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The possibility of democracy-enhancing uses and anti-democratic abuses of referendums reveals a paradox: mechanisms of democracy can be exploited to do violence to the basic principles of democracy. The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums seeks to...

Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has become political, and it assumes a highly visible place in the public sphere and academic debate in fields...

A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It developed extremely rapidly in the 1930s and the 1940s, attracting millions of members. Severely...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual...

The gap between the abundance of American higher education talent and the immense foreign demand for it is the great chasm in global education. It is a gulf of lost opportunities. It is also a space of great economic potential. This book describes the...

This book explores what it has meant for India and Pakistan to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for themselves. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925860726Author Frances PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Redback PublishingPublisher Redback Publishing

This book provides the main results and ideas in the theories of completely bounded maps, operator spaces, and operator algebras, along with some of their main applications. It requires only a basic background in functional analysis to read through the...

Formula is our new three-level Cambridge English exampreparation series for teens and young adults. It works equally well for bothextensive and intensive courses and covers B1 Preliminary, B2 First, and C1Advanced levels. Using Pearson's...

Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and is behind a string of unforgettable award-winning hits including Chicken...

Judah Friedlander is the world champion, the greatest athlete in the world, a master of the martial arts, the only extra-dark blackbelt to ever exist. He's banned from China because he's too good at karate; that's why they built The Great Wall - to keep...

From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins,...

Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, Prepare to Board, 3rd edition presents the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886632668Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 14gDimensions(mm) 44mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834533Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to...

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of...

The word "wargames" might seem like a contradiction in terms. After all, the declaration "This is war" is meant to signal that things have turned deadly serious, that there is no more playing around. Yet the practices of war are intimately entangled with...

Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic-aliens, ghosts, vampires,...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified nothing. Four decades later, the significations are...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of merchandise covering everything from action figures...

What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739247805Author Rick BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGPublisher EASTERN HEROES PUBLISHINGWeight(grams)...

The official art book for the animated movie The Amazing Maurice, based on the Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett Maurice is a streetwise talking tomcat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683836865Author Ramin ZahedFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542966Author Nat SegaloffFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time. Author...

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.He now displays his unique wit and playful visual sense in an action-filled saga of Samurai dogs.Fantastic Mr Fox - but with dogs.About the AuthorWes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339825Author Brian AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493067855Author Charles DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and...

This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new developments since the first edition.These include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301326Author Jospeh SvehlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555460Author Jaime WeinmanFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913038977Author Sean HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Black Shuck BooksPublisher Black Shuck Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739615260Author Ricky BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Eastern HeroesPublisher Eastern HeroesWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221669Author Brooke VitaleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring...

Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of...