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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,... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: £14.99£12.55Enslaved 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... -
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... -
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance by Klara Naszkowska 9781032595351
RRP: £31.99£28.73Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: £85.00£55.05*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory From The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in five... -
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
£17.78Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the... -
The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition by Arjun Appadurai
RRP: £21.99£21.89This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the... -
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
RRP: £22.00£15.62Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people... -
Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesWalking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole
RRP: £9.99£6.65We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye.; From how books... -
Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton 9780008524470
RRP: £16.99£12.80PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder... -
Birdsplaining: A Natural History: 2023 by Jasmine Donahaye
£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913830168Author Jasmine DonahayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New Welsh RarebytePublisher New Welsh Review LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm * 7mm -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past. by Robert Bevan
RRP: £20.00£13.74The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No... -
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray
RRP: £35.00£29.57A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: £41.49£35.48Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming by Jeannette Mageo
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates new findings in neuroscience and philosophy of mind... -
How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008
RRP: £24.95£17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang
RRP: £12.99£6.88'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' Simon Winchester Every year in China millions of migrant... -
A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies by Denielle Elliott
RRP: £26.99£24.11Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative,... -
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon 9780520282759
RRP: £25.00£19.58In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: £12.99£8.56Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty,... -
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography by Susan Bright 9781597113618
RRP: £45.00£32.56From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food's complexity of form and meaning-and... -
Coromandel: A Personal History of South India by Charles Allen
RRP: £14.99£9.80COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book... -
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak
RRP: £35.00£27.21Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it... -
Are Ye Dancin'?: The Story of Scotland's Dance Halls - And How Yer Dad Met Yer Ma! by Martin Kielty 9781849340458
RRP: £9.99£7.11Are Ye Dancin'? - The first-ever inside story of how Scotland's ballrooms and dance halls remained a central part of Scottish culture throughout the 20th Century. Told by the people who made it happen, the agents, managers and promoters. Eddie Tobin is... -
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State by Gargi Bhattacharyya
RRP: £16.99£13.80'Rigorous, impassioned and urgent' - Ash Sarkar We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of... -
The Comfort of Things by Daniel Miller
RRP: £15.99£14.81What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations,... -
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 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... -
Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School by Danau Tanu 9781789207958
RRP: £23.95£19.49“[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social Anthropology In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu... -
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire by Kate Schechter
RRP: £23.99£20.41A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a historically important location in the development and... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £29.95£26.61In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
RRP: £10.99£7.77We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment. So much so that we never think about where they come... -
A World of Many Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena 9781478002956
RRP: £22.99£19.60A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds... -
On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany by Daphne Berdahl
RRP: £21.99£18.79Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German... -
Stuff by Daniel Miller 9780745644240
RRP: £15.99£14.41Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can... -
The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design by Gordon Calleja
RRP: £29.00£20.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543958Author Gordon CallejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures by Lawrence Rosen 9781009388986
RRP: £22.99£22.85Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an...