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Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide Andy Bull 9781138792845
RRP: £48.99£43.66Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide, Second edition builds on the first edition's expert guidance on working across multiple media platforms, and continues to explore getting started, building proficiency and developing professional standards in... -
Understanding Material Culture by Ian Woodward 9780761942269
RRP: £44.99£36.59"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book." - Jeffrey... -
Dental Morphology for Anthropology: An Illustrated Manual Heather Edgar 9781629585123
RRP: £37.99£33.38This work provides a new, comprehensive update to the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS). Drawing upon her extensive experience in informatics, curating data, and dental morphological data acquisition, Edgar has developed... -
Islands of Order: A Guide to Complexity Modeling for the Social Sciences by J. Stephen Lansing 9780691192949
RRP: £25.00£19.59Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the... -
Lost Gods of Albion: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain by Paul Newman 9780752449395
RRP: £20.00£15.44A uniquely British phenomenon, the thirty or so figures cut into the turf of southern England have excited antiquarians, archaeologists and the general public for generations. However, their origins are enigmatic. Paul Newman shows how hill-figures... -
Resetting our Future: Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems through Relationship by Michelle Auerbach 9781803414881
RRP: £18.99£15.87Food does much more than fuel our bodies. Food helps us express care, create culture, and connect. But while food today might feed some of us, the growing, producing, packaging, and distributing is also killing us. Trying to 'feed the world' is... -
Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections Michael McMains 9781138585522
RRP: £56.99£49.41Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition, is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding to high risk negotiation incidents.This revision includes the... -
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context by Carol L. Meyers 9780199734627
RRP: £36.49£20.94This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources... -
Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: £24.00£23.03Other People's Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the modern mythologies of Woody Allen and soap operas, Wendy Doniger... -
Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements by Aziz Choudry
RRP: £27.99£23.32What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a... -
The Construction of Hadrian's Wall by Peter Hall 9780752440118
RRP: £16.99£12.94Hadrian's Wall was a small part of the thousands of miles of Roman frontiers, but presents the most magnificent spectacle. Its 90-mile length was conceived on a grand scale, with a stone wall 10 Roman feet thick and 15 high, and has been the subject of... -
An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Social Research Tim May 9781857283129
RRP: £68.99£59.52This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader... -
Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire Pascal Blanchard 9781846311741
RRP: £33.00£30.39'Human zoos', forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these 'anthropo-zoological' exhibitions, 'exotic' individuals were placed alongside wild beasts and presented behind bars or in enclosures... -
Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism by Douglas Groothuis
RRP: £12.99£9.62The concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately,... -
Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action by Merrill Singer 9781538106464
RRP: £46.00£42.33The third edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, health-oriented... -
Travelling Objects: Changing Values: The role of northern Alpine lake-dwelling communities in exchange and communication networks during the Late Bronze Age by Benjamin Jennings
£71.69Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, the enigmatic prehistoric lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have captured the imagination of the public and archaeologists alike. Over 150 years of research have identified hundreds of... -
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi 9780061581083
RRP: £9.99£6.64Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is... -
Statistics with R: A Beginner's Guide by Robert Stinerock
RRP: £43.99£36.34Statistics is made simple with this award-winning guide to using R and applied statistical methods. With a clear step-by-step approach explained using real world examples, learn the practical skills you need to use statistical methods in your... -
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell 9780691176673
RRP: £22.00£17.76A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential... -
Irish Feminist Futures by Claire Bracken 9780367871604
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is about the future: Ireland's future and feminism's future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Ireland's economic, demographic, and... -
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £21.99£19.19Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key... -
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis Uwe Flick 9781446208984
£103.88The wide range of approaches to data analysis in qualitative research can seem daunting even for experienced researchers. This handbook is the first to provide a state-of-the art overview of the whole field of QDA; from general analytic strategies used... -
Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt Rosalie David (Co-Director, KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)) 9781837644292
£111.61Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in... -
Promotional Cultures: The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing and Branding Aeron Davis (Goldsmith's, University of London) 9780745639833
RRP: £18.99£16.87In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere and everything has become promotable: everyday goods and organizations, people and ideas, cultures and futures. This engaging book looks at the rise of advertising, public relations, branding,... -
Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles by David C. Downing
RRP: £12.99£8.60Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a... -
Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory by Mike Fitzgerald
RRP: £37.99£33.78First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorMike Fitzgerald, Gregor McLennan, Jennie PawsonBook InformationISBN 9780415027557Author Mike FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint... -
Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology by Bruce A. Arrigo
RRP: £21.99£19.19Revealing the values implicit in today's crime and public policy agendaRevealing the values implicit in today's crime and public policy agendaAbout the AuthorBruce A. Arrigo is a professor of crime, law, and society and the former chair of the department... -
The Nexus of Practices: Connections, constellations, practitioners Allison Hui 9781138675155
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines... -
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman 9780358645528
RRP: £14.99£9.70From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics... -
Variegated Economies by Jamie Peck 9780190076948
RRP: £19.99£17.53The culmination of more than two decades of work on the spatiality of economic forms, worlds, and lives, Variegated Economies tackles the question of how to approach, conceptualize, and analyze economies as geographically differentiated phenomena. Staged... -
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research by Tarja Väyrynen 9780367685102
RRP: £44.99£39.68This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking... -
The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon by Estella Carpi 9780253066398
RRP: £23.99£20.84Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the politics that create and are created by the crises and the increasingly long-term dimension of relief. In The... -
The Mysteries of Stonehenge: Myth and Ritual at the Sacred Centre by Nikolai Tolstoy
RRP: £25.00£17.43Stonehenge presents us with one of the greatest archaeological mysteries from prehistory. With each new breakthrough in field research and technological innovation, the full scale and significance of the ancient site only deepens. In this new magisterial... -
The Smell Culture Reader Jim Drobnick 9781845202132
RRP: £35.99£32.09Smell is fundamental to experience but mired in paradox. Stigmatized as animalistic, it nonetheless feeds a vast fragrance and marketing industry. Considered ephemeral, scents have survived throughout the ages in a number of religious practices. The... -
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape by Whitney Phillips
RRP: £21.00£13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539913Author Whitney PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston 9780062748201
RRP: £20.00£14.05A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the... -
Policing, Ethics and Human Rights Peter Neyroud 9781903240151
RRP: £37.99£33.38Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human... -
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
RRP: £16.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553459418Author Benjamin LorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc -
Rotherham Workhouse by Margaret Drinkall 9780752452906
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating volume explores all aspects of life in that dread institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked here to the lunatics who were kept - sometimes unsuccessfully - in the medical wing, the babies and mothers whose lives... -
Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory by Kenneth S. Greenberg 9780195177565
RRP: £14.99£10.48Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling...