobson enters the discussion, placing... -
Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State by Alessandro Bonanno 9780271033891
Booksplease Price: £32.96The economic and social outcomes of mid-twentieth-century Fordist capitalism were characterized by a decrease in the significance of distance and a shift in the dynamic of time. This "time-space... -
The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror by John Oddo 9780271081168
Booksplease Price: £99.72In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports... -
History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889, by Which over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost by J. S. Ogilvie 9780271024943
Booksplease Price: £32.96Publisher J. S. Ogilvie's History of the Great Flood gathers many first-person accounts of the Johnstown disaster of May 1889, offering a largely sensationalized compilation of articles and... -
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics by Steven Mailloux 9780271078472
Booksplease Price: £89.45For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume... -
Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement by Lisbeth Lipari 9780271063324
Booksplease Price: £70.63Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of... -
Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill by Stanley Weintraub 9780271015002
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.46How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical “General” William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be... -
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 by Rosemary Moore
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.46Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light... -
The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Booksplease Price: £18.85An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions,...