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Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time by Christine McCourt 9781845452940
RRP: £27.95£22.58All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found... -
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... -
From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism by Bruce F. Pauley 9780807847138
RRP: £55.00£51.54According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by... -
Basilicata: Authentic Italy by Karen Haid 9781734832204
£15.49Apologies 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 -
Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy
RRP: £12.99£9.09Prehistoric 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... -
Communicate for Change: Creating Justice in a World of Bias by Genelle Aldred
RRP: £13.99£9.75How do we advocate for justice effectively in a world deeply divided by racial, gender and class inequalities? If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots - only then can we understand how to... -
Retreat: How the Counterculture invented Wellness Matthew Ingram 9781912248780
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... -
In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy by Jeff Biggers
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890261Author Jeff BiggersFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed by Richard McElreath 9780226558271
RRP: £30.00£29.65Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral... -
The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer by Juliet Schor 9780060977580
RRP: £16.99£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060977580Author Juliet SchorFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 Jacques Le Goff (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 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... -
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition) by Vikas Shah 9781789292459
RRP: £16.99£12.28'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... -
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louis Levathes
RRP: £15.99£11.61A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the... -
The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski
RRP: £20.00£16.83In 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... -
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics by Henry Jenkins 9780745660714
£15.22In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing... -
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 Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Orin Starn
RRP: £23.99£18.84Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The... -
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world s great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different... -
Food Anatomy by Julia Rothman
RRP: £12.99£12.31Best-selling author and noted illustrator of Nature Anatomy, Julia Rothman takes her pen into the kitchen with this charming, illustrated guide to all things edible around the globe. She focuses her curious eye on the origins, types, tools, traditions,... -
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography by Susan Bright 9781597113618
RRP: £45.00£39.15From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food's complexity of form and meaning-and... -
The Grammar of Interactives by Bernd Heine 9780192871497
RRP: £115.00£103.88This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly... -
Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe by Ruben Andersson 9780520282520
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his... -
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... -
Counselling in a Multicultural Society by Stephen Palmer
RRP: £41.99£36.92`The book aptly describes, explores and hits the core of very complex issues around race, racism, culture, difference, dual identity, stereotypes, immigration and alienation... It is also very thought-provoking, raising questions about one's own ability... -
Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship by Kath Weston 9780231110938
RRP: £22.00£16.86This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism... -
An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice Rodolfo Maggio 9781912284627
RRP: £6.50£6.11In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn't... -
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by David Eagleman 9781948226035
£17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226035Author David EaglemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Nomads: Life on the Move by Kinchoi Lam
RRP: £16.99£11.94A beguiling look at seven contemporary nomadic cultures around the world, offering a timely insight into alternative ways of life that connect us to our ancestral roots. A fascinating and beautiful survey of seven nomadic societies spread across the... -
Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ezra Vogel
RRP: £16.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619597Author Ruth BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
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£11.76Apologies 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 -
Who Are You, Really? – A Philosopher`s Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons by Joshua Rasmussen
RRP: £24.99£22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003947Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1504gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm -
Trauma Lucy Bond (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415540421
RRP: £19.99£17.69Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late... -
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Jared Diamond 9781780226880
RRP: £9.99£6.80A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.46The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger... -
Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance by Sohini Kar
RRP: £23.99£20.84Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have... -
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord 9780942299793
RRP: £20.00£13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299793Author Guy DebordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491016
RRP: £24.99£22.07A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. American Anthropologist A pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological... -
Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings by Paul Drew 9780521376334
RRP: £69.99£59.03In the first collection of its kind, Paul Drew and John Heritage bring together the latest advances in the application of conversation analysis to the study of language and interaction in institutional settings. Leading American and European scholars... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
RRP: £14.99£9.98`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We... -
Faith in Fakes Umberto Eco 9780749396282
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,...