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Scottish Proverbs by Colin S.K Walker
RRP: £6.99£4.84Proverbs, once described as 'the wisdom of many and the wit of one', offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations. This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over... -
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait' GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR ... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks
RRP: £24.99£22.75Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit... -
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal 9781478025375
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal... -
Teotihuacan - The World Beyond the City by David M. Carballo
RRP: £62.95£51.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov by Kirin Narayan
RRP: £21.00£20.31Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" - an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis - anthropologist and... -
Tea: A Global History by Helen Saberi
RRP: £12.99£9.09From oolong to sencha to chai, tea is one of the world's most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a uniquely adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties and ways by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: £14.99£11.01James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of... -
Hong Kong - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Clare Vickers 9781857338690
RRP: £9.99£7.54Visitors marvel at Hong Kong's breathtaking location, its amazing architecture, its exciting shopping, and its fine dining. And yet it is a land of opposites of order juxtaposed with chaos, of ancient etiquette and seemingly abrupt manners, a place where... -
The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699 by B. E. Gent
RRP: £8.99£7.03Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in 'canting' - the language of thieves and ruffians - should they be so unlucky as to wander into the 'wrong' parts of town, A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: £22.99£22.45Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907
RRP: £25.00£19.99Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow... -
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization by Fabian Scheidler
RRP: £19.99£17.37The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states,... -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams 9780300240252
RRP: £18.99£16.18A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and... -
Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer
RRP: £24.00£23.03In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically... -
Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Pe rsonal Relationships by Elliott 9781509549818
RRP: £15.99£14.41Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us... -
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World by Mirko D. Grmek
RRP: £28.00£24.94What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different... -
Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ezra Vogel
RRP: £16.99£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619597Author Ruth BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
How Coppola Became Cage by Zach Schonfeld 9780197556375
RRP: £26.99£23.20An in-depth look at one of the film industry's most audacious working actors In 1982, a gangly teenager named Nicolas Coppola made his film debut and changed his name to Nicolas Cage, determined to distance himself from his famous family. Once he... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology by Joshua R. Farris
RRP: £48.99£43.06In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing,... -
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society by Victor Turner 9780801491511
RRP: £27.99£24.14In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new... -
Out of Office: the big problem and bigger promise of working from home by Anne Helen Petersen 9781913348786
RRP: £14.99£9.53A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together. When the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices around the world, sending millions into makeshift home offices, it was a forced... -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
£12.45"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali 9780816612871
RRP: £18.99£16.72"Noise is a model of cultural historiography. . . . In its general theoretical argument on the relations of culture to economy, but also in its specialized concentration, Noise has much that is of importance to critical theory today." SubStance"For... -
Chocolate: A Global History by Sarah Moss
RRP: £12.99£9.09Redolent of everything sensual and hedonistic, chocolate is synonymous with our idea of indulgence. It is adored around the world and has been since the Spanish first encountered cocoa beans in South America in the sixteenth century. It is seen as... -
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics by Jenny Reardon 9780691118574
RRP: £35.00£27.74In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity... -
Titanic Collections Volume 1: Fragments of History: The Ship by Mike Beatty 9781803993331
RRP: £40.00£29.80'A wonderful gallery of period items related to the Titanic and Olympic, presented and shared by some of the top researchers and collectors in the field. Many of these items are quite rare or unique, and are not often seen by the general public.' - Bill... -
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought by Loren Goldman 9780197675823
RRP: £58.00£52.36A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from politicians, there is a widespread feeling of despair in the... -
Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France by Louise Tythacott 9780367432782
RRP: £43.99£38.44In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site... -
Cannabis: A History by Martin Booth 9780553814187
RRP: £12.99£9.09To some it's antisocial anathema, to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provides relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug that leads to 'reefer madness' and addiction; to others still it is a legal anomaly and should be... -
Ice Cream: A Global History by Laura B. Weiss
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The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: £12.99£4.11From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both... -
Aztec Thought and Culture by Miguel Leon- Portilla 9780806122953
RRP: £25.95£18.63For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the... -
Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary by Andrea Ford 9781350322981
RRP: £21.99£18.10From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously... -
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start - and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi J. Larson
RRP: £23.49£20.37Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending with geopolitical conflicts, political campaigns,... -
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians by Jake Page 9780684855776
RRP: £22.00£14.89In the past two decades, a new breed of historians, anthropologists and archaeologist have uncovered a fuller, richer and surprising view of the entire American Indian experience. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a long... -
Civilization of Angkor by Charles Higham
RRP: £9.99£6.80A short history of the ancient civilization of Angkor, home to the spectacular temple of Angkor Wat.In the late sixteenth century a mythical encounter was reported on an elephant hunt in the dense jungle north of the Tonle Sap, or Great Lake, of central... -
The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System by Jerry Mander 9781619021587
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021587Author Jerry ManderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Secrets of Voodoo by Milo Rigaud
RRP: £12.99£8.63Secrets of Voodoo traces the development in Haiti and the Americas of this complex religion from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods of loas and their function, the... -
From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism by Michael Chanan
RRP: £19.99£16.07**Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023** For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it, however,...