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The Telengits of Southern Siberia: Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion Agnieszka Halemba (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9781138500174
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04In a new and engaging study, Halemba explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai. The book provides an account of the Altai, its peoples, clans and political structures,... -
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism: New Directions Steven Vertovec (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) 9780415508827
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or 'plural' societies have arguably been both... -
Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives N. J. Enfield (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) 9780521872454
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £61.65How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smith'), reduced name ('Bob'), description ('tall... -
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics: The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011 by Jeremiah James 9783110239539
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £62.60This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history... -
Modern Biophysical Chemistry: Detection and Analysis of Biomolecules Peter Jomo Walla (Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Ge) 9783527337736
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.28This updated and up-to-date version of the first edition continues with the really interesting stuff to spice up a standard biophysics and biophysical chemistry course. All relevant methods used in... -
Monks, Money, and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9781350213753
Booksplease Price: £80.73Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks, temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,... -
Mechanics of Sound Generation in Flows: Joint Symposium Goettingen/Germany, August 28-31, 1979 Max-Planck-Institut fur Stroemungsforschung by E.-A. Muller 9783642814112
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Symposium on "The Mechanics of Sound Generation in FLows" th st was held in Gottingen, Germany, 28 - 31 August 1979, at the joint initiative of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied... -
Seminar on New Results in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: A Publication of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn by Anthony Tromba 9783322850515
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book consists almost entirely of papers delivered at the Seminar on partial differential equations held at Max-Planck-Institut in the spring of 1984. They give an insight into important recent... -
The Political Thought of Thomas Spence: Beyond Poverty and Empire Matilde Cazzola (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany) 9781032062983
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750-1814), who was renowned for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private... -
Viruses: More Friends Than Foes Karin Moelling (Univ Of Zurich, Switzerland & Max Planck Inst For Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany) 9789813147812
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes... -
Physical Chemistry of Ionic Materials: Ions and Electrons in Solids Joachim Maier (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany) 9781119799108
RRP: £99.95Booksplease Price: £91.52Physical Chemistry of Ionic Materials Discover the physical chemistry of charge carriers in the second edition of this popular textbook Ionic and electronic charge carriers are critical to the... -
The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory: Being the Nobel Prize Address Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, 2 June, 1920 by Max Planck 9781396319280
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396319280Author Max PlanckFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten... -
Architecture, Democracy and Emotions: The Politics of Feeling since 1945 Till Grossmann (International Max Planck Graduate School Moral Economies, Berlin, Germany) 9780815357384
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings. Housing... -
The Major Languages of Western Europe Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. University of California Santa Barbara, USA.) 9780415047388
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £79.50Based on Bernard Comrie's The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The areas covered include Germanic languages, English, and Romance languages.About... -
Viruses: More Friends Than Foes (Revised Edition) Karin Moelling (Univ Of Zurich, Switzerland & Max Planck Inst For Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany) 9789811227578
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.72Coronavirus, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes... -
Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics: Simulation Models For A Post-cognitivist Science Of Mind Marieke Rohde (Max Planck Inst For Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany) 9789078677239
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £73.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078677239Author Marieke RohdeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Atlantis PressPublisher Atlantis... -
Phenomenological Aspects of Supersymmetry: Proceedings of a Series of Seminars Held at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik Munich, FRG, May to November 1991 by Wolfgang Hollik 9783662139103
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although the Standard Model of strong and electroweak interactions describesparticle physics phenomena up to the vector boson mass scale very well, it is in general believed that it is not the... -
Classical and Quantum Mechanical Aspects of Heavy Ion Collisions: Symposium held at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, October 2-5, 1974 by Hanns Ludwig Harney 9783540070252
Booksplease Price: £46.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783540070252Author Hanns Ludwig HarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin... -
Reframing the Problem of Climate Change: From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions Klaus Hasselmann (Founding Director, Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Germany) 9781849714488
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the... -
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jurgen Renn 9780691218595
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human... -
Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration: A Novel Approach Employing Supersonic Microjets and Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by Karl Schmid 9783642268304
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma. This process, known as laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), relies on strongly driven plasma waves... -
Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration: A Novel Approach Employing Supersonic Microjets and Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by Karl Schmid 9783642199493
Booksplease Price: £92.58This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma. This process, known as laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), relies on strongly driven plasma waves... -
Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde: Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities Rachel Fountain Eames 9781350299863
Booksplease Price: £31.52Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos... -
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene by Jurgen Renn
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg,... -
Brief History Of Light And Those That Lit The Way, A Richard J Weiss (Formerly Of King's College London, Uk) 9789810223786
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26From Leonardo to Oppenheimer, from candles to lasers, from cave drawings to cinema, from stonehenge to quantum mechanics, from Genesis to the Big Bang, light has filled our thoughts, our way of life,... -
From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch by Erik E. Lehmann 9783030252366
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book celebrates the contributions of David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor at the School of Public and Environment Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University (USA), co-founder and co-editor of... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780226829340
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226829340Author Philip BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780226204574
Booksplease Price: £31.05The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg--and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and... -
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture by Peter L. Galison 9780691177908
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the... -
Essays in Science by Albert Einstein 9781453204832
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.25The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein's place in scientific history. In this fascinating collection of articles and... -
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology by Fredrik Barth
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £78.30One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology - British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures... -
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology by Fredrik Barth 9780226038292
Booksplease Price: £28.55One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology - British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures... -
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell
Booksplease Price: £17.99A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St... -
Tantric Psychophysics: A Structural Map of Altered States and the Dynamics of Consciousness by Shelli Renee Joye 9781644113684
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A bold synthesis of ancient sacred science, modern physics, and neuroscience designed to open access to higher consciousness* Explores how esoteric teachings from India and Tibet offer specific... -
The Biology of Complex Organisms: Creation and Protection of Integrity by Klaus Eichmann 9783034894098
Booksplease Price: £46.28On December 6, 1961, a contract was signed by which the research institute of the Wander AG in Freiburg became the Max-Planck-Institut fUr Immunbiologie. The transfer of ownership took place during a... -
Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU: Comparative and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges and Solutions by Elisabeth Wacker 9783658245375
Booksplease Price: £70.88The so-called 'refugee crisis' represents one of the biggest contemporary political and social challenges. Although many African countries have been dealing with forced migratory and refugee... -
Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek by Otto Koester 9780415651653
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern... -
Science And Scripture: How Science Deepens One's Understanding Of Biblical Passages Nathan Aviezer (Bar-ilan Univ, Israel) 9789811264306
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.37In recent years, many branches of science have been revolutionized. Completely new disciplines now occupy a central place in modern scientific thought, and Aviezer contributes to the discourse of... -
Noncommutative Coordinates for Symplectic Representations by Daniele Alessandrini 9781470471088
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £70.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDaniele Alessandrini, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, Olivier Guichard, Universite de...