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Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8 by David Marc
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.92Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four... -
![The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy by Judith Tydor Baumel 9780815630630](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2205455/2204807/9780815630630__02523.1709492567.jpg?c=1 "The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy by Judith Tydor Baumel 9780815630630")
The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy by Judith Tydor Baumel 9780815630630
Booksplease Price: $55.07Tells the remarkable story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism of today. During and shortly after the... -
Defending the Wilderness: Adirondack Writings of Paul Schaefer by Paul Schaefer 9780815602378
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602378Author Paul SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Rum Across the Border: The Prohibition Era in Northern New York by Allan S. Everest 9780815625476
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03During 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... -
Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues by P. Edward Haley 9780815622130
Booksplease Price: $42.00This book will serve as a guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict-expert and general reader alike-and for those, as well, who would work to bring peace to that tormented land... -
An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters: The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953 by Laurence M. Hauptman 9780815634898
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $70.98Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870-1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prizewinning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at... -
Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson by Jonatan Meir 9780815634591
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $77.03Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a... -
Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra 9780815638100
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Mohandas K. Gandhi was a sharp critic of the 1947 partition of British India that created two independent states of India and Pakistan, believing that partition politics, rooted in the psychology of... -
The Dark: A Critical Edition John McGahern 9780815638612
Booksplease Price: $53.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815638612Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint -
Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness Edward I Pitts 9780815611769
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815611769Author Edward I PittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint -
America in the Twenties by Ronald Allen Goldberg 9780815630333
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44This 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... -
Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context by Tahir Abbas 9780815635659
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $105.24In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims... -
The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora by Lisa Marchi 9780815637523
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and regions, this volume illuminates the distinct artistic... -
Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution by Allan S. Everest 9780815604327
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.90Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who fled to Canada have received careful study, but... -
All in a Day's Work: Scenes and Stories from an Adirondack Medical Practice by Daniel Way 9780815610106
Booksplease Price: $17.39Over 100 colour photographs vividly portray the people and places of the southeastern Adirondacks as seen by a Glens Falls family physician who has spent over twenty years practicing rural medicine... -
Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age since the 1970s by Matthew Baigell 9780815636854
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their work. These Jewish... -
The Red Heifer: A Novel by Leo Haber 9780815608363
Booksplease Price: $17.90The 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... -
Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda by Maha AbdelMegeed 9780815638285
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and... -
Spatializing Authoritarianism by Natalie Koch 9780815637592
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and... -
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn by Amira El-Zein 9780815632009
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $53.43According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and... -
Erasure and Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina by David La Vere 9780815638360
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.26In the wake of their victory in the Tuscarora War (1711–15), English settlers forced the Tuscarora Indians of eastern North Carolina, along with the Meherrin, Core, Chowan, Mattamuskeet, Neuse,... -
The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two Ghazaleh Alizadeh 9780815602941
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602941Author Ghazaleh AlizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint -
Schizophrenia by 9780815602248
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.72Szasz 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... -
Tracing the Ether: Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia by Moneera Al-Ghadeer 9780815611967
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.82An expansive bilingual anthology, Tracing the Ether showcases twenty-six acclaimed Saudi poets who are reimagining their place in our interconnected, digital world. Breaking away from the traditional... -
Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty Malcolm Sen 9780815612070
RRP: $128.70Booksplease Price: $104.23In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with climate change issues. Drawing upon concepts of sovereignty, precarity, and disaster,... -
Like a Man Gone Mad: Poems in a New Century by Samuel Hazo 9780815609575
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $27.26Hazo, 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... -
Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012 by Thomas Philip Abowd 9780815634690
Booksplease Price: $62.05Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict and shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past, remains a... -
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey by Eray Cayli 9780815637547
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $111.85Commemoration is considered essential to any project of confronting a nation's violent past. Opinions on commemoration tend to focus on representation and reception: how the commemoration narrates... -
Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities by Laura Gonzales 9780815637301
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.26Latina Leadership focuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited... -
The Midnight Court: A Critical Edition by Brian O'Conchubhair 9780815632603
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07Banned 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... -
War in the Shadow of Auschwitz: Memoirs of a Polish Resistance Fighter and Survivor of the Death Camps by John Wiernicki 9780815607823
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.821943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death... -
From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland 9780815637578
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12In 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... -
Bociany Chava Rosenfarb 9780815611714
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the... -
The Hammam through Time and Space by Julie Peteet 9780815638322
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.56Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred structures date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages and... -
Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narrative from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others Anthony Wonderley 9780815606949
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815606949Author Anthony WonderleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century Nelly Hanna 9780815638506
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has... -
The Adam of Two Edens: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish 9780815607106
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07A 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... -
Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Block Friedman 9780815628262
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23During 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... -
Man of the Woods by Herbert F. Keith 9780815601265
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.86Herbert F. Keith lives between two worlds and is at home in both. His is the last mown lawn at the edge of the village. South of the iron stakes that mark his property line are twenty-one air miles... -
Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai 9780815605089
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.77In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. Mojtabai set out for Amarillo, Texas, home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United States. Through the lens of...