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Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter by Talal Asad 9781573925891
RRP: £25.00£22.89"We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie. But anthropology is also rooted in an unequal power encounter between the West... -
1971: 100 Films from Cinema's Greatest Year by Robert Sellers 9780750999991
RRP: £20.00£15.041971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while... -
Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Jillian C. York 9781787023048
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Morocco is a joy to the senses. Graced with spectacular scenery, the country's rich history is carved into its architecture and baked into its cuisine. Its marketplaces are filled with tantalizing... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.69*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
Portugal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Sandy Guedes de Queiroz
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Legend has it that when Caesar's general arrived on Portuguese soil in the first century CE, he claimed to have discovered a country blessed with a mild climate and a beautiful coastline, but whose... -
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football David Winner 9780747553106
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona,... -
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
RRP: £18.99£12.88'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Christ, could Bourdain weave words ... the guy wrote like a poet' Guardian A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all... -
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women Robyn Lea 9781760760397
RRP: £35.00£24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760760397Author Robyn LeaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty... -
Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat by Robert R. Janes 9781032382241
RRP: £36.99£32.53Museums and Societal Collapse explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary perspective and considers the potential museums have to contribute to the reimagining and transitioning of a new society with the threat of collapse... -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition Junichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another... -
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks
RRP: £18.99£14.01New introduction by Ian Rankin_________________________________________'One of the most playful and entertaining writers of our generation' Val McDermid, Guardian In an absorbing voyage as interesting to non-drinkers as to true whisky connoisseurs,... -
Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK: Ultra-sacrificial Motherhood, Religion and Reproductive Rights in the Public Sphere by Pam Lowe 9781839093999
RRP: £73.99£61.38Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists. Whilst they represent a tiny minority, there is recent evidence of an increase in... -
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £12.99£8.32A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag... -
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things by George Kubler
£24.39When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: £22.00£17.42In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE... -
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons
RRP: £8.99£6.45The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first... -
The Archaeology of Human Bones Simon Mays (English Heritage, and University of Southampton, UK) 9781138045675
RRP: £39.99£36.06The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record.Drawing from studies around the... -
In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments Lotte Meinert 9781782388890
RRP: £23.95£19.49Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social... -
Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation by Paolo Heywood 9781501771576
RRP: £24.99£21.67Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... -
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama 9780006863489
RRP: £35.00£24.22The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount - read 'Landscape and Memory' to have these explained... 'Landscape and Memory' is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our... -
The How to be British Collection by Martyn Alexander Ford 9780952287032
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952287032Author Martyn FordPage Count 64Imprint Lee Gone PublicationsPublisher Lee Gone Publications -
Gypsy Empire by Eamon Dillon 9781848271692
RRP: £10.99£7.77Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. On the one hand are the positive stories like the success of boxers such as John Joe Nevin and Tyson Fury, the popularity of Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and... -
Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity by Neil Shenvi
RRP: £14.99£10.95Why Believe? engages some of the best contemporary arguments against belief, presenting compelling evidence for the truth of Christianity and calling readers to entrust their lives to Christ.About the AuthorNeil Shenvi (PhD, University of California,... -
In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed Carl Honore 9780752864143
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 1/2 MILLION COPIES SOLD, NOW WITH NEW PREFACEAcross the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food.DON'T HURRY,... -
The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn off your Mind by Gary Lachman 9781912868445
RRP: £14.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868445Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information Erik Davis 9781583949306
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949306Author Erik DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan Michael Berman 9781846942259
RRP: £14.99£13.03Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult,... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731788
RRP: £41.99£30.15Bringing home the extraordinary waves of transformation that washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, this book interprets the trends, developments, and issues which were of major importance in East and West Europe in the latter... -
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins 9780691215938
RRP: £16.99£13.65One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors... -
Autoethnography as Method Heewon Chang 9781598741230
RRP: £37.99£33.38This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data... -
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9780745639055
RRP: £14.99£13.58It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each... -
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays by Tracey L. Walters
RRP: £31.65£28.10Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith's novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by... -
The Boot Room Boys: The Unseen Story of Anfield's Conquering Heroes Peter Hooton 9780753552278
RRP: £26.00£19.29Now also a new documentary film written and presented by Peter Hooton, The Boot Room Boys - BT Sport April 2022.The Boot Room story starts in 1959 when Bill Shankly arrived and converted a 12 x 12 storage room into a meeting place for him and his... -
Staring at God: Britain in the Great War by Simon Heffer
RRP: £16.99£12.68_______________________________'A brilliant history: The first serious and really wide-ranging history of the Home Front during the Great War for decades. Scholarly, objective and extremely well-written. Filled with surprising revelations and empathy... -
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t Tom Phillips 9781472263209
RRP: £10.99£7.40'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a... -
Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge
RRP: £10.99£7.77*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.In his ground-breaking... -
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £30.00£19.81Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its... -
The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent by James Davies 9780415667807
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: £22.99£19.56A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
Decolonising My Body: A radical exploration of rituals and beauty by Afua Hirsch 9781529908664
RRP: £20.00£14.29A 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) | 'GROUND-BREAKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY' Elif Shafak | 'IMPORTANT' Sathnam Sanghera | 'A GENEROUS OFFERING' Nana Darkoa Sekiyamah | 'QUIETLY RADICAL' Evening Standard | 'INTIMATE'...