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Theorizing Patriarchy Sylvia Walby (University of Leeds) 9780631147695
RRP: £36.95£32.51Sylvia Walby provides an overview of recent theoretical debates - Marxism, radical and liberal feminism, post-structuralism and dual systems theory. She shows how each can be applied to a range of substantive topics from paid work, housework and the... -
The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan: Wolves Among Men by Ben Acheson 9781399069205
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan is a tour de force - combining erudite analysis, historical research, atmospheric story-telling, page-turning prose and above all, profound passion.' **- ****Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in... -
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf Richard Lewis 9781931930185
RRP: £15.99£10.93Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. Pursuing a "Lone Wolf" policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state in 1945 to one of the most developed countries in the world. The... -
Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002–2020 by Debanuj Dasgupta 9781558612457
RRP: £20.99£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612457Author Debanuj DasguptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The... -
Global Norms and Local Courts: Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh by Tobias Berger 9780198807865
£89.34What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in... -
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard 9780195003222
RRP: £67.99£39.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'The best ecology and anthropology ever written.' Whole Earth ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780195003222Author E. E. Evans-PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia: Care-Based Therapy by Chris Bonner
RRP: £22.99£21.96In Reducing Stress-Related Behaviours in people with Dementia, Chris Bonner has written a thoroughly entertaining, yet highly instructive, manual for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias... I highly recommend that everyone who encounters... -
Woman's Dictionary of Sacred Objects by Barbara G. Walker 9780062509239
RRP: £28.99£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062509239Author Barbara G WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Harper & Row LtdPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
My White Best Friend: (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) by Rachel De-Lahay
RRP: £15.99£15.23"Could you put your white best friend on stage and remind them that they're part of the problem? Even if you love them? Even if you never want anyone to feel for even a moment how you feel living in this world every day? Would - could - a white person... -
Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools by John C. Whittaker
RRP: £23.99£21.24Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. John C. Whitaker's bestselling guide is a detailed handbook on flintknapping, written from the archaeological... -
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano
RRP: £25.00£18.08Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it's something that we all do to other people,... -
Why You Won't Get Rich by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £16.99£12.68From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse... -
Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures Tama Leaver 9781509534395
RRP: £15.99£14.41Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.In the first book-length examination of Instagram, Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and... -
The Ecology of Others Question of Nature by Philippe Descola 9780984201020
RRP: £10.95£9.34Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from... -
Health by Peter Aggleton
RRP: £36.99£32.53Written in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adequacy of biomedical models, contrasting them with... -
Safeguarding Black Children: Good Practice in Child Protection by Claudia Bernard
RRP: £27.99£27.23Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need. With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an... -
The Islamophobia Industry - Second Edition: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims by Nathan Lean
RRP: £16.99£11.54This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban. Nathan Lean takes us through a world of conservative bloggers, right-wing talk show... -
Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault by Jen Sookfong Lee 9781771643733
RRP: £12.99£8.63Personal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault.In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn't limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them... -
Brown Girl in the Ring: Memoirs of a brown girl living in Scotland by Olukemi Ogunyemi 9781800310667
£15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310667Author Olukemi OgunyemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)... -
After Kinship by Janet Carsten
RRP: £25.99£20.86This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies... -
The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism by Liisa H. Malkki
RRP: £21.99£19.19In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they... -
A Dictionary of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents all reflect very different civilizations, yet they also demonstrate the unity of... -
Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany: Understanding Ancient Lifeways through the Study of Phytoliths, Starch, Macroremains, and Pollen Deborah Pearsall 9781611322965
RRP: £36.99£32.93Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that data to address research questions. Part I introduces archaeobotanical... -
Queer Theory Sociology Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany) 9781557867407
RRP: £45.95£40.51This book aims to productively engage the pioneering work of Queer theorists and point toe way towards a new sociological Queer studies. First book to bring the works of theorists and researchers in the social sciences to Queer theory which is... -
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine Alex de Waal 9781509524679
RRP: £16.99£15.22The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian... -
Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice, Critics of Henry George: An Appraisal of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty Robert V. Andelson (Auburn University, USA) 9781405118293
RRP: £44.95£39.66Since its publication in 1979, Critics of Henry George has achieved an international reputation as by far the most comprehensive review and analysis of the objections leveled against Henry George's American classic, Progress and Poverty. George's 19th... -
How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West by David Bernstein 9781496224927
£28.46How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David... -
Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse Maria Mellins 9783031323782
RRP: £39.99£33.99This book addresses domestic abuse and stalking among young people in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on intersectionality and lifestyle settings. In partnership with the Alice Ruggles Trust, this book draws on a wealth of expert contributions including... -
Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV by Stephen Bourne 9780750990134
RRP: £12.99£9.62The television set - the humble box in the corner of almost every British household - has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern times. It gives us a window into the lives of people who are different from us: different classes,... -
No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence by Alice Myers 9780044409571
RRP: £8.99£8.08An exploration of high-profile women, contemporary and historical, real and fictional, who commit violence against men, this book was originally inspired by the Bobbitt case and reactions to it. In essays on Lindy Chamberlain (the "dingo baby" case),... -
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living Robert A. Jensen 9781250267993
RRP: £22.99£16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250267993Author Robert A. JensenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
Accessible Atonement: Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ by David McLachlan
£43.84The atonement-where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament-lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy has prevented meaningful discussion of the cross'... -
Landscape Archaeology and GIS by Henry Chapman
RRP: £27.50£20.28The work is well illustrated throughout with digital maps and models being used to support case studies, as well as for suggesting new hypotheses relevant to this discipline.About the AuthorHenry P. Chapman works in the Institute of Archaeology and... -
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 by Trevor Burnard
RRP: £28.00£27.39As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop... -
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our Worldvolume 4 by Tim Marshall
RRP: £18.99£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982178635Author Marshall TFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory by Contributor Marianne Hirsch
RRP: £16.00£14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470007485Author Contributor Marianne HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Indigenous Australia For Dummies Larissa Behrendt (University of Technology, Sydney) 9780730390275
RRP: £20.50£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)... -
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse 9780198828129
RRP: £14.99£10.95From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal... -
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson
RRP: £24.00£20.52For over fifty years, numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place... -
Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians by Enrico Ascalone
RRP: £30.00£23.69This beautifully illustrated guide to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is the perfect companion for travelers and armchair travelers alike. It provides a concise survey of three ancient cultures...