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Law & Conditions of Freedom by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299013639
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299013639Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint University of... -
IMAGES of WOMEN in PEACE & WAR by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299117641
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299117641Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of... -
Robert M.La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299106447
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299106447Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of... -
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H.Bennett's Wisconsin Dells by Steven D. Hoelscher
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.62Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of... -
Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family by Joel Derfner
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.19When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a... -
Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life by Anne Herrmann
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. "Swissness"-even on its... -
The Phantom of Thomas Hardy by Floyd Skloot
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.73On a street in Dorchester, England, there is a gateway between real and imagined lives. A plaque on a Barclays Bank identifies the building as "lived in by the Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's... -
Stars in My Eyes by Don Bachardy
Booksplease Price: £17.50Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist... -
Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Wisconsin Progressive by David R. Obey
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the... -
It's All a Kind of Magic by Rick Dodgson
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.47Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was ""too young to be a beatnik... -
Field Guide to Wisconsin Grasses by Emmet J. Judziewicz
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.75Grasses are the foremost plant family of prairies, savannas, barrens, many agricultural landscapes, lawns, and successional habitats throughout Wisconsin, yet they are notoriously difficult to... -
Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir by Buena Carlson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19When Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderie, and resourcefulness. In the midst of the Great... -
As the Twig Is Bent, Volume 1: A Memoir by Wallace B Grange
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Wallace Byron Grange (1905-87) was an influential conservationist who worked alongside Aldo Leopold. Grange's story vividly describes his mostly idyllic childhood watching bird life in the once grand... -
Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days by Jack Zipes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65These deliberate transformations of traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, were written by political activists for use by progressive youth groups... -
Warmed by Windchill: A Tiny Colt's Fight for Life by Jeffrey L. Tucker
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58One bitterly cold winter afternoon, a nine-month-old colt-extremely weak, starving, left to die-was frozen to the rock-hard white landscape of a northern Wisconsin pasture. His whinny for help barely... -
Sex with Strangers by Michael Lowenthal
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.15A fiercely honest exploration of the risks and rewards of contemporary relationships-and hookups-Sex with Strangers embraces the dizzying power of attraction across the spectrum of passion and... -
To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion by Doris Andrea Dirks
Booksplease Price: £22.66In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies-including referral to licensed... -
Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881 by Lynn Ellen Patyk
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb... -
Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery by Sheramy D. Bundrick
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.19A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the... -
Place Names of Wisconsin by Edward Callary
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.73The colorful history and culture of Wisconsin are reflected in its place names, from those created by Native Americans, French explorers, and diverse European settlers to more recent appellations... -
Half by Sharon Harrigan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice-until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their own, they are reunited on the occasion of their... -
Aztalan: Northern Outpost of the Mississippian Indians by Robert A. Birmingham
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.17The mystery of Aztalan - Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were... -
Blood Aria by Christopher Nelson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.04In his powerful debut, Christopher Nelson examines the progenitors and forms of violence in the twenty-first century, from Cain and Abel to the damming of rivers. We see glimpses of the speaker's... -
Equality in the Nordic World by Carsten Jensen
Booksplease Price: £14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299334147Author Carsten JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
Practical Audacity: Black Women and International Human Rights by Stanlie M James
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299333744Author Stanlie M JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
Gloss by Rebecca Hazelton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.90The poems of Rebecca Hazelton's contemporary American fantasyland revel in the constructed realities of movie sets and marriage. Poems reveal the negotiations of power and performance behind closed... -
Songs of the Finnish Migration: A Bilingual Anthology by Thomas A. DuBois
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299327149Author Thomas A. DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
World Elsewhere: Place of Style in American Literature by Richard Poirier
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299099343Author Richard PoirierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year... -
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908 by Emilie Demant Hatt
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.09With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing... -
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White 9780299170745
Booksplease Price: £15.98When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging,... -
Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield by Dave Books 9780299294700
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.03Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag.In... -
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement by Hasan Kwame Jeffries 9780299321901
Booksplease Price: £29.62The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for instructors and students alike. Speaking to the... -
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis 9780299157142
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.AwardsWinner of Brittingham... -
My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kick-Ass by Julie Tarney 9780299310608
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.35When Julie Tarney's only child Harry was two years old, he told her, "Inside my head I'm a girl." It was 1992. The Internet was no help, because there was no Internet. And bookstores had no... -
Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan 9780299222147
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by... -
Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga by David Maxwell 9780299337506
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical... -
The Lost Archive by Lynn C. Miller 9780299342241
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The characters—young and old, queer and straight, contemporary and historical—who inhabit Lynn C. Miller’s stories often find themselves in defining moments and crisis situations. As they search... -
Global Russian Cultures by Kevin M.F. Platt 9780299319748
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic "home" of Russian... -
A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John H. Oakley 9780299327248
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has...