Descriptions of medical fungi

The 4th edition of this book provides laboratory staff and clinicians with a quick benchtop reference on the identification and antifungal susceptibility of human and animal fungal infections. It contains descriptions of all the major medical fungal pathogens, 179 species from 109 genera. This up...

World in your kitchen calendar 2026

This month to-view calendar features 12 inspirational recipes from across the globe to inspire you in the kitchen and impress your friends and family. This calendar is beautifully illustrated on every page with unique and exclusive artwork. Each recipe is vegan or vegan adaptable. Each year a new...

A nation of inconsistencies

A Nation of Inconsistencies is a social history of the creation of a new American society from 1789 to 1860, told through the lives of ordinary men and women from all parts of the country and all levels of society. The American Revolution destroyed certain kinds of hierarchy and popularized a str...

Let's visit the three sacred mosques box set

Join Huraira, the cat, on a delightful journey to the three holiest mosques.See Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, Masjid al-Nabawi in Madinah and Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem come to life with two exciting 3-D scenes per book. Written and illustrated in a playful yet educational style, these books are pe...

Modern pipefitter’s manual & pipe trades pro™ package

The Modern Pipefitter’s Manual contains technical and practical information regarding pipe history, pipe characteristics, materials, fittings, connections, valves, joining, and installation methods. It also addresses the laying lengths of piping, valves, and connections that are critical when pl...

Machinery's handbook & digital edition combo: large print

Since publication of the first edition more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been acclaimed as the most popular, bestselling engineering resource of all time. Universally considered the principal reference in the manufacturing, metalworking, and mechanical industries, the Handbook is ...

Machinery's handbook & digital edition combo: toolbox

Since publication of the first edition more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been acclaimed as the most popular, bestselling engineering resource of all time. Universally considered the principal reference in the manufacturing, metalworking, and mechanical industries, the Handbook is ...

Machinery’s handbook & the guide combo: large print

Machinery’s Handbook is acknowledged as an exceptionally authoritative and comprehensive, yet highly practical, and easy-to-use tool. The 32nd edition of the “Bible of the Mechanical Industries” continues in this tradition, providing users with fundamental and essential aspects of manufacturing ...

Food connections

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermedi...

Names and naming in early modern germany

 Unique exploration of theSocial History of Nomenclature (socio-onomastics)  Interdisciplinary and Archival  Explores the Intentions of the Namers

Audiences of nazism

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Military politics

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior off...

The origins of german self-cultivation

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Categories in context

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, l...

Migration and health

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcen...

Monetising the dividual self

First book to focus on the emergence of microcelebrities/influencers in an Asian context. Anthropological ethnography that captures a unique and detailed historical account of when personal bloggers first began to monetise their online presence. This prefigured the current widespread use...

Agency and archaeology of the french maritime empire

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and...

Empire and after

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited by...

Courage and compassion

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Years of conflict

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people un...

Rethinking the age of emancipation

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism...

Autistic dreaming

An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, ...

Displacement beyond conflict

There is growing political concern about the increasing numbers of people displaced both within the borders of their countries and internationally. This volume explores the interrelated drivers of contemporary global displacement with a particular focus on low-level conflict, climatic and envir...

Correcting the record

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Forging political identity

Remaking france

Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Cu...

Decentering america

"Decentering" has fast become a dynamic approach to the study of American cultural and diplomatic history. But what precisely does decentering mean, how does it work, and why has it risen to such prominence? This book addresses the attempt to decenter the United States in the history of culture...

Skilled visions

Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of “visualism” in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual “enskillment.” Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant conte...

Where have all the homeless gone?

For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explo...

Multiple medical realities

Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are man...

A year of revolutions

Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account...

A belle epoque?

The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discriminat...

Oswald spengler and the politics of decline

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of ...

Forced labor for siemens in the women’s concentration camp ravensbrück

The book reveals the many facets of the forced labor system and the specific conditions at Siemens in Ravensbrück. For the first time, the volume brings together texts by female forced laborers from Ravensbrück, translated from various languages, as well as contemporary illustrations and...

Groundwater politics

The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both eco...

Stories from an ancient land

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Continental britons

Based on numerous in-depth and personal interviews with members of three generations, this is the first comprehensive study of German-Jewish refugees who came to England in the 1930s. The author addresses questions such as perceptions of Germany and Britain and attitudes towards Judaism. On the...

Children are everywhere

This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.