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Simulating Societal Change: Counterfactual Modelling for Social and Policy Inquiry by Peter Davis 9783030047856
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of scientific and policy nature. The model... -
The Oxford Book of Exploration by Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780199583201
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £10.81Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages,... -
Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900 by Jonathan Lamb 9780226468457
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60"As my sense of the turpitude and guilt of sin was weakened, the vices of the natives appeared less odious and criminal. After a time, I was induced to yield to their allurements, to imitate their... -
Bird: And Other Writings on Epilepsy by Susan Hawthorne 9781875559886
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.04Thirteen-year-old Avis confronts the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne... -
Questions of English: Aesthetics, Democracy and the Formation of Subject by Jeanne Marcum Gerlach
Booksplease Price: £59.56The impact and content of English as a subject on the curriculum is once more the subject of lively debate. Questions of English sets out to map the development of English as a subject and how it has... -
Whitby: A Potted History by Colin Wilkinson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Whitby has a fascinating history, changing roles over the centuries from a religious centre to one of the country's most important ports and later a resort. The king of Northumbria founded the... -
Pocket Tutor ECG Interpretation Simon James 9781909836716
Booksplease Price: £25.74Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with 'on the go', at a highly-affordable price that puts them within reach... -
Borders and Crime: Pre-Crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization by Sharon Pickering 9780230300293
Booksplease Price: £90.56The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for criminal justice activity and explores the impact of border policing on human rights and global justice. It covers a... -
Managing Conflict in Facility Siting: An International Comparison by S. H. Lesbirel 9781843765233
Booksplease Price: £111.10The siting or development of risky facilities, such as nuclear power plants or waste repositories, remains an intractable policy problem for all democratic nations. In this valuable new book, the... -
A Chaos of Delight: Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought by Geoffrey Dobson 9781845530198
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.84Humans throughout history have sought ways of understanding their place within the world. Religion, science and myth have been at the forefront of this quest for meaning. A Chaos of Delight examines... -
Passing Worlds: Tahiti in the Era of Captain Cook by Elizabeth Holmes 9780807168233
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.31Deeply researched and deeply felt, Passing Worlds is a poetic reimagining of the first encounters of Europeans and Tahitians during the historic voyages of Captain James Cook. Although the... -
Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case by Peter Tschmuck 9783642278976
Booksplease Price: £90.56Music Business and the Experience Economy is the first book on the music business in Australasia from an academic perspective. In a cross-disciplinary approach, the contributions deal with a... -
Keepers of the Reef by Sharon Wismer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Sharon Wismer-reef ecologist and mom-is the best tour guide a kid could have for a visit to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alice Wong's richly detailed, accurate watercolors... -
Food Allergy: Molecular and Clinical Practice Andreas L. Lopata 9780367781996
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Food allergy is an adverse immunological reaction to allergens present in food. Up to 4% adults and 8% children are affected by food allergy. The increase in allergic diseases to food has led to the... -
Tourism and Humour by Philip L. Pearce 9781845415082
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided... -
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas by Anne Salmond 9780300100921
Booksplease Price: £68.73This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered." While Cook and his men... -
Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific by Bruce Prideaux 9780415494861
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09The Asia Pacific region's enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated... -
The Endeavour Journals: Captain Cook in Australia by John MacDonald 9781399064095
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.13In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney... -
Clark Gable, in Pictures: Candid Images of the Actor's Life Chrystopher J. Spicer 9781476678252
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59From the very beginning of Clark Gable's screen career, the life of the glamorous film star came under the scrutiny of the camera. While audiences are familiar with the public Gable as seen... -
Early Career Researcher Pathways, Tensions, and Stories Susan Gasson 9781835490921
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Early Career Researcher Pathways, Tensions, and Stories investigates the employability of doctoral graduates, specifically those from the Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) disciplines. This... -
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i by Patrick Vinton Kirch 9780520273306
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.03Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this... -
The Life And Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner by John Nicol 9781841950914 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.57The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner is a recently rediscovered text that vividly renders the unforgettable story of a man whom history had nearly forgotten. In his many voyages, the... -
Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education: International Comparisons by Kalwant Bhopal 9781472582249
Booksplease Price: £40.38Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experience of students in higher education. In... -
Cow Hawthorne Susan 9781876756888
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.04An intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this book takes the reader on a journey through the history of languages and symbolic traditions. Through a main character, Queenie, a cow of many... -
The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia by N. J. Enfield 9781108700214
Booksplease Price: £27.90Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and... -
The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters 1570-1750 by Glyndwr Williams 9780300105681
Booksplease Price: £33.01From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of... -
Na Pua Ali'i O Kaua'i: Ruling Chiefs of Kaua'i by Frederick Wichman 9780824826383
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or informally at... -
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan 9781742236957
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was... -
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality Jessica Balanzategui 9781041183082
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates... -
Continuous Ferment: A History of Beer and Brewing in New Zealand by Greg Ryan 9781869409876
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.44Since the first brew by Captain James Cook and the crew of the Resolution at Dusky Sound in April 1773, the story of beer has been deeply intertwined with the history of Aotearoa - from the early... -
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 by Neil Chambers 9781907372902
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.40When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-71, he took with him a team of... -
September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives by Susan Hawthorne 9781876756277
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74After September 11, feminists around the world spoke out, wrote for newspapers, for email lists and for the Internet. But in the male-dominated mass media, it was hard to find feminist perspectives... -
Angels of Power Hawthorne Susan 9781875559008
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.62Following Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, writers rework images of the body, resisting those wanting to create monsters and angels.Australian Feminist Book Fortnight Favourite 1991About the AuthorSusan... -
Sediment Dynamics of Chinese Muddy Coasts and Estuaries: Physics, Biology and their Interactions by Wang 9780128119778
RRP: £76.95Booksplease Price: £69.81Sediment Dynamics of Chinese Muddy Coasts and Estuaries: Physics, Biology and Their Interactions provides a forum for the latest research addressing the physics, sedimentary processes, biology,... -
Key Clinical Topics in Trauma by Keith Porter 9781909836082
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.36Key Clinical Topics in Trauma presents a brand new addition to the Key Clinical Topics series. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, comprising 100 carefully selected topics in... -
The Biopsychosocial Multiaxial Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians Mark Mayall 9781041017127
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49This is a practical guide for clinicians to enhance their understanding of using a biopsychosocial approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in child and adolescent mental health.This book... -
The Women's Doc: True stories from my five decades delivering babies and making history by Caroline de Costa
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. She and her husband packed their bags and their... -
Healthy Bee, Sick Bee by Phil Lester 9781776564057
Booksplease Price: £20.18Phil Lester's first book, The Vulgar Wasp, was about one of the world's most hated insects. His second is about just the opposite - the honey bee, arguably one of our best-loved six-legged creatures... -
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill 9780349140421
Booksplease Price: £21.69On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their... -
A Primer of Molecular Population Genetics by Asher D. Cutter 9780198838951
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £53.78What are the genomic signatures of adaptations in DNA? How often does natural selection dictate changes to DNA? How does the ebb and flow in the abundance of individuals over time get marked onto...