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The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £10.95£8.07Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and... -
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour
RRP: £25.95£21.04Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated-a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth... -
Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings by Robert Smithson
RRP: £35.00£28.14Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
£20.05The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: £27.00£21.46Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life... -
Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith 9780415318310
RRP: £37.99£33.78Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be... -
Lion by Deirdre Jackson 9781861896551
RRP: £14.95£14.65Majestic, noble, brave lions, with their tawny coats and luminous eyes, have inspired countless stories, traditions and beliefs. Whether we are seduced by their beauty or drawn to danger, we want to be near them. No other animal has had such an enduring... -
Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV by Emily Mendenhall
RRP: £29.99£26.50In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. Mendenhall argues that the link between sugar and diabetes overshadows the ways in... -
Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances by Mohamed Abdou
RRP: £19.99£16.07Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.14Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century by Richard Hingley
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... -
Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808383
RRP: £23.00£22.13In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of... -
Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394723693Author Robert Farris ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Francis Phil Carspecken
RRP: £56.99£49.41Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. CriticalEthnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data... -
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by PhD Lmsw Brene Brown
RRP: £28.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812995848Author Brene BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology by Simon Roberts 9781610271844
RRP: £30.24£23.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610271844Author Simon RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Quid Pro LLCPublisher Quid Pro LLCWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution and Fate by Brian Switek
RRP: £9.99£7.13Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In... -
Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes – Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: £25.99£14.28Apologies 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 *... -
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 9780802148650
RRP: £12.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148650Author David ZucchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288
RRP: £27.00£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509288Author Ibram X. KendiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power by Dale A. Olsen
RRP: £25.99£22.49In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the... -
A British Tradition?: The History and Significance of Fair Play by Jonathan Duke-Evans 9780192859990
RRP: £41.99£29.74For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or... -
Everyday Life in the Ice Age: A New Study of Our Ancestors by Elle Clifford
£36.83Everyday Life in the Ice Age is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, with its many problems and challenges, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early... -
Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty by Aihwa Ong
RRP: £24.99£21.67Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative... -
The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
RRP: £14.99£13.53Apologies 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 *... -
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy 9780674361539
RRP: £25.95£20.64From 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)... -
Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois
RRP: £21.99£19.19According 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... -
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 Secret World of Doing Nothing by Orvar Lofgren 9780520262638
RRP: £25.00£19.59In 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£24.32In 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... -
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... -
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
RRP: £25.95£20.64What 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... -
Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad by Richard Landes
RRP: £18.99£16.58Landes, 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£20.84In 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... -
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White
RRP: £25.00£19.59This 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... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00£23.29Along 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£18.41Apologies 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 -
Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ by Eleana J. Kim
RRP: £22.99£20.01The 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...