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Cocoa & Kinship In Guana Okali 9780710300416
RRP: £120.00£103.61Published in the year 1983, Cocoa & Kinship In Guana is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology.Book InformationISBN 9780710300416Author OkaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kegan PaulPublisher Kegan... -
Swimming: Vintage Minis Roger Deakin 9781784872762
RRP: £5.99£4.46Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island... -
Bulgaria - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Juliana Tzvetkova
RRP: £9.99£7.11Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe on the Black Sea, is one of Europe's best-hidden secrets. A haven for nature and history buffs, this youngest member of the European Union has been riding a... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
RRP: £34.95£28.59Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the... -
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 Rise and Eventual Fall of Turnbull's Tornadoes by Tom Wright 9781804251102
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTOM WRIGHT was taken to his first game aged nine, a friendly against Leicester City at Easter Road in February 1957. He did not realise at the time that football,... -
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan Charles J. Dunn 9784805310052
RRP: £14.99£9.80Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan.With... -
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £20.00£14.29A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn... -
The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Festival of Britain by Becky E. Conekin 9780719060601
RRP: £19.99£17.82The first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. An examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951's Festival's exhibitions and events. Covers the Festival's history and historiography, its purpose, its representations... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig
RRP: £24.00£23.03For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might... -
Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds Juan Francisco Salazar 9781474264877
RRP: £28.99£25.09Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can... -
The Human Story by Robin Dunbar
RRP: £12.99£8.56A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain' (Guardian). Of the dozen or so hominid species once in existence, why are we the only one to have survived? What is... -
The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: £16.99£12.28There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... -
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... -
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek 9780262740159
RRP: £36.00£30.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262740159Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm -
Women'S Leisure in England 1920-60 by Claire Langhamer 9780719057373
RRP: £19.99£17.61This insightful book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory. Departing from approaches which focus on particular activities or institutions, it places everyday... -
Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois
RRP: £19.99£17.54According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this--or because of it--play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this... -
The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China by Matteo Nicolini-Zani
£95.79The Luminous Way to the East offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with... -
Flirtology by Jean Smith
RRP: £15.99£11.61. How can I tell when someone is flirting with me?. How can I be a more confident flirt?. How do I avoid rejection?. Where are all the good men and women hiding?Flirtology is THE dating guide for the 21st century. In an age of swiping left and right, and... -
Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking-age to Medieval kingdom by Adrian Maldonado 9781910682432
RRP: £25.00£21.30A new look at National Museums Scotland collections covering the period 800-1200: the fall of the Pictish kingdoms and rise of the Viking Age; the emergence of new players like Alba, Moray, Strathclyde, Galloway and the Norse Earldom of Orkney. Out of... -
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland by Penny McCall Howard 9781526143693
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by... -
Jamaica: Absolutely by Arif Ali 9781906190323
RRP: £18.00£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190323Author Arif AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 1025g -
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson 9780226901350
RRP: £16.00£13.84Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson takes the radical step of joining the two, while thinking of society as an organism, one in which morality and... -
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael J. Hathaway 9780691225906
RRP: £16.99£12.47How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China-and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries,... -
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive by Griselda Pollock
RRP: £46.99£40.97Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by... -
Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar by Marcus Baynes-Rock
RRP: £29.95£27.75Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up... -
Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place Barbara Bender 9781859734674
RRP: £37.99£33.38Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action; people make them and are made by them. How people understand and engage with their material world depends upon particularities of time and place. These understandings are dynamic, variable, contradictory... -
Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes – Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852758Author E. Randolph RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy by Leslie C. Aiello 9780120455911
RRP: £49.99£47.97An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and... -
The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present by Marvin Suesse 9781108831383
RRP: £30.00£26.35Nationalists think about the economy, Marvin Suesse argues, and this thinking matters once nationalists hold political power. Many nationalists seek to limit global exchange, but others prioritise economic development. The potential conflict between... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780393354324
£10.45Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary... -
Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9781844677924
RRP: £22.99£17.35This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno... -
Losing It: Dispelling the Sex Myths that Rule our Lives by Sophia Smith Galer 9780008475628
RRP: £9.99£6.64'It's the kind of book that makes you wonder, 'why wasn't this written before?' It could change lives' EVENING STANDARD 'Turns everything you've been taught about sex on its head' RUBY RARE What lies are we told when it comes to... -
The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations by John T. Jost 9780521786997
RRP: £49.99£43.42This book, first published in 2001, summarizes and integrates the best social scientific research in a previously neglected but rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation and de-legitimation in social... -
Investigative Journalism: A Survival Guide by David Leigh 9783030167516
RRP: £24.99£17.37At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative journalism has never been more important. This book explores the history and art of investigative journalism, and explains how to deal with legal bullies,... -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's... -
Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology Yoko Akama 9781350002715
RRP: £32.99£29.16Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. This book... -
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin 9780805039399
£10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805039399Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 2001-2007 by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: £12.99£12.53Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon-which Publishers Weekly described as "strong as dignity and as subtle as love"-Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous... -
Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins by Elisabeth S. Vrba 9780300063486
£99.23This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years-especially the last three million-has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the world-authorities...