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The Death Rituals of Rural Greece by Loring M. Danforth
RRP: £45.00£35.32This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of... -
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves 9781517901561
RRP: £20.99£18.37An important new ethnographic study of Sao Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call... -
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements by Lynn M. Stephen
RRP: £23.99£20.84A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six... -
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: £23.95£20.97Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary... -
Introducing Quantitative Methods: A Practical Guide by Daniela Aidley
RRP: £64.99£60.93This exciting new core textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to quantitative methods, taking a project-based approach. The author's extensive knowledge and straightforward writing style ensure that students are steered through the process... -
The Great Archaeologists by Brian Fagan
RRP: £12.99£8.60A gripping account of 200 years of archaeological research, excavation and thought, told through the life stories of 70 of the world's greatest pioneers and practitioners. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living... -
Criminal Visions Paul Mason (Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom) 9781843920137
RRP: £37.99£33.78Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few... -
I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
RRP: £17.00£9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307276827Author Nora EphronFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology: Interventions and Possibilities by Dale Spencer 9781498510288
RRP: £45.00£39.49Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published-Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical... -
Theory and Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook Thomas C Patterson 9780131898059
RRP: £53.99£51.56For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and... -
Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire by Stuart Tyson Smith 9780415369862
RRP: £37.99£33.38Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct... -
Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly
RRP: £46.00£40.43Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public... -
'Mae'r Beibl o'n tu': Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868) by Gareth Evans Jones 9781786838834
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786838834Author Gareth Evans JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 138g -
Thinking the Future: New Perspectives From the Shoulders of Giants Clem Sunter 9781776096299
RRP: £12.99£8.60Do you know how to think about the future? All our decisions are about the future, whether it's tomorrow, next year or the next decade, yet our choices are often undermined by desires, expectations and common mental mistakes - making assumptions,... -
Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture by Ben Pitcher
RRP: £31.00£27.36Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, or better people. Exploited by capitalism, overwhelmed by technology, and living in the shadow of environmental catastrophe, we... -
How to Win Against History: Annotated Script Edition by Seiriol Davies 9781786822406
£13.48Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey (1875 - 1905) was born to inherit the Empire. Instead, he burned brightly, briefly and transvestitely through his family's vast wealth; putting on fabulous plays starring him. When he died, his vengeful heirs... -
Hero With An African Face by Clyde W. Ford
RRP: £15.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378689Author Clyde W. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert: My Life among the Navajo People by Erica M. Elliott
RRP: £12.99£8.18An intimate look at the mystical world of the Navajo people * Details the author's time living with the Navajo people as a teacher, sheepherder, and doctor and her profound experiences with the people, animals, and spirits * Shows how she learned the... -
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by John Spurling
RRP: £10.99£7.97The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world - earth, sea and sky, represented by... -
Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality by Sue-Ellen Jacobs
RRP: £20.99£18.77This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, transgendered, and other "marked" Native Americans. Focusing on the... -
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £35.99£31.69From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical,... -
Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politi - India's Injurious Frame of Communalism by Ghanshyam Shah
RRP: £45.00£35.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195055944Author Jan BremanFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 162mm * 30mm -
In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics by Sarah Sharma
RRP: £19.99£17.54The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption... -
Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, New Agendas Julia Twigg (University of Kent, UK) 9781444349870
RRP: £20.75£18.32The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 9781914317811
RRP: £14.99£9.80A seminal book in a feminist conversation that still continues today.Now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, Mary Wollstonecraft's writings have inspired conversation and action since their first publication. Wollstonecraft produced... -
Archaeology: Why It Matters Ann B. Stahl (Binghampton University SUNY) 9781509549870
RRP: £9.99£8.95History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the... -
Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills by David Shulman
RRP: £18.00£15.40Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: £31.99£28.73This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L Riley
RRP: £25.00£17.85Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes. A profile in the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of... -
Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice by David Crighton
RRP: £32.99£29.16Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice sets out a concise critical review of the way in which risk is assessed in current forensic practice. Setting the area in its historical context, this text outlines current practice in an accessible and clear format... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Sarah Tomley 9781465478542
RRP: £21.99£16.26Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great... -
French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Dudley Andrew 9780198718611
RRP: £8.99£7.24It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to... -
Genre In The New Rhetoric Aviva Freedman 9780748402571
RRP: £47.99£41.81Since The Mid-1980s The Notion Of "Genre" Has Been Dramatically Redefined. This redefinition has prompted theorists and scholars alike to analyze the shaping power of language and culture, and the interplay between the individual and the social.; Recent... -
Get Your Data From Experiments: Little Quick Fix by Helen Coleman 9781529735925
RRP: £9.99£8.17Offering guidance on doing experiments, this Little Quick Fix helps you select the most appropriate experiment for your research, collect and record data, minimise error, and ensure your experiment is ethical and reproducible. About the AuthorHelen... -
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross
RRP: £25.99£22.89In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality,... -
Classification Struggles: General Sociology, Volume 1 (1981-1982) Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9781509513277
RRP: £25.00£21.82This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an... -
Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious by Linda A. Mercadante
RRP: £58.00£32.74The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation, and who now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America. Not to be confused with secularists, many nones identify... -
The Time Of The Gypsies Michael Stewart 9780813331997
RRP: £49.99£43.50HIS IS A STUDY OF HOW some of the most marginal and exploited people that exist can imagine themselves to be princes of the world.During the past two hundred years the Gypsies of Eastern Europe have faced near enslavement by land owners, the physical and... -
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel
RRP: £17.95£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (History) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781771135566Author Arthur ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Between the... -
Health Mildred Blaxter (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) 9780745648460
RRP: £15.99£14.41The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and...