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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... -
Pentesting Azure: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Securing Deployments by Matt Burrough
RRP: £37.99£22.90A comprehensive guide to penetration testing cloud services deployed in Microsoft Azure, the popular cloud computing service provider used by numerous companies large and small. Packed with real-world examples from the author's experience as a corporate... -
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... -
The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition by Martin Holbraad 9781107503946
RRP: £25.99£21.46A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate... -
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 -
Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances by Mohamed Abdou
RRP: £19.99£15.76Discourse 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... -
Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes – Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies 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£11.58Apologies 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£20.84In 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... -
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity by Eric Chivian 9780195175097
RRP: £43.49£41.88The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this... -
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... -
After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century by Marilyn Strathern 9780521426800
RRP: £25.99£21.99Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester... -
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... -
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Professor Wade Davis
£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553652670Author Professor Wade DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada -
Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty by Aihwa Ong
RRP: £24.99£20.01Neoliberalism 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£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 *... -
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£7.47Apologies 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£17.54According 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: £43.99£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£21.84In 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£14.92Landes, 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£19.19In 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£18.28Apologies 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£18.37The 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... -
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City by Felix Ringel 9781789208054
RRP: £27.95£22.58How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to... -
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... -
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... -
Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context by Barbara Rogoff 9780195070033
£97.68In this book, the author explores the mental developmental of children. unlike Piaget, Rogoff sees learning as an apprenticeship - a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills. The... -
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
£15.77Apologies 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