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Nebraska Isolation and Quarantine Manual by University of Nebraska Press
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989353731Author Theodore J. CieslakFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Impr -
Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht by David Raub Snyder
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76In 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... -
Not Under Forty by Willa Cather
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10For Willa Cather, "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she... -
Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines by Thomas Boyd
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.58Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix... -
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes by Bernard Lazare
Booksplease Price: €18.90Bernard Lazare's controversial magnum opus, originally published in France in 1894, asks why the Jews have aroused such hatred for three thousand years. The journalist, though severed from his Jewish... -
The Island of the Anishnaabeg: Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Traditional Ojibwe Life-World by Theresa S. Smith
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76In 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... -
The Troll Garden: Short Stories by Willa Cather
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.58This collection of Willa Cather stories-her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career-is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually... -
The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €24.14Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending... -
Daughters of Eve: Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic by Dorothy Rosenberg
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.02This 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... -
Fascism and Communism by Francois Furet
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27In 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... -
Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, Third Edition by Alexander J. De Grand
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €24.14On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the... -
Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War by Christopher S. DeRosa
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €19.76After drilling troops during the American Revolution, Baron Friedrich von Steuben reportedly noted that although one could tell a Prussian what to do and expect him to do it, one had to tell an... -
Yoruba Trickster Tales by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €24.14Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster... -
Germany's Colonial Pasts by Eric Ames
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume... -
Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre by Zeese Papanikolas
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.12Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and state militia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant... -
Lighthouse at the End of the World: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne 9780803260078
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.31At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their vessels smash on the dark rocks. Now that civilization... -
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9780803259225
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.82First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist... -
Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy by William James 9780803275874
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.89With the clarity that James deemed obligatory, Some Problems of Philosophy outlines his theory of perception. The early chapters expose the defects of intellectualism and monism and the advantages of... -
Opera and Drama by Richard Wagner 9780803297654
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.12With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical... -
No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn by Alina Bacall-Zwirn 9780803261785
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.58"You know, a lot of people like to talk about it, and I'm always pushing, pushing away, you know, I'm always pushing. I hate to remember, I hate to talk about it." But in the wake of her husband's... -
To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers by Chris Gainor 9780803245211
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €19.76"Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read."-Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada"As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many... -
Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West by Daryl Farmer 9780803243606
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.32On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy... -
Symbolizing America by Herve Varenne 9780803296039
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27Anthropologists since Franz Boas and Margaret Mead have traditionally gone off to study "primitive" cultures. This collection of original essays breaks new ground in showing how anthropological... -
Violations: Stories of Love by Latin American Women by Psiche Hughes 9780803273474
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything-in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To women... -
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management by Charles R. Menzies 9780803283190
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities. Of special interest is the... -
Between Panic and Desire by Dinty W. Moore 9780803229822
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.58"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books-and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania,... -
Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 by Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham 9780803264670
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.58Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the... -
Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation by Douglas M. George-Kanentiio 9780803217768
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.17In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate as residents of the region seek ways to resolve multibillion-dollar land claims. The... -
An Assumption of Sovereignty: Social and Political Transformation among the Florida Seminoles, 1953-1979 by Harry A. Kersey 9780803222496
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76In the early 1950s the very existence of the Florida Seminoles was in jeopardy. Mired in poverty, poorly educated, underemployed, and without a tribal government, they also faced the possibility that... -
John Rollin Ridge: His Life and Works by James W. Parins 9780803287808
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €18.82John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made things happen, and Joaquin Murieta,... -
![Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography by Pamela R. Stern 9780803243033 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4966262/4965480/9780803243033__36225.1722628364.jpg?c=1 "Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography by Pamela R. Stern 9780803243033 [USED COPY]")
Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography by Pamela R. Stern 9780803243033 [USED COPY]
RRP: €62.40Booksplease Price: €6.24Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has been done in the Native communities of circumpolar North America. Critical Inuit Studies offers an... -
![West Virginia Politics and Government by Richard A. Brisbin 9780803212718 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031350/5030566/9780803212718__19281.1722858548.jpg?c=1 "West Virginia Politics and Government by Richard A. Brisbin 9780803212718 [USED COPY]")
West Virginia Politics and Government by Richard A. Brisbin 9780803212718 [USED COPY]
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €1.50With one of the weakest economies in the nation and a college attendance level lowest among the states, West Virginia has recently concentrated resources on combating its isolation from eastern... -
![Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands by John Price 9780803237070 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031355/5030571/9780803237070__19866.1722858552.jpg?c=1 "Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands by John Price 9780803237070 [USED COPY]")
Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands by John Price 9780803237070 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €1.50Though he'd lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price - until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his... -
![Macadam Dreams by Gisele Pineau 9780803237308 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031356/5030572/9780803237308__95092.1722858553.jpg?c=1 "Macadam Dreams by Gisele Pineau 9780803237308 [USED COPY]")
Macadam Dreams by Gisele Pineau 9780803237308 [USED COPY]
RRP: €54.00Booksplease Price: €1.50A cyclone inexorably sweeps Eliette into her past in this novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe. In "Macadam Dreams", the celebrated creoliste writer Gisele Pineau... -
![In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler by Floyd K. Grave 9780803221284 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031371/5030587/9780803221284__79146.1722858566.jpg?c=1 "In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler by Floyd K. Grave 9780803221284 [USED COPY]")
In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler by Floyd K. Grave 9780803221284 [USED COPY]
RRP: €64.80Booksplease Price: €1.50In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.Reviews"The breadth of this study is presented through an engaging writing style, technical when... -
![Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed by Mimi Schwartz 9780803242944 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031386/5030602/9780803242944__18385.1722858579.jpg?c=1 "Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed by Mimi Schwartz 9780803242944 [USED COPY]")
Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed by Mimi Schwartz 9780803242944 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €1.50'This is aimed at anyone interested in a thoughtful, humorous, poignant and honest look at love and marriage and family. Since not one of us can lay claim truly to being a specialist in this field -... -
![Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot 9780803244504 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5032048/5031264/9780803244504__19591.1722859165.jpg?c=1 "Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot 9780803244504 [USED COPY]")
Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot 9780803244504 [USED COPY]
RRP: €43.20Booksplease Price: €1.50Their father's favourite saying, between drinks and blows, was, "Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death." And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken... -
![Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History by Steven L. Rubenstein 9780803239296 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5049452/5048642/9780803239296__11594.1722944977.jpg?c=1 "Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History by Steven L. Rubenstein 9780803239296 [USED COPY]")
Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History by Steven L. Rubenstein 9780803239296 [USED COPY]
RRP: €75.60Booksplease Price: €1.50In the heavily forested foothills of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, a Shuar healer named Alejandro Tsakimp leads many lives. He is a peasant who sells cattle and lumber, a troubled member of the... -
![Five Shades of Shadow by Tracy Daugherty 9780803217232 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5080182/5079361/9780803217232__93851.1723049538.jpg?c=1 "Five Shades of Shadow by Tracy Daugherty 9780803217232 [USED COPY]")
Five Shades of Shadow by Tracy Daugherty 9780803217232 [USED COPY]
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €1.50This book is the winner of the 2002 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. When work took Tracy Daugherty from his family's roots in Oklahoma to the unfamiliar landscape of Oregon, his move mirrored... -
![Standing up to the Rock by T. Louise Freeman-Toole 9780803269101 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5080537/5079716/9780803269101__03025.1723049863.jpg?c=1 "Standing up to the Rock by T. Louise Freeman-Toole 9780803269101 [USED COPY]")
Standing up to the Rock by T. Louise Freeman-Toole 9780803269101 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €1.50There is a ranch that runs for several miles along the last free-flowing stretch of the Snake River. A beautiful but harsh environment, hellishly hot in the summer and cut off from the outside world...