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Head in the Cloud

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most ca...

Stanley Donwood: There Will Be No Quiet

The creator of the artwork on Radiohead albums reveals his work alongside reflections on his process and other pieces of writing that sha...

How to Invent Everything - Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

Ryan North is the (New York Times bestselling, Eisner-award winning) creator of Dinosaur Comics, the co-editor of the Machine of Death se...

The Case against Perfection - Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

What is wrong with re-engineering genetics? In this work, Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyo...

Decisions of the Interior Department in Public Land Cases and Land Laws Passed by the Congress of the United States

Decisions of the Interior Department in Public Land Cases and Land Laws Passed by the Congress of the United States is an unchanged, high...

Revenue Law Passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina at the Session of 1862-1863

Revenue Law Passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina at the Session of 1862-1863 is an unchanged, high-quality repri...

The True Doctrine of Ultra Vires in the Law of Corporations

The True Doctrine of Ultra Vires in the Law of Corporations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hanseb...

The Rules and By-Laws of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College - Vol. 1

The Rules and By-Laws of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...

A Full Account of the Trial of Simon M. Landis

A Full Account of the Trial of Simon M. Landis is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is edito...

Al Waqf - Philanthropy, Endowments and Sustainable Social Development in Egypt

This book explores how philanthropy is perceived and practiced in a predominantly Muslim society. It is the first academic quantification...

The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on dif...

Trauma and Resilience Among Displaced Populations - A Sociocultural Exploration

This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising th...

Feelings are the pathway to your soul - A reader of Bob Moore talks

This present collection mainly includes texts about develop-ment and the right attitude to growth of mind and com-passion. Bob Moore¿s te...

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes - A Narrative Ecosystem Framework

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework¿the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem¿for the analysis of ser...

Singlehood in Europe: Rates and Factors Associated with Happiness

Recent research on singlehood shifts from the previous concentration of negative life outcomes of single status towards a concentration o...

The United States of Europe on the eve of the Parliament of Peace

The United States of Europe on the eve of the Parliament of Peace is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. ...

Subjective Well-Being - A Ukrainian Case Study

Interest in subjective well-being has led to a plethora of literature in recent years but there remains some debate about what precisely ...

A missional approach to school dropout - in a poor urban area of South Africa

This is a transdisciplinary research that uses an asset-based community development approach to involve residents of a community of pover...

Between Freedom and Security

"Between Freedom and Security" is an attempt at an interdisciplinary, humanistic-technical consideration of the problem of the need of th...

People and Nature 2e P

Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the intera...

Delicious - The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

With generous helpings of warmth and wit, Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez offer bold new perspectives on why food is enjoyable and how the pu...

The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals

A very fashionable history of the Royal family, from the Tudor age that saw Henry VIII's wives dressing to survive a tyrant to the new ge...

Politics, Education and Social Change

The authors analyse macro-level political decisions across various societies as well as individual actions and experiences to advocate fo...

Spectacular Vernaculars - Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the ...

The Anthropology of Globalization - Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of...

Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention

COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew. Maywa Montenegro exp...

Radical Politics - On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation

Offering a new reading of Antonio Gramsci's political theory, Radical Politics argues that hegemony is a process of differentiation in wh...

Gender dysphoria in children and young people - Collected papers on the psychology, sociology and ethics of gender transition

Gender dysphoria in children and young people has become a significant health and welfare issue over the past 20 years as increasing numb...

A Solution of Our National Difficulties - Vol. 2

A Solution of Our National Difficulties - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is edi...

Time - Perspectives at the Millennium (the Study of Time X)

The articles here are not only about time, they are investigations from a specific temporal perspective: the calendrical event of the mil...

The Road to Life - An Epic of Education

Corporate Control of White-Collar Crime - A Bottom-Up Approach to Executive Deviance

Traditionally, control in organizations is concerned with top-down approaches, where executives attempt to direct employees¿ performance....

The Life of Captain James Cook

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of the...

Our Mothers' Guide Book - A manual of health, beauty and happiness

Our Mothers' Guide Book - A manual of health, beauty and happiness is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896....

Living Digital 2040 - Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies. How can people thrive as their lives are disrupted ...

Ireland: The Matter of Monuments

In this collection, art historians, archaeologists, historians and heritage practitioners explore Irish public monuments from the medieva...

Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema

The first book on films that screen Parisiennes as city women, as urban residents, or as women fighting to find a place in the city. An e...

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Counter-Cartographies proposes new methods of cultural and literary analysis that read against the mapped spectacle of a hyper-planned an...

The Ascent of Man

In the Ascent of Man Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-a position that made him no friends...

One Thousand and One English Proverbs Translated into Arabic - ¿¿

This is a collection of the most well-known English proverbs translated into Arabic. In this case, the book serves as a reference for Ara...

Data Science in Social Research

The emergent field of CSS is growing in scientific importance and public interest. There is no doubt that the field of social science nee...

Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society's Perception of Medical Information

Cyberchondria is characterized by a pattern of excessive health-based search behaviors that are likely to increase health anxiety or dist...

British Stratigraphy

This book is primarily intended to assist candidates studying geology for the Ordinary Level of G.c.E., and examinations of comparable st...

General Theory of Knowledge

to that goal, and it is hoped that it will incorporate further works dealing in an exact way with interesting philosophical issues. Züric...

The Negro Church

W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the...

Rebuilding Communities After Displacement - Sustainable and Resilience Approaches

This book presents a collection of double-blind peer reviewed papers under the scope of sustainable and resilient approaches for rebuildi...

Bigfoot - Surprising Encounters With Bigfoot in the United States (A Collection of Unsettling Encounters)

This book was made from a few reports and some commentary and analysis of what was reported. The reports are what people said they saw. I...

High Priest of California

High Priest of California is a the first published novel by Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 - March 27, 1988). Willeford was a...

Governing the Young Poor in Switzerland - How the Moral Foundations of Work Ethics Guide Social Assistance Discourse

The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance without vocational training (YAS). Drawing on ...

Vision, Race, and Modernity - A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the rol...

Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond

Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly...

Influence of Russian Activities - Middle-East Europe, the Visegrad Group Countries and Ukraine

This volume is the result of the work of scientists from several scientific disciplines who used various methods and forecasting techniqu...

The Hippie Trip

The Words and Music of Melissa Etheridge

For a quarter century, Melissa Etheridge has been one of the most iconic and prolific female rock musicians. This book critically examine...

Spirit Beings in European Folklore 3 - 255 descriptions - Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Georgia, Turkish regions, Roma-culture

Compendium 3 of the Spirit Beings in European Folklore-series offers an overview of the mysterious, sometimes beautiful and often shadowy...

Misleading Trajectories - Integration Policies for Young Adults in Europe?

It is commonly acknowledged that the risk of social exclusion has increased over the last few decades and that young people in particular...

Library Anxiety - Theory, Research, and Applications

The authors provide us with the first in depth look at the origins and subsequent evolution of this fascinating field of study. Beginning...

How to Change the World - Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. Bornstein profiles nine of these driven, creat...

Solving 9-11 - The Deception That Changed the World

An independent analysis of the events of September 11, 2001. Includes historical and geo-political background and examines the motivation...

Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times

Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the stra...