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The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid by D. Shaw 9780333676684
Booksplease Price: £46.58This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from... -
Integrated Mental Health Services: Modern Community Psychiatry by William R. Breakey 9780195074215
Booksplease Price: £70.05This book places modern mental health services in their historical context, describes the range of methods and programs used to provide such services, and emphasizes integration between service... -
The Hagley Wood Tree Murder: Reviewing the Case of Bella in the Wych Elm by Keith Swallow 9781789633535
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £16.53In 1943, four teenagers, engaged in a spot of poaching on a private estate within Hagley Wood, near Birmingham, England discover a decaying woman's body secreted within the trunk of a tree. The... -
Language and Gender: A Reader by Pia Pichler 9781405191449
RRP: £88.95Booksplease Price: £82.11The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that... -
Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster, UK) 9780415396073
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural... -
Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa by Nadine Beckmann 9780197265680
Booksplease Price: £77.60Religion has become deeply involved in HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, and is substantially influencing attitudes and behaviour in the domains of sexuality, relationships and the body. At... -
Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia by Vidhu Verma 9780199496693
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £51.95Until two decades ago, the social sciences adhered to the secularisation thesis that stressed the gradual obliteration of religion in the public domain. Recent events show the re-emergence of... -
Right to Education in India: Resources, institutions and public policy by Praveen Jha 9780815395874
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48This is one of the first volumes to comprehensively discuss resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Fundamental Right to Education (RTE) in India. It looks at various... -
Shadow Warriors: The Irish Army Ranger Wing by Paul O'Brien 9781781177624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades... -
Umoya wembongi: Collected poems (1922–1935) Jeff Opland 9781847014467
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £96.59All 65 of John Solilo's poems from Izala, now out of print, with an additional 28 first published in newspapers, in isiXhosa and English translation, with a comprehensive introduction John... -
Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean by Maryline G. Parca
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in... -
Free to Fail: Creative Destruction Revisited by Arjen van Witteloostuijn 9781781953143
Booksplease Price: £97.15This challenging book tackles one of the most fundamental questions in economics: Why are commercial organizations more efficient than organizations in the public domain?It is generally accepted that... -
Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science by Alicia Puglionesi 9781503608375
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69Seances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror by Victoria McCollum 9781611463095
Booksplease Price: £35.01Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural... -
Clinical Assessment for Social Workers: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods by Catheleen Jordan 9780190656430
Booksplease Price: £83.12Clinical Assessment for Social Workers provides a wide range of standardized assessment tools to give readers greater flexibility in their own practice and research. Incorporating both quantitative... -
The Gig Public: AI-Driven Contractual and Habitual Performativisation of Publicness Slavko Splichal 9781839995217
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This monograph explores the evolving nature of publicness in the era of digital communication and social media saturation, arguing that the rise of the "gig public" represents a new paradigm that... -
The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury: Representations in Literature, Film and Media by Dr Matthew Colbeck 9781350238152
Booksplease Price: £33.84What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the... -
Machine Learning Applications in Medicine and Biology by Ammar Ahmed 9783031518928
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book combines selected papers from the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (IEEE SPMB) held at Temple University. The symposium presents multidisciplinary research in... -
Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective Mark L. Fagan 9781035391240
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.89This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain. Mark Fagan identifies key guiding principles and... -
Secret Diplomacy: Concepts, Contexts and Cases Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford, UK) 9781138309258
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.Recent events, including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of spying,... -
Enterprising Africa: Transformation through Entrepreneurship by Stephen Dobson 9781138371231
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Enterprising Africa explores the future opportunities, challenges, growth areas and key themes that will shape entrepreneurship in the African continent over the next decade. Entrepreneurship can be... -
International Mediation Paul F. Diehl (Henning Larsen Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 9780745653310
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Conflicts in the international system, both among and within states, bring death, destruction, and human misery. Understanding how third parties use mediation to encourage settlements and establish a... -
Zoned Out!: Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition by Tom Angotti 9781613322079
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city's zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when... -
Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective by Mark L. Fagan 9781035329595
Booksplease Price: £119.22This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain. Mark Fagan identifies key guiding principles and... -
The Suicide's Grave: Being the Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Designed by Dmitry Samarov Dmitry Samarov 9781648211850
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Desolate, wind-swept, the moor-the grave-lies unblessed, its soil untended and cursed. First published in 1824, James Hogg's Gothic tale tells the story of a man named Robert Wringhim, who believes... -
The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence by Beverley Baines
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors to this volume examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in twelve countries. Analyzing jurisprudence about... -
Striking From The Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East by Aziz Al-Azmeh
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.05Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations. One of the most significant is the resurgence of activist and puritanical forms of religion... -
The Political Uncommons: The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons Kathryn Milun 9781138376441
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In The Political Uncommons, Kathryn Milun presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's... -
Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route by May Ngo
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how... -
Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue Yves Gingras 9781509518937
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real WorldDiscourse and Beyond by Deborah Tannen 9780878409044
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.85GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the... -
Why the Social Sciences Matter by Cary Cooper 9781137269904
Booksplease Price: £75.80Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leading social... -
The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm: Hegemonic Ideology and Individual Behaviour Charlotte Fabiansson 9781032473758
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons. Violence has a foundation and a context. It comes from somewhere and is... -
Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: Volume 55 by Frank Jahn 9780444532367
RRP: £126.00Booksplease Price: £115.48Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, Second Edition is a comprehensive and current introduction to the upstream industry, drawing together the many inter-disciplinary links within the industry. It... -
Materializing Queer Desire: Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol by Elisa Glick 9781438427256
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects,... -
Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule by Ilana Feldman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948-1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself... -
Bureau of Spies: The Secret Connections between Espionage and Journalism in Washington Steven T. Usdin 9781633884762
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Brings to light the long history of spies posing as journalists in Washington. Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks--these tools of spy craft have been used... -
Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms Jose Sanchez 9781138362369
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and... -
International Mediation by Paul F. Diehl 9780745653303
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Conflicts in the international system, both among and within states, bring death, destruction, and human misery. Understanding how third parties use mediation to encourage settlements and establish a... -
Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry: A Critical Review by Waguih William Ishak 9780880481199
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £80.25The past several decades of price wars in medicine have taken their toll -- and nowhere has the impact been greater than in the field of psychiatry. Today, patients and physicians alike are...