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The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism by Sarah Burns
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.58The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels... -
The Worst Tax?: A History Of The Property Tax In America (Studies In Government & Public Policy) by 9780700611201
Booksplease Price: £26.56Noted tax economist Frederick C. Stocker has observed that the property tax "resembles a structure designed by a mad architect, erected on a shaky foundation by an incompetent builder, and made worse... -
America in the Seventies by Beth Bailey
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look... -
Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans by Richard Ellis
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22Working from the fossil record, Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct or did they? He traces the... -
The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms by Louis Fisher 9780700616015
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.87The announced purpose of U.S. antiterrorist policies after 9/11 was to bring democracy and the rule of law to the Middle East. At home, those values were regularly threatened by illegal,... -
Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights by Tim Alan Garrison 9780700641383
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £29.68The story of the legal battle between the Cherokee Nation and the State of Georgia that ultimately led to the infamous Trail of Tears and the ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty.Sovereignty on... -
Field Guide to the Common Weeds of Kansas by T.M. Barkley 9780700602247
Booksplease Price: £25.21This handbook illustrates and describes the 200 kinds of common weeds found in Kansas along roadsides and in yards, gardens, and cultivated fields. Designed as a reference for the general reader with... -
Citizen Sherman: Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Michael Fellman 9780700608409
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.87Some men panic in the face of war, others embrace its horrific challenges. But none embraced war as ferociously or with as much cold calculation as William Tecumseh Sherman. It was Sherman who both... -
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway by 9780700613687
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.93Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part of the American political landscape, representing 11 million members, and with 3.5 billion... -
Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 by Robert M. Citino 9780700617913
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with... -
800 Days on the Eastern Front: A Russian Soldier Remembers World War II by Nikolai Litvin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.30During his 800 days of war, Nikolai Litvin fought at the front lines in the ferocious tank battles at Kursk, was wounded three times, and witnessed unspeakable brutalities against prisoners and... -
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet by Kenneth Conboy
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan... -
I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952 by John Robert Greene
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of... -
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity by Alexander B. Rossino 9780700613922
Booksplease Price: £33.25It was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare. Hitler's Polish campaign unleashed a blitzkrieg in which SS troops, police squads, and the army itself... -
Transforming the University of Kansas: A History, 1965-2015 by John L. Rury 9780700621187
Booksplease Price: £43.25Sitting atop Mount Oread, the University of Kansas stands as a monument to the determination of the state's earliest settlers to build for the future. As a "city on a hill," the university has also... -
Gulf Coast Soundings: People and Policy in the Mississippi Shrimp Industry by E.Paul Durrenberger 9780700607600
Booksplease Price: £24.14Scrutinising the people, policies, institutions and issue tied to the shrimping industry in Mississippi, this text presents an analysis of the system from the people who catch the shrimp to the... -
The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal by Stephen F. Knott
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump's latest tweet and old as the American republic,... -
A Guide to Bird Finding in Kansas and Western Missouri by J.I. Zimmerman 9780700603664
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700603664Author J.I. ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint -
Backyard Visionaries: Grassroots Art in the Midwest by Barbara Brackman 9780700609048
Booksplease Price: £62.43This analysis of grassroots art focuses on examples from environments in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Oklahoma. It looks at the work of artists such as Samuel P. Dinsmoor, Dave Wood and Ed... -
Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang by Ian W. Shaw 9780700635504
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead... -
Chaos in the Green Zone: My Time As an Iraq War Strategist Tom Mowle 9780700641314
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. With raw honesty and exhilarating detail, Tom Mowle shares how policy and strategy were built at a time... -
Churchill and His Generals by Raymond Callahan
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20On the eve of World War II, the British army was more an international police force than a true combat-ready fighting machine. Raymond Callahan chronicles its trial-by-fire transformation in a new... -
Conceptual Change and the Constitution by Terence Ball 9780700603695
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political... -
Nothing But the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town by Kate Benz 9780700633456
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.49In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on... -
Fishes of the Central United States by Joseph R. Tomelleri 9780700618163
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Featuring the artwork of nationally acclaimed fish illustrator Joseph Tomelleri, this greatly-expanded second edition bridges the gap between technical studies and popular field guides in a volume... -
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla by Albert Castel 9780700614349
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This book talks about the short, savage life of a civil war guerrilla. Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri - and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William... -
The First Elections: The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic by Jay K. Dow 9780700643882
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre-Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become... -
The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth by Earl J. Hess 9780700623839
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.07The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed,... -
Ratifying the Constitution by Michael Allen Gillespie 9780700605668
Booksplease Price: £41.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700605668Author Michael Allen GillespieFormat HardbackPage Count 418 -
Last Second in Dallas by Josiah Thompson
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.98In this long-awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously... -
The End of Indian Kansas: Study in Cultural Revolution, 1854-71 by H.Craig Miner 9780700604746
Booksplease Price: £23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700604746Author H.Craig MinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint -
In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann 9780700611225
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of... -
The Battle of Kursk by David M. Glantz 9780700613359
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses -... -
The Presidency of Andrew Johnson by Albert Castel 9780700601905
Booksplease Price: £48.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700601905Author Albert CastelFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint -
Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns by Robert S. Ehlers 9780700621446
Booksplease Price: £40.20When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany - totaling more than 1.4... -
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism by George Hawley 9780700625796
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the nation's demographics shift away from its core constituents-older white middle-class Christians. It is the American... -
Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils by 9780700617265
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.82What are the state's outstanding landforms, and where are they found? How were Kansas rocks and minerals formed? Why is Kansas world famous among fossil collectors? How does one 'read the rocks' to... -
Structuring Poverty in the Windy City: Autonomy, Virtue, and Isolation in Post-Fire Chicago by Joel E. Black 9780700628001
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £27.46The Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2,600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to the commercial... -
Armageddon in Stalingrad Volume 2 The Stalingrad Trilogy: September - November 1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz 9780700616640
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.72The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: ""Not a Step Back!"" The Soviets' resulting... -
Good Gossip by Robert F. Goodman 9780700606702
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12As ubiquitous and influential as gossip is, it has been surprisingly downplayed as a topic of philosophical, psychological, and sociological investigation and debate. In this book, twenty-two...