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Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth by Bruce Jennings
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.82As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy,... -
The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life by Lee Maynard
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.06Real people don't run away from. . .But real people can run away to. . . In 1936, a child is born in the mountains of West Virginia. In 2005, he scatters his past into a deep canyon of rock. The Pale... -
Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley by Jamie S. Ross 9781935978404
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.21The Cacapon and Lost Rivers are located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia's eastern panhandle. Well loved by paddlers and anglers, these American Heritage Rivers are surrounded by a lush... -
An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation 1865-1955 by Dawne Raines Burke 9781940425771
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.64In the first book-length study of Storer College, Dawne Raines Burke tells the story of the historically black institution from its Reconstruction origins to its demise in 1955. Established by... -
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh 9781943665334
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The... -
Cass Gilbert's West Virginia State Capitol by Ann Wilkins 9781938228469
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $72.77At the turn of the twentieth century, West Virginia was in the throes of its formative years as a state. After more than two decades of alternating its government seat between Wheeling and Charleston... -
Spring Wildflowers of West Virginia by Earl L. Core 9780937058954
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.88Back in print just in time for spring! Originally published in 1948, this is the germinal text on nearly 250 species of spring wildflowers found in West Virginia. Common or English names and... -
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology by George Constantz 9780937058862
Booksplease Price: $35.60In this revised and expanded edition of Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders, author George Constantz, a biologist and naturalist, writes about the beauty and nature of the Appalachian landscape. While... -
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw by Zilpha Elaw 9781952271267
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952271267Author Zilpha ElawFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Heliand: Text and Commentary by James E. Cathey 9780937058640
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08James E. Cathey's Heliand: Text and Commentary is a simply unique, wonderfully encompassing, and helpful text, and nothing quite like it exists anywhere in the world. The commentary portion of the... -
Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism by Jeff Maskovsky 9781949199468
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Across the world, politics is lurching to the right, ethnic nationalism is on the rise, and people are furious. Beyond Populism critically examines the new destructive projects of resentment that... -
A Room of Rain by Gary Fincke 9781940425207
Booksplease Price: $30.11The narratives throughout Gary Fincke's sixth collection of short stories contain newsworthy events that are chronicled secondhand: the shooting of a policeman, the murder of a house flipper, the... -
On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy by Imre Szeman 9781946684882
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82On Petrocultures brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of energy humanities and a critical voice in debates about globalization and neoliberalism. Szeman's most... -
Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination: An Overview of Attitude Research by Kenneth O. St.Louis 9781940425368
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $151.94More than a century of research has sought to identify the causes of stuttering, describe its nature, and enhance its clinical treatment. By contrast, studies directly focused upon public and... -
East Africa: An Introductory History by Robert M. Maxon 9781933202464
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25In this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa, including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With revised... -
Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers by Sharon M. Harris 9781949199185
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $40.072018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleRebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story ""Life in the Iron-Mills,"" set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia. Far less is known of her... -
Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty by James M. Lang
Booksplease Price: $188.96Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through... -
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin M. Gannon
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.92Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the precarious nature of employment in colleague teaching, and political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have made for an... -
Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University Since World War II by Ronald L. Lewis
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $31.79Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II chronicles the emergence of WVU as a major land-grant institution. As a continuation of the work of Doherty and Summers in West... -
Cannel Coal Oil Days: A Novel by Theophile Maher
Booksplease Price: $55.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952271120Author Theophile MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Marcus Wood 9781949199024
Booksplease Price: $219.20The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants-Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early... -
Roll Out the Carpet: 101 Seasons of West Virginia University Basketball by John Antonik 9781933202662
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.22Roll out the Carpet is the story of West Virginia University basketball. This comprehensive history chronicles over one hundred seasons of the game, from the early years of the Tri-State and Eastern... -
Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post 9781940425405
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.10First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in... -
Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context by Joyce Tally Lionarons 9780937058831
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $66.72In Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context, editor Joyce Tally Lionarons has developed a multifaceted collection examining the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings... -
Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook by Eileen A. Joy 9781933202082
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.46This work includes twenty-four essays including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as... -
The Rope Swing: Stories by Jonathan Corcoran 9781943665112
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80A once-booming West Virginia rail town no longer has a working train. The residents left behind in this tiny hamlet look to the mountains that surround them on all sides: The outside world... -
The Amazing Mr. Morality: Stories by Jacob M. Appel 9781946684042
Booksplease Price: $30.16The Amazing Mr. Morality features tenacious men and women whose determination to buck middle-class social convention draws them toward unforeseen challenges. A failed television producer insists upon... -
Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shore by Louise McNeill 9781933202372
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $27.11With a new introduction by A.E. Stringer, this reprint of Louise McNeill's classic work remains as vivid as when it was first published. Containing poems from several decades of her career, Paradox... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation by Larry D. Benson 9781933202891
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.63Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain... -
Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia by Carter Taylor Seaton 9781938228902
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.92It's the 1960s. The Vietnam War is raging and protests are erupting across the United States. In many quarters, young people are dropping out of society, leaving their urban homes behind in an... -
Smell and History: A Reader by Mark M. Smith 9781946684677
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.03Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith-one of the leading social... -
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin 9781946684592
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.90Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities have worked hard to make universal design in the built environment "just part of what we do." We no longer see curb cuts, for instance, as... -
Hell's Not Far Off: Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left by Josh Howard 9781959000105
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959000105Author Josh HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Beyond The Good Earth: Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck by Jay Cole 9781946684752
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59How well do we really know Pearl S. Buck? Many think of Buck solely as the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good Earth, the novel that explained China to Americans in the 1930s... -
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Joe William Trotter 9781959000129
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959000129Author Joe William TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Impr -
Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture by Catherine E. Karkov 9780937058794
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.78Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture significantly advances the complex study of Anglo-Saxon carved monuments, such as the Ruthwell Cross, by adopting more explicit theoretical approaches to the... -
The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge by James A. Tyner
Booksplease Price: $190.83Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization,... -
Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to be Effective Teachers by Jessamyn Neuhaus
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. It is the first... -
Governing the Wind Energy Commons: Renewable Energy and Community Development by Keith Taylor
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging "green economy" destined to upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and deliver... -
West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells by J. R. Dodge
Booksplease Price: $45.32West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells celebrates the state of West Virginia. Originally published in 1865 as a series of studies on mineral resources, observations on agriculture,...