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In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead...

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One of the most influential studies ever written in the field of development economics, this book has, since first publication in 1957, bred a whole school of followers who are producing further works along the lines indicated by Baran. Concerned with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639230969Author Cyril P BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. It represents a milestone for knowledge of how and why volunteers become involved and will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and...

The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds,...

The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312559946Author Ingrid E NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it...

Rising concerns about the security of our data have made quantum cryptography a very active research field in recent years. Quantum cryptographic protocols promise everlasting security by exploiting distinctive quantum properties of nature. The most...

Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award. Despite its dramatic proliferation and diversification in recent decades, supervisory forms of punishment in the community (like probation, parole and unpaid work) have been largely invisible in scholarly and public...

We live in a world of both profound separation and deep longing for connection. Betz and Kimsey-House explore not only the historical and spiritual history of our disconnection and its cost to individual and societal well-being, but also provide a...

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and...

This title was first published in 2002: Christine de Pizan held no political office and her work was not influencial on any political theorist living today. However, in the disciplines of women's studies and French literature she has inspired...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639234844Author Robert RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

"I'm in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kids-and ourselves."-Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, author of Raising Good HumansParenting is hard. But when we...

"Even though depression has periodically made me feel that my life was not worth living, has created havoc in my family, and sometimes made the work of teaching and writing seem impossible," writes David Karp, "by some standards, I have been fortunate."...

On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her personal journey as a male-to-female cross-dresser in the ever-changing world of gender politics. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553352665Author Sherry Ruth AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House...

The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474326949Author Jean-Pierre DupuyFormat PaperbackImprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781393796Author Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt CasanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 1166Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction...

Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the 'digital divide' - the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without - has persisted for close to twenty-five years.In this textbook, Jan van...

Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743254236Author Director Gerd GigerenzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Ethical leadership does not simply emerge from a code of conduct, a good school, or a host of good intentions. It is an individual choice, or rather a series of choices that emerges from the complex interaction of personal values with social imperatives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061934780Author Ben ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Homes are powerfully defined by smells, sounds, textures and objects, all of which reflect how people live their everyday lives. From spray-painting the toilet wall to relaxing in the bath, the products we use speak volumes about who we are, how we...

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982152796Author Cleo WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm *...

Public, Private, Secret explores the roles that photography and video play in the crafting of identity, and the reconfiguration of social conventions that define our public and private selves. Consciously framed by our present era, this collection of...

The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History...

Traces the history of the use of hallucinogenic drugs and discusses the psychological and physical effects of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and other drugs.Book InformationISBN 9780914171515Author Peter StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Ronin...

Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand...

The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical...

First published 1999, Howard Irving details Croch's lecturing career and examines the influences of figures such a Charles Burney and Sir Joshua Reynolds on his approach to the ancient-modern debate. Irving also makes available for the first time in a...

In The Mountain People, Colin M. Turnbull describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to scattered bands of hostile, starving people whose only goal is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596050655Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? Which theory of punishment is most compelling? Is the death penalty ever justified? These questions and many more are examined in this highly...