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Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf 9780520268180
RRP: £30.00£23.22Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the People Without History" deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about... -
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... -
Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description by Tim Ingold
RRP: £36.99£32.93Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise by Willard A. Hanna
RRP: £13.99£12.65This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Dudley Andrew 9780198718611
RRP: £8.99£7.07It 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... -
The Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford History of the World... -
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri 9780299162146
RRP: £29.95£28.64Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal... -
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'... -
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
RRP: £9.99£7.11The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tete-Michel grew up in... -
Chinese Business Etiquette by Scott D. Seligman 9780446673877
£15.90East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years' experience of dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to avoid costly misunderstandings, sidestep gaffes, interpret behaviour and make... -
The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter
RRP: £14.99£10.77This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: £10.99£7.32Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today,... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture by Tim Ingold
RRP: £39.99£35.06Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold... -
Autoethnography as Method by Heewon Chang
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... -
Have I Got Views For You by Boris Johnson
RRP: £12.99£8.48In his own inimitable style, Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, turns his attention to the culture, manners and morals of British society, giving us a humorous, at times furious, but always entertaining read. A witty anthology of pieces... -
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t by Tom Phillips
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... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.18During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
History and Theory in Anthropology by Alan Barnard
RRP: £30.99£22.85In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on... -
Kenya - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jane Barsby 9781857338584
RRP: £9.99£7.32Culture Smart! Kenya provides a cultural bridge that will carry you beyond the gloss of the hotels and deep into the warp and weft of everyday life; beyond the game parks and into the intricacies of community and wildlife coexistence; beyond the bounds... -
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard 9780007428212
RRP: £10.99£8.29Streetlamps, neon signs - an ever-present glow that has changed the natural world and adversely affected our health; Paul Bogard illuminates the problems caused by a lack of darkness. We live awash in artificial light. But night's natural... -
Civilization or Barbarism by Diop
RRP: £17.95£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520488Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 607g -
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter 9781250009067
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250009067Author Cameron McWhirterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A must-read for anyone interested in food and the future' Yotam OttolenghiBased on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber's The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal... -
The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time by Fiona Allon 9780367568573
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from... -
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements by Lynn M. Stephen
RRP: £25.99£22.04A 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... -
Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation by Sarah Milne
RRP: £65.00£52.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816547005Author Sarah MilneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 363g -
An Intimate History Of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at... -
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating... -
Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience by Maurice Bloch 9780521423120
RRP: £19.99£19.04Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues... -
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? In... -
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood by Paddy Ladd
RRP: £29.95£25.21This book presents a 'Traveller's Guide' to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need... -
Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 9781032429977
RRP: £36.99£32.93Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading... -
Musicking by Christopher Small
£22.19Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he... -
The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion and Conflict by Sudhir Kakar 9780226422855
RRP: £23.00£22.13For decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines the subjective experience of... -
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: £21.99£16.01The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome... -
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99£7.77As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The... -
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker 'A brilliant analysis of the role of aggression in our evolutionary... -
Questions of Anthropology by Charles Stafford 9781845207489
RRP: £29.99£26.64Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth,... -
Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa by Henrietta L. Moore 9780415258678
RRP: £49.99£43.50'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question...