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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin 9781451651515
RRP: £21.99£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651515Author Leslie BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon by John Hemming 9781787381957
RRP: £25.00£18.89In 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... -
Decolonize Museums by Shimrit Lee
RRP: £14.99£11.66Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same... -
Canton Days: British Life and Death in China by John M. Carroll 9781538136294
RRP: £36.00£31.81Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. John Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times... -
As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology by Michael Jackson
RRP: £30.00£23.29Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would... -
Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes) by Drew Smith
RRP: £25.00£21.78Drew Smith's Oyster: A Gastronomic History offers readers a global view of the oyster, tracing its role in cooking, art, literature and politics from the dawn up time to the present day. Oysters have inspired chefs, painters and writers alike, have... -
Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything by F S Michaels 9780986853807
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986853807Author F S MichaelsFormat PaperbackImprint Red CloverPublisher Red CloverWeight(grams) 236g -
Transformational Leadership: A Comprehensive Review of Theory and Research Ronald E. Riggio 9780805847628
£44.98Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research that can serve as a reference and starting point for additional research... -
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia 9781503637511
RRP: £21.99£19.19The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor... -
A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld
RRP: £50.00£39.12Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian... -
Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value - New Edition Michael Thompson 9780745399782
RRP: £26.99£20.84Rubbish is something we ignore. By definition we discard it, from our lives and our minds, and it remains outside the concerns of conventional economics. However, this book explores the dynamics through which rubbish can re-enter circulation as a prized... -
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston 9780520280182
RRP: £30.00£23.29During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to... -
Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt. by Michael Jackson
RRP: £28.99£23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763540360Author Michael JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: £14.99£11.83An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
The Heart Grown Bitter: A Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees by Peter Loizos 9780521285469
RRP: £38.99£33.26In August 1974 most of the inhabitants of Argaki, a prosperous Cypriot village, fled from their homes in the face of an advancing army. In a matter of days they had become war refugees. This book is an account of their experiences before, during and... -
Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society by Joel Robbins
RRP: £31.00£24.43In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in... -
Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma by Antonius C. G. M. Robben 9780521784351
RRP: £24.99£21.18Collective violence changes the perpetrators, the victims, and the societies in which it occurs. It targets the body, the psyche, and the socio-cultural order. How do people come to terms with these tragic events, and how are cultures affected by massive... -
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD by Martin A. Lee 9780802130624
RRP: £12.99£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130624Author Martin A. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
RRP: £14.99£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375854Author Nastassja MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Zouwen Ho
RRP: £23.99£20.84Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the... -
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: £20.00£13.22In his bestselling "The End of History and the Last Man", Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In... -
Strange Attractor Journal Five by Mark Pilkington
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222528Author Mark PilkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice by Emma A. Jane
RRP: £47.99£39.96"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It's respectful to the history of ideas and completely... -
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doherty
RRP: £25.00£19.59Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture by Kam Louie
RRP: £26.99£22.29At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: £22.99£20.01Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led... -
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria 9780803219045
RRP: £14.99£13.41"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction." -KirkusWhen... -
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations by Merilee Grindle 9780674278332
RRP: £27.95£22.15"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep... -
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £20.99£18.37Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of... -
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288
RRP: £27.00£11.32Apologies 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 *... -
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen 9781847085306
RRP: £9.99£6.70The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
£21.73Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low" from market ideology to architecture, from... -
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... -
The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting by Alexander Vasudevan
RRP: £19.99£16.42The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: £12.99£8.60SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: £15.99£11.61Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun... -
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language by Jean-Louis Dessalles 9780199563463
RRP: £42.49£33.84Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such... -
Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change by Hannah Knox
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester,... -
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution by Paul Smaldino 9780691224145
RRP: £50.00£39.12A comprehensive introduction to mathematical and agent-based modeling of social behaviorThis book provides a unified, theory-driven introduction to key mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution, teaching readers how to... -
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England: Volume I by John D. Niles
RRP: £29.95£23.66The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years.Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique...