eBooks

  • NATURE CONTEMPLATION IN CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
    DORU COSTACHE
    This book examines Clement of Alexandria’s interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation—which he terms “physiology” and “physics”—showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline. It reconstructs Clement’s method of nature contemplation, which, while discernible throughout his writings, does not feature as such in one place. Yet it ex...

    $1,140.00

  • PENELOPE’S BONES
    EMILY HAUSER
    Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.   Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic ...

    $609.32

  • MUSEUM DESIGN WITH, BY, AND FOR CHILDREN
    CLARE MURRAY
    Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design. At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and invol...

    $1,099.00

  • POLES, POLONIA, AND THE QUEST FOR LIBERTY
    MICGIEL, JOHN S.
    Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty provides a scholarly analysis of how Poles and Polish-Americans have cherished liberty and democracy in Poland and struggled to achieve those ideals across the centuries. Experts in the field tackle a series of topics that illuminate major themes in the history of a nation and a state that once again is playing an increasingly important...

    $1,140.00

  • THE REGULATION OF SEX ROBOTS
    CARLOTTA RIGOTTI
    This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots – human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features. Although they occupy a niche in the adult entertainment and technology industries, sex robots raise complex issues that extend beyond current debates. To date, sex robots are frequently portrayed e...

    $1,140.00

  • LAW, NARRATIVE AND MASTERPLOT
    CHRIS BEVAN
    The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal ‘masterplot’. There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as ‘masterplot’ or ‘metanarrative’, that stands above the plethora of other stories, plots, and myths that may be found in law. This book focuses on the masterplot concept as providing a...

    $1,140.00

  • CONFUCIAN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    YONG LI
    This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition. The author demonstrates the relevance of Confucianism to contemporary discussions on important political ideals, such as equality, democracy, human rights, perfectionism, and global justice. He also introduces individual Confucian thinke...

    $1,140.00

  • BLOODSTAIN PATTERN ANALYSIS WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIME SCENE RECONSTRUCTION
    TOM BEVEL / ROSS M. GARDNER / TOM J. GRIFFIN
    Blood Stain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Fourth Edition provides criminal investigators and forensic scientists with a complete and comprehensive handbook on bloodstain pattern analysis. Bringing over 90 combined years of practical experience—and thousands of cases worked collectively—the authors explain the complex mechanics of blood spa...

    $1,800.00

  • GEOMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ABANDONED ROOM AND PILLAR MINES AND REMEDIATION MEASURES
    ÖMER AYDAN
    Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures addresses the occurrence, prediction, and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects. The book distinguishes itself by: Presenting a unified treatise on room and pillar mines Using clear definitions and explanations of fund...

    $2,800.00

  • DISABILITY AND DIGITAL MARKETING
    This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy. The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, ex...

    $1,140.00

  • LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    MIRIAM M. BASILIO GAZTAMBIDE
    This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term “Latin American art” in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays. In examining the shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    ZAYNAB EL BERNOUSSI / ADRIANA MARÍA GARRIGA-LÓPEZ / GIULIANO MARTINIELLO / BASHIR SAADE
    International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the Global South and the Global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories and issues of International Political Economy (IPE) from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ. The primary goal is to provide an alternative or complementary reading of IP...

    $1,100.00