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Advanced Topics on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas: Proceedings of the Advanced School on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas Held in Guaruja, Brazil on June 26-30, 1995 by E. M. de Gouveia dal Pino 9780792345947
RRP: £168.50Booksplease Price: £72.86In June of 1996, at the seaside resort of Guaruja, Brazil, a renowned group of researchers in space and astrophysical plasmas met to provide a forum on advanced topics on astrophysical and space... -
The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1, The Historiography of International Law Randall Lesaffer 9781108487696
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £103.08Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the... -
The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison by Wolfgang Streeck 9780801489839
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.89Why was the rise of capitalism in Germany and Japan associated not with liberal institutions and democratic politics, but rather with statist controls and authoritarian rule? A stellar group of... -
Probing Unconventional Transport Regimes in Delafossite Metals by Philippa H. McGuinness 9783031142468
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis describes in-depth studies of the remarkable electronic transport within the ultrahigh conductivity delafossite metals PtCoO_2 and PdCoO_2 using the tool of focused ion beam (FIB)... -
Using Mathematica for Quantum Mechanics: A Student's Manual by Roman Schmied 9789811375903
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book revisits many of the problems encountered in introductory quantum mechanics, focusing on computer implementations for finding and visualizing analytical and numerical solutions. It... -
Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence by Ramesh C. Srivastava 9783540425144
Booksplease Price: £90.56In 1942 Guderley investigated the behaviour of the typical parameters near the axis when he was studying the focusing of cylindrical shock waves by solving the partial differential equations using... -
Perspectives in Turbulence Studies: Dedicated to the 75th Birthday of Dr. J. C. Rotta International Symposium DFVLR Research Center, Goettingen, May 11-12, 1987 by Hans Ulrich Meier 9783642829963
Booksplease Price: £90.86The present volume entitled "Perspectives in Turbulence Stud ies" is dedicated to Dr. Ing. E. h. Julius C. Rotta in honour of his 75th birthday. J. C. Rotta, born on January 1, 1912,... -
Intellectual Property Branding in the Developing World: A New Approach to Non-Technological Innovations by Tshimanga Kongolo 9781032241173
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Intellectual Property Branding in the Developing World identifies success stories in the areas of intellectual property (IP) and branding for non-technological innovation in the developing world. The... -
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa: Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya by Gunther Schlee 9781782383291
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed... -
Who Owns the Stock?: Collective and Multiple Property Rights in Animals Anatoly M. Khazanov 9780857453358
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study... -
Diversity in Local Political Practice by Karen Schönwälder 9780367696351
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94In what ways do local authorities respond to the increasing socio-cultural heterogeneity of urban populations? While other studies have often focused on policy declarations, the eight chapters in... -
The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I Michael Tomasello 9781848725928
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44From 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... -
Understanding Human Diversity Jonathan Marks 9781009534307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99No two people are the same, and no two groups of people are the same. But what kinds of differences are there, and what do they mean? What does our DNA say about race, gender, equality, or ancestry?... -
Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weiseskopf by the International Community of Physicists by V. Stefan 9781563963865
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.41This collection of essays by scientists from around the world honors Victor Frederick Weisskopf, one of the true luminaries of twentieth- century physics. Among the many breakthroughs his research... -
Raman Spectroscopy, Volume I: Principles and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, and Biology by Gunter G Hoffmann 9781945612008
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.31The book provides an up-to-date overview of the fast growing area of Raman spectroscopy. The two-volume work describes how analytic methods using Raman spectroscopy allow for the chemical analysis of... -
Biased Embryos and Evolution by Wallace Arthur 9780521541619
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.32What determines the direction of evolutionary change? This book provides a revolutionary answer to this question. Many biologists, from Darwin's day to our own, have been satisfied with the answer... -
Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism: Unfinished Struggles and Tensions by Dittmar Schorkowitz 9789811398162
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary approach bringing... -
Beyond the Regulatory Polity?: The European Integration of Core State Powers by Philipp Genschel 9780198744351
RRP: £40.49Booksplease Price: £31.34Most EU-scholars conceive of the EU as a multilevel polity with strong powers to regulate economic policy externalities among the member states but little power to intervene in, let alone assume,... -
The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation by Tanya Stivers 9781107671546
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Each 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... -
Using Mathematica for Quantum Mechanics: A Student's Manual by Roman Schmied 9789811375873
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book revisits many of the problems encountered in introductory quantum mechanics, focusing on computer implementations for finding and visualizing analytical and numerical solutions. It... -
Extrasolar Planets and Their Host Stars by Tabetha Boyajian 9783319611969
Booksplease Price: £51.20This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly dependent upon their stellar counterparts... -
The Child's Conception of Language by A. Sinclair 9783642671579
Booksplease Price: £46.28It is obvious that the growing child manifests an increasing understanding of his language and facility to use it. A major part of the child lan guage literature is concerned with the child's... -
Politically Motivated Justice: Authoritarian Legacies and Their Role in Shaping Constitutional Practices in the Former Soviet Union by Artem Galushko 9789462654587
Booksplease Price: £112.12The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal... -
Tensor Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing by Boris N. Khoromskij 9783110370133
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24The most difficult computational problems nowadays are those of higher dimensions. This research monograph offers an introduction to tensor numerical methods designed for the solution of the... -
Histories of Scientific Observation by Lorraine Daston
Booksplease Price: £30.73Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope... -
Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: Foundations of Machine Learning by Moritz Hardt
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25An authoritative, up-to-date graduate textbook on machine learning that highlights its historical context and societal impactsPatterns, Predictions, and Actions introduces graduate students to the... -
Biophysics for Beginners: A Journey through the Cell Nucleus Helmut Schiessel (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 9789814877800
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £101.20Biophysics is a new way of looking at living matter. It uses quantitative experimental, theoretical, and computational methods, thereby opening a new window for studying and understanding life... -
Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities by Gertrud Huwelmeier 9780415808002
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of... -
Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids: A Mode-Coupling Theory by Wolfgang Gotze 9780199235346
Booksplease Price: £110.62The book contains the only available complete presentation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of complex dynamics of glass-forming liquids, dense polymer melts, and colloidal suspensions. It describes... -
Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe: Relations, Borders and Invisibilities by Ida Harboe Knudsen 9781783084135
Booksplease Price: £25.71Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies,... -
The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 by Paul B. Baltes 9780521000031
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.98The present and future of our society are shaped by an ever-increasing proportion of old and very old people. The Berlin Aging Study is one of the largest interdisciplinary efforts to explore old age... -
Prayer and Politics by Peter van der Veer 9780367132743
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics - and yet it should be. Though some forms of Protestantism teach that prayer should be individual and... -
Symposia on Theoretical Physics 3: Lectures presented at the 1964 Summer School of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences Madras, India by Alladi Ramakrishnan 9781468477573
Booksplease Price: £46.74The third volume of the series entitled "Symposia on Theoretical Physics" comprises the lectures delivered at the First Matscience Summer School on Theoretical Physics held in Bangalore for... -
Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration: A Comparative Analysis of the Position under English, US, German and French Law by Kyriaki Noussia 9783642425097
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £51.83Arbitration is an essential component in business. In an age when transparency is a maxim, important issues which the laws governing arbitration currently fail to address are the extent to which... -
Mechanisms of Systemic Regulation: Acid-Base Regulation, Ion-Transfer and Metabolism by Norbert Heisler 9783642523656
Booksplease Price: £90.56Various endogenous and environmental challenges of homoiostasis have resulted in the evolution of apparently quite different mechanisms for the same or similar functions in individual representatives... -
Auroral Plasma Physics by Gotz Paschmann 9789401037860
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £91.36The present 15th volume of the ISSI Space Science Series is devoted to Auroral Plasma Physics. The aurora is arguably the most intriguing phenomenon in space plasma physics. Not only is it the most... -
Three Postwar Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 by C. Levy 9781349404896
Booksplease Price: £90.56A brief glance at twentieth century European history would suggest that wars and their aftermath produced the major turning points in its development. Three times - in 1918, 1945 and again in 1989 -... -
Auroral Plasma Physics by Gotz Paschmann 9781402009631
Booksplease Price: £91.36The present 15th volume of the ISSI Space Science Series is devoted to Auroral Plasma Physics. The aurora is arguably the most intriguing phenomenon in space plasma physics. Not only is it the most... -
Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities by Lynne Cameron 9781845534479
Booksplease Price: £28.65Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking - constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and an important way of using language - to explain abstract ideas or to find... -
Inelastic Particle-Surface Collisions: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Inelastic Ion-Surface Collisions Feldkirchen-Westerham, Fed. Rep. of Germany September 17-19, 1980 by Edmund C. Taglauer 9783642870675
Booksplease Price: £90.56The interaction of particles and photons with solid surfaces is interdisci- plinary in character, so that very recent developments in solid-state phys- ics, surface physics and atomic physics...