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From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems by Peter Everwine
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.15For nearly five decades, readers have been enthralled and enchanted by Peter Everwine's calmly dazzling poems. He's never been a writer clearly aligned with any single school or style, yet... -
Falling Hour, The by David Wojahn
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.44The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series... -
Contracted World, The: New & More Selected Poems by Peter Meinke
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.64The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up in America, love, nature, cities, sports, war,... -
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship by Celso Thomas Castilho
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco... -
Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment by Martin V. Melosi
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the... -
Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-74 (Pitt Latin American Series) by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Booksplease Price: £41.64In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Though the Spanish government has passed a law for gradual abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung... -
Scald by Denise Duhamel
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.64When her "smart" phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her... -
Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America by Horacio Legras
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences... -
Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Matthew Wale
Booksplease Price: £51.74Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents regardless of their background, they posed a... -
Hebrew Union College Annual Volumes 84-85 by Edward A. Goldman
RRP: £38.50Booksplease Price: £37.83Hebrew 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. From its inception... -
Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater by Lynne Conner
Booksplease Price: £38.55Pittsburgh has a rich and diverse theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century... -
I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Robert L. Smale
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05On June 4, 1923, the Bolivian military turned a machine gun on striking miners in the northern Potosí town of Uncía. The incident is remembered as BoliviaAEs first massacre of industrial workers. ... -
Negotiated Landscape, A: The Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront since 1950 by Jasper Rubin
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now... -
Alexander The Great by J.R. Hamilton 9780822960843
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.89In taking account of recent research and in reassesing the markedly contradictory contemporary sources, J.R. Hamilton present a far less attractive but no less compelling portrait of Alexander than... -
The Rock That is Not a Rabbit: Poems by Corey Marks 9780822967156
Booksplease Price: £17.14Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift “billowing, unattached,” and language yields a broken music. A statue of... -
Elegy by Larry Levis 9780822956488
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.51A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier... -
Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America's Final Frontier by Catherine L. Newell 9780822945567
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £34.63Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944... -
The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil by Jens Andermann 9780822959724
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. As Jens Andermann reveals, the... -
Yugoslavia: Oblique Insights and Observations by Dennison Ivan Rusinow 9780822960102
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Defying Stalin and his brand of communism, Tito's Yugoslavia developed a unique kind of socialism that combined one-party rule with an economic system of workers' self-management that aroused intense... -
Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930 by Marjorie L. Hilton 9780822961673
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Marjorie L. Hilton presents a captivating history of consumer culture in Russia from the 1880s to the early 1930s. She highlights the critical role of consumerism as a vehicle for shaping class and... -
Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship and Mass Consumption by Eduardo Elena 9780822961703
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American countries witnessed unprecedented struggles over the terms of national sovereignty, civic participation, and social justice. Nowhere was this more... -
Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945 by Michael David-Fox 9780822962076
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans... -
Books are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism by Siobahn Doucette 9780822965022
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first... -
Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing Before Digital Technology by Alex Mueller 9780822947837
Booksplease Price: £51.74Writing has always been digital. Just as digits scribble with the quill or tap the typewriter, digits compose binary code and produce text on a screen. Over time, however, digital writing has come to... -
Pastoral and Monumental: Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape by Donald C. Jackson 9780822944263
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £37.35In Pastoral and Monumental, Donald C. Jackson chronicles America's longtime fascination with dams as represented on picture postcards from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Through... -
London: Water and the Making of the Modern City by John Broich 9780822944270
Booksplease Price: £47.71As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues... -
An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1824-1914 (Pitt Latin American Series) by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago 9780822957003
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case... -
Braddock At The Monongahela by Paul Kopperman 9780822958192
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £21.63On July 9, 1755, an army of British and American soldiers commanded by Major General Edward Braddock marched toward a major western outpost held by the French, confident of an easy victory. Suddenly,... -
Language Of Experience: Literate Practices And Social Change by Gwen Gorzelsky 9780822958741
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05The Language of Experience examines the relationship between literacy and change--both personal and social. Gorzelsky studies three cases, two historical and one contemporary, that speak to key... -
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles by William Deverell 9780822959397
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.88Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this... -
Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean by Kevin Adonis Browne 9780822962595
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of... -
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence by Joseph A. Pratt 9780822962663
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of... -
Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 by Edward Paulino 9780822963790
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58The island of Hispaniola is split by a border that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This border has been historically contested and largely porous. Dividing Hispaniola is a study of... -
Widening Spell of the Leaves, The by Larry Levis 9780822954545
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.09The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis's... -
Spring Training by William Zinsser 9780822958246
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.63Spring training, a time when every team is in first place, is an American tradition dating back to the early years of the twentieth century. William Zinsser vividly brings to life the unique,... -
About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up by Roy Blount, Jr. 9780822958345
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.14Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an... -
Mad River by Jan Beatty 9780822955702
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.99Winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Winner of the 2000 Creative Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust "In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent,... -
In Parachutes Descending: Poems by Tana Jean Welch 9780822967200
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.43A new collection of Poetry from Tana Jean WelchBook InformationISBN 9780822967200Author Tana Jean WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of... -
Ruby for Grief by Michael Burkard 9780822953333
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.75The work of Michael Burkard has a rich interior quality different from that of any other voice in American poetry. He captures a sense of the mind revising and revealing itself, altering its... -
The Andrew Carnegie Reader by Joseph Frazier Wall 9780822954644
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £31.14Andrew Carnegie is the only American entrepreneur who could have won distinction as an author, even if he had never seen a steel mill," writes Joseph Frazier Wall. A skillful and prolific writer,...