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The Anthropology of Performance by Victor Turner
RRP: £13.99£9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555540012Author Victor TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 284g -
123 Seriously Smart Things You Need To Know About The Climate by Mathilda Masters
RRP: £12.95£8.58Did you know that: * Deserts provide food for fish? * 70% of all birds on the planet are chickens? * Climate change was the reason why humans began to talk? * Cows emit harmful methane when they burp or fart? Filled to the brim with 123... -
Gods in Shackles: What Elephants Can Teach Us About Empathy, Resilience and Freedom by Sangita Iyer
RRP: £12.99£7.72This moving memoir follows a journalist and filmmaker as she finds her purpose in advocacy for the Asian elephants in her hometown of Kerala, India. Foreword by Jane Goodall.'I was shocked, saddened and angered by the cruelty towards the elephants who... -
Creative Ideas for Solution Focused Practice: Inspiring Guidance, Ideas and Activities by Judith Milner
RRP: £19.99£19.24Exploring creative ways to implement solution focused practice, this book is packed full of ideas to inspire ways of working with clients which focus on their strengths as a means to finding solutions.Outlining how and why strengths-based interviewing... -
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards 9780062273178
RRP: £9.99£7.26In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix-a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West... -
Antonio Gramsci by Steven Jones
RRP: £19.99£17.69For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the... -
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger
RRP: £17.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476759739Author Jonah BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Cafe de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa by Christopher Hope
RRP: £9.99£6.70Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South... -
Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties by Paul Cooper
RRP: £24.99£23.78This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling - either in school or at home. It explains the social and emotional underpinnings of learning and presents practical... -
The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway by Rosa Matheson 9780752444192
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering... -
Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land by Erin C. MacLeod
RRP: £39.00£34.12In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. "Repatriation is a must!" they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They... -
A Dictionary of Media and Communication by Daniel Chandler
RRP: £15.99£11.61This authoritative and up-to-date A-Z covers all aspects of interpersonal, mass, and networked communication, including digital and mobile media, advertising, journalism, and nonverbal communication. This new edition is particularly focused on expanding... -
Poverty: A Very Short Introduction by Philip N. Jefferson
RRP: £8.99£6.45No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about... -
The Third Revolution: Professional Elites in the Modern World by Professor Harold Perkin 9780415143387
RRP: £41.99£36.75This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter
RRP: £43.00£36.41We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to... -
Introduction to Communication Studies by John Fiske 9780415596497
RRP: £24.99£21.81This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela... -
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
RRP: £14.99£13.58"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever... -
Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between Bjorn Thomassen 9781138610941
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to... -
I'm In the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie by Sean Yseult
RRP: £27.99£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762995Author Sean YseultFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 792g -
Criminal Man by Mary Gibson 9780822337232
RRP: £24.99£22.07Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume... -
An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice Rodolfo Maggio 9781912284627
RRP: £6.50£6.11In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn't... -
Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires Lucy Bland (University of North London) 9780745619835
RRP: £18.99£16.87Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did sexologists wield? What was the impact... -
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study Thomas Sowell 9780300107753
RRP: £15.99£13.82In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell... -
Edda by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £8.99£6.55The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.Over a period of twenty years, Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose EDDA as a textbook for young poets who... -
Island Songs Alex Wheatle 9781529422597
RRP: £9.99£6.80"This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else" The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney have always loved and hated one another in the way that only sisters can. From... -
Arqueomania. Historias de la Arqueologia by Manuel Pimentel 9788417797287
RRP: £22.95£17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417797287Author Manuel PimentelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 150mm * 23mm -
Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive by Morag C. Treanor 9781447334682
RRP: £26.99£20.84Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often... -
Beginning Statistics: An Introduction for Social Scientists by Ian Diamond
RRP: £38.99£31.87In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and... -
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora by B Camminga
RRP: £22.99£18.88Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North ... -
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
RRP: £10.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547228Author Sujatha GidlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
RRP: £21.99£19.19From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ... -
Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain Jacqueline Jenkinson (Department of History, University of Stirling (United Kingdom)) 9781786942265
RRP: £27.45£24.50The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War... -
Workparent: Thrive in Your Career While Raising Happy Children by Daisy Dowling
RRP: £14.99£9.93An all-in-one guide for every working parent There are plenty of parenting books out there, but as a working parent there's never been a trusted guide that coaches you how to do well at work and be the loving and engaged mother or father you want to be... -
The Age of Static: How TV Explains Modern Britain by Phil Harrison 9781911545521
RRP: £9.99£7.11You can tell a lot about British society by its television. More than any other country, Britain still gets a sense of itself from the output of its national broadcasters. So what can we learn from the TV of the last two decades? Beginning in 2000, this... -
Geology for Archaeologists: A short introduction by J.R.L. Allen 9781784916879
£47.51This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology. Sections include coverage of main rock-forming minerals and classes of rocks. Geological maps and structures... -
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
RRP: £12.99£9.80From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and... -
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies by Anna Amelina 9780415754576
RRP: £45.99£37.53Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens... -
Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, Tv Or Film by Lucy V. Hay 9780857301178
RRP: £19.99£13.35We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), disabled, or from other religions or classes... -
Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child: A Guide for Parents and Carers by Anna Bianchi
RRP: £16.99£16.51When Anna Bianchi's grandchild asked, "Nanny, you do know I'm a girl, don't you?", Anna recognised this as a pivotal, and daunting, moment in their relationship. She knew that to answer her grandchild, who had been assigned male at birth, her own...