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The Empire of the Great Mughals by Annemarie Schimmel 9781861892515
RRP: £35.00£25.29This 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: £12.99£8.83Apologies 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 -
Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book by Danielle Dulsky 9781608688920
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies 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 by Paul Antze
RRP: £45.99£40.13Tense 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... -
Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews by Jacques Derrida 9780745620374
RRP: £15.99£14.41In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss... -
The Boot Room Boys: The Unseen Story of Anfield's Conquering Heroes by Peter Hooton
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... -
The Archaeology of Human Bones by Simon Mays
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... -
Economy and Society by Max Weber 9780520280021
RRP: £75.00£59.47Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the greatest sociological treatises of the 20th century, as well as a foundational text of the modern sociological imagination. The first... -
Understanding Children's Development by Peter K. Smith
RRP: £56.95£50.37Understanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and rigorous research-based approach. This dynamic text emphasizes the practical and applied... -
How the Page Matters by Bonnie Mak
RRP: £27.99£24.95From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie... -
Stone Will Answer by Beatrice Searle
RRP: £18.99£13.61A 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... -
Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby
RRP: £37.95£36.52This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry. Provides a fascinating account of... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: £14.99£10.95Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this,... -
The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli
RRP: £10.99£7.40Homemade 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... -
Work: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Fineman
RRP: £8.99£6.45The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us,... -
The Rites of Passage, Second Edition by Arnold Van Gennep
RRP: £24.00£20.12Folklorist Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this... -
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict by Marieke Brandt 9781911723424
RRP: £25.00£21.58Tribes 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... -
Food Through the Ages: A Popular History by Mike Gibney
RRP: £17.95£11.65Written 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... -
Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology by Beatrice Searle 9781529920499
RRP: £10.99£7.77A 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... -
Postmodernism and China by Xudong Zhang
RRP: £27.99£24.06Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global... -
Story on a Plate: The Delicate Art of Plating Dishes by gestalten 9783899559873
RRP: £35.00£26.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559873Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Magic: A Beginner's Guide by Robert Ralley 9781851687138
RRP: £9.99£7.33The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of 'real' magic and demonstrations of dazzling illusion, magic has been used to conjure the evil eye, burn... -
Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to... -
Horizon by Barry Lopez
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us... -
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£12.86Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more... -
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: £22.00£15.62Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place'Dark and mysterious and... -
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
RRP: £14.99£13.58One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times_________________________We are unprepared... -
Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot by Jo Lee Vergunst
RRP: £47.99£41.81Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored... -
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria 9780803219045
RRP: £15.99£13.00"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction." -KirkusWhen... -
Gaelic Proverbs by Alexander Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage. The book includes notes, historical and social, and comparisons with... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
Food Anatomy by Julia Rothman
RRP: £12.99£9.00Best-selling author and noted illustrator of Nature Anatomy, Julia Rothman takes her pen into the kitchen with this charming, illustrated guide to all things edible around the globe. She focuses her curious eye on the origins, types, tools, traditions,... -
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by John R. Weeks 9780226878126
RRP: £26.00£24.85When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations... -
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter 9781592404940
RRP: £17.00£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592404940Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 129mm *... -
Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture by David Bordwell
RRP: £19.00£18.50Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the... -
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99£13.74Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced... -
Social Protection Under Authoritarianism by Huang
RRP: £26.49£23.82Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate,... -
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £19.50£18.40In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us... -
Through A Window by Jane Goodall
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the world-famous expert on chimpanzees - the powerfully compelling sequel to the international bestseller IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: 'An instant animal classic' TimeEquipped with little more than a notebook, binoculars, and her fascination with wildlife,...