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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... -
Chaldean Magic by Francois Lenormant
RRP: £12.99£12.34First published in 2008. Anyone interested in magic and its history will find this a fascinating book. In it, the author discusses Chaldean magic and sorcery, demonology, amulets, the ritual of the dead, the development of Chaldean mythology and the... -
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography by John Van Maanen
RRP: £16.00£15.77For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: £12.99£9.24History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear... -
New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England by Alex Niven
RRP: £9.99£6.80From Orwell-reading centrists to right-wing extremists, there have been countless attempts in recent decades to reimagine the feudal nation that was once England. But there is a strong case for saying that `England' doesn't exist at all in the... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie
RRP: £9.99£6.64The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who... -
The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £21.99£18.79In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words... -
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt, III
RRP: £10.99£7.40'This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsFrom two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of... -
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
RRP: £22.95£17.99Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities... -
The Living Stream - Holy Wells in Historical Context by James Rattue
RRP: £19.99£16.97A history of holy wells from the pagan cult of water to the Christian wells of the middle ages, and including a full gazetteer. The holy well is the absolute combination of mystery and utility. There are hundreds of them still to be found, some... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: £27.00£20.63When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire by David Graeber 9781904859666
RRP: £15.00£10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859666Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 558g -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell
£39.05Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: £30.00£18.81A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored by Mike Gibney 9781910820087
RRP: £17.00£16.13Ever seen a fat fox? Didn't think so. Why it is that only humans - or animals in the care of humans - develop obesity? In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney delves into the history of the human relationship with food. He... -
Afternoon Tea: A History and Guide to the Great Edwardian Tradition by Vicky Straker
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Edwardian era was the golden age of etiquette and gentility, and the taking of tea was rather like a ceremonial masquerade. At this time, it was not uncommon for ladies to change up to five times a day, and one of their outfits would have been a tea... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£4.04Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim... -
The Semiotics of Love by Marcel Danesi 9783030181109
RRP: £19.99£11.67The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological... -
Victorian Recipes by Pitkin
RRP: £5.00£3.58This charming little book provides a feast of original recipes from Victorian times, which are still perfectly reliable today. How about spring soup or mayonnaise of chicken in shells to start? Followed by toad in the hole made with steak and kidney,... -
The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader by Nigel Wheale 9780415126113
RRP: £39.99£35.06For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the... -
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £13.99£10.37This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard... -
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales
RRP: £12.99£8.60A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways... -
With Two Souls: Two midwives' recollections of love, life, birth, and death in rural Ethiopia by Indie McDowell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Recollections of birth and death, joy and tragedy that reveal the reality of maternity care in a remote setting. In 2016, English midwife Indie joined the staff at Attat Hospital in south-western Ethiopia, where Atsede led the midwifery services. It... -
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others by T.M. Luhrmann 9780691234441
RRP: £15.99£12.56The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see... -
A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity by Gary Tomlinson
RRP: £20.00£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951528Author Gary TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Teddy Boys: A Concise History by Ray Ferris 9781908479181
RRP: £6.99£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479181Author Ray FerrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 118g -
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma 9781847925152
RRP: £20.00£18.02A revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the world. Famed for its equality and good health, sunshine and beauty, many celebrate Cuba, one of the world's five remaining Communist countries, for... -
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99£7.77The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved... -
The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton
£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm -
What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
RRP: £28.00£27.39Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation... -
Applied Corporate Risk and Liquidity Management by Erik Lie 9780197664995
RRP: £63.00£56.79Cash holdings play a critical role for all corporations. They serve as a source of funding for investment projects that create value for shareholders and as a cushion against costly financial distress. On the other hand, excess cash holdings can induce... -
Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart
RRP: £21.99£18.79Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: £14.99£9.70Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any... -
Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets by Annelise Riles
RRP: £30.00£29.25Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the... -
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English by Lynne Murphy
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.' The Economist,... -
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon by Munira Khayyat
RRP: £25.00£19.18What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed... -
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
RRP: £12.99£11.82Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging... -
Nicaragua - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Russell Maddicks 9781857338768
RRP: £9.99£6.64Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians,... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: £42.95£40.71Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the...