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More Money than God by Richard Michelson
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.01How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both... -
Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928 by Igal Halfin
RRP: $111.20Booksplease Price: $103.76Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining... -
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy by Galina Rylkova
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly... -
Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the limits of Efficiency by Jon Wlasiuk
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $80.07The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company's... -
Casualty Reports: Poems by Martha Collins
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $31.16Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins's eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book... -
Red Atom: Russias Nuclear Power Program From Stalin To Today by Paul R. Josephson
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nuclear engines would power cars, ships, and airplanes,... -
Iconoscope: New and Selected Poems by Peter Oresick
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $32.66Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work-known for working... -
Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941 by James E. Casteel
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 87 by David H. Aaron
RRP: $89.25Booksplease Price: $87.19The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history... -
Late Empire by David Wojahn
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.51This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects... -
The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present by Martin V. Melosi
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and... -
Between Snow and Desert Heat: Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970 by Rina R. Lapidus
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $52.06Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. These influences have... -
Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject by Thomas J. Rickert
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31Why are today's students not realizing their potential as critical thinkers? Although educators have, for two decades, incorporated contemporary cultural studies into the teaching of composition and... -
Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World by Catherine Prendergast
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $80.07English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to... -
Aqui and Alla: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance by Camilla Stevens
Booksplease Price: $91.73Aqui and Alla: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational... -
Dirt She Ate, The: Selected And New Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt 9780822958260
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $31.90Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the southern United States as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the... -
Breaking The Backcountry: Seven Years War In Virginia And Pennsylvania 1754-1765 by Matthew C. Ward 9780822958659
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.96Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a... -
The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe by Adam Kozuchowski 9780822962656
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was just one link in a chain of events leading to World War I and the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. By 1918, after nearly four hundred... -
The Responsible Scientist: A Philosophical Inquiry by John Forge 9780822943495
Booksplease Price: $100.19When Fat Boy, the first atomic bomb was detonated at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945, moral responsibility in science was forever thrust into the forefront of philosophical debate. The culmination of... -
Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930 by Adriana J. Bergero 9780822959854
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $120.25In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity. ""Intersecting Tango"" engages... -
Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 by Gleb Tsipursky 9780822963967
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing... -
Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan by Botakoz Kassymbekova 9780822964193
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova... -
Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman 9780822948063
Booksplease Price: $99.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948063Author Marcelo HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Pittsburgh... -
Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy by Robert Connors 9780822956303
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today’s practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he... -
Bound Lives: Afircans, Indians and the Making of Race in Peru by Rachel Sarah O'Toole 9780822961932
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah OAEToole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the... -
Sports Culture in Latin American History by David M. K. Sheinin 9780822963370
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and... -
Now, The: Poems by Albert Goldbarth 9780822965930
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.19The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake news, multiple personalities, data economy, gene... -
After the Fall: Poems Old and New by Edward Field 9780822959809
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $34.63After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter--the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America--as well as his own personal struggles... -
The Ceremonies Of Longing by Sandra Kohler 9780822958307
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84In a poetic voice that is at once reflective and lively, Sandra Kohler explores the patterns of everyday life and the inner drama of imagination. Though these poems are mostly set amidst the... -
Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class by Kenneth Straus 9780822985846
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72Kenneth Straus weaves together many threads in Russian social history to develop a new theory of working-class formation in the years of Stalin’s First Five Year Plan. In so doing, he addresses a... -
The Social Documentary in Latin America by Julianne Burton 9780822954194
RRP: $111.20Booksplease Price: $106.83Twenty essays by major filmmakers and critics provide the first survey of the evolution of documentary film in Latin America. While acknowledging the political and historical weight of the... -
Cuba under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934 by Louis Perez, Jr. 9780822954460
RRP: $111.20Booksplease Price: $103.76* Choice 1987 Outstanding Academic BookThis book examines the early years of the Cuban Republic, launched in 1902 after the war with Spain. Although no longer a colony, the country was still hobbled... -
Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902 by Louis A. Perez 9780822956877
RRP: $119.60Booksplease Price: $111.17Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inauguration of the new republic. But something had gone awry... -
Transforming New Orleans & Its Environs: Centuries Of Change by Craig Colten 9780822957409
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley-especially in New Orleans, the region’s largest metropolis-has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden... -
Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798 by Lee Soltow 9780822985211
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72Lee Soltow examines wealth and income in the United States during the Federal period, at a time when state constitutions were formed, national tax laws written, and policies for banking, credit, and... -
After Marx, Before Lenin: Marxism and Socialist Working-Class Parties in Europe, 1884-1914 by Gary P. Steenson 9780822985297
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72In this book, Gary P. Steenson offers new interpretations of the history and nature of socialist movements in Germany, France, Austria, and Italy, from after Karl Marx's death until World War I... -
Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy by Richard K. Herrmann 9780822985648
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31This book discerns Soviet leaders' views of the United States and sees them in relation to foreign policy statements and actions. Hermann first examines the subtle problem of analyzing perceptions... -
U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine, The: The Community Health Center Program, 1965–1986 by Alice Sardell 9780822958031
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31This book represents the first political history of the federal government's only experiment in social medicine. Alice Sardell examines the Neighborhood, or Community Health Center Program (NHC/CHC)... -
To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry by Frank Fonda Taylor 9780822958239
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $88.31In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden “white man’s graveyard” to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and... -
Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II by Katherine Jolluck 9780822959502
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $96.35Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on the experiences of women, Katherine R. Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of thousands of civilians deported to the USSR following the...