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Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers by R. L. Victoria Poehls 9783837658804
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £32.76What makes a reading experience "powerful"? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader... -
The Concept of an International Organization in International Law by Lorenzo Gasbarri 9780192895790
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £98.32Despite their exponential growth in number and activities, there is not an established legal concept of an international organization. This book tackles the topic by examining the nature of the legal... -
Realization and Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems: A Festschrift in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Thanos Antoulas by Christopher Beattie 9783030951597
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book celebrates Professor Thanos Antoulas's 70th birthday, marking his fundamental contributions to systems and control theory, especially model reduction and, more recently, data-driven... -
Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Maximo Sozzo 9783030986018
Booksplease Price: £112.12This edited collection addresses the topic of prison governance which is crucial to our understanding of contemporary prisons in Latin America. It presents social research from Nicaragua, the... -
Dielectric Properties of Ionic Liquids by Marian Paluch 9783319324876
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book discusses the mechanisms of electric conductivity in various ionic liquid systems (protic, aprotic as well as polymerized ionic liquids). It hence covers the electric properties of ionic... -
First-stage LISA Data Processing and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis: Ultraprecise Inter-satellite Laser Ranging, Clock Synchronization and Novel Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Algorithms by Yan Wang 9783319799476
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The core of the thesis is devoted to the... -
An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology Mark Stoneking 9781394262595
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £97.41A freshly updated discussion of the foundations of-and latest developments in-molecular anthropology In the newly revised second edition of An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology, retired... -
Wastework: Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor Francesca Borgo 9788833672793
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Paper scraps, metal filings, wool shearings... dismantled sets, spoiled rags, animal blood... How did these ostensibly worthless by-products of art and industry avoid the flames of the kitchen... -
Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law by Marietta Auer 9781009445993
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.45This volume introduces the legal philosopher Adolf Reinach and his contributions to speech act theory, as well as his analysis of basic legal concepts and their relationship to positive law... -
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis by Josh Berson 9780520380493
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption-a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new... -
Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force: From the Early Modern Tradition to the Critical Philosophy by Tal Glezer
Booksplease Price: £32.12Kant's category of reality is an often overlooked element of his Critique of Pure Reason. Tal Glezer shows that it nevertheless belongs at the core of Kant's mature critical philosophy: it captures... -
Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857-1940s by Eve Tignol
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.49Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates how they were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim community identity and for political... -
Understanding Morphology by Martin Haspelmath
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.34This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as... -
Innovation in Local Economies: Germany in Comparative Context by Colin Crouch 9780199551170
Booksplease Price: £59.70The study of varieties of capitalism is moving on from the analysis of static national types to embrace local and sectoral diversity and the study of systems in the process of major change. This... -
Synthesis, Properties and Mineralogy of Important Inorganic Materials by Terence E. Warner 9780470746110
Booksplease Price: £48.40Intended as a textbook for courses involving preparative solid-state chemistry, this book offers clear and detailed descriptions on how to prepare a selection of inorganic materials that exhibit... -
The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life by Alf Ludtke 9780691008929
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.05Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in... -
Codes and Evolution: The Origin of Absolute Novelties by Marcello Barbieri 9783031584831
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £88.10This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. The author claims this experimental fact is... -
How Long Do We Live?: Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects by Elisabetta Barbi 9783540785194
Booksplease Price: £90.56How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m... -
Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century by A. P. Lobanov 9783540397557
Booksplease Price: £90.56In the coming decades, astrophysical science will benefit enormously from the construction and operation of several major international ground- and space based facilities, such as ALMA,... -
How Einstein Found His Field Equations: Sources and Interpretation by Michel Janssen 9783030979577
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £76.10Einstein's field equations of gravitation are a core element of his general theory of relativity. In four short communications to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in November 1015, we can... -
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: 6th European Conference, PKDD 2002, Helsinki, Finland, August 19-23, 2002, Proceedings by Tapio Elomaa 9783540440376
Booksplease Price: £46.58We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (LNAI 2430) and the 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in... -
Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property: Volume 3 by Hanns Ullrich
Booksplease Price: £105.00The fields of intellectual property have broadened and deepened in so many ways that commentators struggle to keep up with the ceaseless rush of developments and hot topics. Kritika: Essays on... -
The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology by David Sepkoski
Booksplease Price: £35.42The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the... -
Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics by Madeleine Reeves
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions... -
Berkeley Lectures on p-adic Geometry by Peter Scholze
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £61.76Berkeley Lectures on p-adic Geometry presents an important breakthrough in arithmetic geometry. In 2014, leading mathematician Peter Scholze delivered a series of lectures at the University of... -
Biophysics for Beginners: A Journey through the Cell Nucleus Helmut Schiessel 9789814241656
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.35Biophysics is a new way of looking at living matter. It uses quantitative experimental and theoretical methods to open a new window for studying and understanding life processes.This textbook gives... -
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow 9780141026473
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So... -
Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times by Salvatore Ciriacono 9781845450656
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46A fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various... -
How Long Do We Live?: Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects by Elisabetta Barbi 9783642097270
Booksplease Price: £92.61How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m... -
Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780190494629
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £51.75How do people make decisions when time is limited, information unreliable, and the future uncertain? Based on the work of Nobel laureate Herbert Simon and with the help of colleagues around the... -
Evolutionary Pragmatics: Communicative Interaction and the Origins of Language Bart Geurts 9780192871206
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, which encompasses research on both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the... -
The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics by Erwin Hiebert 9783319066011
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohe... -
Natural Language Generation: Third International Conference, INLG 2004, Brockenhurst, UK, July 14-16, 2004, Proceedings by Anja Belz 9783540223405
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004) was held from 14th to 16th July 2004 at Careys Manor, Brockenhurst, UK. Supported by the Association for Computational... -
Raphael by Christof Thoenes 9783836532426
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply... -
X-Ray Microscopy: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Goettingen, Fed. Rep. of Germany, September 14-16, 1983 by Gunter Schmahl 9783662135471
Booksplease Price: £46.28X-ray microscopy fills a gap between optical and electron microscopy. Using soft x-rays, a resolution higher than with visible light can be obtained. In comparison to electron microscopy, thick, wet,... -
Identities in touch between East and West: 11th to 21st century by Luciano Gallinari 9783034344975
RRP: £51.85Booksplease Price: £46.66This book is one of the publications of the bilateral Egyptian-Italianresearch project "Intercultural Relations between East andWest from the 11th to 21st century" funded by Academy of... -
Cell Press Reviews: Core Concepts in Cell Biology by Cell Press 9780124201934
Booksplease Price: £24.19Written by leading cell biologists and curated by Cell Press editors, reviews in the Cell Press Reviews: Core Concepts in Cell Biology publication informs, inspires, and connects cell biologists at... -
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Advances and Perspectives of Neuronanomedicine by Lina Machtoub
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05Recently, the implication of biocompatible nanotechnologies has set the stage for an evolutionary leap in diagnostic imaging and therapy. In this scope, the book presents a comprehensive overview of... -
The Legal Environment of Translation by Guillermo Cabanellas 9781138790803
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55Translation is subject to a complex and unique set of legal rules that govern its various practical and intellectual aspects. These rules derive from very different legal areas, such as intellectual... -
Brain Development and Cognition: A Reader Mark H. Johnson (Birkbeck College, London) 9780631217374
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £56.12The first edition of this successful reader brought together key readings in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience for students. Now updated in order to keep up with this fast moving...