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Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives by Geoffrey L. J. Haig 9783110260014
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24The rapid decline in the world's linguistic diversity has prompted the emergence of documentary linguistics. While documentary linguistics aims primarily at creating a durable, accessible and... -
Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts Tomohiko Uyama (Hokkaido University, Japan) 9781138789197
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of... -
A Modern Approach to Critical Phenomena by Igor Herbut
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £53.97Critical phenomena is one of the most exciting areas of modern physics. This 2007 book provides a thorough but economic introduction into the principles and techniques of the theory of critical... -
Sexual Assault: Law Reform in a Comparative Perspective by Tatjana Hörnle
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Sexual assault law has been undergoing significant shifts around the world. Traditional criminal laws against sexual assault had a narrow scope: they targeted rape as coerced sexual intercourse, and... -
Overeducation in Europe: Current Issues in Theory and Policy by Felix Buchel 9781843763611
Booksplease Price: £116.18Overeducation is one of the most important mechanisms for labour market adjustment when there is an excess supply of highly skilled workers. However, there is much debate about the consequences of... -
Interpolatory Methods for Model Reduction by Athanasios C. Antoulas 9781611976076
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £63.55Dynamical systems are a principal tool in the modeling, prediction, and control of a wide range of complex phenomena. As the need for improved accuracy leads to larger and more complex dynamical... -
Innovation, Economic Growth and the Firm: Theory and Evidence of Industrial Dynamics by Jean-Luc Gaffard 9781847208323
Booksplease Price: £116.18This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit... -
Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings: The Homotopy Principle in Complex Analysis by Franc Forstneric 9783319610573
RRP: £149.99Booksplease Price: £72.18This book, now in a carefully revised second edition, provides an up-to-date account of Oka theory, including the classical Oka-Grauert theory and the wide array of applications to the geometry of... -
The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-century Picture Encyclopedia by Anke Te Heesen 9780226322865
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £78.24This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in... -
An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture: Text and Materials Russell A. Miller 9781316506370
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.74An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the... -
Compliance with European Consumer Law: The Case of E-Commerce Felix Pflücke 9780198906384
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.73European Consumer Law has adapted and evolved in response to the rapid growth of e-commerce in the last two decades. Compliance with European Consumer Law: The Case of E-Commerce examines the... -
Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780195153729
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £47.94Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to... -
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior Axel Börsch-Supan 9780226836355
Booksplease Price: £114.42A global analysis of the effects of social security reforms on the retirement incentives and labor force trends of older workers. Employment among older men and women has increased dramatically in... -
Oxygen Sensing in Tissues by Helmut Acker 9783642834462
Booksplease Price: £46.74Since oxygen is mainly transported by diffusion within tissue, the oxygen pressure field reflects the local balance between oxygen supply and oxygen consumption and characterizes the state of oxygen... -
24 Hours in Shogun’s Japan: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There Mark Hudson 9781789298550
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A day in 1614 Japan, told through 24 unforgettable lives, revealing the drama, danger and daily life of this pivotal era of Japanese history.In 1614, Japan stood at a crossroads. As the Tokugawa... -
Membrane Reactors: Distributing Reactants to Improve Selectivity and Yield by Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern 9783527320394
RRP: £123.95Booksplease Price: £110.91This authoritative work represents a broad treatment of the field, including the basic principles of membrane reactors, a comparative study of these and conventional fixed-bed reactors or multi-tube... -
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Understanding Children with Language Problems by Shula Chiat 9780521574747 [USED COPY]
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £2.00Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances. In this accessible introduction to children's language difficulties, Shula Chiat explores the stumbling... -
The Globalization Backlash by Colin Crouch 9781509533763
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist' plot to undermine traditional communities, and by... -
Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism?: Towards Social Accountability by Bryn Jones 9781848449701
Booksplease Price: £120.53Can business corporations be made more responsible for their actions? Abuses of corporate power, its responsibilities and scandals, pervade political, academic and public debates. In this important... -
Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India by Salah Punathil 9780367732943
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India. Going beyond the usual Hindu-Muslim question, it situates... -
Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity by Albert Rothenberg 9780199988792
Booksplease Price: £40.19Scientific breakthroughs have had far-reaching social and physical effects on modern civilization, yet until recently, there have been relatively few investigations into the nature of scientific... -
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine J. Daston 9780691006444
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.84What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more... -
The Inner World of Research: On Academic Labor by Stefan Svallfors 9781785273018
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The Inner World of Research is a book about the joys and miseries of life as a researcher. Dealing with essential but rarely mentioned topics in the everyday life of a researcher, it focuses, in... -
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science: 19th Conference, Chennai, India, December 13-15, 1999 Proceedings by C. Pandu Rangan 9783540668367
Booksplease Price: £49.44th This volume contains the proceedings of the 19 FST&TCS conference (Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science), - ganized under the auspices of the Indian Association... -
Decisions, Preferences, and Heuristics: An Introduction to Economic Psychology and Behavioral Economics Pere Mir-Artigues 9781035347452
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23This enlightening book comprehensively maps the current state of economic psychology and behavioural economics. Exploring key concepts, topics and models in the field, it is also a launching pad for... -
An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture: Text and Materials Russell A. Miller 9781107141131
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £97.02An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the... -
Transitional Justice after German Reunification: Exposing Unofficial Collaborators by Juan Espindola 9781107083127
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £61.35How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow... -
Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System by Darshan Vigneswaran 9780230391284
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book deconstructs territoriality in the context of current and past European politics to advance international relations scholars' understanding of the uses and limits of territory in European... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials by Eric Watkins 9780521781626
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £58.99This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in... -
Enduring Erosions: Environmental Displacement and Relocation on India’s Sinking Coasts by Arne Harms 9780824897536
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Talking to people as we make our way around the village, we learn about the consequences of coastal erosion. We hear about, and see, the progress made by the sea and the rather futile efforts to... -
Italian Banking and Financial Law: Intermediaries and Markets by Domenico Siclari 9781137507556
Booksplease Price: £122.04In today's increasingly global and integrated financial climate, there is an amplified need for cooperation between regulators and supervisors across the globe in order to promote economic growth and... -
High-Performance Computing and Networking: 8th International Conference, HPCN Europe 2000 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 8-10, 2000 Proceedings by Marian Bubak 9783540675532
Booksplease Price: £91.36This volume contains the proceedings of the international HPCN Europe 2000 event which was held in the Science and Technology Centre Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 8-10, 2000. HPCN... -
The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition: An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model by Dr Anke Lenzing 9781350203501
Booksplease Price: £36.66Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. The central... -
EU Civil Justice: Current Issues and Future Outlook by Burkhard Hess 9781849466820
Booksplease Price: £95.79This seventh volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series brings together some of the most prominent scholars working within the fast-evolving field of EU civil justice. Civil justice has an... -
Public Pensions and Economic Growth by Berthold U. Wigger 9783642077593
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book contains material that I have presented in seminars at the Universities of Bochum, Mannheim, Munich, Salerno, and Southern California at Los Angeles, the Institute for Advanced Studies in... -
The Enforcement of Securities Law in China: A Law and Economics Assessment by Wenming Xu 9789811909030
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book takes a law and economic approach to examine the securities law enforcement in China and provides an in-depth empirical analysis on the enforcement inputs and outputs. In contrast to... -
Creating R&D Incentives for Medicines for Neglected Diseases: An Economic Analysis of Parallel Imports, Patents, and Alternative Mechanisms to Stimulate Pharmaceutical Research by Frank Muller-Langer 9783834917300
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £84.67This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition Jennifer Cabrelli 9781108958417
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.65In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical... -
Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas by Aleksandra Lis
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland, the largest post-socialist EU member state... -
Beyond <i>Writing Culture</i>: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices by Olaf Zenker 9781845456757
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16"This is a book that will attract a great deal of attention among anthropologists and social scientists in general. It is a great advance on earlier critiques of Writing Culture (1986) that have...