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A Cultural History of Heredity Staffan Muller-Wille 9780226545707
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan... -
Setting Nutritional Standards - Theory, Policies, Practices by Elizabeth Neswald
Booksplease Price: £96.11Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing... -
Children of the Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Unaccompanied Refugee Youth In and en Route to Europe by Annika Lems 9781032072548
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Every year, thousands of young people on the run from war and persecution, or escaping poverty and chronic instability, make their way to Europe without their parents. Embarking on long and often... -
Post-Democracy by Colin Crouch 9780745633145
Booksplease Price: £46.29Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. ... -
A Cultural History of Heredity by Staffan Muller-Wille 9780226213484
Booksplease Price: £24.80It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan... -
Towards a Model Sales Law in the Greater Bay Area: A Comparative Study of Contract Law in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Hao Jiang 9781035317417
Booksplease Price: £100.17This book analyses the complex system of contract law operating in the Greater Bay Area and examines the independent legal systems of Hong Kong, Macau and China in light of the region's rapid... -
Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R by Frans Willekens 9783319083827
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book provides an introduction to multistate event history analysis. It is an extension of survival analysis, in which a single terminal event (endpoint) is considered and the time-to-event is... -
A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil by Catarina Woyames Dreher 9783031505386
Booksplease Price: £111.41This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation. Engaging with current debates in international law, the study introduces a... -
Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications by Andrea Fossati 9781447146391
Booksplease Price: £90.56The potential of consumer depth cameras extends well beyond entertainment and gaming, to real-world commercial applications. This authoritative text reviews the scope and impact of this rapidly... -
Linguistic Universals and Language Change by Jeff Good 9780199298495
Booksplease Price: £76.63This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of... -
Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art by Jas Elsner 9780192845955
Booksplease Price: £81.21Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human... -
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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration by Sandra M. Bucerius 9780190947330
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.45Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime and disorder. Members of some disadvantaged groups in all developed... -
Einstein's Berlin: In the Footsteps of a Genius by Dieter Hoffmann 9781421410401
Booksplease Price: £40.39Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932, just weeks before Hitler became... -
The Arab Spring, Civil Society, and Innovative Activism by Cenap Cakmak 9781137571762
Booksplease Price: £111.57This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental... -
Software Systems for Astronomy by Albert R. Conrad 9781461470571
Booksplease Price: £55.45This book covers the use and development of software for astronomy. It describes the control systems used to point the telescope and operate its cameras and spectrographs, as well as the web-based... -
Prescribing under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics by Tanya Stivers 9780199756759
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £25.62Antibiotics will soon no longer be able to cure common illnesses such as strep throat, sinusitis and middle ear infections as they have done for the last 60 years. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are... -
Geometry of Holomorphic Mappings by Sergey Pinchuk 9783031371486
Booksplease Price: £51.20This monograph explores the problem of boundary regularity and analytic continuation of holomorphic mappings between domains in complex Euclidean spaces. Many important methods and techniques in... -
Social Order through Contracts: A Study of the Qingshui River Manuscripts by Jian Qu 9789813349469
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is the first Western-language monograph on the study of the Qingshui River manuscripts. By examining over 3,000 contracts and other manuscripts, this book offers constructive insights into... -
The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration: Between Autonomy and the European Union by T. Faist 9781349541164
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration is the first cutting-edge volume presenting a comparative empirical investigation on the impact of the EU on migration policy at... -
The Faceless Terrorist: A Study of Critical Events in Tajikistan by Sophie Roche 9783030038427
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £71.18How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the same time? Is this just a matter of perspective and... -
From Open Secrets to Secret Voting: Democratic Electoral Reforms and Voter Autonomy by Isabela Mares 9781107495296
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27The expansion of suffrage and the introduction of elections are momentous political changes that represent only the first steps in the process of democratization. In the absence of institutions that... -
The Absolute Galois Group of a Semi-Local Field by Dan Haran 9783030891930
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is devoted to the structure of the absolute Galois groups of certain algebraic extensions of the field of rational numbers. Its main result, a theorem proved by the authors and Florian Pop... -
Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion by Priya Urs 9780198882954
Booksplease Price: £104.74The gravity of a crime or case features in various international and national legal frameworks for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. At the International Criminal Court... -
A New Introduction to Legal Method Paul Cliteur 9781032252957
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99A New Introduction to Legal Method provides a comprehensive overview of legal science and the scientific character of legal knowledge. In five chapters, the book analyses and explores: (i) legal... -
Natural Theology by William Paley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.62'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the... -
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind Brian Butterworth 9781529411287
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science. Elegantly... -
Comparative Law of Obligations by Dario M. Vicente 9781035320301
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £46.46This comprehensive book provides a comparative overview of legal institutions that intersect with everyday life: contracts, unilateral legal transactions, torts, negotiorum gestio and unjust... -
The Limits of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Legal Theorizing by Carl Constantin Lauterwein 9780367602895
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book compares the civil and common law approach to analyze the question - 'What sorts of conduct may the state legitimately make criminal?'. Through a comparative focus on an Australian and... -
Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism by Carlo Trigilia 9780631225355
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £91.00This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, this book identifies and describes the... -
Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History by Mirko Grmek 9780823280353
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from... -
Colloidal Transport in Porous Media by Fritz H. Frimmel 9783642090479
Booksplease Price: £94.24Colloids are known to be the often neglected phase for the transport of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. The book covers the basics of abiotic colloid characterization, of biocolloids and biofilms,... -
Economic Methods for Lawyers by Emanuel V. Towfigh 9781788111249
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.47Responding to the growing importance of economic reasoning in legal scholarship, this innovative work provides an essential introduction to the economic tools which can usefully be employed in legal... -
Statistical Data Analysis by Glen Cowan 9780198501565
RRP: £132.50Booksplease Price: £111.26This book is a guide to the practical application of statistics in data analysis as typically encountered in the physical sciences. It is primarily addressed at students and professionals who need to... -
General Relativity: A Geometric Approach by Malcolm Ludvigsen 9780521639767
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £50.23Starting with the idea of an event and finishing with a description of the standard big-bang model of the Universe, this textbook provides a clear and concise introduction to the theory of general... -
Media as Politics in South Asia by Sahana Udupa 9780367885113
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first... -
Supergravity: From First Principles to Modern Applications by Gianguido Dall'Agata 9783662639788
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book is about supergravity, which combines the principles of general relativity and local gauge invariance with the idea of supersymmetries between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. The...