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The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives Sonja Brentjes 9781032444970
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major... -
Terror: When Images Become Weapons Charlotte Klonk 9781526147134
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54In June 2016, a French policeman was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb. His assailant gained access to the victim's flat, where he murdered the policeman's partner in front of their three-year-old... -
The Entrepreneur as Business Leader: Cognitive Leadership in the Firm by Silke Scheer 9781848443334
Booksplease Price: £106.02An entrepreneur who decides to found a firm and to hire employees has to tackle two central problems: their employees' coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and... -
The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe: From Guestworkers to Global Talent Zeynep Yanasmayan 9780367583842
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The increasing global competition of knowledge economies has begun a new era of labour migration, as economies chase 'the best and the brightest': the movement of highly skilled workers. This book... -
The Roots of Language Learning: Infant Language Acquisition by Monika Molnar 9781119006909
Booksplease Price: £37.57The contributions to this special issue were selected from a wealth of studies presented at the first Workshop on Infant Language Development held in Europe (Donostia, Spain) including keynote talks... -
Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe: Relations, Borders and Invisibilities by Ida Harboe Knudsen 9781783084128
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies,... -
The Intelligence of Intuition by Gerd Gigerenzer 9781009304863
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.55People often confuse intuition with a sixth sense or the arbitrary judgments of inept decision makers. In this book, Gerd Gigerenzer analyzes the war on intuition in the social sciences beginning... -
Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property: Volume 6 Hanns Ullrich 9781035339815
Booksplease Price: £112.11The 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... -
Modern Cosmology Scott Dodelson 9780443288289
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £76.82Modern Cosmology, Third Edition provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology. Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric,... -
The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe Hannah Pool 9780197812280
Booksplease Price: £22.48To seek asylum, people often have to cross borders undocumented, embarking on perilous trajectories. Due to the war in Afghanistan, the rule of the Taliban, and severe human rights violations, over... -
Understanding the Company: Corporate Governance and Theory by Barnali Choudhury 9781316509364
Booksplease Price: £32.12What is the purpose of the company and its role in society? From their origin in medieval times to their modern incarnation as powerful transnational bodies, companies remain an important part of... -
The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe by Hannah Pool 9780197812273
Booksplease Price: £88.86To seek asylum, people often have to cross borders undocumented, embarking on perilous trajectories. Due to the war in Afghanistan, the rule of the Taliban, and severe human rights violations, over... -
Vector Media Leonardo Impett 9781517921675
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Dispelling the notion of "generative" AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space-a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian... -
Sludge Management by Bhola Gurjar
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.24Sludge Management provides up-to-date information on sludge treatment, reuse and disposal. A comprehensive coverage of all issues related to sludge management is included with local through global... -
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.95Winner of the William James Book AwardWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award"A landmark in our understanding of human development."-Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You're Told"Magisterial..... -
Bayesian Methods for Interaction and Design by John H. Williamson
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.80Intended for researchers and practitioners in interaction design, this book shows how Bayesian models can be brought to bear on problems of interface design and user modelling. It introduces and... -
Michelangelo. The Complete Paintings, Sculptures and Arch. by Frank Zoellner
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,... -
Public Finance and Public Policy: A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government by Arye L. Hillman
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £97.46This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are... -
Quantum Fields - From the Hubble to the Planck Scale by Michael Kachelriess
Booksplease Price: £51.33This book introduces quantum field theory, together with its most important applications to cosmology and astroparticle physics, in a coherent framework. The path integral approach is employed right... -
Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation by Stavros Stavrides 9781526135605
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.22This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration. There is a growing discussion on the cultural meaning and politics of urban... -
Quantum Fields: From the Hubble to the Planck Scale by Michael Kachelriess 9780198802877
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £78.09This book introduces quantum field theory, together with its most important applications to cosmology and astroparticle physics, in a coherent framework. The path integral approach is employed right... -
Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944 by Emily K. Brock 9780870718090
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Around the start of the last century, the forests of the Pacific Northwest were viewed as dynamic sites of industrial production, and also as natural landscapes of ecological integrity. These... -
Public Finance and Public Policy: A Political Economy Perspective on the Responsibilities and Limitations of Government by Arye L. Hillman 9781316501801
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.11This new edition restructures and updates the political economy view of the responsibilities and limitations of government. Public-choice and behavioural concepts are prominent. Gender issues are... -
Democracy beyond the State?: The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order by Michael Th. Greven 9780847699018
Booksplease Price: £44.31Political authority in todayOs leading democracies rests on generally shared perceptions by a given people that their government is responsible to them and considers each individual citizen equal... -
The Stumbling Progress of 20th Century Science: How Crises and Great Minds Have Shaped Our Modern World by Lars Jaeger 9783031096174
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £16.96The 70 years from 1880 to 1950 witnessed the final ascent of humankind into the modern age. Historically, this period is characterized by deep political, social and economic crises. However, parallel... -
Market Entry and Competition Law in Latin America: The Role of Economic Development in Antitrust Analysis by Francisco Eduardo Beneke Avila 9783662623497
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.79This book explores the relationship between market entry analysis in competition law and the study of the determinants of aggregate investment. Macroeconomic and social characteristics, such as... -
Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition by James P. Blevins 9780199547548
RRP: £132.50Booksplease Price: £108.22In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in... -
Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs by Colin Crouch 9780199286652
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £52.92Over the last decade the neo-institutionalist literature on comparative capitalism has developed into an influential body of work. In this book, Colin Crouch assesses this literature, and proposes a... -
Michelangelo. Complete Works by 9783836586122
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship by Ayelet Shachar 9780198805861
RRP: £49.49Booksplease Price: £47.88Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in... -
The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue by Ayelet Shachar 9781526145314
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed... -
Child Care and Preschool Development in Europe: Institutional Perspectives by Kirsten Scheiwe 9780230537446
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms... -
Biomimetic Lipid Membranes: Fundamentals, Applications, and Commercialization by Fatma N. Koek 9783030115951
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book compiles the fundamentals, applications and viable product strategies of biomimetic lipid membranes into a single, comprehensive source. It broadens its perspective to interdisciplinary... -
Business Services in European Economic Growth by Luis Rubalcaba 9780230002029
Booksplease Price: £90.56The business services sector contributes heavily to European economic growth. Yet links between business services, and their role in economic growth remain under-explored. This volume provides a... -
Strong Gravitational Lensing Joachim Wambsganss 9789402423563
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.38This book contains up-to-date review articles on all important aspects of strong gravitational lensing, written by the top experts in the field. The chapters cover themes like the search for strong... -
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: National Narratives, Multiple Identities and Minorities by Katayoun Alidadi 9781032095370
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the... -
Files: Law and Media Technology by Cornelia Vismann
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be... -
Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI Nikita Braguinski 9781032062198
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Mathematical Music offers a concise and easily accessible history of how mathematics was used to create music. The story presented in this short, engaging volume ranges from ratios in antiquity to... -
Semiclassical Soliton Ensembles for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation (AM-154) by Spyridon Kamvissis 9780691114828
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.19This book represents the first asymptotic analysis, via completely integrable techniques, of the initial value problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the semiclassical asymptotic... -
Civil Society and Financial Regulation: Consumer Finance Protection and Taxation after the Financial Crisis by Lisa Kastner 9780367887209
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Coalitions of consumer groups, NGOs, and trade unions have traditionally been considered politically weak compared to well-organized and resourceful financial sector groups which dominate or...