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The American Prison Business Jessica Mitford 9781032355566
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business. From the first demonstration that the... -
Death and the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity and Emotional Communities by Maria E. Doerfler 9781009573788
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £100.32In late antiquity as in the present age, death left its mark on the lives of families, communities, and societies. Syriac funerary hymns provide important insights into the social, emotional,... -
The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development by Shaohua Zhan
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an... -
Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy Sieglinde Gstoehl 9781138361966
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Despite growing scholarly interest in the EU's flagship policy towards its Eastern and Southern neighbours, serious attempts at theory-building on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have been... -
The American Prison Business by Jessica Mitford
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business. From the first demonstration that the... -
Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. VII): Bridging the Gap between Advertising Academia and Practice by George Christodoulides 9783658215149
Booksplease Price: £90.56Focusing on a range of advertising formats, this book provides international state-of-the-art research inter alia on the fast evolving and increasingly complex advertising landscape that raises a... -
The Divine and the Demonic: Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India Graham Dwyer 9780415753968
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents,... -
Blumenberg’s Rhetoric by DS Mayfield 9783110995749
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher's most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg's Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled... -
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding... -
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Professor Finola O'Kane
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians,... -
Intra-individual Variation in Language by Lars Bulow 9783110742855
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £77.62This volume offers several empirical, methodological, and theoretical approaches to the study of observable variation within individuals on various linguistic levels. With a focus on German... -
Transience, Transcendence, and Timelessness: Insights from Early Jewish Literature by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen 9783119149174
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £65.10Transience and death are central concerns for many people. Indeed, the fear of death and the attempts to counter it have underscored the worldview of human cultures and civilisations since time... -
Aircraft Carrier Impero: The Axis Powers V-1 Carrying Capital Ship by D. Jabes 9781781556771
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69From late 1941 Italy had been developing a secret project with her German allies to move the V1 wunderwaffen aboard aircraft carriers. Hitler required one million victims to get the British and... -
Methods of Accelerated Convergence in Nonlinear Mechanics by N. N. Bogoljubov 9783642619021
Booksplease Price: £46.28This monograph deals with some of the latest results in nonlinear mechanics, obtained recently by the use of a modernized version of Bogoljubov's method of successive changes of variables which... -
Language as a Local Practice by Alastair Pennycook
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial... -
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud by Ehud Ben Zvi 9783110762921
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £26.99Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and... -
Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt: International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development by B. Vivekanandan 9783319815800
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyses the global visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt, European social democratic statesmen who earned international esteem for their contributions to global... -
FrC 21 Timokles by Kostas Apostolakis 9783946317418
Booksplease Price: £108.46From some points of view, Timocles departs from the norm of his time, and in particular from near-contemporary comedians such as Alexis, Eubulus and Antiphanes, and appears to be the most... -
Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt: International Peace and Security, Co-operation, and Development by B. Vivekanandan 9783319337104
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyses the global visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt, European social democratic statesmen who earned international esteem for their contributions to global... -
The Historical Collections of Walter of Coventry by William Stubbs 9781108051125
Booksplease Price: £49.54Little is known about Walter of Coventry (fl.1293) beyond the fact that he was alive during the reign of Edward I and that this substantive historical compilation was prepared either by him or under... -
Rational Expectations by Steven M. Sheffrin 9780521474009
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57Economists have developed models in which individuals form expectations of key variables in a 'rational' manner such that these expectations are consistent with actual economic environments... -
Unions and Politics in Mexico: The Case of the Automobile Industry by Ian Roxborough 9780521102681
Booksplease Price: £32.12The orthodox view of Mexican history asserts that the political stability and rapid economic growth of the post-war period were due inter alia to state control over the labour movement. On the... -
The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre Tilman Schwarze 9781839998317
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34This edited volume explores the sociology of Lefebvre and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. Contributors explore the sociological Lefebvre across a number of topics, including the... -
The Colombian Peace Agreement: A Multidisciplinary Assessment Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora 9780367528867
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the... -
Prima Facie: Based on the award-winning play starring Jodie Comer by Suzie Miller 9781804945261
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Compelling and human . . . a political rallying cry' New York Times'Bold, fearless and heartbreaking' Elle Magazine'It has been an absolute joy to return to Tessa's story . . . My hope is that it... -
Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education - A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan by Ivar Bleiklie 9789048168828
Booksplease Price: £92.81In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their... -
50 Italian Coffee Breaks: Short activities to improve your Italian one cup at a time by Coffee Break Languages
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £5.50Transform your down time into 'do time'.The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 Italian Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of... -
Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education - A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan by Ivar Bleiklie 9781402034893
Booksplease Price: £90.86In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their... -
Competence Assessment in Dementia by European Dementia Consensus Network 9783211999035
Booksplease Price: £48.401 Dementia and related disorders affect the suffer- minimal standards of care for people with dementia , ers' ability to perform activities of daily living and the improvement of access to diagnosis... -
Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom by Ted Laros 9781683930150
Booksplease Price: £81.47In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations... -
The English Book Trade: An Economic History of the Making and Sale of Books Marjorie Plant 9781032898247
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £74.49Originally published in 1938, and as a third edition in 1974, this volume presents the results of original research into the economic aspects of the transition from the medieval manuscript to the... -
Roman Catholics in England: Studies in Social Structure Since the Second World War by Michael P. Hornsby-Smith 9780521090063
Booksplease Price: £31.24This book is about change in the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales. It argues that in the post-war years of economic growth and expanded educational opportunities, Catholics born in Great... -
Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe (1945-2013) by Nico Wouters 9781780682143
Booksplease Price: £72.18What lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how? This question is as commonplace as it is essential. Efficient transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an... -
Environmental Crime in Europe by Andrew Farmer 9781509937455
Booksplease Price: £43.63"Environmental crime is a growing challenge for policy makers and law enforcers. This is an important and timely study which examines in depth how environmental crime is treated at national... -
The Contractual Nature of the Optional Clause by Gunnar Torber 9781509917686
Booksplease Price: £44.61The International Law Commission's Guiding Principles for Unilateral Declarations and its Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties are among the recent developments in international law. These... -
The New Bail-In Legislation: An Analysis of European Banking Resolution by Angela Maria Maddaloni
Booksplease Price: £56.12Financial stability is a pillar of well-functioning financial markets. After the last financial crisis, European policymakers harmonised banking regulation and revised the framework of banking... -
Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Gierke 9780521347648
Booksplease Price: £32.12This re-issue of F. W. Maitland's translation of a vital section from Otto Gierke's monumental Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht makes available once again one of the seminal texts in the... -
International Trade and FDI: An Advanced Introduction to Regulation and Facilitation by Warnock Davies 9781637425046
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.99This book is for use in IMBA, MIB, LLM and other graduate programs; in university-based executive development programs; and in in-company seminars — and for use as a handbook and reference book by... -
The Correspondence of Isaac Newton by Isaac Newton 9780521085892
Booksplease Price: £103.01This fourth volume covers the period which was probably the most varied of Newton's whole career. The Principia had already established Newton as the world's foremost mathematician and natural... -
Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work - with Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science by Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman 9780792325666
RRP: £154.00Booksplease Price: £73.16Zygmunt Zawirski (1882-1948), an eminent and original Polish philosopher, belonged to the Lwow-Warsaw School (LWS) which left an indelible trace in logic, semiotics and philosophy of science. LWS was...