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Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts: Exploring Land and Depth Michael Charlesworth 9781350385733
$192.93Derek Jarman's place in the history of film is assured by virtue of his vibrant, defiant films that experiment with the very process of film-making and create new forms. His paintings, their excitements and their profundity, are less well known. Michael... -
Monocratic Government: The Impact of Personalisation on Democratic Regimes Fortunato Musella 9783110724714
RRP: $54.60$44.65Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democracies, a radical shift from collective to individual actors and institutions has occurred in several... -
Peace in the Name of Allah: Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel Ofir Winter 9783111540825
RRP: $38.85$32.05From Anwar al-Sadat’s dramatic gambit in 1977 to the surprising declaration of the Abraham Accords in 2020, making peace with Israel was always a tough sell for Arab regimes. Through an analysis of hundreds of fatwas, sermons, essays, books, interviews,... -
Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria Erica L. Gaston 9780231210133
RRP: $63.00$57.52Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many perils, from enabling human rights abuses to seeding... -
The Unofficial Guide to Getting Into Medical School Bogdan Chiva Giurca 9780443113383
RRP: $62.98$60.80This book is designed to help you become one of the few applicants to get into a highly competitive medicine degree, based on the insights of over 300 medical students across 32 UK medical schools. Written in a clear and engaging style, the Unofficial... -
The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from Twenty-Five Years in Milwaukee Jill Florence Lackey 9781805395829
RRP: $186.90$152.21The relationship between anthropology departments and their surrounding urban communities has been traditional limited by a number of factors. The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement pushes past these limitations, developing a firm... -
Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism Seungsook Moon 9780231211499
RRP: $63.00$57.52In recent decades, neoliberalism has transformed South Korean society, going far beyond simply restructuring the economy. In response, a number of civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on social... -
Gender and the Global Land Grab: A Feminist Global Governance Approach Andrea M. Collins 9780228021131
$226.21Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab:... -
API Testing and Development with Postman: API creation, testing, debugging, and management made easy Dave Westerveld 9781804617908
$80.09Avoid common API coding pitfalls and make test automation effortless with Postman and the Newman CLI Key Features Learn the tenets of effective API testing and design with workflow testing and more Gain an in-depth understanding of Postman’s new and... -
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space Miguel Montalva Barba 9781529235432
RRP: $168.00$127.83This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political... -
Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it Shaun S. Yates 9781529236392
RRP: $94.50$73.14In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice? Through the critical examination of original stenographic data, this book demonstrates how an English Magistrates' courthouse often pursued managerial... -
Migration and Social Work: Approaches, Visions and Challenges Elin Ekström 9781447361817
RRP: $56.68$43.76With cross-cultural perspectives from contributors in nine countries, this book showcases much-needed research on current issues around migration and social work in Europe. Focusing on the reception, experiences and integration of refugees and asylum... -
Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61 Asa McKercher 9780774870559
$81.61Building a Special Relationship offers thoughtful insight into Canadian and American foreign relations during the 1950s, when Canada and the United States found new diplomatic footing as allies in the shadow of the Cold War. This book shows how the... -
Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life Ali Aslam 9780231216425
RRP: $58.80$52.42Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive institutions imperil its survival. Present political concepts have proven inadequate to meeting these... -
An Accidental History of Canada Megan J. Davies 9780228021155
$226.21Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomena of risk, upset, and misfortune have been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller-scale accident where fate is more... -
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618–1968 Stuart Anderson 9780228021056
$87.05The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an... -
History Has Made Us Friends: Reassessing the Special Relationship between Canada and the United States Donald E. Abelson 9780228021025
$74.53Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history spanning more than 250 years. Alan Rock, former Canadian... -
Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures Naomi Smith 9781804555859
$177.14Wellness has become a mainstream concept, yet we have limited sociological understanding of how wellness functions in contemporary Western culture. Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures is the first collection to bring together scholars examining... -
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618–1968 Stuart Anderson 9780228021049
$226.21The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an... -
Incarnation, Pain, Theology: A Phenomenology of the Body Espen Dahl 9780810147010
RRP: $75.50$74.03How the phenomenology of pain allows us to rethink human incarnation While the phenomenological tradition has carefully treated both the objective and the lived body, Espen Dahl explores a dimension of the body that does not fall neatly into either... -
Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion Éléna Choquette 9780774869805
$204.31Canada was a small country in 1867, but within twenty years its claims to sovereignty spanned the continent. With Confederation came the vaunting ambition to create an empire from sea to sea. How did Canada lay claim to so much land so quickly? Land and... -
Contextualising Legal Research: A Methodological Guide Sanne Taekema 9781035307388
$234.38Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of legal research, this informative book presents a methodological framework for law-in-context research design. It argues that legal scholarship relies on the interpretive and argumentative... -
Group as a Whole: Learning for Leadership, Authority and Organisation Lionel F. Stapley 9781800131231
RRP: $46.18$43.24The focus of this volume is on groups. The intention is to go beyond taking things at face value by going deeper and exploring the underlying, less evident phenomena concerning groups which occur beneath the surface. The more frequently used approach is... -
Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources Louise Ryan 9781529213553
RRP: $58.78$45.30Leading migration researcher Louise Ryan’s topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants’ social networks. It draws on more than 200 interviews with migrants who followed various transnational routes in every decade since the... -
The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South Ola G. El-Taliawi 9780228021186
$78.12Mass refugee movements represent a complex policy problem to host governments as they challenge existing socio-economic and political structures. While scholarship on refugee migration tends to centre on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in... -
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity Raymond B. Blake 9780774869638
$95.97Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically... -
Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty Harmut Behr 9780228020844
$226.21Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, such as those by the... -
Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities Lauren D. Olsen 9780231207874
RRP: $58.80$57.52Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathetic and more concerned with equity. In practice, however, these good intentions have not translated into... -
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers: Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy Rachael Johnstone 9780774869249
$236.15Even as Canadian universities suggest their gender issues have largely been resolved, many women in academia tell a different story. Systemic discrimination, the underrepresentation of women in more senior and lucrative roles, and the belief that... -
The Social Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent Paul R. DeHart 9780826223050
RRP: $123.90$115.29Scholars who write on the relationship of natural moral law to social contract theory view the principles of these theories as in conflict and unreconcilable. For example, if natural law creates the foundation for political governance, then the consent... -
The Spinal Cord during the Middle Second Trimester through the 4th Postnatal Month 130- to 440-mm Crown-Rump Lengths: Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development, Volume 15 Shirley A. Bayer 9781032229133
RRP: $241.50$208.66This last of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5 volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. This volume presents serial sections of the spinal cord from specimens between 130 mm and 440 mm with detailed annotations. The presentation... -
Oregon Indians by Stephen Dow Beckham 9780870712593
RRP: $94.40$60.63After forty years of research and writing on Native Americans and the American West, historian Stephen Dow Beckham has compiled a rich documentary history that strives to let Oregon Indians tell their own story. From "first encounters" in the late... -
Queering Kinship: Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents, and Families in Guangdong, China by Han Tao 9781529233278
RRP: $168.00$127.83Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book asks: what does it mean for Chinese non-heterosexual people to go against existing state regulations and societal norms to form a desirable and legible queer family? Chapters explore the... -
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology and Society by Wolfram Grajetzki 9781350455535
RRP: $46.18$38.01For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local... -
Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas by Israel G. Solares 9781647791360
RRP: $102.80$90.13Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and effects of the United States Company, and how its mining operations shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape of North America in the first half of the twentieth... -
Seapower in the Post-modern World by Basil Germond 9780228020875
$224.97In an era of increasing geopolitical tensions, disruptive technologies, and the rise of authoritarianism, the question of who masters the seas is more than ever central to the future of the international order. But while naval operations, maritime... -
The CSE Manual, Ninth Edition: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers by Council of Science Editors 9780226683942
RRP: $136.50$129.80Comprehensive and authoritative scientific style and format rules from the leading professional association in science publishing.The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers delivers complete coverage of rules and... -
Past and Future Presence: Approaches for Implementing Xr Technology in Humanities and Art Education by Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 9781943208692
RRP: $48.28$41.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208692Author Lissa Crofton-SleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 454g -
Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era by Tracey Raney 9781487540012
$125.73Gender-based violence in politics is a significant and growing problem that threatens the democratic process in Canada. Despite its prevalence, little academic research has been conducted on this topic to date. Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics... -
Machinery's Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More in the 32nd Edition by John Milton Amiss 9780831150327
RRP: $94.50$79.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780831150327Author John Milton AmissFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Industrial PressPublisher Industrial Press