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Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness by Charles Foster 9781788167185
RRP: £12.99£9.09A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A thrilling deep-dive through our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we are the way we are - and what wisdom we've lost along the way' Cal Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment 'A wild... -
Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century Professor Richard Hingley (Durham University, UK) 9781350047297
RRP: £28.99£26.22*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis
RRP: £8.99£7.07To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a... -
The Migrant's Paradox, Volume 31: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain by Suzanne M Hall
RRP: £20.99£18.37Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and streetIn this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal... -
Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi by Goekce Gunel
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Goekce Gunel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: £21.99£19.19The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a... -
From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society by Taylor Markarian 9781642501148
RRP: £13.99£10.95Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the... -
The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography by Carolyn Ellis 9780759100510
RRP: £52.00£45.87A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories... -
A Tolerant Nation?: Revisiting Ethnic Diversity in a Devolved Wales by Charlotte Williams 9781783161881
RRP: £29.99£22.37The population of Wales is the product of successive waves of immigration. During the industrial revolution many diverse groups were attracted into Wales by the economic opportunities it offered - notably Irish people, black and minority ethnic sailors... -
The Living Stream - Holy Wells in Historical Context by James Rattue
RRP: £19.99£17.61A 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... -
We, the Oppressors Dr Dr Jack Davy 9781529413922
RRP: £20.00£12.05'I thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this... -
Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £18.49£13.97The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet, it is all but ignored as a serious work in its... -
Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
RRP: £17.95£16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972100Author Josef PieperFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 298g -
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch by Constance Classen
RRP: £20.99£18.37From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch... -
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00£16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive... -
Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular by Derek Thompson
RRP: £10.99£8.43What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person looking to promote themselves and their work has asked. ... -
Hikikomori: Adolescence without End by Saito Tamaki 9780816654598
£16.12This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or "withdrawal"-a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and... -
Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies by George W. Noblit 9780803930230
RRP: £33.99£30.09How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing... -
Almost Human by Lee Berger
RRP: £21.99£16.63In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough... -
Gin: A Global History by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin, Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like... -
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... -
The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira 9789766406608
RRP: £32.95£28.18Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their... -
A Passion for Birth: My Life: Anthropology, Family and Feminism by Sheila Kitzinger
RRP: £20.00£15.44Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies' rights, childbirth educator and author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have taken place over the last 50 years on the subject of... -
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton 9780811205702
RRP: £14.99£13.03"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground-I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: £9.99£6.99Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his... -
Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human by Erik Jampa Andersson
RRP: £12.99£7.72'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation... indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and... -
Religion in the Emergence of Civilization: Catalhoeyuk as a Case Study by Ian Hodder
RRP: £44.99£35.61This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this... -
The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Benny Shanon 9780199252923
£80.95This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a... -
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Mary Catherine Bateson 9780060975739
RRP: £19.99£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975739Author Mary Catherine BatesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: £22.99£22.69Moldova 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... -
The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics by Boris Starling
RRP: £9.99£6.64A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation. 'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times In 1841 there were 734 female... -
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi 9780262631433
£35.64A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book... -
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,... -
Modern Culture by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£13.16What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the... -
Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation by Gillian Rose 9780521578493
RRP: £39.99£33.26In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism withour reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into... -
Pacific Rift Michael Lewis 9781444738070
RRP: £10.99£7.40By the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER.In Pacific Rift, Lewis follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo,... -
Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres by Andreas Bandak 9781478030287
RRP: £23.99£20.84One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars... -
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment Philippa Snow 9781913462468
RRP: £10.99£7.40A few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass' Johnny Knoxville: "I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking to have some fun, which as you know usually means... -
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...