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Contestants, Profiteers, and the Political Dynamics of Marketization: How Shareholders gained Control Rights in Britain, Germany, and France by Helen Callaghan 9780198815020
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £52.89Since the early 1980s, governments worldwide have taken many measures to expand the role of markets. Recent political events reflect widespread disenchantment with neoliberal policies, but it remains... -
The Mind Possessed: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition by Emma E. A. Cohen 9780199767441
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £25.62The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of different psychological systems are involved in the construction and transmission of notions of extranatural... -
Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories by Birgit Meyer 9781350232983
Booksplease Price: £33.84Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this open access book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates... -
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems i – Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness by Anna L. Ahlers
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.53This book is about the radical novelty of modern polities in a functionally differentiated world society. Premodern states were at the apex of a stratified, hierarchical society. They dominated... -
The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered by Maria Rentetzi 9781032459127
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question:... -
Law and Jewish Difference: Ambivalent Encounters Mareike Riedel 9781316514870
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.14After centuries of persecution and discrimination, Jews are today often seen as a successful and well-integrated religious minority group in a 'Judeo-Christian West'. This book qualifies this... -
Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches by Ben Ambridge 9780521768047
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core... -
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art by N. J. Enfield 9781501515897
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £17.24The 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... -
The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion Rebecca Lemov 9781324075264
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.33Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often cannot recognise it while it's happening-unless we know where to look. In The Instability of Truth, Rebecca... -
Working with Data in Public Health: A Practical Pathway with R by Peng Zhao 9789819901340
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language. On the basis of the author's research and teaching experiences, this book serves either as a... -
Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations by Wolfgang Hackbusch 9783319284811
RRP: £149.99Booksplease Price: £72.18In the second edition of this classic monograph, complete with four new chapters and updated references, readers will now have access to content describing and analysing classical and modern methods... -
Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 . Feigenbaum 9781606060421
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as... -
Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline by David Sepkoski
Booksplease Price: £31.67Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of... -
Proceedings Of The John Hall Symposium: In Honor Of John Hall On The Occasion Of His 70th Birthday by James C. Bergquist 9789812567451
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £73.47This symposium was a dedication to John L Hall, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, (report below). The symposium was a celebration of his striking career in physics and his... -
Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia by Gunther Schlee 9781847010469
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A study of the longue duree of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizing ethnicity. The recent ethnic violence in... -
Language Universals: With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies by Joseph H. Greenberg 9783110172843
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.24"This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of... -
Postsocialism: Ideals, ideologies and practices in Eurasia C.M. Hann 9780415262583
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Social scientists did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91 and their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. Economic disintegration and political... -
The Computability of the World: How Far Can Science Take Us? by Paul Woolley 9783319673677
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.73In this thought-provoking book Kuppers, an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher and theoretical biologist, addresses a number of science's deepest questions: Can physics advance to the... -
Signaling Effects of Crowdfunding on Venture Investors‘ Decision Making by Michael Mödl 9783658315894
Booksplease Price: £46.28Michael Mödl examines the impact and signaling effects of crowd-based start-up financing on subsequent venture capital funding rounds. The digital era has substantially expanded the entrepreneurial... -
Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations by Wolfgang Hackbusch 9783319803609
RRP: £149.99Booksplease Price: £71.38In the second edition of this classic monograph, complete with four new chapters and updated references, readers will now have access to content describing and analysing classical and modern methods... -
The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood by M. Miller 9783642674105
Booksplease Price: £90.86This monograph originated as an interim report on the research project Cog- nitive and Social Determinants on Language Acquisition which I conducted under the auspices of the German Department of the... -
Rethinking Universals: How Rarities Affect Linguistic Theory by Jan Wohlgemuth 9783110220926
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have... -
Routledge Handbook of Asian Law by Christoph Antons 9780367374952
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The Routledge Handbook of Asian Law is a cutting-edge and comprehensive resource which surveys the interdisciplinary field of Asian Law. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters... -
Judicial Settlement of International Disputes: International Court of Justice Other Courts and Tribunals Arbitration and Conciliation by H. Mosler 9783642952616
Booksplease Price: £46.58This publication gives the opmlOns and discussions of an international Symposium on the judicial settlement of international disputes as well as three expert reports which were submitted for the... -
Advances in Laser Spectroscopy by F. T. Arecchi 9781461337171
Booksplease Price: £91.68This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on IIAdvances in Laser Spectroscopyll the tenth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics,... -
World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds Pierpaolo Giosa 9781041190905
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Already celebrated as a busy entrepot and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength... -
The Eye of the Law: Two Essays on Legal History by Michael Stolleis
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two 'Essays on Legal History' offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as... -
Organic Chemistry with Biological Applications by John McMurry 9781285842912
Booksplease Price: £83.44Renowned for its student-friendly writing style and fresh perspective, this fully updated Third Edition of John McMurry's ORGANIC CHEMISTRY WITH BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS provides full coverage of the... -
Law Applicable to Copyright: A Comparison of the ALI and CLIP Proposals by Rita Matulionyte 9780857934284
Booksplease Price: £116.18This book discusses the problems of applicable law in international copyright infringement cases and examines the solutions proposed to them in the recent projects by the American Law Institute (ALI)... -
Now we have seen: Women and Art in the Seventies in Italy Giorgia Gastaldon 9788836656646
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.73This collective volume examines the relationship between women and art in 1970s Italy. Drawing inspiration from a phrase in the Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile (1970) - "we have been looking for 4000... -
Auger Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure: Proceedings of the First International Workshop, Giardini Naxos-Taormina, Messina, Italy, September 10-14, 1988 by Gaetano Cubiotti 9783642750687
Booksplease Price: £90.56This first International Workshop on Auger Spectroscopy and Electronic Struc ture - IWASES 1, held in Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy, grew out of a number of longstanding collaborations between the... -
Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements by Christopher Heath 9781841138015
Booksplease Price: £112.13Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements presents the papers of the sixth IP conference organised by the Macau Institute of European Studies (IEEM) on intellectual property law and the... -
Physics of New Laser Sources by Neal B. Abraham 9781475761894
Booksplease Price: £46.58This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Physics of New Laser Sources", the twelfth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum... -
Abuse of Dominant Position: New Interpretation, New Enforcement Mechanisms? by Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt 9783540699583
Booksplease Price: £90.56As part of its review of competition law that started in the late 1990s, the European Commission proposes to revise its interpretation and application of the Treaty's prohibition of abuses of... -
Symmetries in Physics: Group and Representation Theory with Applications Andreas Wipf 9783662726747
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.08The present book guides through the symmetries in physics: It introduces and discusses important groups and symmetries from atomic and molecular physics, solid-state physics, particle physics and... -
The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment by Dan Smyer Yu
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with... -
Succession Upon Death: A Comparison of European and Turkish Private International Law by Biset Sena Günes 9783161613524
Booksplease Price: £80.04The European Succession Regulation, which harmonized private international and procedural law rules of Member States in the field of succession, has been examined by scholars in almost every detail... -
Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization: Japanese Perspectives by Prof. Yoshinori Yasuda 9780367247997
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop... -
Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South by Anderson Blanton 9781469623979
Booksplease Price: £33.64In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern... -
Highlights of Astronomy: As Presented at the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, 1994 by Immo Appenzeller 9780792335542
Booksplease Price: £91.36This volume of the Highlights of Astronomy contains the Invited Discourses and the proceedings or summaries of Joint Discussions, Special Sessions, and Working Group Meetings held at the XIInd IAU...