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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... -
Binding Energy of Strongly Deformed Radionuclides: Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry and Mean-Field Theoretical Studies by Vladimir Manea 9783319204086
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis reports results of precision mass spectrometry of exotic nuclides as a means of elucidating their structure. The work was performed with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at CERN's ISOLDE... -
Protestantism in Xiamen: Then and Now by Chris White 9783319894706
Booksplease Price: £102.20This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present. This... -
Oxygen Transport to Tissue XII by Johannes Piiper 9781468481839
Booksplease Price: £47.88The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was founded in 1973 "to facilitate the exchange of scientific information among those interested in any aspect of the transport... -
The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia by Kenneth Dean 9783319893686
Booksplease Price: £111.71This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its... -
Annotating New Genes: From in Silico Screening to Experimental Validation by Dr Shizuka Uchida 9781907568688
Booksplease Price: £113.81In recent years, a number of academic and commercial software packages and databases have been developed for the analysis and screening of biological data; however, the usability of these data is... -
Lectures on Parallel Computing Jesper Larsson Träff 9783031865770
Booksplease Price: £61.04This textbook is intended for an undergraduate course on the fundamentals of parallel computing or as a background and reference for graduate courses on high-performance computing, shared-memory... -
Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism by Mark J. Hudson
Booksplease Price: £25.63Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita's 'mountain people' to Umehara's 'Jomon civilisation', Japan has been an especially resonant site... -
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World Biao Xiang 9789811949524
Booksplease Price: £46.28Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book,... -
The Crafting of the 10, 000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China by Dagmar Schafer 9780226272801
Booksplease Price: £26.68The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase in publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides... -
Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading of Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Vatthana Pholsena 9789971697013
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations,... -
Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance by Arul George Scaria 9781107065437
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £68.73Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance sheds light on how copyright law works at the grassroots level in India, by exploring the social, cultural, historical, legal and... -
Cerebellar Functions by J. Bloedel 9783642699825
Booksplease Price: £90.56Over the past few semesters a group of neurologists, neurophysiologists, and brain theorists in various departments of Tlibingen University have gathered periodically in an effort to review ideas and... -
Local Group Cosmology by David Martinez Delgado 9781107023802
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.87One of the most fascinating unresolved problems of modern astrophysics is how the galaxies we observe today were formed. The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts that large spiral galaxies such... -
Beyond Words: Content, Context, and Inference by Frank Liedtke 9781614513865
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.98In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What... -
The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome: Time, Network, and Repetition by Erik Thuno 9781107069909
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions... -
Legitimacy Beyond the State?: Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors by Eva Erman 9781349316137
Booksplease Price: £46.28Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic... -
Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power Christian Schultheiss 9781041183693
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.69This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries about the East and South China Sea disputes. Tapping into... -
Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide by Henry Brighton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Artificial Intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction.Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players, and humanoid robots which are... -
After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath by James G. Carrier
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have... -
Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines: Young People Reinterpreting Religion Jayeel Serrano Cornelio 9781138572386
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book, based on extensive original research, examines the nature of Catholicism in the contemporary Philippines. It shows how Catholicism is apparently flourishing, with good attendance at Sunday... -
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World by Xiang Biao
Booksplease Price: £36.44Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book,... -
Causation in Competition Law Damages Actions by Claudio Lombardi
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.54Competition law damages actions are often characterized by the uncertainty of the causal connection between the infringement and the harm. The damage consists in a pure economic loss flowing from an... -
In the Shadow of the Mill: Transformation of Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s by Rukmini Barua
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.49This book traces the socio-spatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - during which the city witnessed dramatic and... -
SEPs, SSOs and FRAND: Asian and Global Perspectives on Fostering Innovation in Interconnectivity Kung-Chung Liu 9781032083292
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book is a very useful reference guide on how de jure and de facto standards are being developed and how these standards compete against each other. The book also looks at how FRAND commitments... -
Comparing Super-Diversity Fran Meissner (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) 9781138098879
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about... -
Seasonality in Human Mortality: A Demographic Approach by Roland Rau 9783642079504
Booksplease Price: £92.27Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is... -
Abuse of Dominant Position: New Interpretation, New Enforcement Mechanisms? by Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt 9783642089411
Booksplease Price: £92.20As 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... -
Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R by R. H. Baayen 9780521709187
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £41.92Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists, allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. This textbook provides a straightforward introduction... -
Linguistic Stratigraphy: Recovering Traces of Lost Languages in the Central Andes by Matthias Urban 9783031421013
Booksplease Price: £100.82This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through... -
Seasonality in Human Mortality: A Demographic Approach by Roland Rau 9783540449003
Booksplease Price: £90.56Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is... -
Sensory-Motor Integration in the Nervous System by O. Creutzfeldt 9783642699337
Booksplease Price: £90.86Over 200 neuroscientists met at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie in Gottingen between April 7th-9th 1983 in order to honour a foreign member of the Institute, namely Sir John Carew... -
Free Movement and Welfare Access in the European Union: Re-Balancing Conflicting Interests in Citizenship Jurisprudence Victoria Hooton 9781509966899
Booksplease Price: £43.33This book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States' concerns regarding their welfare systems. It takes a novel dual approach: namely... -
Galicia: A Multicultured land by Christopher Hann 9780802037817
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £30.98Habsburg Galicia was an area in central Europe covering territory presently occupied by Poland and Ukraine that was distinctive for its multi-ethnic character. With the unraveling of the... -
Intercultural Readiness: Four Competences for Working Across Cultures U. Brinkmann 9781349467198
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £29.30Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management... -
Highlights of Astronomy: As Presented at the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, 1994 by Immo Appenzeller 9780792335535
Booksplease Price: £97.21This 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... -
Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience by Suparna Choudhury 9781119237891
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.71Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and... -
International Organizations Amidst Global Crises: Analyzing Role Selection and Impact through Role Theory Alexander Libman 9781529242966
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.04International Organizations (IOs) have been at the forefront of responding to crises in the 21st century, and yet there is little comparative research on how, and how effectively, they have done this...