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Using Basic Personality Research to Inform Personality Pathology by Douglas B. Samuel
Booksplease Price: £70.76Personality pathology, which is characterized by a pervasive, maladaptive, and inflexible pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, has long been considered a set of categories that are distinct... -
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs... -
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Bjorkman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor... -
Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland by David Stradling 9780801453618
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.19In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake... -
Imagination in Theory: Essays on Culture and Writing by Michele Barrett 9780745616674
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, social theory, feminism, and literary theory. ... -
International Labor Standards: History, Theory, and Policy Options by Kaushik Basu 9781405105569
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £45.61This book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards. A... -
Australia's Empire by Deryck Schreuder 9780199273737
Booksplease Price: £54.96This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself. The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in... -
Social Movements for Global Democracy by Jackie Smith 9780801887444
Booksplease Price: £31.06This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the struggle to define the course of globalization. Synthesizing extensive research on transnational activism, Social Movements for Global Democracy... -
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique by Nuno Domingos 9780821422625
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques... -
The Social Impact of Advertising: Confessions of an (Ex-)Advertising Man by Tony Kelso 9781538101148
Booksplease Price: £51.50Composed with a touch of the panache of a former advertising copywriter, Kelso challenges readers to reflect on the social impact of advertising from multiple angles. The book uniquely combines... -
Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America by Joan L. Bryant 9780195312973
Booksplease Price: £25.49Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became... -
The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife by Katherine Low 9780567662477
Booksplease Price: £40.79The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It... -
Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story Dave Eggers 9781529524130
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Author Dave Eggers and artist Julia Sarda spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of ingenuity.It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it... -
The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality by Cathie Jo Martin 9781107603646
Booksplease Price: £30.55Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political... -
Informal Carers and Private Law by Brian Sloan 9781849462815
Booksplease Price: £112.13Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial and essential services for elderly and disabled people. In doing so, many such informal... -
Creating Healthy Library Workplaces: Five Factors That Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Jason Martin 9798216190103
Booksplease Price: £95.49This practical guide, written from different perspectives and applying to all library types, explains how to create healthy library workplaces.While library work is often imbued with a strong sense... -
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 by Gauvin Alexander Bailey 9780802085078
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05When the Jesuit missionaries ventured from Europe to newly discovered territories in Asia and Latin America, they brought with them the rich traditions of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture... -
Dissent: Voices of Conscience by Ann Wright 9781608465842
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60During the run-up to war in Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.) and diplomat Ann Wright resigned her State Department post in protest. Wright, who had spent 19 years in the military and 16 years in diplomatic... -
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism by John S. Ahlquist
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members... -
Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta by Jennifer Jahner
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.49The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only... -
Black Country by Liz Berry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014*'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...'In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty... -
Science and Judicial Reasoning: The Legitimacy of International Environmental Adjudication by Katalin Sulyok
Booksplease Price: £111.44Science, which inevitably underlies environmental disputes, poses significant challenges for the scientifically untrained judges who decide such cases. In addition to disrupting ordinary fact-finding... -
The Quick Lawrence Sail 9781780372556
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Lawrence Sail's new collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. He reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosm, looking for example at flowers, birds, the sea,... -
News Hole: The Demise of Local Journalism and Political Engagement by Danny Hayes
Booksplease Price: £27.60In recent decades, turnout in US presidential elections has soared, education levels have hit historic highs, and the internet has made information more accessible than ever. Yet over that same... -
Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data Michael Friendly 9781498725835
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £80.35An Applied Treatment of Modern Graphical Methods for Analyzing Categorical DataDiscrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data presents an applied... -
Literary Criticisms of Law by Guyora Binder
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £65.11In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also... -
Africas Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 19972008 by Walter C. Soderlund
Booksplease Price: £37.44Africa's Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history - a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions - and changing norms of international intervention... -
Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process Leslie S. Greenberg 9781572302013
Booksplease Price: £44.29While emotions are often given a negative connotation people are described as being too emotional or as needing to control their emotions this book demonstrates that emotions are organizing processes... -
A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N. G. Howell 9780198540120
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £52.16This is a completely new in-depth field guide to the 1,070 bird species, including North American migrants, found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and western Nicaragua. More than... -
Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism by George Crowder 9780745624761
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George... -
Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide by David Held 9780745639109
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.11Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization - are these the... -
Imagination in Theory: Essays on Culture and Writing by Michele Barrett 9780745616667
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, social theory, feminism, and literary theory. ... -
Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity by Melanie Killen 9781405176514
RRP: £85.95Booksplease Price: £76.02Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others... -
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett 9781478005018
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs... -
In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism by John S. Ahlquist 9780691158563
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £96.33In the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members... -
Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis by Terence C. Halliday 9780804760751
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that... -
Social Movements for Global Democracy by Jackie Smith 9780801887437
Booksplease Price: £55.47This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the struggle to define the course of globalization. Synthesizing extensive research on transnational activism, Social Movements for Global Democracy... -
Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win by Jeffrey Record 9781597970914
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong-more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude 9780745342122
Booksplease Price: £87.84On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus... -
Causes and Consequences of Democratization: The regions of Russia by Anastassia V. Obydenkova 9781138818187
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In recent decades, the regions of Russia have taken different paths of regime transition. Despite the consolidation of an autocratic regime at national level and the centralization steered by...