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How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can helpLow-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as...

A groundbreaking examination of the life and work of two of the Soviet psychology's most important thinkers.The Heart of the Matter explores the legacies of Ilyenkov and Vygotsky, two Russian theorists who marshaled their passion for truth, enlightenment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195839445Author Himani BannerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika Books

The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States and the fate of the nation quite literally hung in the balance. Writing in concert as...

In this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code...

In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich’s death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher’s life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich’s body of thought, locating it in its own time...

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In fact, in the hands of private corporations, the...

Coloring the body and its systems is the most effective way to study the structure and functions of human anatomy. With realistic drawings, clear descriptions, and must-know terms, Kaplan's Anatomy Coloring Book is the easiest way to learn human anatomy!...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass transit systems be designed in ways that respond to the needs of urban citizens in the midst of an impending...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506497785Author Matthew D. TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Provides compelling and manageable solutions for how to reform the criminal justice system from the inside out A racial reckoning in the US criminal justice system was long overdue well before the highly publicized murders of George Floyd, Breonna...

Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion and politics around the world. Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with a few...

This book features chapters written by renowned scientists from various parts  of the world, providing an up-to-date survey of submanifold theory, spanning diverse  topics and applications. The book covers a wide range of topics such as Chen–Ricci ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729544689Author Kim FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint Elsevier AustraliaPublisher Elsevier Australia

The city of Beirut is increasingly congested, polluted and suffocating. Its already limited green public spaces are under growing threat of privatisation and redevelopment. The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of LJ Best Reference of 2021 2022.Book InformationISBN 9798765130988Author Richard A. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher...

Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations, and environments are part of what the volume calls the material cultures of food. The book features leading scholars, professionals, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982389486Author Aruna D'SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home.'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book'...

The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, Computational Humanities redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from...

In this issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics, guest editor Dr. Seenu Susarla brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatric Craniomaxillofacial Pathology. Top experts in the field discuss non-trauma management of...

In this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest editor Dr. Cherie P. Erkmen brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Wellbeing for Thoracic Surgeons. Each article discusses an important aspect of a surgeon’s professional and personal life so he...

The flourishing theory of classical optimal transport concerns mass transportation at minimal cost. This book introduces the reader to optimal transport on quantum structures, i.e., optimal transportation between quantum states and related...

Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the practice. Theorists usually address criminal justice under abstract, idealized conditions that assume away...

Fifteen years into the era of “cyber warfare,” are we any closer to understanding the role a major cyberattack would play in international relations - or to preventing one? Uniquely spanning disciplines and enriched by the insights of a leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846048562Author Dr Deepak ChopraFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rider & CoPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from...

Identity documents provide rights to citizenship and social inclusion. They can also generate violence and conflicts. This book explores Côte d'Ivoire's 'ID war' as a paradigmatic case of a citizenship crisis, centered on the access to national identity...

A major challenge for the advancement of democratic governance in Africa is the extraction of money by ruling parties from the state to fund their electoral campaigns and gain political advantage over opponents. Drawing upon in-depth case studies of...

Scaling the Smart City, The Design and Ethics of Urban Technology engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic strong hold by presenting an accessible design framework that...

Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health.The rapid—and relatively recent—concentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost...

Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortality From Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and...

How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553525Author Elena FoulisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Distills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu. The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in...

Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure – Mother Earth – was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the...

When we’re in the Certainty Trap, we tend to view people who disagree with us as hateful, ignorant, or just plain stupid. When it comes to heated social and political issues in particular, many of us know this feeling well— a consuming state of righteous...

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America—and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-notsThe Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing...

In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to...