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Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity: Feminist and Postcolonial Interventions by Anwar Mhajne 9780197695890
$74.47Traditional notions of national security have generally dominated cybersecurity debates, but the response to emerging cybersecurity issues should not merely focus on the militarization of cyberspace. Weaponizing a space heavily populated by civilians has... -
Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor by Claire Horisk 9780197691496
RRP: $50.68$42.88People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if stated seriously. "It's just a joke," they say. But what is different or special about joking? And if jokes about lawyers and politicians... -
Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change by David L. Kirchman 9780197688564
RRP: $44.83$38.14For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate. The balance of these gases maintains Earth's habitability. Methane, a greenhouse gas produced only by... -
From Peril to Partnership: US Security Assistance and the Bid to Stabilize Colombia and Mexico by Paul J. Angelo 9780197688106
RRP: $50.68$42.88Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative are the two most significant US security assistance efforts in Latin America in the twenty-first century. At a time when US objectives in the Middle East and Central Asia were flagging, Colombia was a rare US... -
Awkwardness: A Theory by Alexandra Plakias 9780197683606
RRP: $38.98$33.40Awkwardness offers an account of the psychology and philosophical significance of a ubiquitous social phenomenon. Our aversion to awkwardness mirrors our desire for inclusion. This explains its power to influence and silence us: as social creatures, we... -
The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law by Daniel Bodansky 9780197672372
RRP: $58.48$53.80In countless ways we are affected by international environmental norms: some social, others legal; some quite general, others very specific. For example, the norms limiting the refrigerants used in air conditioners have been agreed upon in legal form... -
Medical Toxicology by B. Patrick Murray 9780197635513
RRP: $81.88$79.48Part of the “What Do I Do Now: Emergency Medicine” series, Medical Toxicology is an interactive, case-based book that covers content not found in most general specialty textbooks, and gives readers the opportunity to prepare for board certification and... -
The Virtue of Loyalty by Troy Jollimore 9780197612651
RRP: $44.83$40.56Loyalty is a highly contested virtue. One the one hand, some have wondered whether it is really a virtue at all. On the other, we might doubt whether a person who was not loyal to anything could be said to have a defined moral character. Loyalty is so... -
Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America by Joan L. Bryant 9780195312973
RRP: $44.83$40.56Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and... -
Mutual Integration in Immigration Society: An Epistemic Argument by Bodi Wang 9783593517889
RRP: $62.40$60.66A compelling argument for adopting the concept of “mutual integration” to overcome injustice and enhance social solidarity. The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the... -
How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics by Frédéric Keck 9781914363023
RRP: $46.80$44.91This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping the anticipation of economic and health crises.How French Moderns Think tells the story of the French sociological... -
Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock 9781839983467
RRP: $156.00$146.60This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial introduction. The first part links meaning, necessity and... -
The Old Vera Site (8IR009): One Hundred Years Later, The 2014 - 2017 Excavations by James M. Adovasio 9781647691325
RRP: $157.95$131.55A century ago, the Old Vero Site was brought to prominence by Elias Sellards upon his claim that the site contained early human remains associated with Pleistocene fauna. It was the first serious challenge to the belief, widely accepted until the Folsom... -
The Nahua: Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present by Galen Brokaw 9781646425785
RRP: $54.50$52.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425785Author Galen BrokawFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 454g -
Next Gen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It by Mike Gonzalez 9781641773539
RRP: $42.88$28.92Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka document the Left’s metamorphosis into a bastardized, racialized Marxism that is a threat to everything Americans hold dear. In this deeply insightful book, readers will understand the nature of the beast—and how to... -
Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer by Cathy Stanton 9781625348050
RRP: $44.75$36.50In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-op in a... -
Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases by Judicial College 9780198900702
RRP: $41.91$40.52The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases. The first edition of this title was regarded as a landmark in personal injury practice... -
Reconciliation in a Michigan Watershed: Restoring Ken-O-Sha by Gail Gunst Heffner 9781611864939
RRP: $50.60$38.90Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly two hundred years. Once life-supporting, the waterway now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this provocative book, scholars and environmentalists Gail Gunst Heffner... -
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking by Kenneth Maly 9781487556075
RRP: $161.85$152.67A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries – beginning with the late... -
Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics by Jack Lucas 9781487553685
$117.53One of the most peculiar features of municipal politics in Canada is how frequently local politicians, activists, and scholars disagree about how to describe the municipal arena. For some, municipal politics is distinct from other levels of government, a... -
Fiscal Choices: Canada after the Pandemic by Michael M. Atkinson 9781487545789
$116.75The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that governments can quickly respond to a fiscal crisis without becoming mired in unproductive wrangling. But the pandemic has also revealed the limits of traditional policy instruments in stabilizing the economy,... -
Doing CBT, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Behaviors, Thoughts, and Emotions by David F. Tolin 9781462553624
$186.79With new case material, expanded pedagogical tools, and updated theory and research, the second edition of this reader-friendly text is an ideal introduction to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for graduate students and practitioners. In a witty,... -
Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts by Laura J. Lederer 9781440881206
$115.40Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related issues related to socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and international law. In doing so, it exposes... -
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron 9781324094692
RRP: $29.23$25.41On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event—a total solar eclipse—offered a priceless opportunity to... -
Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Volume 47-1 by Argelinda Baroni 9780443246982
RRP: $155.98$137.71In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Jessica Lunsford-Avery and Argelinda Baroni bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Top experts in the field cover neurocognitive effects of... -
Why Change is Hard: The Power of Master Narratives over Self and Society by Kate C. McLean 9780197764640
RRP: $115.05$103.84The possibilities of personal growth and change are embedded in American cultural values that center individual autonomy and personal responsibility for charting one's life course. These values infuse the scientific study of identity development, where... -
Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-based Community Organizing by Aaron Stauffer 9780197755525
RRP: $115.05$103.84Broad-based community organizing (BBCO) is perhaps the most widely used form of political participation supported by American religious institutions today. As organizing groups become more religiously diverse, however, so do the conceptions of sacred... -
Climate Change and Public Health by Barry S. Levy 9780197683293
RRP: $95.53$92.41Global climate change represents one of the most important public health challenges facing the world today. Climate change causes a wide range of adverse health effects including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic... -
Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason by Katherine Brading 9780197678954
RRP: $138.45$126.05From pebbles to planets, tigers to tables, pine trees to people; animate and inanimate, natural and artificial; bodies are everywhere. Bodies populate the world, acting and interacting with one another, and they are the subject-matter of Newton's laws of... -
Beyond Collective Action Problems: Perceived Fairness and Sustained Cooperation in Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal by Atul Pokharel 9780197755792
RRP: $115.05$103.84Human history is full of examples of continuously maintained shared infrastructure. Our ability to survive and prosper depends on cooperation at some level, from the irrigation systems that enabled ancient humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyle to the... -
The Existence Puzzles: An Introduction to Population Ethics by M. A. Roberts 9780197544143
RRP: $105.30$95.22Population ethics challenges moral theories we previously considered compelling and throws into relief the practical problems--including those relating to climate change and procreative privacy--moral agents all face. Population ethics has thus emerged... -
Debating Surrogacy by Anca Gheaus 9780190072179
RRP: $38.98$33.40Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions, such as the commodification of the surrogate and of the baby, and the exploitation of the... -
Advanced Linear Algebra: With An Introduction To Module Theory by Shou-te Chang 9789811277245
RRP: $107.25$93.66Certain essential concepts in linear algebra cannot be fully explained in a first course. This is due to a lack of algebraic background for most beginning students. On the other hand, these concepts are taken for granted in most of the mathematical... -
Advanced Linear Algebra: With An Introduction To Module Theory by Shou-te Chang 9789811276354
RRP: $156.00$135.80Certain essential concepts in linear algebra cannot be fully explained in a first course. This is due to a lack of algebraic background for most beginning students. On the other hand, these concepts are taken for granted in most of the mathematical... -
Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century by Michael E. Kraft 9781071902103
RRP: $148.20$139.15Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and help students think critically about their implications for current policy. About the AuthorMichael E... -
Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques by Anne G. Perry 9780443107184
RRP: $204.73$194.51Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate,... -
Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics by Jack Lucas 9781487553692
RRP: $46.78$42.06One of the most peculiar features of municipal politics in Canada is how frequently local politicians, activists, and scholars disagree about how to describe the municipal arena. For some, municipal politics is distinct from other levels of government, a... -
Valuing Health: The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model by Charles E. Phelps 9780197686294
RRP: $70.18$68.43Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet many economists also recognize that the current framework can offer misleading and incomplete results... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: $29.23$25.53The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a... -
The Face of the Nation: Gendered Institutions in International Affairs by Elise Stephenson 9780197632727
RRP: $115.05$103.84Foreign services globally are undergoing fundamental and rapid gendered change, spurred on by shifting social and governance norms and even the adoption of an explicit feminist foreign policy in some stages. For some, this has resulted in women's rapidly...