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The Adam of Two Edens: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 9780815607106
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Book... -
Rum Across the Border: The Prohibition Era in Northern New York by Allan S. Everest 9780815625476
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast buck smuggling Canadian liquor across the border.In... -
The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two Ghazaleh Alizadeh 9780815602941
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602941Author Ghazaleh AlizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint -
Mother India by Tova Reich 9780815611172
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.49Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in... -
The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy: A Novel by Frances Khirallah Noble 9780815611684
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a story that is at once sublimely comic yet surprisingly erudite in the subjects it tackles. Its hero, Kahlil Gibran Hourani, is... -
In Search of Walid Masoud: A Novel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra 9780815604587
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel,... -
Joseph Brant 1743-1807 by 9780815602088
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602088Format PaperbackPage Count 792Imprint Syracuse University Press -
Muslim Women and Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform by Mahnaz Afkhami 9780815627609
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17This volume is about the ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising conciousness and changing codes of law, to penetrating the economic markets and... -
Like a Man Gone Mad: Poems in a New Century by Samuel Hazo 9780815609575
Booksplease Price: $18.87Hazo, National Book Award finalist and former State Poet of Pennsylvania, transports the reader with poems of both lament and celebration in his sensual new collection. Like a Man Gone Mad features... -
Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism by Martin Buber
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.47Beginning with Buber's seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim sources. It aims to convey... -
Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Block Friedman 9780815628262
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96During the Middle Ages, travellers in Africa and Asia reported that monstrous races thrived beyond the boundaries of the known world. This work offers an introspective look at these races and their... -
The Red Heifer: A Novel by Leo Haber 9780815608363
Booksplease Price: $12.34The main character of Leo Haber's debut novel grows to sexual and social awareness amid old-world Yiddish-speaking rabbis, new-world mobsters, Jewish non-believers, musicians, ballplayers, and new... -
America in the Twenties by Ronald Allen Goldberg 9780815630333
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17This is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at American life in the 1920s as framed by the aspirations, scandals, and attitudes of the Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover presidencies. In... -
Schizophrenia by 9780815602248
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.77Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their... -
A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race and Justice in Syracuse by K. Animashaun Ducre
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.06Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: ""It's the first thing I see. And I just call it `the Homeless House' `cause it's the house that nobody fixes up."" Faith is one of fourteen... -
The Midnight Court: A Critical Edition by Brian O'Conchubhair 9780815632603
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92Banned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be one of the greatest comic Irish poems. Despite its simple story line, Merriman's... -
From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland 9780815637578
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07In New York in 1907, a group of avant-garde Yiddish poets came together to transform Yiddish literature. Seeking a pure artistic expression, they would rid Yiddish poetry of foreign influences and... -
Sex By Prescription: The Startling Truth about Today's Sex Therapy by Thomas Szasz 9780815602507
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92For St Augustine, sexual desire was a disease; to the great doctors of coitus today, lack of sexual desire is a disease. For Dr Szasz, both these presumptions are absurd and unscientific. He argues... -
How To Prepare Dissertation by David R. Krathwohl 9780815681410
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $6.74What are the core elements of a strong proposal? ""How can I accent the strengths of my study design? ""How can computer use facilitate my literature review?"" ""What is the best way to get my... -
Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities by Len Oakes 9780815603986
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.80New religious movements-or so-called "cults"-continue to attract and mystify us. While mainstream America views cults as an insidious mix of apocalyptic beliefs, science fiction, and paranoia, with... -
Land of Enchantment Liza Wieland 9780815611776
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O'Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption,... -
Reverence For Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century by Marvin Meyer 9780815629771
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Albert Schweitzer's system of ethics as a way of life in which individuals live with compassion and respect for all living things - humans, animals, plants - is illuminated here through a series of... -
Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, Second Edition by James Brabazon 9780815606758
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.75The second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer... -
The Time Remaining by Samuel Hazo 9780815610090
Booksplease Price: $23.25A modern-day political thriller, The Time Remaining grapples with murder, romance, and international politics. Dodge Didier Gilchrist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and consummate ladies' man,... -
Preparing For Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures by John Paul Lederach 9780815627258
Booksplease Price: $28.58Since the early 1950s, John Paul Lederach has traveled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. He has worked with governments, justice departments, and youth programs in... -
Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psycho-analysis and Psychiatry by Thomas Szasz 9780815602477
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Sigmund Freud once courted the favour of Austrian writer and satirist, Karl Kraus, and failed to obtain it. Kraus's favourite themes were the power of language, its abuse by psychiatrists,... -
America in the Seventies by Stephanie A. Slocum-Schaffer 9780815629986
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92This work explores the cultural and social developments of the USA during the 1970s and offers a survey of both 1970s popular culture and political, economic, and military developments. Central to... -
Disaster and the Millennium by Michael Barkun 9780815623922
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815623922Author Michael BarkunFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Writing Short Stories: The Most Practical Guide by William H. Phillips 9780815629443
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83Drawing on years of classroom experience, the author provides guidance for several types of writers: beginners, writers with works in progress, those seeking other writers for critiques, and students... -
America in the Sixties by John Robert Greene 9780815632214
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene... -
God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at the New York Times by Robert H. Phelps 9780815609148
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $13.20For nearly twenty years Robert H. Phelps ran interference for, cheered on, and sometimes scolded star reporters and top editors at the ""New York Times"". Starting his career as a cub reporter for... -
Fionn Mac Cumhaill: Celtic Myth in English Literature by James MacKillop 9780815623533
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the... -
America in the Fifties by Andrew J. Dunar 9780815631286
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Blessed by a booming economy, the United States moved into the space age and the golden age of television in the 1950s. At the same time, the nation faced domestic and international divisions that... -
Lycanthropy Reader by Charlotte F. Otten 9780815623847
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a human... -
Psychiatry: The Science of Lies by Thomas Szasz 9780815607922
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93For more than a half century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a thorough and provocative critique of the practice of psychiatry. In many ways his latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of... -
Prince Marko: The Hero of South Slavic Epics by Tatyana Popovic 9780815624448
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $40.47One of the most popular of the south European epic heroes-a counterpart of the French Roland or Spain's El Cid-Prince Marko has not been well known in America. The historical Marko headed a small... -
Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces by Mr David Bell 9780815628989
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17The essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an... -
Sengoidelc: Old Irish For Beginners by David Stifter 9780815630722
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $40.49David Stifter's Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner,... -
Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States by Alan E. Bessette 9780815637493
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.84This book is a comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the southeastern United States. Although it will stand on its own, it is intended to compliment and serve as a companion to Mushrooms of... -
Naturalist's Guide to Forest Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America by Donald Cox 9780815607793
Booksplease Price: $11.11Donald D. Cox brings together a wide range of information about the forests of eastern North America, including the origins and types of soils and their relationships to vegetation, climate, and...