Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology by John Bradshaw
RRP: £10.99£7.77The bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being humanIn this highly original and hugely enjoyable work, John Bradshaw examines modern humans' often contradictory... -
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert 9780300050837
£35.51"Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on everything from the hierarchy... -
The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand by Scott Stonington
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to... -
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... -
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction by Paul Farmer 9780520271999
£35.47Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed... -
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... -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £17.99£12.60***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope by Munther Isaac 9780830831999
RRP: £16.99£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830831999Author Munther IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
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... -
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin 9780226750194
RRP: £36.00£35.23How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a... -
The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terry O'Connor
RRP: £19.99£15.42Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past.This is a... -
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 Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
RRP: £21.95£18.02Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic... -
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£15.01Apologies 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 -
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... -
Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape Archaeology and Local History by Michael Aston
RRP: £39.99£35.06Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: £28.00£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
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... -
Faith In Fakes by Umberto Eco
RRP: £10.99£7.77Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco,... -
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine 9780691149837
RRP: £28.00£24.96The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military... -
Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour by Eugene McKenna 9781138182646
RRP: £61.99£53.61Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour introduces principles and concepts in psychology and organizational behaviour with emphasis on relevance and applications. Well organised and clearly written, it draws on a sound theoretical and applied... -
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society by Beth A. Conklin
RRP: £25.99£20.84Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian... -
Pacific Rift by Michael Lewis
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,... -
French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Dudley Andrew 9780198718611
RRP: £8.99£7.24It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to... -
Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres by Andreas Bandak 9781478030287
RRP: £25.99£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... -
Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 by Jacques Le Goff 9780631175667
RRP: £36.95£32.91This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by... -
Revolution in the Revolution? by Regis Debray
£13.59Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, and... -
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow
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... -
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£8.10Reflecting 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... -
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... -
Hikikomori: Adolescence without End by Saito Tamaki 9780816654598
RRP: £16.99£15.64This 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... -
Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV by Emily Mendenhall
RRP: £29.99£24.14In 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... -
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint by R. Andrew Chesnut 9780190633332
RRP: £33.99£22.37R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.18Nominally 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...