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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... -
Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526143075
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and... -
The Students of Sherman Indian School by Diana Meyers Bahr 9780806144436
Booksplease Price: £19.71Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other... -
The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard by David A. Goodman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history. His extraordinary life and career makes for dramatic reading: court martials, unrequited... -
Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire by Malachi Haim Hacohen 9781316649848
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £31.25Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional... -
Marx, Freud and the Critique of Everyday Life: Toward a Permanent Cultural Revolution by Bruce Brown 9780853452805
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.59The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest content with the exclusive emphasis of traditional Marxism on world-historic processes and the struggle... -
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke 9780268048730
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the... -
Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture by Robert Cherry 9781538143124
Booksplease Price: £36.83At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift:... -
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film by Robyn Ollett 9781837721382
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that... -
Maximal Cohen-Macaulay Modules and Tate Cohomology by Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz 9781470453404
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £104.10This book is a lightly edited version of the unpublished manuscript Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules and Tate cohomology over Gorenstein rings by Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz. The central objects of study are... -
After the Trenches: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1918-1939 by William O. Odom 9781603440813
Booksplease Price: £21.24At the end of the Great War, the U.S. Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in its war effort. During the interwar years the army sought to balance readiness and modernization... -
American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future by Wade Clark Roof 9780813512167
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.18Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new... -
The Politics of Minority Coalitions: Race, Ethnicity, and Shared Uncertainties by Wilbur C. Rich 9780275954888
Booksplease Price: £76.81This important new volume analyzes relations among America's minority groups, specifically the prospects of political coalitions among those usually unrelated groups: African Americans,... -
Nanoscale Hydrodynamics of Simple Systems by Jesper Schmidt Hansen 9781009158732
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.02Written for graduate students and researchers, Nanoscale Hydrodynamics of Simple Systems covers fundamental aspects of nanoscale hydrodynamics and extends this basis to examples. Covering classical,... -
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition by Russell B. Goodman 9780521067652
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such... -
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803 by Susan Newton-King 9780521481533
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99This important study sheds light on the history of the South African interior during the eighteenth century, a time in which South Africa's specific variant of social discrimination first evolved... -
Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society by Robert I. Rotberg 9780521315050
Booksplease Price: £32.12The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human history, man has had to adapt and sustain himself by varying or... -
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries by Rebecca Steinberger 9781138620537
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays,... -
Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre by Hana Worthen 9783030440657
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and... -
High Definition Metrology Based Surface Quality Control and Applications by Shichang Du 9789811502811
Booksplease Price: £91.98This book provides insights into surface quality control techniques and applications based on high-definition metrology (HDM). Intended as a reference resource for engineers who routinely use a... -
Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent by Ian Domowitz 9781637421598
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.80Ask not what AI can do for a company, rather what artificial intelligence may do to a company. How does a company successfully integrate artificial intelligence into its operations? What are the... -
Low Rank Approximation: Algorithms, Implementation, Applications by Ivan Markovsky 9781447158363
Booksplease Price: £85.64Data Approximation by Low-complexity Models details the theory, algorithms, and applications of structured low-rank approximation. Efficient local optimization methods and effective suboptimal convex... -
Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks by Michael Elazar 9789400736221
Booksplease Price: £92.06This 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... -
Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution by Holly A. Mayer 9781570033391
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Belonging to the Army reveals the identity and importance of the civilians now referred to as camp followers, whom Holly A. Mayer calls the forgotten revolutionaries of the War of American... -
Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia by Robert Geraci
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries,... -
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires by Sparky Booker 9781107567375
Booksplease Price: £32.12Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middle Ages - were significantly anglicised, taking on... -
The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market by Emily Rosenbaum 9780814775905
Booksplease Price: £51.83The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many... -
On Psychotherapy Petruska Clarkson (PHYSIS, London) 9781870332538
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £59.21Dr Petruska Clarkson has made a lifelong study of the transforming effects of psychotherapy. This book draws together some of her best writings on the practice of psychotherapy, its process and... -
'Enough to Keep Them Alive': Indian Social Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965 by Hugh E. Q. Shewell 9780802086105
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38Far from being a measure of progress or humanitarian aid, Indian welfare policy in Canada was used deliberately to oppress and marginalize First Nations peoples and to foster their assimilation into... -
North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society: Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process by Ahlam Lee 9781498529723
Booksplease Price: £38.41Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and... -
Discourses and Sayings by Dorotheos of Gaza 9780879079338
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.75A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimilating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors... -
Modelling And Computational Approaches For Multi-scale Phenomena In Cancer Research: From Cancer Evolution To Cancer Treatment Raluca Eftimie 9781800614376
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.11Cancer development and progression is the result of biological phenomena that occur across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Recent years have seen a flurry of multi-scale mathematical models... -
The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia by Matt S. Meier 9780313316432
Booksplease Price: £82.27Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive... -
Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City by Stephen J. Campbell 9780521826884
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.59This book considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, such as Ferrara, Bologna, Ancona, San Gimignano, and Pistoia,...