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The World Economy, Population Growth, and the Global Ecosystem: A Unified Theoretical Model of Interdependent Dynamic Systems by H. Whitmore 9781349539758
Booksplease Price: £92.27The purpose of this study is to better understand the essential interdependencies between the world economy and the global ecosystem, including human populations. World production, product prices,... -
Lectures in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health by Gab Kovacs 9783319148625
Booksplease Price: £46.74In his 35 years of teaching medical students and trainees Professor Gabor Kovacs, International Medical Director of Monash IVF, has devised a system of lectures which cover the entire core... -
Measuring Information Systems Delivery Quality by 9781591408574
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £77.06Currently, there is neither a commonly-accepted definition of information systems (IS) quality nor a convergence of perspectives on quality approaches. The IS community has focused on the various... -
Black Sheep by Ben Peek 9780809562633
Booksplease Price: £17.40This is the story of Isao Dazai, a Japanese-born man who has recently immigrated to Australia with his family. The future that Isao lives in is a world of mass race segregation where each of the... -
Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960 by Brendan Frederick R. Edwards 9780810851139
Booksplease Price: £96.50The pre-1960 history of print culture and libraries, as they relate to the First Peoples of Canada, has gone largely untold. Paper Talk explores the relationship between the introduction of western... -
The Victorian Public School by Trevor May 9780747807223
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.04Public schools were in the business of producing leaders - in national government, in the Empire, and in the armed forces. Their impact on society was immense, and they provided the vehicle by which... -
Gospel in Life Study Guide: Grace Changes Everything by Timothy Keller 9780310328919
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.37Join bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller in an eight-week video Bible study on the gospel and how to live it out in all aspects of life--from your community to the world at large. The Gospel... -
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Poland, 1939. The comfortable, secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears into the war's vortex, leaving the orphaned child with his... -
Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals): The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot Karen Chase (University of Virginia, U.S.A.) 9781138779259
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In... -
Pennsylvania German Arts: More Than Hearts, Parrots, and Tulips by Irwin Richman
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.74There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The Pennsylvania Germans are a remarkable people; some are among the most... -
Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia James Wilkerson 9780857455680
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16While in some cases modernity may dominate 'traditional' forms of expression, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can modify 'tradition' while still keeping it... -
History as the Story of Liberty by Benedetto Croce 9780865972698
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.26Written in 1938 when the Western world had succumbed to the notion that history is a creature of blind force. A reviewer at the time noted the importance of Croce's belief that "the central trend in... -
Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism by Soren Blka Hjortshoj 9788772190181
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Brandes (1842-1927). Today, the historical tradition... -
Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks by Michael Elazar 9789400716049
Booksplease Price: £93.54This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between... -
Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston by Jeff Strickland 9780813060798
Booksplease Price: £74.27During the latter half of the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants were as central to the development of the political economy of Charleston, South Carolina, as white southerners and... -
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo by Misha Klein 9780813062112
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Being Jewish in Brazil - the world's largest Catholic country - is fraught with paradoxes, and living in Sao Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over... -
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy by Karen Sue Jewell 9780275929855
Booksplease Price: £76.51Survival of the Black Family critically examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement. Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place... -
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Jack Citrin 9780521828833
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and... -
British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707 by Brendan Bradshaw 9780521433839
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.16The historical resonances of the concept of 'Britain' for the communities of the Atlantic Archipelago in the early modern period are explored here in terms of the ideological demands made upon it... -
Network Leadership: Promoting a Healthier World through the Power of Networks by Jeffrey Beeson 9781009572026
Booksplease Price: £56.13A 'paradigm shift' is currently taking place in leadership. Despite the considerable and influential body of existing theory, leaders were not prepared for the continuous disruptions of the digital... -
Microbiology of Green Fuels by Abu Yousuf 9780367773922
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24The replacement of fossil-derived compounds by bio-based fuels and chemicals is crucial for the implementation of a sustainable bioeconomy. In this context, microorganisms are key players for... -
Countering Design Exclusion: An Introduction to Inclusive Design by Simeon L. Keates 9781852337698
Booksplease Price: £100.00Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable goals. However, their teaching and industrial uptake has been very limited. Many... -
Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy 9781107002968
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the... -
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible by James Bernard Murphy 9781009392969
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57To be human is to strive to be better, and we cannot be better without knowing what is best. In ancient Greek philosophy and the Bible, what is best is god. Plato and Aristotle argue that the goal of... -
What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain by Colin Grant 9781787333161
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land?Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new... -
The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust by Karen Auerbach
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish... -
Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai'i: The Silencing of Native Voices by Maenette Kape'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee- Benham 9780805827040
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This comprehensive educational history of public schools in Hawai'i shows and analyzes how dominant cultural and educational policy have affected the education experiences of Native Hawaiians... -
Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity Since 1912 by Peter Mackridge 9781859731383
Booksplease Price: £36.44When it was incorporated into the Greek state in 1912, Greek Macedonia constituted a mosaic of populations who spoke different languages and shared different cultures and religions. The Greek state,... -
The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia - 1300-1700 by Mohammed Hassen 9781847011176
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in shaping Ethiopian history. This revisionary... -
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett 9781501107177
Booksplease Price: £15.44The Starship Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms... -
Wittgenstein on Religious Belief by Genia Schoenbaumsfeld
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Wittgenstein published next to nothing on the philosophy of religion and yet his conception of religious belief has been both enormously influential and hotly contested. In the contemporary... -
A Study Guide to The Chinese by Thomas Buoye 9780892641048
Booksplease Price: £10.27The textbook The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future is a massive book that collects diverse materials and often differing opinions, presenting a challenge to students accustomed to more... -
Learn to Think and Write: A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4-8, Introductory Levels by Una McGinley Sarno 9781610481083
Booksplease Price: £43.33The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In... -
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems by Rachel Mennies 9781682831502
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.10In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and... -
The Social Uses of Writing: Politics and Pedagogy by Thomas Fox 9780893916015
Booksplease Price: £61.63This volume explores how a political and social theory of writing can inform pedagogy, including an analysis of how students' educational histories limit teacher and student roles, and how we might... -
On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture by Robert Magliola 9780788502965
Booksplease Price: £52.80This text by an established specialist in French deconstruction, written after his many years in Asia and in the West, celebrates both Buddhist and Christian cultures and the negative but fertile... -
Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader by Michele Marra 9780824820770
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Modern Japanese Aesthetics is the first work in English on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. In addition to the historical information and... -
Lessons on Rings, Modules and Multiplicities by D. G. Northcott 9780521098076
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.45This volume provides a clear and self-contained introduction to important results in the theory of rings and modules. Assuming only the mathematical background provided by a normal undergraduate... -
Organisation Theory and Local Government Robert J. Haynes 9781032950068
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £73.69Originally published in 1980, this book provides an analysis and assessment of events in local government management during the late 20th Century set within an overall conceptual framework of... -
Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine Saga: Script Book #2 by Various 9780671034474
Booksplease Price: £27.28In the short while since she joined the crew of the USS Voyager, the character of Seven of Nine has proved the Star Trek universe's most sensational attraction. Assimilated into the Borg collective...