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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... -
Hawai'i Creole English: A Typological Analysis of the Tense-Mood-Aspect System by Viveka Velupillai 9780333993408
Booksplease Price: £90.56Are there common specific patterns in the Tense-Mood-Aspect systems of Creoles? Do Creoles constitute a structural type of language? This in-depth synchronic description of the Tense-Mood-Aspect... -
Comprehensive School Experiment Revisited: Evidence from Western Europe by Achim Leschinsky 9783631332979
RRP: £31.40Booksplease Price: £27.12Comprehensive schooling and associated policies striving for a greater equality of educational opportunity have been at the centre of debate in many Western countries, since the 1950s. In this... -
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... -
Religion as a Political Resource: Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris by Miriam Schader 9783658167875
Booksplease Price: £56.12Miriam Schader shows that migrants can use religion as a resource for political involvement in their (new) country of residence - but under certain circumstances only. The author analyses the role... -
Behavioral Economics for Leaders: Research-Based I nsights on the Weird, Irrational, and Wonderful Wa ys Humans Navigate the Workplace by M Sutter
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.59Every leader should know the surprising research and strange conclusions of behavioral economics--for fairness, teamwork and productivity You and your colleagues don't always make rational decisions... -
Nanotechnology in Modern Medicine by Sanjeeva Witharana 9789811980497
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book highlights the applications of nanotechnology in modern medicine. Today we are living in a world of fast-changing behavior and lifestyles. Despite health and wellbeing are often pronounced... -
Hybridizing Surface Probe Microscopies: Toward a Full Description of the Meso- and Nanoworlds by Susana Moreno-Flores 9781138374584
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39Many books and reviews about scanning probe microscopies (SPM) cover the basics of their performance, novel developments, and state-of-the-art applications. Taking a different approach, Hybridizing... -
Motivation and Action by Jutta Heckhausen 9780521149136
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £58.78In this book Heckhausen and Heckhausen give an extensive and in-depth overview of the diverse lines of research in motivational psychology, in terms of its historical foundations, up-to-date... -
Nanocasting: A Versatile Strategy for Creating Nanostructured Porous Materials by An-Hui Lu 9780854041886
RRP: £121.99Booksplease Price: £101.42Nanostructured materials with tailored properties are regarded as a fundamental element in the development of future science and technology. Research is still ongoing into the nanosized construction... -
The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer by Dirk Fornahl 9780387231419
Booksplease Price: £90.56The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at... -
The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer by Dirk Fornahl 9781441935793
Booksplease Price: £90.56The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization Philip Mader 9781032174631
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance. This Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the scholarship on financialization, connecting... -
Taking Well-Being and Quality of Life for Granted?: An Empirical Study on Social Protection and Disability in South Africa by Isabella Bertmann 9783658198114
Booksplease Price: £46.28Isabella Bertmann investigates the connection between disability, poverty, and quality of life, and how social protection measures can influence this relationship. The focus of this study is on South... -
Crime and Justice, Volume 53: Crime and Justice in Historical Perspective: Volume 53 by Michael Tonry 9780226838885
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Presents cutting-edge scholarship by preeminent criminology scholars. Since 1979, Crime and Justice has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the... -
Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers: Fundamentals and Phenomena by Peter Mulser 9783662611791
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book offers an introduction to the booming field of high-power laser-matter interaction. It covers the heating of matter to super-high temperatures and pressures, novel schemes of fast particle... -
Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Numbers don't lie - but they often mislead... -
Shades of Illegality in the Law Against War Prof Christian Marxsen 9780198944850
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.65The prohibition of force is a cornerstone of the international legal order. Yet, frequent violations raise pressing questions about the resilience of the law. This monograph investigates the complex... -
Bat Island: A Rare Journey into the Hidden World of Tropical Bats by Christian Ziegler 9798887620398
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £37.48For decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have studied the remarkable biodiversity of bats on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, where an astonishing seventy-six species... -
An Introduction to Comparative Law by Konrad Zweigert
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £71.99This third edition of the modern classic Zweigert & Koetz's Introduction to Comparative Law is fully revised and updated, but its familiar structure and easy style remain the same. The book first... -
The Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest: 40 Years of Research by Christophe Boesch 9781108481557
Booksplease Price: £106.75The Tai Chimpanzee Project (Tai National Park, Cote D'Ivoire) has yielded unprecedented insights into the nature of cooperation, cognition, and culture in our closest living relatives. Founded in... -
Ukrainian Private Law and the European Area of Justice by Rainer Kulms 9783161562051
Booksplease Price: £95.76Im Fokus des vorliegenden Bands steht die Entwicklung des ukrainischen Privatrechts im Kontext seiner fortschreitenden Europaisierung. Dieser Prozess wird gegenwartig in erster Linie durch das... -
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.65In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. A sportsman can catch a ball... -
Time in Language Wolfgang Klein 9780415869560
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94This book looks at the various ways in which time is reflected in natural language. All natural languages have developed a rich repetoire of devices to express time, but linguists have tended to... -
International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innovations? by Rudiger Wolfrum 9783642349669
Booksplease Price: £86.44This publication succeeds previously published seminars of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) dealing with evolving principles and new... -
Incentives for Collaboration and Competition: Experimental Evidence on Innovation, Behavior and Performance by Jonas Heite 9783658292300
Booksplease Price: £46.28Individuals and firms can improve their performance through collaboration and competition. However, it is still an open question how collaboration and competition schemes can be optimally designed... -
The Right to a Fair Trial by David Weissbrodt 9783642643309
Booksplease Price: £73.66The volume contains the papers submitted to the International Symposium on "The Right to a Fair Trial" held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg... -
Ethnographies of Social Support by Markus Schlecker 9781137330963
Booksplease Price: £46.74Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining... -
The Expression of Time by Wolfgang Klein 9783110195811
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but... -
Connections: Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology by Stephen P. Reyna
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that... -
European Dimensions and the Secondary School Curriculum by Ivor Goodson 9781138318502
Booksplease Price: £82.02Originally published in 1985. 'Europe' and the EEC seemed to be virtually synonymous for the majority of our population and the ambivalent feelings many people have about the Community, together with... -
Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013: In Memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch by Werner Ballmann 9783319436463
Booksplease Price: £113.87This volume contains selected papers authored by speakers and participants of the 2013 Arbeitstagung, held at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, from May 22-28. The 2013... -
Dynamics of a Quantum Spin Liquid by Johannes Knolle 9783319239514
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis presents an exact theoretical study of dynamical correlation functions in different phases of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid. By calculating the dynamical spin structure factor and... -
Locative Class in Shengologa (Kgalagadi) by Sabine Neumann 9783631349380
RRP: £52.40Booksplease Price: £47.13Shengologa (Kgalagadi) is a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Botswana. The present volume describes a set of nouns in Shengologa. This set of nouns is distinguished within a synchronic... -
Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction by William Foley 9780631151227
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £39.96It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally... -
Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance Arjen van der Heide (Leiden University) 9781529221350
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.80Insurance is an important - if still poorly understood - mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life. This book conducts an in-depth examination of one of the... -
International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innovations? by Rudiger Wolfrum 9783642428166
Booksplease Price: £86.44This publication succeeds previously published seminars of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) dealing with evolving principles and new... -
Class, Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand by Alexander Horstmann
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £24.15In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the... -
Rethinking Economic Evolution: Essays on Economic Change and its Theory by Ulrich Witt 9781848443044
Booksplease Price: £114.14Modern economies never come to rest. From institutions to activities of production, trade, and consumption, everything is locked in processes of perpetual transformation - and so are our daily lives...