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Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality: A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body by Zeynep Akbal 9783837666762
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.07What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores... -
A Meeting of Masks: Status, Power and Hierarchy in Bangkok by Sophorntavy Vorng 9788776941970
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.75A fresh understanding of the ongoing Thai political conflict is offered in this exploration of the connections between status, space, and social life in Bangkok. Looking beyond the 'urban-rural... -
Evolution and Economic Complexity by J. Stanley Metcalfe 9781847203380
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £49.11Dedicated to the goal of furthering evolutionary economic analysis, this book provides a coherent scientific approach to deal with the real world of continual change in the economic system. Expansive... -
Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon Daniela Russ 9781503641501
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes... -
Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality Bob Hancké 9781035325078
Booksplease Price: £82.30This book unpacks what political economy is and does through an investigation of its main questions and approaches. Bob Hancke, Toon Van Overbeke and Dustin Voss offer a historical and thematic... -
Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas by J, Kalvoda 9789401062008
Booksplease Price: £46.28On the basis of a total of thirteen case examples from the Tien Shan, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tangula Shan (central Tibet), the risk potential and hazards are inferred from the development of... -
Visualization of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics: Water-Based Model Systems on a Cu(110) Surface by Takashi Kumagai 9784431547358
Booksplease Price: £90.56The hydrogen bond represents an important interaction between molecules, and the dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water create an ever-present question associated with the process of chemical and... -
Nitrogenation Strategy for the Synthesis of N-containing Compounds by Ning Jiao 9789811028113
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book focuses on direct nitrogenation strategies to incorporate one or more N-atoms into simple substrates especially hydrocarbons via C-H and/or C-C bond cleavage, which is a green and... -
Island Thinking: Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity by Sophia Davis 9789811396755
Booksplease Price: £46.28Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular... -
Relativity and the Question of Discretization in Astronomy by Dominic G. B. Edelen 9783642880865
Booksplease Price: £46.28Theoretical researches in general relativity and observational data from galactic astronomy combine in this volume in contributions to one of the oldest questions of natural philosophy: Is the... -
The European Court of Human Rights Overwhelmed by Applications: Problems and Possible Solutions: International Workshop, Heidelberg, December 17-18, 2007 by Rudiger Wolfrum 9783540939597
Booksplease Price: £56.42The European Court of Human Rights is faced with a huge and ev- growing workload. Up until 1998, the Court pronounced only 837 judgments, while it rendered 4. 000 judgments in the last three years... -
Ion Measurements in Physiology and Medicine by M. Kessler 9783540154686
Booksplease Price: £90.56The first International Symposium on Theory and Applica- tion of Ion and Enzyme Electrodes in Biology and Medicine was organized at SchloB Reisensburg near Ulm in 1974. The concept of this meeting... -
Reduction Theory and Arithmetic Groups by Joachim Schwermer
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Arithmetic groups are generalisations, to the setting of algebraic groups over a global field, of the subgroups of finite index in the general linear group with entries in the ring of integers of an... -
Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones - World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe Reinhard Johler 9783837614220
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.07World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were... -
Mysteries of the Quantum Universe by Thibault Damour
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.33The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physicsTake an incredible journey through the quantum universe with explorer Bob and his dog Rick, as they travel through... -
A Loud but Noisy Signal?: Public Opinion and Education Reform in Western Europe by Marius R. Busemeyer 9781108478496
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.86This path-breaking addition to the Comparative Politics of Education series studies the influence of public opinion on the contemporary politics of education reform in Western Europe. The authors... -
Semantic Syntax by Pieter A. M. Seuren 9780631160069
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.91This book presents and exemplifies the theory of grammar called Semantic Syntax. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected with semantic analyses, is a direct continuation of... -
Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography by Angeliki Pollali 9780367432829
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently... -
Cut-and-Paste Genetics: A CRISPR Revolution by Sahotra Sarkar 9781786614377
Booksplease Price: £37.82The emergence of CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized gene editing and made both gene therapy and eugenic control of future human evolution plausible. This accessible book puts these... -
Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of Art by Winfried Menninghaus 9781644690000
Booksplease Price: £86.85Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to... -
Evolution and Economic Complexity by J. Stanley Metcalfe 9781843765264
Booksplease Price: £116.18Dedicated to the goal of furthering evolutionary economic analysis, this book provides a coherent scientific approach to deal with the real world of continual change in the economic system. Expansive... -
Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace by Irfan Ahmad 9781469635095
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental... -
The Quantum Generation: Highlights and Tragedies of the Golden Age of Physics by J. Hine 9783642493591
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.21Quantum mechanics dates its anniversaries from 1925, the year when its first versions, matrix and wave mechanics, were born. The quan tum itself had by that time reached the age of 25, having first... -
Maarten van Heemskerck: The Roman Sketchbook Tatjana Bartsch 9783775757980
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.30Closeup of the Renaissance artist Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook... -
Simply Rational: Decision Making in the Real World by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780199390076
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making across... -
Legal Pluralism in Central Asia: Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices by Mahabat Sadyrbek 9780367438159
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Legal Pluralism in Central Asia reports on historical, anthropological and legal research which examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and relates them to wider societal developments in... -
Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories by Birgit Meyer 9781350167131
Booksplease Price: £103.41This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Utrecht University and the Max Planck Society. Disputing a hard and fast distinction between migrants and... -
Introducing Molecular Electronics by Gianaurelio Cuniberti 9783540279945
Booksplease Price: £46.58Klaus von Klitzing Max-Planck-Institut fur Festk orperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Already many Cassandras have prematurely announced the end of the silicon roadmap and... -
Visualization of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics: Water-Based Model Systems on a Cu(110) Surface by Takashi Kumagai 9784431541554
Booksplease Price: £90.56The hydrogen bond represents an important interaction between molecules, and the dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water create an ever-present question associated with the process of chemical and... -
On the Centre of Gravity of the Human Body: as Related to the Equipment of the German Infantry Soldier by W. Braune 9783642696138
Booksplease Price: £90.56It is matter of some surprise that this treasury of information concerning the centres of gravity of various parts of the human body has remained hidden not only from the English speaking world for... -
Relaunching Videotex by H. Bouwman 9789401051125
Booksplease Price: £46.74Helena Flam Universitat Konstanz B. D. R. Volker Schneider Max Planck Institute for Social Research Kaln, B. D. R. I. A traditional sociologist or political scientist may find the choise of videotex... -
Information Processing in the Cortex: Experiments and Theory by Ad Aertsen 9783642499692
Booksplease Price: £91.68There is a tradition of theoretical brain science which started in the forties (Wiener, McCulloch, Turing, Craik, Hebb). This was continued by a small number of people without interruption up to the... -
Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939 by Aitor Anduaga 9780199562725
Booksplease Price: £115.18Although the product of a self-proclaimed consensus politics, the British Empire was always based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Using the metaphor of a thread of... -
Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred Colin Crouch 9781509573226
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25Colin Crouch argues that at the base of all political conflicts are struggles over which types of people should be included in and which excluded from various rights, including the right to exist at... -
Elliptic Curves: A Computational Approach by Susanne Schmitt 9783110168082
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24The basics of the theory of elliptic curves should be known to everybody, be he (or she) a mathematician or a computer scientist. Especially everybody concerned with cryptography should know the... -
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898) Florina H Capistrano-Baker 9786218028258
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.30This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth... -
Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives by Susanne Brandtstadter
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to... -
Introducing Molecular Electronics by Gianaurelio Cuniberti 9783642066283
Booksplease Price: £49.78Klaus von Klitzing Max-Planck-Institut fur Festk orperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Already many Cassandras have prematurely announced the end of the silicon roadmap and... -
Law for Sale: A Philosophical Critique of Regulatory Competition by Johanna Stark 9780198839491
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £83.93Common markets, open borders, air traffic, and the internet have made it faster and less expensive to change places and jurisdictions. As a result, legal forums are increasingly treated as a good... -
Becoming a Word Learner: A Debate on Lexical Acquisition by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 9780195130324
Booksplease Price: £29.55Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologist, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how...