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Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: A case study of German child language by Angelika Wittek 9783110173048
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £85.74Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how... -
Human Development and the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Aage B. Sorensen
Booksplease Price: £110.88First published in 1986. This volume addresses the strengths and limitations of a life-course perspective on human development. The life-course perspective has been variously described as offering a... -
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall 9780061723735
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061723735Author Lisa RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Privacy, Property and Personality: Civil Law Perspectives on Commercial Appropriation by Huw Beverley-Smith 9780521820806
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.84The protection of privacy and personality is one of the most fascinating issues confronting any legal system. This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of the laws relating to commercial... -
The Alexy-Poscher Debate on Legal Principles Robert Alexy 9781509980611
Booksplease Price: £90.57This collective work provides a chronological and up-to-date reconstruction of the three-round debate between Robert Alexy and Ralf Poscher. The debate represents the German development of an... -
Relativity for Everyone: How Space-Time Bends by Kurt Fischer 9783319178905
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.47This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background. The text is... -
Home: Ethnographic Encounters Johannes Lenhard 9781032084589
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical... -
Deformation Spaces: Perspectives on Algebro-geometric Moduli by Hossein Abbaspour 9783834812711
Booksplease Price: £46.28The first instances of deformation theory were given by Kodaira and Spencer for complex structures and by Gerstenhaber for associative algebras. Since then, deformation theory has been applied as a... -
Deformation Spaces: Perspectives on Algebro-Geometric Moduli by Hossein Abbaspour 9783834826695
Booksplease Price: £46.74The first instances of deformation theory were given by Kodaira and Spencer for complex structures and by Gerstenhaber for associative algebras. Since then, deformation theory has been applied as a... -
Motivational Psychology of Human Development: Developing Motivation and Motivating Development: Volume 131 by Jutta Heckhausen 9780444506016
Booksplease Price: £94.19The idea for this book grew out of the conference "Motivational Psychology of Ontogenesis" held at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. This... -
Representation Theory, Complex Analysis, and Integral Geometry by Bernhard Krotz 9780817648169
Booksplease Price: £93.54This book is an outgrowth of the special term "Harmonic Analysis, Representation Theory, and Integral Geometry," held at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the Hausdorff Research Institute... -
The Magnetic Solar System: Solar Eruptions, Solar Winds and Space Weather Ulrich von Kusserow 9783662705650
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book describes a great variety of significant space plasma processes and the eminent influence that in particular magnetic processes have on the formation, structure and development of objects... -
Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory: The Protection of the Rhine and the Great Lakes by Marco Verweij 9780333915639
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this book, Marco Verweij presents a new and challenging theoretical framework with which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael... -
Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe: First results from SHARE after the economic crisis by Axel Borsch-Supan 9783110295450
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.98SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their... -
The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013 by Jurgen Basedow 9783642551031
Booksplease Price: £46.28In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an... -
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa by Dereje Feyissa
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more... -
Physical Fundamentals of Nanomaterials by Bangwei Zhang 9780124104174
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £106.65Physical Fundamentals of Nanomaterials systematically describes the principles, structures and formation mechanisms of nanomaterials, in particular the concepts, principles and theories of their... -
Popular Music Studies Today: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017 by Julia Merrill 9783658177393
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume documents the 19th edition of the biannual "International Association for the Study of Popular Music". In focus of the conference were present and future developments. For example, the... -
Limnoecology: The Ecology of Lakes and Streams by Winfried Lampert 9780199213931
Booksplease Price: £72.05This concise, readable introduction to limnology (the science of investigating the structure and function of inland waters), places the subject in the context of modern ecology. Unlike most... -
Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes Fanny Gribenski 9780197814581
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of the raw materials that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. Each of the book's ten chapters focuses on one material... -
Deaf Space in Adamorobe: An Ethnographic Study of a Village in Ghana by Annelies Kusters 9781563686320
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.85Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called... -
The Milan Institute of Physics: A Research Institute from Fascism to the Reconstruction by Leonardo Gariboldi 9783030995188
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy's industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan's Institute of... -
Coping with Accession to the European Union: New Modes of Environmental Governance by Prof.Dr. Tanja A. Borzel 9780230575516
Booksplease Price: £46.28The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU. It examines the extent to which civil society and business have assisted... -
Mathematical Principles of Topological and Geometric Data Analysis Parvaneh Joharinad 9783031334399
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.96This book explores and demonstrates how geometric tools can be used in data analysis. Beginning with a systematic exposition of the mathematical prerequisites, covering topics ranging from category... -
Judgment and Decision Making as a Skill: Learning, Development and Evolution by Mandeep K. Dhami 9780521767811
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.30This book presents a comprehensive review of both theories and research on the dynamic nature of human judgment and decision making (JDM). Leading researchers in the fields of JDM, cognitive... -
Judgment and Decision Making as a Skill: Learning, Development and Evolution by Mandeep K. Dhami 9781107676527
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09This book presents a comprehensive review of both theories and research on the dynamic nature of human judgment and decision making (JDM). Leading researchers in the fields of JDM, cognitive... -
Individual Differences in Second Language Learning by Leah Roberts 9781118486344
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £35.41Every teacher knows that learners are notoriously variable in how successful they are at acquiring a new language. This interdisciplinary volume questions what it is that makes each of us good or bad... -
Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language by Peter Indefrey 9781405185813
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.86Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. All languages have developed rich means to express various facets of time, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, or... -
Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos by Christophe Boesch 9780521006132
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £64.74Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), otherwise known as pygmy chimpanzees, are the only two species of the genus Pan. As they are our nearest relatives, there has been much... -
Home by Johannes Lenhard 9781350115941
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical... -
Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life by Michael Quetting
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25"Papa Goose is destined to become a classic. This book has everything in it I love: great animals beautifully portrayed as individuals; cool science; drama, discovery, and personal transformation." ... -
Crime and Justice, Volume 52: A Review of Research: Volume 52 by Michael Tonry 9780226835600
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60Volume 52 is an annual survey of cutting-edge issues by preeminent criminology scholars. Since 1979, Crime and Justice has presented a review of the latest international research, providing... -
Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads by Dora Sampaio 9783031108969
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants -... -
Enforcing Environmental Standards: Economic Mechanisms as Viable Means? by Rudiger Wolfrum 9783642647147
Booksplease Price: £46.58This volume contains the papers submitted to the interdisciplinary symposium Enforcing Environmental Standards: Economic Mechanisms as Viable Means? organized by the Max Planck Institute for... -
The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey: Regressing Towards Constitutional Autocracy Felix Petersen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 9781108497626
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.34This book offers an in-depth account of the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey from 2011 to 2013, which was an anomaly in the otherwise authoritarian history of Turkish constitutional... -
Statistical Physics of Dense Plasmas: Elementary Processes and Phase Transitions by Setsuo Ichimaru
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £69.43This authoritative text offers a complete overview on the statistical mechanics and electrodynamics of physical processes in dense plasma systems. The author emphasizes laboratory-based experiments... -
Amorphous and Nano Alloys Electroless Depositions: Technology, Composition, Structure and Theory by Bangwei Zhang 9780128026854
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.61Amorphous and Nano Alloys Electroless Depositions: Technology, Theory, Structure and Property describes the whole development and the most important subjects (technology, theory, structure and... -
Chemical Energy Storage by Robert Schloegl 9783110608434
RRP: £93.50Booksplease Price: £83.27Energy - in the headlines, discussed controversially, vital. The use of regenerative energy in many primary forms leads to the necessity to store grid dimensions for maintaining continuous supply and... -
Computer Science Logic: 4th Workshop, CSL '90, Heidelberg, Germany, October 1-5, 1990. Proceedings by Egon Borger 9783540544876
Booksplease Price: £46.58The workshop Computer Science Logic '90 was held at the Max-Planck-Haus in Heidelberg, Germany, October 1-5, 1990. It was the fourth in a series of worskhops, following CSL '89 at the University of... -
German Essays on Science: In the Twentieth Century by Wolfgang Schirmacher 9780826407474
Booksplease Price: £43.76The 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume...