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Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance Arjen van der Heide (Leiden University) 9781529221350
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.11Insurance 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: $168.56This 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... -
Locative Class in Shengologa (Kgalagadi) by Sabine Neumann 9783631349380
RRP: $102.18Booksplease Price: $91.90Shengologa (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: $81.80Booksplease Price: $77.92It 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... -
Class, Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand by Alexander Horstmann
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $47.09In 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: $222.57Modern 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... -
The Core and the Periphery: Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag by Philip Hofmeister 9781575867205
RRP: $95.55Booksplease Price: $94.07The Core and the Periphery is a collection of papers inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013), written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. Sag was professor of... -
The Expression of Time by Wolfgang Klein 9783110195828
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $39.23Time 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... -
Money, Markets, and Merit: The Economic Thought of Leonardus Lessius Wim Decock 9780197827314
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $115.21To understand the genesis of the modern economy, we must also investigate its normative foundations. More than a century after Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the... -
Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War by Brandon R. Brown 9780190219475
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $48.98Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." Max... -
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities by Helena Hof
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $136.11Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, this book sheds light on the friendships, emotions, hopes and fears involved in establishing... -
Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74What is quantum mechanics? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIESA clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small.Written... -
Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field Martha M. Robbins 9780520267107
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $89.80These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate... -
Legitimacy Beyond the State?: Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors by Eva Erman 9780230239074
Booksplease Price: $91.14Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic... -
Dendrites by Greg Stuart
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $220.08Dendrites are complex neuronal structures that receive and integrate synaptic input from other nerve cells. They therefore play a critical role in brain function. Although dendrites were discovered... -
Small-Angle Scattering from Confined and Interfacial Fluids: Applications to Energy Storage and Environmental Science by Yuri B. Melnichenko 9783319346465
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book examines the meso- and nanoscopic aspects of fluid adsorption in porous solids using a non-invasive method of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS)... -
Spectral Networks: Bridging Higher-rank Teichmüller Theory and BPS States Georgios Kydonakis 9783032092182
Booksplease Price: $138.22This open access book offers a comprehensive introduction to spectral networks from a unified viewpoint that bridges geometry with the physics of supersymmetric gauge theories. It provides the... -
Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia: From Antiquity to Early Modernity by Rana Brentjes 9788869774256
Booksplease Price: $110.70In Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia, 20 authors tell in novel ways the histories of astral knowledge through objects and their imagery. These objects include, for instance, caves and buildings,... -
Evolution and Design of Institutions by Christian Schubert
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.32This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles. While the evolution of spontaneous institutions is quite well... -
The Neurobiology of Affect in Language Learning by John H. Schumann 9780631210108
RRP: $95.45Booksplease Price: $88.94This book presents a theory of how the psychology and neurobiology of stimulus appraisal influences the variability in second language acquisition. It then extends the notion of affect developed for... -
Changes in Regional Firm Founding Activities: A Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence by Dirk Fornahl 9780415547796
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Part of the highly successful Studies in Global Competition series and written by an author based at the Max Planck Institute in Germany - one of the world's leading centres of evolutionary... -
The Quantum Theory-Origins and Ideas: A Historical Primer for Physics Students by Carl S. Helrich 9783030792701
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63This book offers a fresh perspective on some of the central experimental and theoretical works that laid the foundations for today's quantum mechanics: It traces the theoretical and mathematical... -
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in... -
New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU by Jonathan Golub
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $240.92New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union.The conclusions draw attention to... -
On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration Frank Salter 9781412805964
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.56From an evolutionary perspective, individuals have a vi- tal interest in the reproduction of their genes. Yet this interest is overlooked by social and political theory at a time when we need to... -
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition by Lorraine Daston 9780691248509
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise... -
Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives by Katerina Harvati 9789048172870
Booksplease Price: $97.29Recent years have witnessed exciting and important scientific breakthroughs in the study of Neanderthals and their place in human evolution which have transformed our appreciation of this group's... -
Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 by Sonja Brentjes 9780367879662
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf... -
Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastorialism in Northern Kenya by Gunther Schlee 9781138335066
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Originally published in 1989, this book examines how the inter-ethnic relationships of the clans of the pastoral Rendille, Gabbra, Sakuye and some Somalis of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia came... -
An Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India: Utopias of Development by Stewart Allen 9781784992996
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $120.14Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods... -
From Decoding Turbulence to Unveiling the Fingerprint of Climate Change: Klaus Hasselmann - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2021 by Hans von Storch 9783030917159
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $69.17This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply... -
Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013: In Memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch by Werner Ballmann 9783319828763
Booksplease Price: $217.66This 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... -
Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy by Younes Jalali 9783319978369
RRP: $146.23Booksplease Price: $138.22A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century-the rise of Pahlavi... -
Focus Of Discoveries, A by Rudolf P. Huebener 9789812790347
RRP: $134.55Booksplease Price: $119.77In 1887, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) was originally founded as the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin in order to promote basic research in physics. It... -
Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective by Chris Hann 9780520260559
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $124.00Sociocultural anthropologists have taken increasing interest in the global communities established by Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, but the many streams of Eastern Christianity have so far... -
Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective by Chris Hann 9780520260566
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Sociocultural anthropologists have taken increasing interest in the global communities established by Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, but the many streams of Eastern Christianity have so far... -
Spontaneous Order, Organization and the Law: Roads to a European Civil Society - Liber Amicorum Ernst-Joachim Mestmaecker by Talia Einhorn 9789067041638
Booksplease Price: $177.18Spontaneous Order, Organization and the Law contains contributions by renowned lawyers from all over the World, to honor one of our time's most significant private law scholars, Ernst-Joachim... -
International Judicial Lawmaking: On Public Authority and Democratic Legitimation in Global Governance by Armin von Bogdandy 9783642295867
Booksplease Price: $90.83Over the past two decades new international courts have entered the scene of international law and existing institutions have started to play more significant roles. The present volume studies one... -
Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology by Jurgen Bohnemeyer 9789004362611
Booksplease Price: $220.97The first four lectures revolve around field semantics - research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the... -
Changing Properties of Property Franz von Benda-Beckmann 9781845457273
RRP: $62.30Booksplease Price: $54.74"Collections often are uneven and not coherent enough; fortunately, this is not the case at all here: in spite of the great number of contributions they complement each other well, with many...