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Bees of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Laurence Packer
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €23.80A beautifully illustrated introduction to the incredible variety of bees from around the worldWhen many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects... -
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain by Dr Sam Wetherell
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.53Provocative 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... -
Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.95Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness,... -
Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly by John Quiggin
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that... -
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.25How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history It's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the... -
Honors Calculus by Charles R. MacCluer
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €70.78This is the first modern calculus book to be organized axiomatically and to survey the subject's applicability to science and engineering. A challenging exposition of calculus in the European style,... -
Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition by Douglas A. Irwin
Booksplease Price: €25.47Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as... -
Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.37Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of... -
Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment by David Pedulla
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations... -
Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Emilee Chapman
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central... -
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €79.98Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of... -
Mathematics for Physics and Physicists by Walter Appel
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €104.40What can a physicist gain by studying mathematics? By gathering together everything a physicist needs to know about mathematics in one comprehensive and accessible guide, this is the question... -
Physics for the Inquiring Mind: The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science by Eric M. Rogers
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €79.03In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of... -
The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events by Louise K. Comfort
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and... -
Tantra in Practice by David Gordon White
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €55.74As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and... -
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €89.86W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after... -
The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World by Paul Sterry
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.37A personal account of-and guide to-unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland BritainOver the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has... -
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.93A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their... -
Color Charts: A History by Anne Varichon 9780691255170
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €49.18A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized... -
Prickly Moses: Poems by Simon West 9780691250595
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.46Compelling poems that celebrate language as it encounters the nameless variety of the natural world, from Australia to ItalyAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of... -
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor by J. E. Gordon 9780691180984
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions about how the structural world around us works. Gordon... -
Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and Solar System - Updated and Expanded Edition by Ian Ridpath
Booksplease Price: €24.84The indispensable guide to the night sky--now in a newly updated and expanded edition In this newly updated and expanded edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the... -
Zanzibar: Background to Revolution by Michael F. Lofchie
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33This book gives a detailed analysis of the causes of the revolution of January 1964 in Zanzibar, and provides a study of the process of modernization in a plural society. Originally published in... -
Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky 9780691136721
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.55What ever happened to privacy? The simple right to be left alone? Surveillance cameras track our movements. Governments monitor our phone calls, e-mails, and Internet habits. Insurance companies know... -
Birds of Southern Africa by Ber van Perlo 9780691141695
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.23Birds of Southern Africa surpasses other field guides to the region by illustrating and describing all 1,250 bird species of South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana,... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.65A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific by Ber van Perlo 9780691151885
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €22.94This is the only comprehensive and handy pocket guide that illustrates and describes the bird species of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific. Featuring more than 750 species... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of... -
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 42: April 7-June 23, 1917 by Woodrow Wilson 9780691046921
RRP: €173.74Booksplease Price: €141.97As this volume begins, the United States has just entered the World War and Wilson and his administration face the awesome task of mobilization. Making the undertaking more difficult is the German... -
Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services by Kelley Fong 9780691235714
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services... -
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability by Justin Grimmer 9780691162614
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €97.96Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions--even though those very choices have a pervasive influence on American life. Why does this happen?... -
Luxury Fever: Weighing the Cost of Excess by Robert H. Frank 9780691146935
Booksplease Price: €31.89The turn of the twenty-first century witnessed a spectacular rise in gross consumption. With the super-rich setting the pace, everyone spent furiously in a desperate attempt to keep up. As cars and... -
Competition Policy and Price Fixing by Louis Kaplow 9780691158624
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €62.08Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes... -
A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 3: The High Middle Ages by Jin'ichi Konishi 9780691603896
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €98.32In this third of five volumes tracing the history of Japanese literature through Mishima Yukio, Jin'ichi Konishi portrays the high medieval period. Here he continues to examine the influence of... -
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Professor Michael P. Kramer 9780691605333
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €49.60In this study of the rhetoric of American writings on language, Michael Kramer argues that the prevalent critical distinction between imaginative and nonimaginative writing is of limited theoretical... -
To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec by Jacalyn Duffin 9780691606965
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €81.19Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in... -
Navaho Religion: A Study of Symbolism by Gladys Amanda Reichard 9780691601038
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €115.23In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward... -
Substance, Body and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations by Edwin M. Hartman 9780691614441
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33Edwin Hartman explores Aristotle's metaphysical assumptions as they illuminate his thought and some issues of current philosophical significance. The author's analysis of the theory of the soul...