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Tooth and Claw: Top Predators of the World by Dr. Robert M. Johnson, III
RRP: β¬45.22Booksplease Price: β¬31.59A marvelously illustrated look at the most deadly predators on the planetTooth and Claw presents the world's top predators as you have never seen them before, from big cats and wild dogs to sharks,... -
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire by George Steinmetz
RRP: β¬45.22Booksplease Price: β¬37.12A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empireIn this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz... -
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences by Shannon Mattern
RRP: β¬20.22Booksplease Price: β¬17.33A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven... -
Max Plus at Work: Modeling and Analysis of Synchronized Systems: A Course on Max-Plus Algebra and Its Applications by Bernd Heidergott
RRP: β¬104.72Booksplease Price: β¬94.37Trains pull into a railroad station and must wait for each other before leaving again in order to let passengers change trains. How do mathematicians then calculate a railroad timetable that... -
The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry by Bonnie Maclachlan
RRP: β¬35.70Booksplease Price: β¬29.85Although "grace" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative... -
Reasons without Rationalism by Kieran Setiya
RRP: β¬35.70Booksplease Price: β¬29.85Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows... -
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"You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch
RRP: β¬20.22Booksplease Price: β¬14.57Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worse Few of us give much thought to computer code or... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume 1: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: 1926-1938 by W. H. Auden
RRP: β¬109.48Booksplease Price: β¬87.23This book contains all the essays and reviews that W. H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books,... -
The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
RRP: β¬57.12Booksplease Price: β¬46.22Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although... -
X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life by John A. Adam
RRP: β¬29.75Booksplease Price: β¬25.64X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or... -
Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning by John MacDonald
RRP: β¬26.18Booksplease Price: β¬21.90How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable The design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit,... -
Erosion by Jorie Graham
RRP: β¬23.80Booksplease Price: β¬23.56From Erosion: SAN SEPOLCRO Jorie Graham ...How clean the mind is, holy grave. It is this girl by Piero della Francesca, unbuttoning her blue dress, her mantle of weather, to go into labor... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 8 (English): The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914-1918. (English supplement translation.) Albert Einstein 9780691048413
RRP: β¬80.92Booksplease Price: β¬65.37This volume opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half... -
Converging Realities: Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics by Roland Omnes
RRP: β¬73.78Booksplease Price: β¬67.65The mysterious beauty, harmony, and consistency of mathematics once caused philosopher Hilary Putnam to term its existence a "miracle." Now, advances in the understanding of physics suggest that the... -
Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology by Philippe Steiner
RRP: β¬73.78Booksplease Price: β¬67.29emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology is the first book to... -
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon by Professor Glenda Sluga
RRP: β¬38.08Booksplease Price: β¬32.01The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires... -
Beethoven and His World by Scott Burnham
RRP: β¬47.60Booksplease Price: β¬39.31Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven... -
Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works by Eric H. Cline
RRP: β¬13.08Booksplease Price: β¬11.13From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., an accessible primer to the archaeologist's craftAn archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted... -
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: β¬29.75Booksplease Price: β¬25.29Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by... -
The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus by Professor Gunnar Broberg
RRP: β¬41.65Booksplease Price: β¬34.39A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and workCarl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the... -
How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
RRP: β¬17.84Booksplease Price: β¬15.49Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever... -
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal by Noel Maurer
RRP: β¬33.32Booksplease Price: β¬28.00An incisive economic and political history of the Panama CanalOn August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as... -
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Expanded by Eric H. Cline 9780691208015
RRP: β¬19.03Booksplease Price: β¬12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691208015Author Eric H. ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Princeton University... -
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker
RRP: β¬23.80Booksplease Price: β¬20.44How central banks and independent regulators can support rather than challenge constitutional democracy Unelected Power lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers and other... -
A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson 9780691228440
RRP: β¬38.08Booksplease Price: β¬32.01Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity... -
Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire - 10th Anniversary Edition by Tui De Roy 9780691146379
RRP: β¬35.70Booksplease Price: β¬28.91Ever since Charles Darwin visited there in 1835, the Galapagos have fascinated us like no other spot on Earth. This richly illustrated book captures the ethereal, haunting quality of the Galapagos... -
Wildlife of Southeast Asia by Susan Myers 9780691154855
RRP: β¬26.18Booksplease Price: β¬21.90This handy photographic guide offers a stunning look at the wildlife of Southeast Asia, which includes Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Malaysia, and Singapore. Accessible text and more... -
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner by Harriet I. Flower 9780691175003
RRP: β¬53.55Booksplease Price: β¬44.45The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm... -
Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place by Barbara Buhler Lynes 9780691116594
RRP: β¬49.98Booksplease Price: β¬35.70When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every... -
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity by Ian Baucom 9780691004037
RRP: β¬49.98Booksplease Price: β¬40.76In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was... -
Beetles of the World: A Natural History by Maxwell V. L. Barclay 9780691240732
RRP: β¬33.32Booksplease Price: β¬26.80A richly illustrated guide to the astonishing variety of beetles around the worldBeetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on Earth:... -
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century by Shannon Lee Dawdy 9780691254708
RRP: β¬20.22Booksplease Price: β¬17.33A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected,... -
Morgantina Studies, Volume III: Fornaci e Officine da Vasaio Tardo-ellenistiche. (In Italian) (Late Hellenistic Potters' Kilns and Workshops) by Ninina Cuomo di Caprio 9780691634142
RRP: β¬130.90Booksplease Price: β¬75.21The kilns at Morgantina, site of the well-known excavations in central Sicily, are an outstanding example of multiple potters' workshops in use during the late Hellenistic period. In fully... -
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach 9780691168005
RRP: β¬23.80Booksplease Price: β¬20.09This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam... -
Young, Gifted and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite by Camille Z. Charles 9780691237459
RRP: β¬41.65Booksplease Price: β¬34.75An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional class Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing... -
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters by Emanuel Deutschmann 9780691226491
RRP: β¬109.48Booksplease Price: β¬86.28A study in the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication During the past decades, humanity has become more transnationally active. Increasingly, people travel and... -
Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age by R. Douglas Arnold 9780691224435
RRP: β¬41.65Booksplease Price: β¬34.75How Social Security has shaped American politics-and why it faces insolvency Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic... -
Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign by Graeme Blair 9780691199573
RRP: β¬53.55Booksplease Price: β¬43.49A state-of-the-art approach to evaluating research design for students and scholars across the social sciencesAssessing the properties of research designs before implementing them can be tricky for... -
The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Worksβand When It Backfires by Rochelle Terman 9780691250472
RRP: β¬97.58Booksplease Price: β¬77.17A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter β A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer 9780691237879
RRP: β¬80.92Booksplease Price: β¬64.41Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most...