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Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance by Manfred Eigen 9780691025667
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from... -
The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation Brian Shaev 9781032769981
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.69This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia by Michael A. Skeide
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.80In this handbook, the world's leading researchers answer fundamental questions about dyslexia and dyscalculia based on authoritative reviews of the scientific literature. It provides an overview from... -
To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum by Nathaniel Roberts 9780520288829
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace... -
Fiscal Policy Without a State in EMU?: Germany, the Stability and Growth Pact and Policy Coordination by Jani Kaarlejarvi 9780230542754
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines fiscal policy coordination in EMU and the required adjustments to national fiscal policies by EMU member states. The book shows that, in the process of Europeanization, national... -
Progress and Visions in Quantum Theory in View of Gravity: Bridging Foundations of Physics and Mathematics by Felix Finster 9783030389406
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book focuses on a critical discussion of the status and prospects of current approaches in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, in particular concerning gravity. It contains a carefully... -
To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum by Nathaniel Roberts 9780520288812
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace... -
Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building: Human Security in the Western Balkans by Wolfgang Benedek 9780230234628
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume investigates the role of the transnational terrorist and criminal organizations in the peace-building processes, with a particular focus on the Western Balkan region. Conducted within the... -
Brain and Music by Stefan Koelsch
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £36.26A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical... -
Programming Creativity: Semantics and Organisation of Creativity Within IT Enterprises by Jan Sebastian Zipp 9783837663167
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £30.92What does "creativity" mean in the context of IT and what happens when IT acts in its name? Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change,... -
Tensorial Methods and Renormalization in Group Field Theories by Sylvain Carrozza 9783319058665
Booksplease Price: £90.56The main focus of this thesis is the mathematical structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory. Such quantum field theories are found in approaches to... -
Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition by Melissa Bowerman 9789004353022
Booksplease Price: £111.74In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct... -
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space by Rano Turaeva 9781032010144
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many... -
Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin: Einstein and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, 1917-1922 by Hubert Goenner 9783030631215
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores Albert Einstein's move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship. Einstein's call to Berlin was supported by a group of... -
GABCOM & GABMET: Acronyms of Compounds and Methods in Chemistry and Physics by Gmelin-Institut of Inorganic Chemistry, Frankfurt, Germany 9783540936534
Booksplease Price: £90.86The scientific literature in chemistry and physics abounds with abbreviations of chemical compounds, physical methods and mathematical procedures. Unfortunately, many authors take it for granted that... -
Revival: The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies (2001): Between Human Rights and Internal Security by Sandra Lavenex 9781138728875
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40This title was first published in 2001. Taking a multilevel perspective on the Europeanization of refugee policies, this innovative work highlights the entanglement between domestic asylum reforms... -
Thin Films of Soft Matter by Serafim Kalliadasis 9783211698075
Booksplease Price: £92.47A detailed overview and comprehensive analysis of the main theoretical and experimental advances on free surface thin film and jet flows of soft matter is given. At the theoretical front the book... -
Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge Gordon M. Friedrichs 9783031586170
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £96.71Polarization in the United States has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop "at the water's edge," as the old cliche goes. But key... -
From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch by Erik E. Lehmann 9783030252397
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book celebrates the contributions of David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor at the School of Public and Environment Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University (USA), co-founder and co-editor of... -
On the Origin of Species Activity Book by Sabina Radeva
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Learn about variation, competition and the struggle for existence with the help of this beautifully illustrated and accessible activity book for children.Packed full with detailed colouring pages and... -
Brain and Music Stefan Koelsch (Freie University, Berlin, Germany) 9780470683408
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £73.11A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical... -
Escaping Satiation: The Demand Side of Economic Growth by Ulrich Witt 9783540420866
Booksplease Price: £90.56The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side... -
The New Institutionalist Economic History of Douglass C. North: A Critical Interpretation by Matthijs Krul 9783319940830
Booksplease Price: £102.20This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North's contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History... -
Origins of the German Welfare State: Social Policy in Germany to 1945 by Michael Stolleis 9783642435751
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the... -
Escaping Satiation: The Demand Side of Economic Growth by Ulrich Witt 9783642075636
Booksplease Price: £90.56The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand... -
Revival: The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies (2001): Between Human Rights and Internal Security Sandra Lavenex 9781138728851
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This title was first published in 2001. Taking a multilevel perspective on the Europeanization of refugee policies, this innovative work highlights the entanglement between domestic asylum reforms... -
Emotions in History - Lost and Found by Ute Frevert 9786155053344
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.12Emotions, as argued in this book, are contingent on historical variables. Even though men and women may have always felt and shown emotions, those have differed in style, object, intensity, and... -
Foundations of Solid State Physics: Dimensionality and Symmetry by Siegmar Roth 9783527345045
Booksplease Price: £103.01An essential guide to solid state physics through the lens of dimensionality and symmetry Foundations of Solid State Physics introduces the essential topics of solid state physics as taught... -
Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models by Peter Morters 9780199239252
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £67.63This book is a collection of topical survey articles by leading researchers in the fields of applied analysis and probability theory, working on the mathematical description of growth phenomena... -
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Global Mental Health by Joan Y. Chiao
Booksplease Price: £119.57Cultural neuroscience and global mental health is an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience to address the... -
The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries Keebet von Benda-Beckmann 9780857456151
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16...essential reading for scholars interested in understanding sociopolitical change under globalization in the early 21st century...I recommend [this volume] for advanced undergraduate and graduate... -
The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices by Steven Vertovec 9780415556491
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion 'multicultural' or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more... -
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe by Bruno Palier 9789089642349
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.18This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important... -
Transnationalism by Steven Vertovec
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the... -
Brain Theory: Proceedings of the First Trieste Meeting on Brain Theory, October 1-4, 1984 by Gunther Palm 9783642709135
Booksplease Price: £90.56The present collection of papers forms the Proceedings of the First Meeting on Brain Theory, held October 1-4, 1984 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The Meeting... -
Neurocultures: Glimpses into an Expanding Universe by Francisco Ortega 9783631598559
RRP: £60.50Booksplease Price: £35.51Neurocultures offers "glimpses" into an expanding universe of knowledge, beliefs and practices characterized by the conviction that human activity is governed by the structure and functioning of the... -
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art by N. J. Enfield 9781501508431
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £82.48The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies... -
Criminal Law Without Punishment: How Our Society Might Benefit From Abolishing Punitive Sanctions by Valerij Zisman 9783112214923
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32How can criminal punishment be morally justified? Zisman addresses this classical question in legal philosophy. He provides two maybe surprising answers to the question. First, as for a... -
Accountability in EU Security and Defence: The Law and Practice of Peacebuilding by Carolyn Moser 9780198844815
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £95.30Currently, some 2,500 civilian experts work across Europe, Africa, and Asia in ten ongoing civilian missions launched under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Mandates cover a broad range... -
Fundamentals of Ceramics by 9781032337302
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Fundamentals of Ceramics presents readers with an exceptionally clear and comprehensive introduction to ceramic science. This Second Edition updates problems and adds more worked examples, as well as...