Pre Order

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism.“Question authority,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, playful in logic but...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective looking at...

Explore the dynamic world of carbon-based composites and nanocomposites, where innovation intersects with environmental consciousness. This expansive volume delves into the multifaceted role of carbon composites in combating pollution, from the...

One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature. This book takes a comprehensive approach to unraveling the...

Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derrida's seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material range of deconstruction and emphasise its under-recognised erotic nature. It activates psychoanalysis without...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486750768Author Johann SchmitzFormat HardbackPage Count 4Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751499Author Karl MuttersbachFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 236g

After the conclusion of the 36-year long civil war in Guatemala, a Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) was established in order to clarify human rights violations which took place. This organisation recommended a process of public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486750881Author Rud MichelFormat HardbackPage Count 8Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 422g

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential career counseling skills and apply them in a range of situations while honing their own personal style and language. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder-and how we can do better.An Australian multimillionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor.Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives...

This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services. Directly applicable in all EU Member States, MiCAR serves as a benchmark for future regulation...

About 80 years ago it was, for the first time, possible what modern science has told us throughout centuries – earth shows its sphericity on the basis of a curved earth horizon. The following age of space flights opened other opportunities. First, our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897334556Author Ytasha L WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Academy Chicago PublishersPublisher Academy Chicago Publishers

The pursuit of energy security and climate action is inextricably linked to the intricate web of geopolitical dynamics. This book offers a fresh perspective, masterfully weaving together the threads of energy, geopolitics, and sustainability to create a...

Fuzzy models have the capability of recognising, representing, and working with data that is vague or lacks certainty, making them suitable for managing electrical energy systems involving intermittent distributed generation and varying distributed loads...

This book expands, in a modest way, the discussion of hope and does so by focusing on a field where it is at the core of care-taking: medicine. The three great religious virtues of medieval theology were faith, hope, and love. An enormous literature...

This book presents research developments and novel methodologies on data-rate-constrained control and state estimation for complex networked systems with different kinds of encoding-decoding mechanisms.

Primer to Neuromorphic Computing highlights critical and ongoing research into the diverse applications of neuromorphic computing. It includes an overview of primary scientific concepts for the research topic of neuromorphic computing, such as neurons as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035011636Author Gina RipponFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MacmillanPublisher Pan Macmillan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509969838Author Christoph BezemekFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hart PublishingPublisher Hart PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he...

The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their...

This book comprehensively reviews clinical aspects and features of rheumatic and musculo-skeletal diseases in an integrated and easy to read format. It enables the reader to become confident in identifying common and unusual disease symptoms and be able...

This book uses doctrinal and theoretical analysis to explain the meaning and role of conscience and unconscionability in private law. It shows how they appear most prominently in the context of equitable obligations and primary equitable and common law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440879173Author Shaonta' AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745616506Author J WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity Press

There is no doubt that the current scrutiny and debate on the UK relationship with the European Union has seen the topic dominate the political landscape. Though the debate about withdrawal or renegotiation will be a primarily political and economic one,...

The original contribution is the focus on community groups in the governance of people receiving state benefits and services and the deep ethnographic work with both mothers and community workers.Book InformationISBN 9781447353645Author Helen...

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) war einer der prägenden Denker des „Deutschen Idealismus“. Sein Werk ist vielfältig innovativ und bis heute einflussreich: Etwa durch erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit für Natur und Kunst, die Grenzen und die...

A comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland, including developments since the implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. Mental health and incapacity law affect not just those subject to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350342989Author Alessandra AloisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

This book is an insightful, thought-provoking study of one of the world’s most important courts. There is no doubt that the European Court of Justice has had a transformative effect on EU Law, but not without controversy. This book explores these...

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. As a visibly different minoritised group, Black African youth are often represented as disengaged, dangerous, and undesirable. Even so, rarely are generative mechanisms that...

The first edition published in 2005 was the first practitioners' book to deal with how international law is, and can be, used in English courts in a wide range of fields, ranging from criminal law to family law to commercial law. This second edition...