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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
RRP: £137.50Booksplease 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... -
Equity, Efficiency, and Ethics in Remedies for Breach of Contract: Theory and Experimental Evidence by Sergio Mittlaender 9783031108037
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.61This book analyzes the conflict that emerges between parties after a breach of contract and how different legal remedies can best reduce conflict. Causes for conflict include equity, efficiency, and... -
Equity, Efficiency, and Ethics in Remedies for Breach of Contract: Theory and Experimental Evidence by Sergio Mittlaender 9783031108068
Booksplease Price: £110.68This book analyzes the conflict that emerges between parties after a breach of contract and how different legal remedies can best reduce conflict. Causes for conflict include equity, efficiency, and... -
Prescribing under Pressure: Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics by Tanya Stivers 9780195311150
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £34.66Antibiotics 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... -
Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism by Paul B. Baltes 9780521175555
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.94The book focuses on the developmental analysis of the brain-culture-environment dynamic and argues that this dynamic is interactive and reciprocal. Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a... -
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies Iyan Offor 9781032226996
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework. Reconceptualising global animal law, this book argues that global... -
A Concise Introduction to Polymer Physics: Theoretical Concepts and Applications Reinhard Hentschke 9783031873232
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £49.97This textbook provides a concise and transparently structured one-semester course in polymer physics - the science, in addition to polymer chemistry, behind a class of ubiquitous materials. It covers... -
Modern Trends in Human Leukemia V: New Results in Clinical and Biological Research Including Pediatric Oncology by R. Neth 9783540118589
Booksplease Price: £90.86Levy, 10 Po: General Summary of the Meeting 507 Subject Index 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 515 1 Also special Lecture for the Wilsede Joint Meeting on Pediatric Oncolo- gy II 2 Were also... -
EU Informal Debt-Collection Regulation: Failure by Design? Cătălin-Gabriel Stănescu 9780198966159
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £91.19Informal debt collection practices are rampant across many EU Member States while consumer debt levels and defaults are escalating at an alarming rate, fuelled by the lingering aftermath of the 2008... -
Social Order through Contracts: A Study of the Qingshui River Manuscripts by Jian Qu 9789813349490
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... -
Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Joseph Canning 9781107640696
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were... -
Processing Syntax and Morphology: A Neurocognitive Perspective by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky 9780199207824
Booksplease Price: £80.78This 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... -
Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication Jody Berland 9781517918187
RRP: £106.00Booksplease Price: £81.35Exploring where animality meets digital media in the shadow of climate crisisDigital Animalities is a groundbreaking investigation into the entanglements of animal life, media infrastructures, and... -
Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication Jody Berland 9781517918194
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Exploring where animality meets digital media in the shadow of climate crisisDigital Animalities is a groundbreaking investigation into the entanglements of animal life, media infrastructures, and... -
Balancing International Judicial Independence: Legal and Political Constraints in Regional Courts Aida Torres Pérez 9780198852544
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.65Regional courts increasingly shape domestic law and policy, raising pressing questions about their democratic legitimacy. Balancing International Judicial Independence offers a groundbreaking... -
Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory by Stuart P. Green 9780197507483
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £27.76Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law became significantly more... -
Human Rights and the WTO: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines by Holger P. Hestermeyer 9780199552177
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £48.24The international trading system has come under increasing attack by activists as being in conflict with human rights law. Others have defended the system as contributing more to the fulfilment of... -
Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia by Manuel Fernandez-Gotz 9780197267356
Booksplease Price: £87.30Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has... -
Knowledge of the Pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America by Thomas Duve 9789004421622
Booksplease Price: £110.15Knowledge of the pragmatici sheds new light on pragmatic normative literature (mainly from the religious sphere), a genre crucial for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America... -
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 3: Migration, Gender and Religion by Gregor Fitzi
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the... -
Multi-Level Governance and European Integration by Liesbet Hooghe 9780742510203
Booksplease Price: £44.31European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional... -
Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy by Zoltan J. Acs 9780521894920
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £64.30While the public policy community has turned to entrepreneurship to maintain, restore, or generate economic prosperity, the economics profession has been remarkably taciturn in providing guidance for... -
Economic Life in the Modern Age Werner Sombart 9781138509368
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Werner Sombart (1863-1941) may well have been the most famous and controversial social scientist in Germany during the early twentieth century. Highly influential, his work and reputation have been... -
Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function Hsiang-Ke Chao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) 9781138805453
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice. Offering a comprehensive and comparative exposition of the... -
Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace by Kirsten W. Endres
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic... -
Rethinking Corporate Governance: The Law and Economics of Control Powers Alessio Pacces 9781138191259
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders... -
International Insolvency and Finance Law: Legal Constants in Times of Crises Daniele D'Alvia (Queen Mary University of London) 9781032107929
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Focusing on the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010 and the new emerging Covid-19 crisis in 2020, this book examines the discourse on risk and uncertainty in the markets through the lens of financial... -
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach by Anthony Grafton
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of... -
The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language Tania Munz 9780226526508
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.49We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators and unusual dancers. As Karl von... -
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780141995045
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Enlightening, impassioned, powerful' The Times From dating apps and self-driving cars to facial recognition and the justice system, the increasing presence of AI has been widely championed - but... -
EU Liability and International Economic Law by Armin Steinbach 9781509901593
Booksplease Price: £96.35The book provides both a legal and economic assessment of an increasingly important issue for the EU: the question of whether individuals can hold the European Union liable for damages they suffer... -
The Einstein Tower: An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy by Professor, Dr. Klaus Hentschel 9780804728249
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14This book focuses on the "Einstein Tower," an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to attempt to verify experimentally... -
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present Joseph Vogl 9781509551811
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon... -
Competition Policy and the Economic Approach: Foundations and Limitations by Josef Drexl 9780857937391
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £55.28This outstanding collection of original essays brings together some of the leading experts in competition economics, policy and law. They examine what lies at the core of the 'economic approach to... -
Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives by Aleida Assmann 9780521764377
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.41Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of... -
Contested Equality: International and Comparative Legal Perspectives Elif Askin 9781035325764
Booksplease Price: £119.22Comparative in scope, this book explores current debates surrounding the legal notion of equality. It expertly analyses equality law from a range of different legal perspectives, divided into three...