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Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan by Annika Schmeding 9781503637535
£24.14Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
£28.59Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the... -
The Body Wars: Why body dissatisfaction is at epidemic proportions and how we can fight back by Dr. Aric Sigman
RRP: £13.99£4.11Girls and women of all ages have never been more unhappy with their bodies. And research shows that slim women are often no more satisfied with their bodies than overweight ones. Forty years after the debut of body politics, fat is more of a feminist... -
Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook by C. Michael Bowers 9780123820006
£71.11Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigators Handbook highlights the discussion regarding unjust convictions caused by inaccurate bitemark opinions. The book focuses on cases that use forensic techniques, emphasizing modern methods and protocols. Through... -
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections by Constance Classen
£27.40Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
RRP: £23.00£22.13"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption,... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
£23.69Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and... -
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
£26.90Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned... -
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean
RRP: £14.99£12.55In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade". Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem... -
The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society by William Deresiewicz 9781250858634
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250858634Author William DeresiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Dirty Kids: Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads by Chris Urquhart
RRP: £9.99£6.75"An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey. From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." -Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of ManAt age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power by Alex de Waal 9780745695587
RRP: £16.99£15.22The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war... -
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood by Didier Fassin
£24.76Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into... -
The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: £7.99£5.41Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal... -
Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India by Colleen Taylor Sen
RRP: £27.50£20.29The second most populous country in the world after China and the seventh largest in area, India is unique among nations in its diversity of climates, languages, religions, tribes, customs and, of course, cuisines. Yet what is it that makes Indian food... -
Whole Earth Field Guide by Caroline Maniaque Benton
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529280Author Caroline Maniaque-BentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 267mm * 203mm * 16mm -
The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: £16.99£12.28There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
£16.43"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
RRP: £15.99£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143790020Author Christine HelliwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Michael JosephPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender by Charles King
RRP: £10.99£7.77*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist... -
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat by Benedicte Savoy
RRP: £29.95£19.47A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in... -
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G Jackson 9780592438849
RRP: £19.99£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
£13.32A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Waypoints: A Journey on Foot by Robert Martineau 9781784709921
RRP: £9.99£7.11A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.'An extraordinary, dreamlike journey through West Africa' Adharanand FinnAt the age of twenty-seven and afraid of falling into a life he doesn't want, Robert... -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: £34.49£29.67Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and... -
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman
£19.19Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the... -
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico by Megan Crowley-Matoka
RRP: £24.99£21.67Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys from living relatives-not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is also a public affair that is proudly performed primarily in state-run... -
Up from Eden: Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilber 9780835607315
RRP: £23.95£17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607315Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S. -
Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr
RRP: £18.00£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307718358Author Luke BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia by Audrey Richards
RRP: £16.99£15.22Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time when the discipline was dominated by male... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £22.50£18.95An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson
£20.84Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its... -
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustin Fuentes
£26.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983942Author Agustin FuentesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity by Joshua Barker 9780824837419
RRP: £25.00£23.63We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of... -
Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries by Christopher Whitehead
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the... -
Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas by Nicholas A. Robins
RRP: £36.00£35.23This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903... -
The Private Worlds of Dying Children by Myra Bluebond-Langner
£24.76"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die." In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic... -
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas
£22.89In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was... -
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson
RRP: £27.00£26.47Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth, and our societies are larger,... -
People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon by John Hemming 9781787381957
RRP: £25.00£19.28In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of...