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Mel Gibson's ""Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications by Zev Garber 9781557534057
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, was released on Ash Wednesday, February 24, 2004 to capacity audiences in theatres and auditoriums across the U.S. and other countries. Prior to the... -
Westward We Came: A Norwegian Immigrant's Story, 1866-1898 by Erling E. Kildahl 9781557534712
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Westward We Came is a memoir of Harold B. Kildahl, Sr. and his family pulling up roots in Norway and immigrating to the United States in 1866. It is a vivid description of their travels and... -
Afternoons with Puppy: Lessons for Life from a Therapist and His Animals by Aubrey H. Fine
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Afternoons with Puppy is a heartwarming account of dynamic relationships and outcomes involving a therapist, his therapy animals, and his patients, gathered from almost two decades of ongoing... -
Becoming a Spacewalker: My Journey to the Stars by Jerry L. Ross 9781557536938
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94This nonfiction picture book is a children's version of NASA astronaut Jerry L. Ross's autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer, designed for... -
Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight by Ruth Ann Ingraham 9781557536846
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age... -
Becoming a Self: Reading of Kierkegaard's ""Concluding Unscientific Postscript by Merold Westphal 9781557530905
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Soren Kierkegaard (1818-55) is perhaps best known for his existentialism, and his critique of the Western metaphysical tradition makes him a religiously committed postmodernist. Becoming a Self... -
Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom by George R. Leopold 9781557538291
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.53Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. ""Gus""Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crewin a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his... -
Seeds of Hope: An Engineer's World War II Letters by William Sabel 9781557531315
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.47While he served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, William Sabel dutifully wrote home to his parents in Chicago every week. More than half a century later, five years' worth of... -
Food for the Winter by Geraldine Connolly 9781557530059
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $15.64In Food for the Winter,Geraldine Connolly recovers the lost world of childhood in the years ofsmall-town America following World War II. The prevailing imagery is that offire, the fire of bombing... -
St.Benedict's Rule for Business Success by 9781557533937
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97'St Benedict's Rule' is one of a handful of documents, such as the Magna Carta and US Constitution, that make up the foundation of Western civilisation. Benedict's Rule is an organisational blueprint... -
Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature by Louise O. Vasvari 9781557533968
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $56.60The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary,... -
Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative... -
Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer by Jerry Ross
Booksplease Price: $38.03From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the... -
Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine by Julie Kumble 9781557537720
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Veterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are... -
Duns Scotus, Metaphysician by William A. Frank 9781557530721
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of metaphysics. A careful and detailed study... -
The Dean: A Biography of A.A. Potter by Robert B. Eckles 9781557539632
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of... -
From Boston to Berlin: A Journey Through World War II in Images and Words by Christopher E. Mauriello 9781557539762
RRP: $42.72Booksplease Price: $38.06When Roland Regan and Frederick Mauriello went off to fight the Germans in World War II, they packed cameras and notepaper and documented their experiences, Roland with photos, Frederick with letters... -
The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-ranging Urban Animals by Alan Beck 9781557532459
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97This study of dog ecology (and behaviour) and of human ecology (and behaviour) discusses the facets of the phenomenon of the urban free-roaming dog. It provides information for students who wish to... -
My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me by Kathy M. Finley 9781612498737
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me is the story of how an adorable, spunky, gray-and-white kitten helped the author regain the courage to face life's challenges and realize... -
What's Buggin' You Now?: Bee's Knees, Bug Lights and Beetles by Tom Turpin 9781557535092
Booksplease Price: $25.30The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Find out about Aesop's insects, Edgar Allan Poe's Gold Bug,... -
Second Chances: The Transformative Relationship Between Incarcerated Youth and Shelter Dogs by Joan K Dalton 9781626711051
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626711051Author Joan K DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint -
Become the CEO of You, Inc.: A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success by Susan Bulkeley Butler 9781557536150
Booksplease Price: $34.94How do you turn your dreams into reality? How do you make things happen for you, rather than let things happen to you? Don't be humble about who you are and what you are capable of. Stand tall and... -
Forget-Me-Not: A Memoir of Anne Bashkiroff's Alzheimer's Crusade by Gail Bernice Holland 9781557534255
Booksplease Price: $38.25Anne Bashkiroff was a pioneer in the fight for Alzheimer's awareness. Her dear husband, Sasha, suffered for nine years with this terrible brain- and soul-damaging illness. Anne was faced with... -
John Dewey at One Hundred-fifty: Reflections for a New Century by Anthony G. Rud 9781557535504
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82The sesquicentennial of the birth of John Dewey is 2009. In recognition of this occasion, John Dewey at One Hundred-Fifty: Reflections for a New Century, with contributors drawn from the members of... -
Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer's Journey: A Guide for Families and Caregivers by Jolene Brackey 9781557537607
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20The beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition.Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to focus more of our... -
The Interpretation of Illness by Frederic D. Homer 9780911198881
Booksplease Price: $39.17Georg Groddeck (1866-1934), who was trained as a physicianbut became famous for his success as a healer, introduced a radical concept inThe Book of It: that we virtually always cause our own illness... -
Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging, Revised Edition by Denise L. Calhoun 9781612498638
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and communication skills among older adults. Featuring simple... -
Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families by Zachary Michael Jack 9781557534934
Booksplease Price: $38.91Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles... -
Pietas Austriaca by 9781557531599
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.27Pietas Austriaca studies the relationship between religious beliefs and practices and Habsburg political culture from the end of the medieval period to the early 20th century. In this seminal work,... -
Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Issues, and Practice by Nancy Parish-Plass 9781557536518
RRP: $76.16Booksplease Price: $65.21The integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma,... -
Body Language: First of All Do No Harm by Constance Studer 9781557535160
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.27Constance Studer uses her family's story to illustrate larger ethical dilemmas in which modem medical professionals find themselves. The history of why prefrontal lobotomies were performed on... -
Father, Have I Kept My Promise?: Madness as Seen from Within by Edith Weisskopf-Joelson 9781557533630
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $24.78In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high recommendations from her famous teachers. Her career prospects looked bright indeed. But a year later, she... -
Just Call Me Orville: The Story of Orville Redenbacher by Robert W. Topping 9781557535955
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.11Based on extensive interviews and archival research, this book traces the career of Orville Redenbacher, the "popcorn king," from his agricultural studies at Purdue University to his emergence as an... -
Comparative Central European Culture by 9781557532404
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20This work is a collection of papers in comparative cultural studies, rather than the single-culture approach, applied in the study of Central European culture. It proposes that a Central European... -
Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present by Maria Bucur 9781557531612
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage... -
Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoirs of a Bosnian Serb by 9781557533593
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Concurrent with the dawn of multiparty politics in 1990, Mirko Pejanovic emerged in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the leader of the Socialist Alliance. His organization was in charge of implementing policies... -
The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary 1867-1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism by Lawrence Sondhaus 9781557531926
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $48.60This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War... -
Your Ideal Cat: Insights into Breed and Gender Differences in Cat Behavior by Benjamin L. Hart 9781557536488
Booksplease Price: $29.87For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behavior. This is the advice of the Harts, two experts in animal communication and behavior,... -
The Body Mutinies by 9781557530837
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.47The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and... -
Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory and Performance by Charles Ganelin 9781557530868
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.91Drawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on research conducted in Spanish archives, this pioneering group of English-speaking scholars offers...