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The Somnambulist and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton 9781606354155
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.86The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National... -
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger 9780873386999
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has... -
Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 9781606354322
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01A behind-the-scenes look at the only fashion show held at the White House and the intersections of fashion and politicsOn February 29, 1968, the White House hosted its first-and only-fashion show. At... -
Safe for Decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration, Britain and Singapore by S. R. Joey Long 9781606350867
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606350867Author S. R. Joey LongFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Kent State University... -
Prelude: Lisa's Story Begins by Tom Batiuk 9781606353240
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.54Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les... -
Snow Hill: In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister by Denise A. Seachrist 9781606350652
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26A fascinating exploration of a now-lost communal society During the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania became home to a variety of German-speaking sectarians who rebelled against the... -
Strike Four!: The Crankshaft Baseball Book by Tom Batiuk 9781606351925
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Toledo Mud Hens - a farm team for the Detroit Tigers - once had a budding pitcher named Ed Crankshaft. At least that's how partners in cartooning, writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers,... -
Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on 'Moby-Dick' by John Bryant 9781606350683
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606350683Author John BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Kent State University... -
Interpreting American History: Reconstruction by John David Smith 9781606352922
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America's post-Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well... -
Hemingway's Spain: Imagining the Spanish World by Carl P. Eby 9781606352427
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.65Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain "the country that I loved more than any other except my own," and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from... -
Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir by Julian William Cummings 9781606352670
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26During World War II the ability of American ground forces to advance in the face of fierce resistance was largely dependent on the precision of artillery barrages. Aerial observation was frequently... -
Speak English!: The Rise of Latinos in Baseball by Rafael Hermoso 9781606351673
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Latinos dominate baseball today, leading off the lineups of the best teams, making contenders strong up the middle, or helping to anchor pitching staffs. Vladimir Guerrero, Omar Vizquel, and Mariano... -
On Lincoln: Civil War History Readers by John T. Hubbell 9781606352007
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third... -
Classic Cavs: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History by Jonathan Knight 9781606352816
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970-71 through the franchise's renaissance following the... -
Citizens and Communities: Civil war History Readers, Volume 4 by J. Matthew Gallman 9781606352472
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential... -
The Promise of LeBron James: The Rise, Fall from Grace, and Redemption of Ohio's Own Bill Livingston 9781606354841
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The story of LeBron James through the eyes of a Cleveland sports insider LeBron James has been a polarizing yet beloved figure for sports fans around the world, possibly nowhere more so than in... -
Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre by 9780873384766
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had... -
Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873 by 9780873389884
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were their father's companions during his service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, governor of... -
From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre by 9780873389051
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This is a noteworthy history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows. Built by Daniel R. Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March... -
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time by 9780873386838
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77What would the world be like if history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this interesting question. The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time... -
The Cincinnati Reds by 9780873388863
Booksplease Price: £25.26First published in 1948, Lee Allen's history of the Reds, like Franklin Lewis's history of the Cleveland Indians, was originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Allen narrates the historic... -
Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture by Douglas Hoffman 9781606350478
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.29A compelling study of what makes a sacred place sacred From ancient temp les to modern churches, synagogues, and mosques, architects throughout history have invested their creative energies to design... -
The Pattern in the Web: Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by The Kent State University Press 9780873384124
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be... -
Reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: Glossary and Commentary by Michael Kim Roos 9781606353769
Booksplease Price: £37.87In this comprehensive guide, Lewis and Roos reveal how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway's personal experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive... -
At the Forefront of Lee's Invasion: Retribution, Plunder, and Clashing Cultures on Richard S. Ewell's Road to Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra 9781606353547
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £33.60After clearing Virginia's Shenandoah Valley of Federal troops, Gen. Robert E. Lee's bold invasion into the North reached the Maryland shore of the Potomac River on June 15, 1863. A week later, the... -
Brainwashing: A Study in Cold War Demonology by 9780873388139
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.70An examination of the literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era. The term ""brainwashing"" coined during the Korean War, was popularised by a CIA operative who... -
Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman by 9780873389013
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally... -
In the Wake of the Butcher: Clevelands's Torso Murders by James Jessen Badal 9781606352137
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders-the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment... -
Ohio's Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio and Erie Canal by 9780873389846
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.43This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water - the Ohio River and Lake Erie - Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused... -
Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World by Kevin Maier 9781606353189
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and animals; Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Spain's countryside, East Africa's game reserves, Cuba's blue water, and Idaho's sage-... -
Local Fauna by Brian Brodeur 9781606352373
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.61"Local Fauna opens with a meta-poem about Jack Spicer, and I couldn't help but think of his 'dictated' poetry, poetry as vessel, poetry getting down what needs to be said. Brian Brodeur's poems have... -
Letters to Lalage: Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims by 9780873383981
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873383981Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint Kent State University... -
War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion by Thomas R. Flagel 9781606354704
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29-July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town... -
Classic Reds: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History by Joe Heffron 9781606353134
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.95Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make... -
Civil War Prisons by William Best Hesseltine 9780873381291
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58First published in 1962 as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic. Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern... -
A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction by 9780873388276
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence... -
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler by Robert Sberna 9781606351864
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland's East SideTo his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who... -
Whole Oceans Away: Melville and the Pacific by 9780873388931
Booksplease Price: £60.72Herman Melville had a lifelong fascination with the Pacific and with the diverse island cultures that dotted this vast ocean. The essays in this collection articulate the intersection of Western and... -
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael P. Gray 9781606352663
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.20One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, and the Union prison at... -
The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850 by Daniel P. Barr 9781606351093
Booksplease Price: £44.97New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by...