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Houses and Cottages of Britain - Vernacular Building Series by R. W. Brunskill
RRP: £22.50£19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780575071223Author R W BrunskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )Publisher Yale University... -
The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
£9.17 - £12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740476Author Frank R. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois
RRP: £21.99£18.79According 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 Secret World of Doing Nothing by Orvar Lofgren 9780520262638
RRP: £25.00£19.18In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on 'doing nothing', Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn... -
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards
RRP: £26.99£23.85In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future... -
O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology by Matt Hern 9783837670264
RRP: £45.00£35.94Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as... -
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
RRP: £25.95£20.22What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it... -
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White
RRP: £25.00£19.18This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian... -
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy 9780674361539
RRP: £25.95£20.22From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies... -
The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition by Sir James George Frazer
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486836102Author Sir James George FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Choreographing Difference by Ann Cooper Albright 9780819563217
RRP: £16.95£14.08The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright... -
Miracle Brew: Adventures in the Nature of Beer by Pete Brown
RRP: £9.99£6.52Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, but few who enjoy it know much about how its four ingredients - hops, malted barley, water and yeast - miraculously combine.From the birth of brewing in the Middle East, through the surreal madness... -
Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes
RRP: £18.99£16.05Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler
RRP: £23.99£20.41In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in... -
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon by Joseph Tobin
RRP: £24.99£22.00Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokemon quickly diversified... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00£22.82Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the... -
Innovative Technology in Art Conservation: Original Appearance and Viewer Perception by W. (Bill) Wei 9781032109374
RRP: £49.99£43.50Innovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.Written in language understandable for the... -
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? by Daniel Gordis
RRP: £32.99£17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063239449Author Gordis DFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. And in modern... -
Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ by Eleana J. Kim
RRP: £22.99£19.60The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been off-limits to human habitation for nearly seventy years, and in that time, biodiverse forms of life have flourished in and around the DMZ as beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature... -
Reimagining Culture by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: £37.99£33.38Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book... -
Dealing with the Dutch: The Cultural Context of Business & Work in the Netherlands -- 19th Edition by Jacob Vossestein 9789460220791
£10.10 - £13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460220791Author Jacob VossesteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 394g -
Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars by Jerry White
RRP: £20.00£14.29From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of... -
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition) by Vikas Shah 9781789292459
RRP: £16.99£11.48'Stimulating, intelligent and enjoyable discussions of the most important issues of our day.' STEVEN PINKER 'From entrepreneurs to athletes, and world leaders to entertainers, this is a fascinating collection of interviews with some of the world's most... -
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea
RRP: £10.99£8.94The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical--and sometimes revolutionary--possibilities of our... -
The Handshake: A Gripping History by Ella Al-Shamahi 9781788167819
RRP: £7.99£5.31'It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic' Chris Evans 'A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring' Sunday Times Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply... -
Basilicata: Authentic Italy by Karen Haid 9781734832204
£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734832204Author Karen HaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Hiller PressPublisher Hiller PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Retreat: Wellness and the Counterculture by Matthew Ingram
RRP: £14.99£9.80The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect - both in its core... -
The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski
RRP: £20.00£13.74In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of... -
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein
RRP: £23.99£20.09Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers... -
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin 9780271053738
RRP: £29.95£26.79From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an... -
Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? by Laura Pountney 9781509544141
£31.42The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology. Across a series of fourteen chapters, Introducing Anthropology addresses the different fields and approaches... -
A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman
£20.31When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, "There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country," his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout... -
Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists by Craig Malkin 9780062348111
RRP: £16.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062348111Author Craig MalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life by Joan Moriarity
RRP: £12.99£9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439545Author Joan MoriarityFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria 9780803219045
RRP: £15.99£12.84"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction." -KirkusWhen... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: £7.95£5.28Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures and... -
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189
RRP: £22.00£14.98NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You... -
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice by Wendy Gunn
RRP: £29.99£27.04Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: £10.99£7.77A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first...