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Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: Biochemistry, Ecophysiology and Evolution by Klaus Winter 9783642790621
Booksplease Price: £90.86Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) represents one of the best-studied metabolic examples of an ecological adaptation to environmental stress. Well over 5 % of all vascular plant species engage in... -
The Religion of Law: Race, Citizenship and Children's Belonging by S. Jivraj 9781137574312
Booksplease Price: £46.28How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law? What is the relationship between religion, race, ethnicity and culture in these conceptualisations?... -
The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama 1850-1914 by Velma Newton 9789766371326
Booksplease Price: £17.70It is generally known that emigrants from the British West Indies provided much of the labour needed to construct the Panama Railroad during the 1850s and the Panama Canal between 1881 and 1914... -
Rethinking the Irish in the American South: Beyond Rounders and Reelers by Bryan Albin Giemza 9781617037986
Booksplease Price: £99.43Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region... -
Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Queueing Theory: The Mathematics of Computer Performance Modeling by Randolph Nelson 9781441928467
Booksplease Price: £83.12We will occasionally footnote a portion of text with a "**,, to indicate Notes on the that this portion can be initially bypassed. The reasons for bypassing a Text portion of the text include: the... -
Structural Information Theory: The Simplicity of Visual Form by Emanuel Leeuwenberg 9781107531758
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78Structural information theory is a coherent theory about the way the human visual system organises a raw visual stimulus into objects and object parts. To humans, a visual stimulus usually has one... -
Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture by Aditi Chandra 9781009345170
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72It examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as... -
The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy by Gungwu Wang 9780674009868
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.05The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented... -
Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces Detlef Stammer (University of Hamburg, Germany) 9780367874841
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33Satellite remote sensing, in particular by radar altimetry, is a crucial technique for observations of the ocean surface and of many aspects of land surfaces, and of paramount importance for climate... -
Physiology of the Cladocera by Nikolai N. Smirnov 9780128051948
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £108.42Approx.402 pagesWide-ranging physiology reference for researchers working with, and studying, Cladocera, including DaphniaAbout the AuthorNikolai N. Smirnov is Principal Scientist at the Severtsov... -
The Last Arab Jews: The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia Abraham L. Udovitch 9781138122727
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The once numerous and vital Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have disappeared, succumbing during the past century to the assimilating temptations of French culture, or, more... -
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace by Alan M. Kraut
Booksplease Price: £27.90This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows... -
Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation Hadas A. Steiner (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA) 9780415394772
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of... -
The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty: Oil, Ice, and Inuit Governance by Jessica M. Shadian
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Interest in Arctic politics is on the rise. While recent accounts of the topic place much emphasis on climate change or a new geopolitics of the region, the history of the Inuit Circumpolar Council... -
Adjoint Equations and Perturbation Algorithms in Nonlinear Problems by Guri I. Marchuk
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33Sparked by demands inherent to the mathematical study of pollution, intensive industry, global warming, and the biosphere, Adjoint Equations and Perturbation Algorithms in Nonlinear Problems is the... -
Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions by Jennifer L. Smith
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also... -
The Normans in Europe by Elisabeth M. C. Van-Houts
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical... -
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi: Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Dennis Leo Fisher 9780774868464
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi tells the modern history of Kitigan Zibi, the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada. This local history sheds light on the larger experience of the... -
Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in Germany and the United States by Peter H. Schuck 9781571810922
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36"Interesting and highly readable prose ...A boon to historians, socio-logists, political scientists, and those interested in public policy." * Choice The series is rounded off by this volume which... -
Language & Social Change Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity by Joseph J. Errington 9780896801202
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Errington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java. Employing data from texts, interviews, observed speech, and... -
The Spenser Encyclopedia A.C. Hamilton 9780415755610
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £57.38'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia... -
Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature by Isabelle St. Amand 9780887552366
Booksplease Price: £64.88In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis-or the Kanehsatake Resistance-exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech... -
Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind by Harold H. Hellwig 9780786436514
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The... -
In Pursuit of Composite Beauty: Yanagi Soetsu, His Aesthetics and Aspiration for Peace by Mari Nakami 9781920901349
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £56.34In Pursuit of Composite Beauty is a study of the life and thought of Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), known primarily as the founder of Japan's mingei (folk crafts) movement. Yanagi was a thinker who... -
Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving by Yun Peng 9780387973432
Booksplease Price: £90.86Making a diagnosis when something goes wrong with a natural or m- made system can be difficult. In many fields, such as medicine or electr- ics, a long training period and apprenticeship are required... -
Interpreting Lacan by Joseph H. Smith 9780300039351
Booksplease Price: £33.01To assimilate a writer as allusive as Lacan is to enter into an entire culture. However firm their grounding in Freud, readers of Lacan must learn to rethink psychoanalysis with a speculative breadth... -
The New Testament Text of Saint Ambrose by R. W. Muncey 9780521091497
Booksplease Price: £32.12St Ambrose of Milan (AD 340-97) has always been considered one of the four great doctors of the Latin Church. He was a great ecclesiastical statesman, a successful bishop and administrator, and a... -
Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand by Jane Bunnag 9780521040648
Booksplease Price: £32.12Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman... -
Numerical Simulations in the Environmental and Earth Sciences: Proceedings of the Second UNAM-CRAY Supercomputing Conference by Fernando Garcia-Garcia 9780521580472
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.73Increases in computer power and technology have rapidly advanced the applications of numerical modelling in environmental and earth sciences. The progress of numerical modelling in atmospheric,... -
Jane Austen and her Predecessors by Frank W. Bradbrook 9780521148252
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £37.74This is a study of influences on Jane Austen's art and views of life. She assimilated and transformed certain writings of earlier essayists and novelists; she was herself a potent influence. Dr... -
Respectable Muslims: Morals and Manners of Minority Citizens in France by Margot Dazey 9781009535731
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57How do Muslims deal with the ever-increasing pressure to assimilate into European societies? Respectable Muslims tells the story of pious citizens who struggle for fair treatment and dignity through... -
Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Return by G. Uehling 9781403962645
Booksplease Price: £92.21In the early morning hours of May 18, 1944 the Russian army, under orders from Stalin, deported the entire Crimean Tatar population from their historical homeland. Given only fifteen minutes to... -
The History of the Maroons: From their Origin to the Establishment of their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone by Robert Charles Dallas 9781108024143
Booksplease Price: £43.64Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society and reason against Jacobinism and confusion',... -
Finance Director's Handbook by Glynis D. Morris 9780750687010
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £118.85Financial reporting is becoming more onerous and complex, particularly for listed companies. Accounting scandals have led to a greater regulatory focus on the role of audit committees, non-executive... -
1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth 9780140058505
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.54The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings and changed England and the English... -
Questioning and Teaching: A Manual of Practice J.T. Dillon 9781041316220
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Questions and questioning play a major role in both formal and informal educative processes. They are the means by which a child expresses the desire to understand the world outside and they... -
Understanding Art in Antwerp: Classicising the Popular, Popularising the Classic (1540-1580) by Bart Ramakers 9789042926134
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £59.13On January 23-24, 2008 the University of Groningen hosted an international symposium entitled 'Understanding Art in Antwerp. Classicising the Popular, Popularising the Classic (1540-1580)', where art... -
In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 by Michael Brenner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68" . . . an excellent collection . . . well written and cogently argued." -David N. MyersThe history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous... -
Travelling Objects: Changing Values: The role of northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the Late Bronze Age by Benjamin Jennings
Booksplease Price: £38.72Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike... -
Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic by Mark Christian Thompson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the...