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Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt. by Michael Jackson
RRP: $37.40$30.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763540360Author Michael JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Narrative Comprehension and Film by Edward Branigan
RRP: $46.43$40.88Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys... -
Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games by Philip Sabin
RRP: $34.82$30.75Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in... -
Nordic Noir by Barry Forshaw 9781842439876
RRP: $19.34$14.13Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film and TV by Britain's leading expert on crime fiction, Barry Forshaw, is a compact and authoritative guide to the phenomenally popular genre. The information-packed study examines... -
Mystery of the Olmecs by David Hatchar Childress 9781931882712
RRP: $28.38$16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931882712Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)... -
The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: $14.13$10.11Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and... -
Doing Data Science in R: An Introduction for Social Scientists by Mark Andrews
RRP: $63.20$52.77This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using the tools and statistical methods to carry out data analysis. Introducing the fundamentals of data science and R before moving into more advanced topics like... -
Sociology for Midwives Ruth Deery (University of the West of Scotland) 9780745662817
RRP: $25.79$22.82The study of sociology is now an essential part of all midwifery training, but it can often seem removed from the reality of midwifery practice. Midwives often ask: what is sociology? Why do I need sociology to be a midwife? How can sociology help... -
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? by John Hausdoerffer
RRP: $30.96$29.71As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage-to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be... -
A Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1, 087 Renderings from Historic Sources by Richard Huber 9780486241746
RRP: $16.11$11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486241746Author Richard HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: $14.18$9.551920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 9781632864123
RRP: $24.50$21.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864123Author Carol AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 523g -
The Invention of Green Colonialism Guillaume Blanc 9781509550890
RRP: $20.63$18.59The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization -... -
Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice by Sarah Pink 9781473902381
RRP: $51.59$42.13This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical... -
Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today by Baasanjav Terbish 9781666937497
RRP: $94.17$82.79This book examines the history of sexuality in Mongolia over the last 800 years. As a culture-specific and time-specific system of values, practices and identities, sexuality in Mongolia, as elsewhere, has been subject to change as Mongolian society... -
The Natural History Of Unicorns by Chris Lavers 9781847081179
RRP: $11.60$7.84For centuries, unicorns have inspired, enchanted and eluded humanity. The beast appears in the Old Testament and there was a brisk trade in unicorn parts in medieval times, with travellers regularly reporting sightings into the modern era. But by the... -
Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manirfesto Jessa Crispin 9781612196015
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196015Author Jessa CrispinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Little Book of Sussex by David Arscott 9780752458717
RRP: $12.89$9.74The Little Book of Sussex is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric... -
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by Robert D. Lupton
RRP: $14.18$12.49Churches and charities have fallen into the bad habit of creating programs to help the poor when in reality the only people they are helping are themselves, creating a toxic charity that needs to be reexamined and fixed. In this groundbreaking book,... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: $19.34$15.26An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction by Paul Hodkinson 9781473902367
$55.33'In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today's media culture and media society.'- Sonia Livingstone,... -
Where Are the Women Architects? by Despina Stratigakos 9780691170138
RRP: $21.92$16.15For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one... -
City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester by Jamie Peck 9780719058882
RRP: $25.79$18.73Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic... -
Difference Is Born on the Lips: Reflections on sexuality, stigma and society Michael Handrick 9780750999021
RRP: $21.92$18.19In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surrounded... -
Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: $21.93$18.86How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: $45.15$36.30Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
Safeguarding Children, Young People and Families by Vida Douglas
RRP: $39.98$33.06Keeping children and young people safe is everybody's responsibility. This requires health, social care and education professionals to make sense of complex family situations that are placing a child or young person at risk of harm. This is no easy feat... -
From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read by Kristen Ghodsee 9780226257556
RRP: $19.35$19.18Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic... -
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett 9780691183176
RRP: $19.34$15.70In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care... -
LGBTQIA+ Pride Sticker Book by JESSICA KINGSLEY
RRP: $12.89$11.91Bold, bright and fabulous just like you! This vibrant sticker book includes 200+ Pride themed stickers, featuring rainbows, Pride flags, pronouns and empowering slogans, all beautifully illustrated to be a source of inspiration, whether you're gay, bi,... -
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell 9780349701981
RRP: $16.76$11.09Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more... -
Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Prit Buttar
RRP: $32.25$21.19'Centuries Will Not Suffice' explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the... -
BAD MOTHERS: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America by Molly Ladd-Taylor
RRP: $32.24$27.95In the past quarter century, "bad" mothers have moved noticeably toward center stage in American culture. While Susan Smith will eventually fade from the tabloids, the monster mother that she represents has a storied and long history. Mothers have been... -
Afro-Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa
RRP: $58.04$39.41A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and... -
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption by Phillip Brown
RRP: $38.04$24.56Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?,... -
Realm of Lesser Evil Jean-Claude Michea 9780745646213
RRP: $20.63$18.59Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was 'the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to... -
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9780520242012
RRP: $32.25$25.27Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building... -
Explorers: Thoughts on Mapping in Design Research by Megan Anderson
RRP: $25.80$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527271821Author Megan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd -
Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 by Dr Paul Salzman
RRP: $16.76$11.73In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: $15.47$10.87Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in...