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Researching the Visual by Margery Mayall 9781446207888
Booksplease Price: £62.02This second edition provides an excellent overview of the field by covering the traditional themes and current trends in image centred photographic visual inquiry but extends this by demonstrating... -
Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice Nancy J. Ramsay 9781119292562
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.77Leading pastoral theologians explore a wide variety of themes related to pastoral practice. Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice offers a collection of essays by... -
China Since 1919 - Revolution and Reform: A Sourcebook by Alan Lawrance 9780415251426
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This Sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 from the viewpoints of participants. Over 150 extracts from political statements, telegrams, speeches, memoirs, letters and poems... -
Crossing Cultures: Stories of the Peace Corps Experience by Paul D. Coverdell 9781608760916
RRP: £106.99Booksplease Price: £67.82Peace Corps volunteers experience adventure and challenge every day as they serve in communities around the world. They leave a legacy and a better understanding of the United States in their host... -
The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media by John B. Thompson 9780804726795
Booksplease Price: £23.13What role have communication media played in the formation of modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new forms of communication and information diffusion, from the advent of... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age by Elaine Graham 9780334045984
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.44Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age by Elaine Graham 9780334052944
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £66.42Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading... -
Media Discourse in Contemporary India: A Study of Select News Channels Sudeshna Devi 9781032140698
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines the historical trajectory of the growth of the television news and critically analyzes the role of private television news in framing the nature of public discourse in contemporary... -
The Prudent Management of Modern U.S. Banks: Redefining Responsibility by Jeremy F. Taylor 9780899308524
Booksplease Price: £76.81Without the internal application of standards of prudence in bank management, regulatory restraints will always be inadequate. A complete theory of prudence is developed in these pages, covering... -
Multiple Decrement Models in Insurance: An Introduction Using R by Shailaja Rajendra Deshmukh 9788132217121
Booksplease Price: £46.74The book will serve as a guide to many actuarial concepts and statistical techniques in multiple decrement models and their application in calculation of premiums and reserves in life insurance... -
Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach by Okan Topcu 9783319791364
Booksplease Price: £81.46This unique text/reference provides a comprehensive review of distributed simulation (DS) from the perspective of Model Driven Engineering (MDE), illustrating how MDE affects the overall lifecycle of... -
Barbed Wire: Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons Patrick Brantlinger (Indiana University, USA) 9781138564398
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had... -
Value, Respect, and Attachment by Joseph Raz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.75The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is a... -
Women and the Law - Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist by Anja Louis
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932). This study in the... -
Losing Face: Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos 9781032129273
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using... -
Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice by Nancy J. Ramsay 9781119292524
RRP: £70.95Booksplease Price: £65.17Leading pastoral theologians explore a wide variety of themes related to pastoral practice. Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice offers a collection of essays by... -
WCDMA: Requirements and Practical Design Rudolf Tanner (UbiNetics Ltd, UK) 9780470861776
RRP: £111.95Booksplease Price: £100.31WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), an ITU standard derived from code division multiple access (CDMA) is officially known as IMT-2000 direct spread. WCDMA is a third generation mobile... -
The English in West Africa, 1685-1688: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England 1681-1699 by Robin Law 9780197262528
Booksplease Price: £92.60The letter-books of the Royal African Company of England, which have never previously been printed, cover the period 1681-1699. The original texts are being published in full, with extensive... -
China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change by Gregory Veeck 9781538140802
Booksplease Price: £61.92Despite China's clear and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey, the most current and... -
Fashioning the Body Politic by Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
Booksplease Price: £38.10With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
Methods in Computational Molecular Physics by Stephen Wilson 9781461574217
Booksplease Price: £91.68This volume records the lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Methods in Computational Molecular Physics held in Bad Windsheim, Germany, from 22nd July until 2nd. August, 1991. This... -
Nanostructure Science and Technology: R & D Status and Trends in Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Materials and Nanodevices by R. W. Siegel 9789048152773
Booksplease Price: £90.56Timely information on scientific and engineering developments occurring in laboratories around the world provides critical input to maintaining the economic and technological strength of the United... -
Life Course of Trauma and Resilience Caroline Skov Vestbjerg 9781806864300
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Life Course of Trauma and Resilience offers a profound exploration into the cultural psychology of resilience throughout the human life course. Drawing from the publicly available autobiography of... -
Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food Manpreet Janeja 9780415726313
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by... -
Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 by Cathy Shrank 9780199211005
Booksplease Price: £51.63Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and... -
Shattering Silos: Reimagining Knowledge, Politics, and Social Critique by Lambert Zuidervaart 9780228011583
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are... -
Plant Molecular Biology 2 by R. G. Herrmann 9781461364542
Booksplease Price: £47.08The VI NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Molecular Biology, held in Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, from 14 to 23 May, 1990, brought together representative scientific leaders from all over the world... -
Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards Sustainable Governance Informatisation by Alois A. Paulin 9783319853307
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book examines the role of bureaucracy in modern technologically advanced societies, the traditional models of governance, and the potential of information technology to fundamentally change and... -
Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era by Robin Bunton
Booksplease Price: £45.17Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and... -
The Idea of Authorship in Copyright by Lior Zemer 9781138272354
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59As information flows become increasingly ubiquitous in our post digital environment, the challenges to traditional concepts of intellectual property and the practices deriving from them are immense... -
Pandemics: The Basics by Elisa Pieri 9780367610210
Booksplease Price: £110.39This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events. It covers the impacts generated... -
Value, Respect, and Attachment by Joseph Raz 9780521801805
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is a... -
Migration, Borders and Citizenship: Between Policy and Public Spheres by Maurizio Ambrosini 9783030221591
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another, yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and... -
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration by Ellie Shockley 9783319361260
Booksplease Price: £92.24This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust. Citing,... -
The Social Designer’s Paradox: Why Social Designers Matter and Struggle in Public Organisations by Willemijn Brouwer 9789063698805
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.86You want to change the world? Turns out the system isn't built for that. The Social Designer's Paradox is a candid, compelling companion for anyone trying to make change from within public... -
Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi 9780674428379
Booksplease Price: £26.24This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coins-or large statuary and miniature art-in the private and public domain. It originates in the Harvard Art Museums 2011 Ilse... -
Napper: Through a Glass Darkly by Alan Jackaman 9781909976726
Booksplease Price: £31.77Records the tragic circumstances which led to one man committing a sequence of vicious sexual assaults through to the murders of Rachel Nickell and Samantha and Jazmine Bisset. It has taken Alan... -
Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach by Okan Topcu 9783319030494
Booksplease Price: £112.12This unique text/reference provides a comprehensive review of distributed simulation (DS) from the perspective of Model Driven Engineering (MDE), illustrating how MDE affects the overall lifecycle of... -
Milestones: In the Life of Rudolf Steiner and in the Development of Anthroposophy by T. H. Meyer 9781906999827
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Why was the act of arson that destroyed the first Goetheanum so devastatingly successful in its malicious intent? What was the nature of the poisoning that Rudolf Steiner suffered in 1923? What was... -
Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era by Robin Bunton 9780415354073
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and...