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Tamed Village "Democracy": Elections, Governance and Clientelism in a Contemporary Chinese Village by Guohui Wang 9783642540578
Booksplease Price: £46.28Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents... -
Functional Differential Equations: Application of i-smooth calculus by A. V. Kim 9789048152117
Booksplease Price: £91.94Beginning with the works of N.N.Krasovskii [81, 82, 83], which clari fied the functional nature of systems with delays, the functional approach provides a foundation for a complete theory of... -
Training in Neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Conference on Neurosurgical Training and Research, Munich, October 6-9, 1996 by H. J. Reulen 9783709174197
Booksplease Price: £46.74An International Conference on "Neurosurgical Training and Reserach" was held in Munich from October 6 - 9, 1996, under the auspices of the EANS, and organized by H.-J. Reulen and H.-J. Steiger... -
Lasers and Optical Engineering by Pankaj K. Das 9781461287643
Booksplease Price: £100.29A textbook on lasers and optical engineering should include all aspects of lasers and optics; however, this is a large undertaking. The objective of this book is to give an introduction to the... -
Introduction to Mathematical Models in Operations Planning by Halit Alper Tayalı 9781032192017
Booksplease Price: £20.99Discover the intricate nature of a company's production function and the comprehensive principles of planning operations in this book. Through practical applications and enriched by numerical... -
Galois Fields and Galois Rings Made Easy by 9781785482359
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £92.64This book constitutes an elementary introduction to rings and fields, in particular Galois rings and Galois fields, with regard to their application to the theory of quantum information, a field at... -
Evidence, Policy and Practice: Critical Perspectives in Health and Social Care by 9781847423191
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.28This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should... -
Evidence, policy and practice: Critical perspectives in health and social care by 9781847422842
Booksplease Price: £26.35This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should... -
Essays in Contextual Theology by Steve Bevans 9789004366718
Booksplease Price: £56.33Essays in Contextual Theology is a collection of essays that reflect on the doing of contextual theology from several perspectives. After a general introductory essay, subsequent essays reflect on... -
The Pursuit of Excellence: The Uncommon Behaviors of the World's Most Productive Achievers by Patrick Lencioni
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.30"An absolute must-read if you care to live an excellent life." -Patrick LencioniA master class in achieving and sustaining excellence-even in the most challenging times-from the host of The Learning... -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus by Michael Morris
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein's... -
Through Writing to Reading: Classroom Strategies for Supporting Literacy Brigid Smith 9780415096140
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The question of how the problems of slow readers can be caught early and remedied has been much in the news lately. In this very practical book for teachers and support teachers, based on extensive... -
Choices and Changes: Interest Groups in the Electoral Process by Michael M. Franz
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.38Analyses new electioneering tactics adopted by interest groups in the wake of a changing legal and political environment from the mid-1990sAnalyses new electioneering tactics adopted by interest... -
William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow 9780064430678
Booksplease Price: £7.01"An excellent book about a boy named William who wants the forbidden-a doll. The long-awaited realistic handling of this theme makes it a landmark book."-School Library JournalMore than anything,... -
Women, Madness and Medicine Denise Russell 9780745612614
Booksplease Price: £19.86This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing at both an epistemological... -
Choosing General Practice: Your Career Guide by Anne Hastie 9781405170703
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This book takes the reader through the various aspects of a career in general practice from the time of applying to medical school until retirement. It will be a practical guide for anyone who is... -
The New Economy of Oil: Impacts on Business, Geopolitics and Society. by John Mitchel 9781853837968
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89'The global oil industry is an exceptionally complex one, and its importance to governments, business and society as a whole is immense...The New Economy of Oil aims to set out the challenges and... -
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism by Janet Stewart 9780415221764
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the... -
Translational Research in Genetics and Genomics by Moyra Smith 9780195313765
Booksplease Price: £76.18In this new book, noted geneticist and veteran OUP author, Moyra Smith, will present a comprehensive critical review of the translation of genetic and genomic research into health care. Dr. Smith's... -
A Say in the End of the World: Morals and British Nuclear Weapons Policy 1941-1987 by Roger Ruston 9780198275657
Booksplease Price: £49.60More than forty years of commitment to nuclear weapons may have prepared Britain to take part in Armageddon, but not to defend itself against attack. What made British governments choose this path... -
Anthropology and Religion: What We Know, Think, and Question by Robert L. Winzeler 9780759121898
Booksplease Price: £112.43Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and... -
Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991 by Jeanne Colleran 9781349434992
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.41How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in... -
Primate Adaptation and Evolution John Fleagle 9780128158098
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £48.34Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a thorough updating of... -
Britain and the H-Bomb by L. Arnold 9780312235185
Booksplease Price: £91.98This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the... -
Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus by Kathy Eden 9780300087574
Booksplease Price: £61.79Erasmus' Adages-a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity-was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning... -
An Introduction to Relativity by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar 9780521735612
Booksplease Price: £50.53General relativity is now an essential part of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. This simple, user-friendly introduction to relativity is ideal for... -
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire by Simon MacLean 9780521819459
Booksplease Price: £102.51This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876-888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen... -
Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and Virtue by Jeanine Grenberg 9780521131216
Booksplease Price: £45.31In previous years, philosophers have either ignored the virtue of humility or found it to be in need of radical redefinition. But humility is a central human virtue, and it is the purpose of this... -
Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations by Lynn Rapaport 9780521588096
Booksplease Price: £41.37What is it like to be Jewish and to be born and raised in Germany after the Holocaust? Based on remarkably candid interviews with nearly one hundred German Jews, Lynn Rapaport's book reveals a rare... -
Pain Medicine – A Multidisciplinary Approach by Siu Lun Tsui 9789888028160
Booksplease Price: £68.43This is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and multi-national textbook on pain medicine. The book is constructed by experts from different medical specialties and allied healthcare professions. The... -
Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law by Elizabeth Kolsky 9781107404137
Booksplease Price: £35.47Colonial Justice in British India describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of European... -
The Imposter's Trail: An FBI Mystery Thriller J.C. Fields 9781036706487
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Some killers leave bodies. The worst leave questions. A plane vanishes over the Indian Ocean. A woman dies in Illinois. Sean Kruger sees the pattern no one else can-Randolph Bishop's signature... -
Theory of Elasticity for Scientists and Engineers by Teodor M. Atanackovic 9781461270973
Booksplease Price: £91.54This book is intended to be an introduction to elasticity theory. It is as sumed that the student, before reading this book, has had courses in me chanics (statics, dynamics) and strength of... -
The Paradigm Case: The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts by Bernard McCarron 9783034317801
RRP: £64.55Booksplease Price: £57.60With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of... -
Semi-Groups of Operators and Approximation by Paul Leo Butzer 9783642460685
Booksplease Price: £75.80In recent years important progress has been made in the study of semi-groups of operators from the viewpoint of approximation theory. These advances have primarily been achieved by introducing the... -
On the Catalytic Efficacy of Low-Oxidation State Group 14 Complexes by Terrance John Hadlington 9783319518060
Booksplease Price: £91.87This outstanding thesis describes a detailed investigation into the use of low-oxidation-state group 14 complexes in catalysis, developed at the cutting edge of inorganic and organometallic chemistry... -
Plasma Astrophysics: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae by Arnold O. Benz 9789401049153
Booksplease Price: £91.38This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and... -
Effective Parameters of Hydrogeological Models by Vikenti Gorokhovski 9783319374550
Booksplease Price: £92.05Geological models used in predictive hydrogeological modeling are not exact replicas of the objects they represent: many details related to structures and properties of the objects remain unknown... -
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Tamed Village "Democracy": Elections, Governance and Clientelism in a Contemporary Chinese Village by Guohui Wang 9783662514054
Booksplease Price: £46.74Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents... -
Economics For The Rest Of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal by Moshe Adler 9781595586414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A lively and accessible debunking of the two elements that make economics the 'science' of the rich: the definition of what is efficient and the theory of how wages are determined. The first is used...