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The primary purpose of this book is to introduce and question the persistent poverty that exists among African Americans in the United States. It will provide scholars and policy makers with the needed context to understand what constitutes poverty, and...

One of the joys of product development, whether it be software, service, or hardware, is getting it right. The way to get it right is to uncover the real business problem, and to write the requirements for the solution that best solves that problem...

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories such as sexuality, citizenship, and ableism? How does an inclusive analysis of domination and privilege move...

An introduction to Pakistan's ISI, which has been both an essential ally and problematic partner of the United States Forged during the tumultuous aftermath of Partition in 1947, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) has grown to become the...

Tried-and-tested approach for transforming unsustainable economies that are based on natural resource extraction to create long-term prosperity The process focuses on regional economies. Designing Sustainable Prosperity (DSP) is a step by step blueprint...

By the People will awaken Americans to the perils of our system by unveiling the Electoral College’s origins, history, and present operations. This book demonstrates that the system has no principled foundation, that it has changed dramatically over its...

All-new edition of the world's leading vertebrate palaeontology textbook, now addressing key evolutionary transitions and ecological drivers for vertebrate evolution Richly illustrated with cladograms of all major vertebrate taxa, Vertebrate...

Is this how democracy dies?Based on his smash hit podcast, The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse's brilliant exploration of the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in the US. It's a story that reaches back decades, showing how a dark...

Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century In an increasingly globalized world, a complex and interlocking web of nations, governments, non-state actors, laws, and rules...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394241002Author Alexandra von MeierFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Wiley-IEEE PressPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today’s 24/7 culture. If we were asked to name the social syndrome of our age under capitalism, it would no doubt be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949163230Author Joseph J. LoizzoFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

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How can we use code to capture the unpredictable properties of nature? How can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world help us create interesting digital environments? Written by 'The Coding Train' YouTube star Daniel...

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today’s 24/7 culture. If we were asked to name the social syndrome of our age under capitalism, it would no doubt be...

The North Caucasus, specifically Chechnya and Ingushetia is a region that has experienced some of the deadliest and most protracted conflicts in Europe. Chechnya is currently a totalitarian enclave within the increasingly authoritarian Russian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240229Author Richard BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an...

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499499Author Matthias FritschFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a...

Decoding conspiracy thinking at the nexus of sexuality, Freemasonry, and the occult. In this book, anthropologists Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere examine the moral panic over a perceived rise in homosexuality that engulfed Cameroon and Gabon beginning...

Civil-military relations in the Global South are both important and understudied. In practice, this leads to international programmes repeatedly, erroneously assuming that the only way to restore stability, development and peace in post-conflict and...

The exponential increase of the Internet of Things (IoTs) has revolutionized lives, but it has also resulted in massive resource consumption and environmental pollution. In conjunction with Green IoTs (GioTs), there is a parallel effort to create highly...

A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some...

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates the idea that the secular and the religious are distinct categories, and more specifically that human...

An examination of the transformation of the Democratic Party since the late 1960s Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to the center of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598052Author Charles LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon...

Medical Sciences is the leading integrated medical sciences textbook for medical students, and will become your go-to resource for understanding the basic science behind medicine. Packed with information across a wide range of topics, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039055971Author Christina SharpeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Knopf CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development...

A revolutionary, science-based look at the ways nature can improve our lives that will do for the natural world what Tim Spector’s Food for Life did for food. Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically...

Even as growing polarization and hyper-partisanship define society and politics at home, American leaders seem to agree on one thing: U.S. military dominance abroad is essential for national security and international stability. This is despite an...

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia when they inform performances of the boundaries between state and non-state. This book...

The growing chasm between rich and poor, within societies and between nations, has enormous implications not only for people’s well-being and life chances but for the prospects for democracy throughout the world. From the interpersonal to the societal...

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Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, over 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion, Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican State in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that...

The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-changing book reveals what really works, and how it can help you.Spurred into researching this topic...

Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and...