Book Sale
Books on sale are listed by subject. The number of books on sale per subject is indicated next to the subject line.
- Business and Economics 5
- Creative Non-fiction 1
- Ecology, Botany and Nature 3
- Environmental History 1
- European History 1
- European Literature 2
- Fiction 14
- Gender Studies 9
- History 23
- International History 5
- International Studies 2
- Latin American History 1
- Latin American Studies 2
- Literary Criticism 22
- Literary Studies 46
- Literature 38
Featured Titles On Sale
Decadent Style
In Decadent Style, John Reed defines “decadent art” broadly enough to encompass literature, music, and the visual arts and precisely enough to examine individual works in detail. Reed focuses on the essential characteristics of this style and distinguishes it from non–esthetic categories of “decadent artists” and “decadent themes.…
The Wild Earth’s Nobility
A Novel
By Frank Waters
The Wild Earth's Nobility is the first of Frank Waters's semiautobiographical novels in the Pikes Peak saga. Here, in a frontier town in the shadow of the commanding mountain, the Rogier family settles near an age-old route of migrating Native Americans.…
The Paradox of Progress
Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837–1878
Americans have long recognized the central importance of the nineteenth-century Republican party in preserving the Union, ending slavery, and opening the way for industrial capitalism. On the surface, the story seems straightforward—the party's "free labor" ethos, embracing the opportunity that free soil presented for social and economic mobility, and condemning the danger that slavery in the territories posed for that mobility, foreshadowed the GOP's later devotion to unfettered enterprise and industrial capitalism.…
The Dust Within the Rock
A Novel
By Frank Waters
Based on one of the most significant periods in Frank Waters's own life, Pike's Peak is perhaps the most complete expression of all the archetypal themes he explored in both fiction and nonfiction.…
