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Nebraska Isolation and Quarantine Manual by University of Nebraska Press
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989353731Author Theodore J. CieslakFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Nebraska... -
Voices of Nebraska: Diverse Landscapes, Diverse Peoples by University of Nebraska Press 9781496200679
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.31The University of Nebraska Press has been publishing prestigious and award-winning literature for seventy-five years, but this contest is a first for the Press. In celebration of its seventy-fifth... -
April Twilights by Willa Cather
Booksplease Price: $88.57Before she wrote her prose masterpieces, Willa Cather produced striking poems, which were collected in 1903 in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by... -
The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 by Rani-Henrik Andersson
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.20A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across... -
The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English by David Herman
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79From Chaucer's Pardoner to Eliot's Edward Casaubon, from Behn's Oroonoko to Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway-the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memories, attitudes, and emotions of such characters... -
The Martyrs of Cordoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion by Jessica A. Coope
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $65.62Between 850 and 859 (Christian Era), the Muslim government of Cordoba ordered the execution of forty-eight Christians. With few exceptions, these Christians invited execution by committing capital... -
Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht by David Raub Snyder
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder... -
Empowerment of North American Indian Girls: Ritual Expressions at Puberty by Carol A. Markstrom
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development... -
Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World by Susan Sleeper-Smith
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $58.58Lucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Rethinking the Fur Trade offers a nuanced... -
Remaking American Communities: A Reference Guide to Urban Sprawl by David C. Soule
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $47.35Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and... -
The Youngest Doll by Jean Franco
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. "The Youngest Doll," based on a family anecdote, is a... -
American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006 by Roberta Ulrich
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79When the U.S. government ended its relationship with dozens of Native American tribes and bands between 1953 and 1966, it was in fact engaging in a massive social experiment. Congress enacted the... -
Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising by Joanna Hearne
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Smoke Signals is a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written,... -
The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations by Rondall R. Rice
Booksplease Price: $49.53The Politics of Air Power examines the turbulent development of relations between U.S. Army aviation leaders and civilian officials during the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 1920s Brigadier General... -
Contrapunctus by De'Beldomandi Prosdocimo
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81In the Contrapunctus (1412) Prosdocimo surveys the practice of counterpoint and musica ficta, codifying each in six rules. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who were satisfied merely to state their... -
![Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing by Efraim Sicher](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/191379/191097/9780803245037__94767.1686816767.jpg?c=1 "Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing by Efraim Sicher")
Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing by Efraim Sicher
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $72.31In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation-the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial... -
Awaiting Oblivion by John Gregg
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23"Another of Blanchot's almost-fictions ...throwing into deliciously baffling high relief the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what... -
Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service by Ethan Carr
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.82Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger... -
In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army by Edward J. Drea
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.23Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 continues to be a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. Most published accounts rely... -
Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade by Carolyn Podruchny
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public... -
Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07We first meet Jason Auster when he climbs out of a stagecoach in a New England maritime town and, as it were, salutes destiny. A twenty-year-old house carpenter who has come adventuring, Jason hopes... -
Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes by Patricia Heberer
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day perpetrators. What... -
A Choctaw Reference Grammar by George Aaron Broadwell
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.70This book is the most comprehensive reference grammar of Choctaw, an American Indian language spoken by approximately eleven thousand people located primarily in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Based on... -
Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $115.91In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a... -
The Island of the Anishnaabeg: Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World by Theresa S. Smith
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12In this study, Theresa S. Smith explores the lived experience of the contemporary Ojibwes (or Anishnaabeg) amid the remarkable revival of both belief in and practice of the Ojibwe religion. Scholars... -
Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 by William F. Sater
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.95The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated... -
The Human Family: Stories by Lou Andreas-Salome
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.51The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of... -
Daughters of Eve: Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic by Dorothy Rosenberg
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an... -
Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction by Hilary P. Dannenberg
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.20In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most... -
Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952 by Stephen A. Toth
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of... -
Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology by Terry A. Barnhart
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of... -
Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic by Harry S. Laver
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $70.98Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the... -
A Pluralistic Universe by William James
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07In his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. Ever since Socrates and... -
The Mirror of Language: A Study of the Medieval Theory of Knowledge by Marcia L. Colish
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one... -
Fascism and Communism by Francois Furet
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44In his major work on communism, the international bestseller The Passing of an Illusion, the eminent French historian Francois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte's... -
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Volume 50: Motivational Factors in the Etiology of Drug Abuse by Nebraska Symposium
Booksplease Price: $91.63This volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, the longest continuously running symposium in the field of psychology. The motivational processes involved in drug... -
Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush by Richard T. Stillson
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Spreading the Word examines the ways in which easterners who traveled West during the California gold rush of 1849-51 obtained, assessed, and used information. At the beginning of the gold rush the... -
Caddo Verb Morphology by Lynette R. Melnar
Booksplease Price: $48.69At the time of European contact with Native communities, the Caddos (who call themselves the Hasinai) were accomplished traders living in the southern plains. Their communities occupied parts of... -
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.23Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial... -
Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico by Will Fowler
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Behind every pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a disgruntled individual, rebel, or pronunciado. Initially a role...