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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £12.99£9.49"Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever..." Esquire Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. Everyday Drinking brings together the... -
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
RRP: £4.99£3.80In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its... -
Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse: Tradition, Translation, and Transcription by Rebecca Quoss-Moore 9789463723534
RRP: £113.00£107.55Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understanding this system as an extensive network of production and reception in which women took on many roles... -
Cultural Passions: Fans, Aesthetes and Tarot Readers by Elizabeth Wilson 9781780762869
£28.52Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In "Cultural Passions" she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Revised and Updated by Loic Wacquant
£18.45When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters,... -
Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy by Mark Bovens 9780198790631
£89.88Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western... -
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody
RRP: £20.00£13.46This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz... -
Fashion: A Very Short Introduction by Rebecca Arnold
RRP: £8.99£6.45Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture... -
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell KabulOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...When journalist Taran Khan arrives... -
Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation by Elizabeth Pearson 9781787389465
RRP: £45.00£39.10Misogyny and 'toxic masculinity' are increasingly implicated in radicalisation. From the men's incel ('involuntary celibate') movement online, to jihadist groups like Islamic State, to radical right 'Free Speech' protests -radicalisation spans ideologies... -
Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 by Anton Weiss-Wendt
RRP: £45.00£38.47In Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial... -
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
RRP: £16.99£11.58Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps,... -
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives by Helen Pearson
RRP: £12.99£9.09LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary ReviewThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayIn ... -
Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Robin Osborne 9780192842022
RRP: £21.99£15.61This fascinating new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 bc shows how sculptors and painters responded to the challenges they faced in the extremely formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state. The numerous symbols and images... -
Power Knowledge by Michel Foucault
£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394739540Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £36.95£32.91From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and... -
Shades of Noir by Joan Copjec 9780860916253
£23.27For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The... -
Processes in Human Evolution: The journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans by Francisco J. Ayala 9780198739913
RRP: £60.00£56.96The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading authorities in... -
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 9781594200823
RRP: £28.00£20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of James Beard Cookbook Award - Writings on Food and National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781594200823Author Michael PollanFormat HardbackPage... -
Christmas Carols: From Village Green to Church Choir by Andrew Gant
RRP: £10.99£7.77Everyone loves a Christmas carol - in the end, even Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of midwinter mood, like the aroma of mince pies and mulled wine and the twinkle of lights on a tree. It's a kind of magic. But how did they... -
The Life of Lines by Tim Ingold 9780415576864
RRP: £39.99£35.06To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of... -
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
£8.67 - £11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288195Author Peter TurchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99£9.36This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It suggests comparison with the work of George Orwell. In these twenty-six pieces,... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: £10.99£7.77David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future'Nails home the point: Life is a miracle ... A... -
The Vocation Lectures: "Science as a Vocation"; "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber
RRP: £15.99£13.06Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as the classic formulations of his positions on two related subjects that go to the heart of his thought: the nature and status of science and its claims to... -
Anthropology For Dummies by Cameron M. Smith
RRP: £17.99£12.14Study 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... -
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
RRP: £16.99£13.34Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the... -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness by Donna J. Haraway 9780971757585
RRP: £10.95£8.34"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not... -
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
£59.24This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.Reviews"Surely no need for commentary on this... -
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William Alexander 9781538753330
RRP: £16.99£11.54The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our... -
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £16.99£15.22Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of... -
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: £16.99£11.54Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains... -
Zig Zag ZEN: Buddhism and Psychedelics by Alex Grey 9780907791621
RRP: £19.99£13.96Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has substantially evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first serious inquiry into the... -
American Bedroom by Barbara Peacock 9783969001295
RRP: £45.00£29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969001295Author Barbara PeacockFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag -
Cultural Analytics by Lev Manovich
RRP: £38.00£30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037105Author Lev ManovichFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Silent Language Anchor by Edward T. Hall
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385055499Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies by Richard Foss 9781442227286
RRP: £41.00£38.92In the history of cooking, there has been no more challenging environment than those craft in which humans took to the skies. The tale begins with meals aboard balloons and zeppelins, where cooking was accomplished below explosive bags of hydrogen,... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
£35.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
Gypsies and Flamenco: The Emergence of the Art of Flamenco in Andalusia, Interface Collection Volume 6 by Bernard Leblon
RRP: £9.99£8.68This definitive work on the contribution of the Gypsies to the development of flamenco traces their influences on music from their long migration from India, through Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, to their persecution in Spain. This new updated... -
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
RRP: £26.99£23.25Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aime Cesaire (Martinique) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets...