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How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information Thomas S. Mullaney 9781324020783
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.21Our lives are collections of information—from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake... -
Phononic Crystals: Artificial Crystals for Sonic, Acoustic, and Elastic Waves by Vincent Laude 9783110637281
RRP: $225.11Booksplease Price: $153.78The book provides a comprehensive presentation of the topic of phononic and sonic crystals, including acoustic and elastic wave propagation in homogeneous and periodic media, Bloch waves and band... -
World State, Nation States, or Non-Centralized Institutions?: A Vision of the Future in Politics by Victor Segesvary 9780761824978
Booksplease Price: $85.89World state or nation-states? Democratic or hegemonic transnational order? Illusions and delusions. . . Ethnic conflicts, religious fundamentalism and evanescent, hard-to-grasp worldwide... -
Evolution and the Common Law by Allan C. Hutchinson 9780521849685
Booksplease Price: $90.18This book offers a radical challenge to accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily... -
Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique 9781848617728
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the poet's death, it is a dignified elegy that speaks... -
Near-field Microscopy And Near-field Optics by Daniel Courjon 9781860942587
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $114.05Near-field optics studies the behaviour of light fields in the vicinity of matter, where light is structured in propagating and evanescent fields. Near-field optical microscopy is the straightforward... -
Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications Krzysztof Iniewski (Emerging Technologies CMOS Inc., British Columbia, Canada) 9781138077645
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $137.90Sensor technologies are a rapidly growing area of interest in science and product design, embracing developments in electronics, photonics, mechanics, chemistry, and biology. Their presence is... -
Elegy On Toy Piano by Dean Young
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.95In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to... -
Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore by M. Rahim Shayegan
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.30The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus's foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond... -
The End of Representative Politics by Simon Tormey 9780745681962
Booksplease Price: $23.45Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast... -
Afterworld by Christine Garren 9780226284088
Booksplease Price: $104.14Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with... -
Active Plasmonic Devices: Based on Magnetoplasmonic Nanostructures by Diana Martin Becerra 9783319484105
Booksplease Price: $118.81This thesis investigates the effect of the magnetic field on propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), or surface plasmons for short. Above all, it focuses on using the magnetic field as an... -
Italian Thought Today: Bio-economy, Human Nature, Christianity by Lorenzo Chiesa 9781138377639
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $55.22This collection provides English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publication of seminal books such as... -
Afterworld by Christine Garren 9780226284095
Booksplease Price: $33.09Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with... -
Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s by Iris Smith Fischer 9780472035182
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14The theater company Mabou Mines has for the past forty years created pathbreaking new theater by combining the latest concepts in music, visual arts, and technology with traditional forms of creative... -
Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale: Theory and Applications by Alexander I. Volokitin 9783662534731
Booksplease Price: $145.67This book provides a general formalism for the calculation of the spectral correlation function for the fluctuating electromagnetic field. The procedure is applied to the radiative heat transfer and... -
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is... -
A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali 9780393309249
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.77Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled,... -
The End of Representative Politics by Simon Tormey 9780745681955
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast. ... -
Pharaoh, Pharaoh: Poems by Claudia Emerson 9780807121597
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.74Written by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pharaoh, Pharaoh is a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of loss, loss of one's land, of one's past, of love itself... -
Psychology of Religion by Heije Faber 9780334049258
Booksplease Price: $35.00This book is written by a theologian, or to be more precise, by a theologian who is concerned professionally with religion and with pastoral psychology. The coming to terms with developments in the... -
Conceiving of Personality by Michael Robbins 9780300064223
Booksplease Price: $66.86The quest to comprehend the essence of human nature is as old as the capacity for reflective thought. In this provocative book, Dr. Michael Robbins proposes a new approach that draws upon... -
The Four Seasons: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing Amélie Balcou 9780847845705
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $25.65Embracing seasonal change is an important part of Japan s native belief system and an enduring theme of its creative expression. Japanese artists have long celebrated the endless cycle and rhythm of... -
Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
RRP: $32.90Booksplease Price: $25.59Six critics consider what is significantly not present-- or at least significantly well hidden-- in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates... -
Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 by Nicolas Barker
Booksplease Price: $23.08In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from... -
Scattering And Diffraction In Physical Optics (2nd Edition) by Manuel Nieto Vesperinas 9789812563408
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $138.64This book presents a comprehensive tutorial on propagation, diffraction and scattering problems from the basic principles of physical optics. Beginning with the fundamental differential and integral... -
Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale: Theory and Applications by Aleksandr I. Volokitin 9783662586204
Booksplease Price: $144.63This book provides a general formalism for the calculation of the spectral correlation function for the fluctuating electromagnetic field. The procedure is applied to the radiative heat transfer and... -
Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty by Martine Beugnet 9781474407120
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $122.61Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not... -
A Full Cone by Miles Champion 9781784104405
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96A Full Cone is Miles Champion's second Carcanet volume. It features a substantial body of new work as well as a selection of earlier writing hitherto unavailable in the UK. 'It has often been... -
Map of the Territory by Nigel Forde 9781903039694
Booksplease Price: $18.12Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years,... -
W. S. Graham: The Poem as Art Object by David Nowell Smith 9780192842909
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $114.19On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a... -
An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists': Ratnakirti's Ksanabhangasiddhih Vyatirekatmika by A. C. S. McDermott 9789401033893
Booksplease Price: $60.55I. RATNAKIRTI. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL CONGENERS AND ADVERSARIES Ratnakirti flourished early in the 11th century A. D. at the University of Vi- kramasila, a member of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school oflate... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods by M. Williams 9781349347155
Booksplease Price: $62.44Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists': Ratnakirti's Ksanabhangasiddhih Vyatirekatmika by A. C. S. McDermott 9789027700810
Booksplease Price: $60.29I. RATNAKIRTI. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL CONGENERS AND ADVERSARIES Ratnakirti flourished early in the 11th century A. D. at the University of Vi- kramasila, a member of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school oflate... -
D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Meditation, and Enlightenment by Steve Odin 9798855803037
Booksplease Price: $40.67A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious."This book explores how the Japanese... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9780230355446
Booksplease Price: $62.44Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
Whole Organ Approaches to Cellular Metabolism: Permeation, Cellular Uptake, and Product Formation by James Bassingthwaighte 9781461274490
Booksplease Price: $117.21The field of capillary-tissue exchange physiology has been galvanized twice in the past 25 years. A 1969 conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen resulted in the book Capillary... -
Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube by Paul Grainge 9781844574346
Booksplease Price: $47.01Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics of brevity and evanescence in the television and new media... -
The Vegetation and Physiography of Sumatra by Yves Laumonier 9789401065023
Booksplease Price: $117.21Fifteen years ago, approximately half the world population was estimated to live in continental and insular South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines). Then... -
Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics I: Basics and Theory of Near-Field Optics by Motoichi Ohtsu 9783642078019
Booksplease Price: $118.45This volume focuses on fundamental aspects of nano-electro-optics. Starting with fiber probes and related devices for generating and detecting the optical near-field with high efficiency and...