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The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History by George Ewart Evans
RRP: $19.48$11.95George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen,... -
Waterlog by Roger Deakin 9781784700065
RRP: $21.43$15.15Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, fens, dykes, moats, aqueducts,... -
In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: $21.43$14.27***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
$26.56Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and... -
A Witch`s Hand - Curing, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea`s Upper Sepik River Basin William E Mitchell 9781912808458
RRP: $78.00$75.95William E. Mitchell revisits his early fieldwork with a three-part study of the history of colonial rule in Papua New Guinea. From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea's Upper... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall
RRP: $23.38$17.39Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains... -
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper 9781800810938
RRP: $25.33$17.73A TLS BEST BOOK OF 2023 'A formidable work' Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A magnificent, moving survey' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, TLS This is a history of... -
Sisu: The Finnish Art of Courage by Joanna Nylund
RRP: $25.33$16.77Discover the Finnish quality of sisu and how cultivating it can help you lead a life of greater purpose and happiness.This ancient Finnish word describes an attitude of courage, resilience, grit, tenacity and perseverance. This key psychological... -
Concrete and Culture: A Material History by Adrian Forty
$53.41Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is consumed more per head of population. Now used almost universally in modern construction, concrete polarizes opinion: provoking intense loathing and... -
The Samurai Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Elite Warrior Class by Constantine Vaporis
RRP: $38.98$26.03A captivating and comprehensive guide to Japan's elite class of warriors-revised and updated with over 70 color photographs!The Samurai played a leading role in Japanese society for centuries, and this is the first encyclopedia to showcase the... -
Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving by Annette B. Weiner
RRP: $56.55$43.95"Inalienable Possessions" tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua... -
The Gift - Expanded Edition Marcel Mauss 9780990505006
RRP: $25.35$22.39Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial essay is returned to its original context, published... -
Rock Water Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa by Lesley Green 9781478003991
RRP: $44.83$39.02In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that... -
Anthropology For Dummies by Cameron M. Smith
RRP: $35.08$23.67Study the science of all of us Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren't all of us exactly the... -
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
RRP: $31.18$22.64In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first... -
Values: An Economist's Guide to Everything That Matters by Mark Carney
RRP: $25.33$16.54THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Horrified by the current financial crisis? Want to learn how we might get out of it? This is a pivotal moment in our economy. With the markets in free-fall, financial challenges... -
Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book Danielle Dulsky 9781608688920
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688920Author Danielle DulskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory Paul Antze 9780415915632
RRP: $89.68$78.25Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust... -
Land of the Rising Cat: Japan's Feline Fascination by Manami Okazaki
RRP: $29.23$22.13In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train stationmasters. But how did this cat mania start? Why does it continue to... -
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
RRP: $38.98$36.66Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek... -
Ten Trips: The New Reality of Psychedelics by Andy Mitchell 9781847926975
RRP: $42.90$27.90Neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.'An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and... -
The Empire of the Great Mughals by Annemarie Schimmel 9781861892515
RRP: $68.25$49.32This title is translated by Corinne Attwood. The Mughal empire (1526 1857) has long been viewed as a wonderland of unimaginable treasure; it was in fact the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. In this comprehensive cultural history, now... -
Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women by Thomas Cirotteau
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054784Author Thomas CirotteauFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman 9780393337457
RRP: $27.28$22.37In this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his latest research on his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and the methods for uncovering lies. Ekman has figured out... -
Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence by Tim Ingold
RRP: $72.13$64.21What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination at the heart of modern... -
Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building by Terry Wolverton 9780872864030
RRP: $25.33$23.42In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian... -
The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism Enrico Monacelli 9781914420603
RRP: $21.43$14.43Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi. This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and... -
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood by Brenna Hassett 9781472975720
RRP: $25.33$17.73Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced - childhood. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to... -
Fiat: The Secrets of an Epoch by Giorgio Garuzzo 9783319047829
RRP: $97.48$72.09This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996. It is a narrative from the inside that... -
Stone Will Answer by Beatrice Searle
RRP: $37.03$26.54A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.'What are you doing? If you don't mind me asking?'I say that we are taking this stone to Trondheim. I continue to tell her the story of Magnus and ancient... -
MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement by Richard Weight
RRP: $29.23$22.50Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a... -
Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory by Francis Pryor
RRP: $25.33$17.73In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric BritainFrancis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story... -
Peace Is Everything: The World View of Muslims and Traditionalists in the Senegambia by David E Maranz 9780883128169
RRP: $66.20$48.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How To Think Like a Neandertal by Thomas Wynn 9780199329229
RRP: $43.86$32.58There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal,... -
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga Jimmy Maher 9780262535694
$73.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535694Author Jimmy MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Food Through the Ages: A Popular History by Mike Gibney
RRP: $35.00$25.19Written for food aficionados everywhere, this book provides an entertaining look at the history and development of the key foods we eat every day. Mike Gibney, Professor Emeritus of Food and Health at University College Dublin, traces the story of food... -
Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? by Laura Pountney 9781509544141
RRP: $48.73$43.31The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology. Across a series of fourteen chapters, Introducing Anthropology addresses the different fields and approaches... -
The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 9780307390370
RRP: $29.23$21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390370Author Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology by Beatrice Searle 9781529920499
RRP: $21.43$15.15A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.'Extraordinary' Guardian'A magnificent book' Alex Woodcock'Exceptional' Kerri Andrews'Luminous' SpectatorAt the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral... -
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict by Marieke Brandt 9781911723424
RRP: $48.75$42.96Tribes and Politics in Yemen tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the lenses of either the...