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Antigone Sophocles 9780226844657
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.88A stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Antigone taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's... -
The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road Ratchada Arpornsilp 9781529240641
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.29EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or... -
Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds: Papers from a Special Session of the Fifty-fifth Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, held in Berlin on 6th August 2022 Arnulf Hausleiter 9781805830740
Booksplease Price: £46.59Scents of Arabia presents an innovative interdisciplinary exploration of the role of scents and incense in ancient Arabian societies. Bringing together leading experts in archaeology, biomolecular... -
Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for a Secular Europe? by Marie-Claire Foblets
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This edited collection gathers together the principal findings of the three-year RELIGARE project, which dealt with the question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law... -
The Constitution of Science C. Mantzavinos 9781009509176
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.03How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? If science is valued positively as the incubator of the most successful solutions to representational problems of reality as well as the basis... -
Tools of Radio Astronomy by Kristen Rohlfs 9783662517321
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £36.74This 6th edition of "Tools of Radio Astronomy", the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state of this important branch of astronomy. This includes... -
Diversity and Contact: Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities by Karen Schonwalder 9781137586025
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some... -
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli 9781788730068
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in... -
Tools of Radio Astronomy by Thomas L. Wilson 9783642399497
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £52.00This 6th edition of "Tools of Radio Astronomy", the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state of this important branch of astronomy. This includes... -
Spin-Label Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy by 9781032337296
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Spin-label electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is a versatile molecular probe method that finds wide application in molecular biophysics and structural biology. This book provides the... -
Adam Smith's System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired by Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric, Game Theory, and Conjectural History by Andreas Ortmann
Booksplease Price: £90.56Inspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smith's system of thought. It highlights its coherence through the identification of three... -
A History of Modern Immunology: The Path Toward Understanding by Zoltan Nagy 9780124169746
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £67.51A History of Modern Immunology: A Path Toward Understanding describes, analyzes, and conceptualizes several seminal events and discoveries in immunology in the last third of the 20th century, the era... -
Iron-Containing Enzymes: Versatile Catalysts of Hydroxylation Reactions in Nature by Samuel P. de Visser 9781849731812
RRP: £139.99Booksplease Price: £118.25There are many mononuclear iron containing enzymes in nature that utilize molecular oxygen and transfer one or both oxygen atoms of O2 to substrates. These enzymes catalyze many processes including... -
Classical Mechanics: Including an Introduction to the Theory of Elasticity by Reinhard Hentschke 9783319487090
Booksplease Price: £56.12This textbook teaches classical mechanics as one of the foundations of physics. It describes the mechanical stability and motion in physical systems ranging from the molecular to the galactic scale... -
Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos by Karin Kneffel 9786055815530
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Published on the occasion of Karin Kneffel's exhibition Haymatlos at Dirimart (13 November 2020-17 January 2021), this trilingual catalogue explores themes of memory, displacement, and belonging. The... -
Anthropology and Economy by Stephen Gudeman
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.97Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of economy. Using examples from market and non-market situations, the book shows how economies are built on... -
Economic Patriotism in Open Economies by Ben Clift
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets. Despite the ambitions of international economic... -
Non-International Armed Conflicts in International Law by Yoram Dinstein 9781108799447
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75This dispassionate analysis of the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts explores the rules regulating the conduct of internal hostilities, as well as the consequences of... -
The Evolution of Human Handedness, Volume 1288 by William C. McCrew 9781573319027
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £95.80Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in... -
Spectral Functions in Mathematics and Physics by Klaus Kirsten 9780367455064
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94The literature on the spectral analysis of second order elliptic differential operators contains a great deal of information on the spectral functions for explicitly known spectra. The same is not... -
Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar by Ewa Dabrowska 9781589010475
Booksplease Price: £54.44Language, Mind and Brain is a delightfully readable, yet erudite exploration of how the human mind processes and orders sounds and words into meaning. It explores how properties of the human... -
The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume II by Michael Tomasello 9781848725942
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by... -
Recent Developments in High-Energy Physics by Heinrich Mitter 9783709176535
Booksplease Price: £50.54This volume contains the written versions of the lectures held at the "22 Internationale Universitatswochen fur Kern- physik" in Schladming, Austria, in February 1983. The generous support of the... -
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances by Oscar Garcia Agustin 9780745336312
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.04Solidarity without Borders reads the micropolitics of migrants as political actors within a Gramscian context by observing alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organisations and other... -
Regulatory Model for Digital Rights Management: Analysis of U.S., Europe and China by Cong Xu 9789811519949
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.79This book highlights the shortcomings of the present Digital Rights Management (DRM) regulations in China. Using literature reviews and comparative analysis from theoretical and empirical... -
The Commercial Appropriation of Personality by Huw Beverley-Smith 9780521052528
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79Commercial exploitation of attributes of an individual's personality, such as name, voice and likeness, forms a mainstay of modern advertising and marketing. Such indicia also represent an important... -
Universe, Neutrinos, Stars and Life: Intriguing Insights from Astrophysical Research Dieter Frekers 9783662707289
Booksplease Price: £41.85This popular science book takes readers on a journey through cosmic epochs, beginning with the Big Bang and cosmic inflation. It then delves into the early universe and primordial nucleosynthesis,... -
Biophysics of Electron Transfer and Molecular Bioelectronics by Claudio A. Nicolini 9781475795189
Booksplease Price: £90.56The present volume is a continuation ofthe EL.B.A. Forum Series which was initiated in the spring of 1992 in Marciana Marina (Italy), with the first volume entitled From Neural Networks and... -
Injunctions against Intermediaries in the European Union: Accountable but Not Liable? by Martin Husovec 9781108400213
Booksplease Price: £32.12In the European Union, courts have been expanding the enforcement of intellectual property rights by employing injunctions to compel intermediaries to provide assistance, despite no allegation of... -
Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia by Guenther Schlee 9781847011299
Booksplease Price: £25.91Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. ... -
Nonlinear Analysis of Physiological Data by Holger Kantz 9783642719516
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is more than a standard proceedings volume, although it is an almost direct result of the workshop on "Nonlinear Analysis of Physiologi cal Time Series" held in Freital near... -
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Volume 1: Contexts and analyses – Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography by Jörg-Martin Pönnighaus 9783034346702
Booksplease Price: £75.87This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative... -
Regimes of Happiness: Comparative and Historical Studies Yuri Contreras-Vejar 9781839998416
Booksplease Price: £25.71'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and... -
War, Aggression and Self-Defence by Yoram Dinstein
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £43.64War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to international legal issues of war and peace, the crime of aggression, self-defence and its trigger, armed attack, and the different... -
Religion in Dutch Society 2005: Documentation of a National Survey on Religious and Secular Attitudes and Behaviour by R. Eisinga
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.54This Data Guide provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society 2005. The data files as well as additional documentation files of... -
A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Booksplease Price: £47.71Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy's oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000... -
Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia: New Ethnographic Explorations by Sin Wen Lau 9781138949904
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This volume examines the dynamic, mutually constitutive, relationship between religion and mobility in the contemporary era of Asian globalisation in which an increasing number of people have been... -
Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe by Clara Rigoni 9780367505981
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level. Punitive responses towards this... -
The Quislings: The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964 Anika Seemann 9781009212304
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.59The Norwegian 'treason trials' were the most extensive post-Second World War 'reckoning' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. Following the war, tens of thousands of Norwegians were sentenced... -
The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation by Tanya Stivers 9780521194549
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £110.45Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed...