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Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth by Annika Lems
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27As unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied African minors requested asylum in Europe in 2015, Annika Lems witnessed a peculiar dynamic: despite inclusionary language in official policy and broader... -
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind Brian Butterworth 9781529411256
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'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... -
The Psychology of Language and Communication Geoffrey Beattie (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781138734531
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This is a classic edition of Geoffrey Beattie's and Andrew Ellis' influential introduction to the psychology of human language and communication, now including a new reflective introduction from the... -
Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture, and Orientation Mapping Olaf Engler (Speira, Germany) 9781032189420
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £112.15Reflecting emerging methods and the evolution of the field, Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture, and Orientation Mapping keeps mathematics to a minimum in covering both... -
Selected Solution Manual for Chemistry by Jill Kirsten Robinson 9780135431924
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £88.34Contains solutions to all in-chapter problems, and solutions to even-numbered end-of-chapter problems.About the AuthorAbout our authors Jill K. Robinson received her Ph.D. in analytical and... -
Agency and Cognitive Development Michael Tomasello 9780198896579
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.15Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the... -
Linguistic Universals and Language Change by Jeff Good 9780199228997
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.56This 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... -
Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity by Stephen C. Levinson 9780521812627
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £116.70Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core... -
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai Lisa Björkman 9781517918934
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39The performative arts of political communication and representation in Mumbai In an era of global political passions, many have wondered whether some sort of natural affinity exists between... -
General and Statistical Thermodynamics by Raza Tahir-Kheli 9783030207021
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This textbook provides comprehensive information on general and statistical thermodynamics. It begins with an introductory statistical mechanics course, deriving all the important formulae... -
The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration: Between Autonomy and the European Union by Thomas Faist 9781403987136
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... -
Computational Multiscale Modeling of Fluids and Solids: Theory and Applications by Martin Steinhauser 9783642094408
Booksplease Price: £102.50Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on... -
Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting by Andreas Mayer 9780226057958
Booksplease Price: £51.35In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though their efforts to... -
Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity by Stephen C. Levinson
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.64Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core... -
European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy by Francesco Biagi
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.54This book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy... -
Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force by Erika De Wet 9780198784401
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £115.39In countries such as Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen, internationally recognized governments embroiled in protracted armed conflicts, and with very little control over their territory, have... -
Comparing Cultures: Innovations in Comparative Ethnography by Michael Schnegg 9781108487283
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57A new and important contribution to the re-emergent field of comparative anthropology, this book argues that comparative ethnographic methods are essential for more contextually sophisticated... -
Ether and Modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century by Jaume Navarro 9780198797258
Booksplease Price: £108.22Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as... -
Relabeling in Language Genesis by Claire Lefebvre 9780199945313
Booksplease Price: £51.63Relabeling is a process that assigns a lexical entry of language-x a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language-y. This process plays a central role in the formation of contact... -
The Intelligence of Intuition by Gerd Gigerenzer 9781009304894
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.09People 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... -
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change Jens Beckert 9781509565092
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop... -
Molecular Architectonics and Nanoarchitectonics by Thimmaiah Govindaraju 9789811641916
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.79This book is the ultimate assembly of recent research activities on molecular architectonics and nanoarchitectonics by authors who are worldwide experts. The book proposes new ways of creating... -
Advances in Quantum Mechanics: Contemporary Trends and Open Problems by Gianfausto Dell'Antonio 9783319589039
Booksplease Price: £90.86This volume collects recent contributions on the contemporary trends in the mathematics of quantum mechanics, and more specifically in mathematical problems arising in quantum many-body dynamics,... -
Evolution of Semantic Systems by Bernd Olaf Kuppers 9783642349966
Booksplease Price: £90.56Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of... -
The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics by Erwin Hiebert 9783319383521
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohe... -
Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History' by Nicole Boivin 9781108429801
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £107.38Globalization in Prehistory challenges traditional historical and archaeological discourse about the drivers of social and cultural connectivity in the ancient world. It presents archaeological case... -
Processing Syntax and Morphology: A Neurocognitive Perspective by Ina Bornkessel- Schlesewsky 9780199207817
Booksplease Price: £94.63This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for example whether language... -
Big Data in Radiation Oncology by Jun Deng
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Big Data in Radiation Oncology gives readers an in-depth look into how big data is having an impact on the clinical care of cancer patients. While basic principles and key analytical and processing... -
Behavioral Law and Economics by Eyal Zamir 9780190901356
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £42.65In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from the assumptions... -
The Geochemical Origin of Microbes by William F. Martin 9781032457673
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £69.43This is a textbook covering the transition from energy releasing reactions on the early Earth to energy releasing reactions that fueled growth in the first microbial cells. It is for teachers and... -
Semantics and Pragmatics: From Experiment to Theory by Richard Breheny 9780230579064
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key... -
Seeing Like a City Ash Amin (University of Durham; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) 9780745664262
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of... -
Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History by Mirko Grmek
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Mirko 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... -
What is the History of Knowledge? by Peter Burke
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.60What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the... -
Rights and Civilizations: A History and Philosophy of International Law by Gustavo Gozzi
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Rights and Civilizations, translated from the Italian original, traces a history of international law to illustrate the origins of the Western colonial project and its attempts to civilize the... -
What is the History of Knowledge? Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745669847
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the... -
State-Building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions by Dina Sharipova 9781498540568
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions-networks, clientelism, and connections-have to disappear in modern societies due to liberalization of the economy, rapid... -
Relabeling in Language Genesis by Claire Lefebvre 9780199945290
Booksplease Price: £117.70Relabeling is a process that assigns a lexical entry of language-x a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language-y. This process plays a central role in the formation of contact... -
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth by Annika Lems 9780253061799
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36As unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied African minors requested asylum in Europe in 2015, Annika Lems witnessed a peculiar dynamic: despite inclusionary language in official policy and broader... -
Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work by Brian J. Taylor 9781526401052
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.38At a time when accountability and the avoidance of risk are increasingly demanded of social workers, the ability to make clear and informed decisions is essential. This book, written for practicing...