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What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Americans as mere workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more nuanced perspective. While some live to work,...

Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge...

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund...

Why do top-down reforms to public services so often over-promise and under-deliver? Using five concepts from psychology, economics and organisational sociology, Thomas Elston addresses this pressing question of good governance. Rather than focusing on...

In The Latecomer's Rise, Muyang Chen reveals the nature and impact of a rapidly growing form of international lending: Chinese development finance. Over the past few decades, China has become the world's largest provider of bilateral development finance...

From the shaping of new homelands in the Cherokee Nation to the export of sand from Cambodia to shore up urban expansion in Singapore, The Social Lives of Land reveals the dynamics of contemporary social and political change. The editors of this volume...

The book contains 26 colour illustrations, including 23 stunning artworks to deepen the appreciation of all the arts bring. Totalitarian governments emerge from the same unconscious sadomasochistic structures that are found in the analysis of traumatised...

In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée...

This volume contains the proceedings of the LuCaNT (LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory) conference held from July 10-14, 2023, at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Providence, Rhode Island and affiliated...

The market-leading public law text: uses three key themes to tie the subject together with style and flair. The authors capture the dynamic nature of public law, covering essential topics and key contemporary debates, as well as offering fascinating...

Data protection law is often positioned as a regulatory solution to the risks posed by computational systems. Despite the widespread adoption of data protection laws, however, there are those who remain sceptical as to their capacity to engender change...

African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections provokes new ways of thinking about solutions to African security—solutions that consider the eclectic and sometimes disparate natures of African conflicts and that address both their domestic and...

Regenerative Medicine in the Genitourinary System gives the reader a comprehensive overview of tissue engineering used to treat genitourinary disorders and infertility, also providing a great learning platform for researchers in different fields such as...

Carbon-Based Nanomaterials in Biosystems: Biophysical interface at Lower Dimensions provides a thoroughly comprehensive overview of all major aspects of carbon-based nanomaterials, their biophysical response, and biotechnological applications. The book...

As restorative dentistry shifts from a focus on core surgical procedures to the patient and their unique needs and values, this new book from acclaimed restorative dentistry expert Professor Avijit Banerjee is designed to support implementation of...

This book serves as a practical guide for equine veterinarians in orthopedics and surgery. It reviews and summarizes the current scientific evidence of the most commonly performed ultrasound-guided procedures for ultrasound-assisted surgery and...

The gut microbiome plays a very important role in your health. It controls digestion and has a beneficial impact on your immune system and other aspects of health. An Introduction to the Microbiome in Health and Diseases is a prelude to subsequent books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503640139Author Greggor MattsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Redwood PressPublisher Redwood Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417526Author Dr Joe SchwarczFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Do you often feel exhausted and negative? Do you spend your days feeling tired and wired? Your nights unable to fall asleep easily, or without a drink? Do you wake up anxious and stressed and in need a coffee to get going? Do you forget what you were...

The COVID-19 Response in New York City: Crisis Management in the Largest Public Health System provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest public health system in the United States. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354423642Author Bibhash ChoudhuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture?In this timely and incisive book,...

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently...

An earthquake in Mexico City spurs the rise of democracy. A plague in South Africa lays the foundations for apartheid. A terrorist attack on New York City triggers massive shifts in global security. A global pandemic sets the stage for the largest civil...

What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances?...

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and...

Understanding the financial privacy and data security landscape in the U.S. involves following a moving target as the landscape is continually changing. To appropriately advise clients on these issues, it is necessary to stay on top of the ever-changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547369Author Aaron BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In Unexpected Revolutionaries, Manuela Moschella investigates the institutional transformation of central banks from the 1970s to the present. Central banks are typically regarded as conservative, politically neutral institutions that uphold...

This substantially revised and expanded edition of the The Drama Therapy Decision Tree provides an integrated model for therapeutic decision-making by uniting drama therapy interventions with diagnostic information, individual and group processes,...

Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality...

“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national...

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From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063073852Author Zo� SchlangerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

In 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a ‘life...

A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition...

With stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet. The interior of Antarctica is an utterly pristine wilderness, a desolate landscape of ice, wind, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398836747Author Lily YuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius Entertainment