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Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena
£22.89Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial... -
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by Reinier de Graaf 9780674241466
£17.28A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year"Sharp, revealing, funny."-The Guardian"An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that... -
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom
RRP: £12.99£8.60Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism,... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: £22.99£20.72Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of institutional practice a community of filmmakers who collaborate... -
Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace: An Introductory Guide by Colin Breen 9781032509389
RRP: £36.99£32.53Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and... -
Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies by Sandra Harding
£15.07Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies,... -
Applied Ethnography: Guidelines for Field Research by Pertti J. Pelto 9781611322088
RRP: £36.99£32.93This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative and... -
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality by Agnes Horvath 9781785337499
RRP: £27.95£22.58Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between... -
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design by Ron Eglash
£37.90Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the... -
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro by Sarah H. Jacoby 9780231147699
£28.14Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only... -
Delicious Places: New Food Culture, Restaurants and Interiors by Gestalten 9783899559699
RRP: £35.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559699Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism by Vincent Descombes
£27.74Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind. Beginning with a critical... -
The Making of a Man (and why we're so afraid to talk about it) by Obioma Ugoala 9781398504813
RRP: £10.99£7.00A POWERFUL MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BLACK MAN IN BRITAIN "A blisteringly honest take on contemporary Britishness that manages to be both nuanced and shocking. Highly recommended." Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) You're a... -
You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World by Alan Noble
£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847822Author Alan NobleFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots by Josephine M. T. Khu
£38.46This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of... -
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEWINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD... -
Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice by Debra Komar 9780195300291
£78.11Forensic anthropology is a vastly popular and rapidly changing profession, yet to date there has been no volume that reflects the current state of the discipline and forecasts its future. The first comprehensive text in the field, Forensic Anthropology:... -
Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £29.95£26.61Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption. This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat... -
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp
RRP: £19.99£13.35A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
£22.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society by Taylor Markarian 9781642501148
RRP: £13.99£10.95Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the... -
Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois 9780520254985
£32.11This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... -
The Trickster and the System: Identity and agency in contemporary society by Helena Bassil-Morozow
RRP: £46.99£40.97For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary... -
Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader by Margaret Wetherell 9780761971566
£40.14`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a... -
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by James O. Young
RRP: £27.95£24.25The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among... -
Fish and Chips: A History by Panikos Panayi
RRP: £11.99£7.11Along with red London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar, fish and chips were the country's original fast food. This innovative and well-researched book unwraps the... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £22.00£15.62The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures by Ann Gray
£41.72'This is an Excellent textbook and a valuable addition to the growing field of 'how to' books providing advice and guidance for practitioners and students wishing to undertake fieldwork of an ethnographic nature.... this books deserves to be high on your... -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: £23.00£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human by Scott Atran
RRP: £17.99£12.95Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. Here he argues persuasively that to understand religious violence we need to consider terrorists' close relationships, with family and friends, as... -
The Anthropology of the Future by Rebecca Bryant
RRP: £26.99£19.99Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six... -
Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers: Anthropological Insights by Thomas M. Wilson 9781487524326
£15.07International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline - any international border can... -
The World is Your Burger: A Cultural History by David Michaels
£20.89An encyclopaedic, eye-catching tribute to one of the world's most popular foods - the humble hamburger Celebrate the classic hamburger with this unprecedented collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera - a colourful look at the burger's origins and... -
The End of the Hour: A Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis 9781958506202
RRP: £12.99£8.63"A frank chronicle of healing."-Kirkus Reviews What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan expected... -
Our War by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £10.99£7.40Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links... -
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance by Louis Brehony 9781649033048
RRP: £49.99£40.70A historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locationsPalestinian Music in Exile is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the... -
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell
RRP: £13.99£12.25For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us deep into... -
The Library: v. 1 by Apollodorus
£24.54Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources... -
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford
£23.69This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.About the AuthorJames Clifford...