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Children of the 1940s: A Social History by Mike Hutton 9781399049504
RRP: $28.38$20.15What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured... -
Right, Down + Circle: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater by Cole Nowicki 9781770417168
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417168Author Cole NowickiFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives Brandon A Kohrt 9781611329247
RRP: $56.75$50.10While there is increasing political interest in research and policy-making for global mental health, there remain major gaps in the education of students in health fields for understanding the complexities of diverse mental health conditions. Drawing on... -
Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem by Timothy M. Dale 9781442246645
RRP: $19.34$14.87Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop,... -
Celtic Magic by Deanna J. Conway 9780875421360
RRP: $11.60$8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875421360Author Deanna J. ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 107g -
Disco's Out... Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang by Heath Mattioli 9781627310185
RRP: $28.37$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310185Author Heath MattioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 397g -
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: $41.28$31.94In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks,... -
The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist by Niall Sharples
RRP: $45.15$41.58This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone... -
Sacred Secrets: Freemasonry, the Bible and Christian Faith by Mike Neville
$26.91Who were Tubalcain, Aholiab and Zabud and what is their significance for the Freemason? There is a general interest in the rituals of Freemasonry, generated in part by the apparently obscure references they contain. This is the only book that offers a... -
Asian Britain: A Photographic History by Susheila Nasta 9781908906113
RRP: $25.80$18.51South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today... -
The Night Parade: a speculative memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin 9781914484070
RRP: $24.50$17.07In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural... -
Cocoa & Kinship In Guana Okali 9780710300416
RRP: $154.80$133.66Published in the year 1983, Cocoa & Kinship In Guana is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology.Book InformationISBN 9780710300416Author OkaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kegan PaulPublisher Kegan... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 9780393088595
RRP: $28.37$22.61What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial by Sarah Tarlow 9780198855255
$54.04The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which... -
Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands by Linda Ronstadt
RRP: $32.24$22.86A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller2023 Southwest Book of the Year Selection"The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell... -
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 by Eliza Griswold
RRP: $19.34$12.64Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the... -
Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain by Akwugo Emejulu 9781447313182
RRP: $36.11$27.83Community development is routinely invoked as a practical solution to tackle a myriad of social problems, even though there is little consensus about its meaning and purpose. Through a comparative analysis of competing perspectives on community... -
Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver,... -
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth by David Carrasco 9780872209336
RRP: $21.92$18.23Based on the most recent archaeological discoveries, this volume offers a balanced interpretation of the complex relationships between Aztec cultural practices, social order, and religious myths and symbols. In addition to examining such topics as the... -
POP: How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture by Steven Heller 9781581157154
RRP: $24.50$19.87"Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design,... -
When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance Daniel Pinchbeck 9781786785459
RRP: $16.76$11.09Ayahuasca has gained significant popularity these days in cities around the world. Why? What effect might ayahuasca be having on our culture? Does this psychoactive brew, which seems to inspire environmental action, simplified lifestyles and more... -
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age by Ashley Frawley 9781350026797
RRP: $25.79$22.72Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley's previous book, Semiotics of... -
Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics Michael Richmond 9780745346564
RRP: $21.92$14.89Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly... -
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr 9780300273335
RRP: $15.47$13.09A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the... -
The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why by Amanda Ripley
RRP: $14.18$10.02It was 8.46 a.m. on 9/11 when Elia Zedeno, who had worked in the World Trade Center for twenty-one years, heard a booming explosion and felt the building lurch violently to the south. She grabbed her desk, taking her feet off the floor, and screamed,... -
The Emotional Load by Emma
RRP: $19.34$13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809560Author EmmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Photography - A Feminist History Emma Lewis 9781781578049
RRP: $51.60$35.80***'An epic and fascinating book.' The Bookseller'Emma Lewis' sprawling new book shines a light on overlooked feminist histories' - AnOther MagazineHow did the abolitionist movement interact with women's entry into the field of photography? What does the... -
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
RRP: $32.24$27.84In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an... -
Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth Ilse Koehler-Rollefson 9781645021520
RRP: $24.50$16.45'I never knew how fascinating a book about herding and grazing could be... This book is remarkable.' Joanna Lumley 'Ilse's deep understanding of herding cultures, and their relationship with the land and life itself, is both moving and revelatory... I... -
Anger Management Games for Children by Jane Serrurier
RRP: $27.08$25.99Praise for the author:'Deborah Plummer uses imagination and empowerment to move children and adults from discouragement to success.'- The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review'Deborah Plummer shows a fundamental respect for a child's integrity... -
Swimming: Vintage Minis Roger Deakin 9781784872762
RRP: $7.73$5.75Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island... -
Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism by Marisa McGlinchey
RRP: $32.25$28.42This book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups... -
You and I Eat the Same:: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) by Chris Ying 9781579658403
RRP: $19.34$15.56Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and moreMAD Dispatches: Furthering Our Ideas About Food Good food is the common... -
Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters by Jacqueline Yallop 9781837730711
RRP: $21.92$14.94'Often poetic ... highly-researched and thought-provoking' New Scientist'Gently and thoughtfully enquiring' The SpectatorCan you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or... -
That One Patient: Doctors' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser
RRP: $19.34$12.51THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
The Evans Symposium: Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture and Moon Lady Rising by Arthur Evans
RRP: $25.74$17.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732284418Author Arthur EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint White Crane BooksPublisher White Crane BooksWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Myths and Legends of the Celts by James MacKillop
RRP: $14.18$10.02Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.Drawing on recent historical and... -
Human Growth and Development: An Introduction for Social Workers by John Sudbery
RRP: $50.30$44.66Social workers work with people at all stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, all social work students need to understand human growth and development throughout the lifespan... -
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect, Fourth Edition: Component-Based Psychotherapy Elizabeth K. Hopper 9781462548507
$40.12Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those exposed to chronic emotional abuse or neglect... -
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences by Catherine Kohler Riessman 9780761929987
RRP: $98.04$86.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.