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    Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women's Success

    £21.60 £24.00

    Plant Physics

    £72.00 £80.00
    Suitable for students and professionals alike, this title presents an account of the principles of classical physics, evolutionary theory, and plant biology in order to explain the complex interrelationships among plant form, function, environment, and evolutionary history.

    Primate Conservation Biology

    £27.00 £30.00
    A recent report warns that nearly 20 per cent of the world's primates may go extinct by 2020. This work integrates theoretical advances with practical management priorities to give scientists and policymakers the tools they need to help keep these species from disappearing forever.

    Reading Holinshed's "Chronicles"

    £17.50 £28.00
    A study of the Elizabethan text, Holinshed's "Chronicles" - a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Patterson argues that the chronicles should be read in their own right, as an important and inventive cultural history, rather than simply as source material for Shakespeare's plays.

    Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

    £25.20 £28.00
    Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.

    Schoolteacher : A Sociological Study 2ed

    £20.70 £23.00
    This new edition of Lortie's classic work includes a new preface bringing the author's observations up to date. His study of the profession is more than a social portrait, it is also a view into the world and culture of a vitally important profession.

    Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology

    £18.90 £21.00
    Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson.

    Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    £13.50 £15.00
    Challenges long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of normal science.