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Tequila: A Global History by Ian Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09With its unique aroma and heady buzz - the perfect accompaniment to even the spiciest tacos - tequila has won its way into drinkers' hearts worldwide. There are few places on earth besides Mexico that have the climate and terrain to evolve the agave... -
The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo sapiens by G. Richard Scott 9781316626481
RRP: £41.99£36.29All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth morphology in recent populations. Research has... -
Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass 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... -
The Work of the Gods in Tikopia: Second Edition by Raymond Firth
RRP: £39.99£35.06First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular... -
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £8.99£7.07Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social... -
Other Asias by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £32.95£29.14In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. Major work from one of the world's most... -
Before Maori - NZ's First Inhabitants by Ross M Bodle 9781475080117
RRP: £14.00£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475080117Author Ross M BodleFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State by Miguel Diaz-Barriga
£19.19Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Diaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not... -
Egypt's Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics by Carl Rommel
RRP: £49.00£42.57Both a symbol of the Mubarak government's power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime's overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state,... -
Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Saul Becker
£23.69This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers by Vicki Cummings 9780198831044
£49.32For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of... -
Tribe Made in Britain: A Personal History of British Subculture by Martin Roach 9781906191290
£8.73From punks and teddy boys to mods and rockers, the last fifty years has seen the British Isles overrun with the iconic styles and attitudes - youthful 'tribes' changing the world with their bold new ideas. Britain's youth movements are regarded... -
Okinawa: The History of an Island People by George Kerr
RRP: £19.99£13.35"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work."-Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu... -
Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby
RRP: £37.95£36.23This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry. Provides a fascinating account of... -
Bones: Inside and Out by Roy A. Meals
RRP: £21.99£18.55Bone is ubiquitous and versatile, and uniquely repairs itself without scarring. However, we rarely see bone in its living state-and even then, mostly in two-tone images that only hint at its marvels. After it serves and protects vertebrate lives, bone... -
Menergy: San Francisco's Gay Disco Sound by Louis Niebur
RRP: £27.99£23.61For most of the US, disco died in 1979. Triggered by the infamous "Disco Demolition" night at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12, 1979, a backlash made the word "disco" an overnight punchline. Major labels dropped disco artists and producers, and those... -
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena
RRP: £45.99£40.13In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie... -
Malawi - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kondwani Munthali 9781857338782
£7.54Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
A Natural History of Homosexuality by Francis Mark Mondimore
£22.44A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation--over the centuries homosexuality has been defined in all these ways. Now, in a generous work which synthesizes research in biology, history, psychology, and politics,... -
Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance by Jane Desmond 9780822319429
£23.72Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been... -
How Institutions Think by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: £13.99£9.26"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
A Companion to Intellectual History by Richard Whatmore 9781119125570
RRP: £34.95£31.23A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it... -
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj
RRP: £20.00£16.43Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier... -
Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America by Alex V. Barnard
£19.19If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste-while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that... -
Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa by William W. Bascom
£32.58"The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in... -
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton 9780719051708
£17.82The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer... -
On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour
£19.19On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book We Have Never Been Modern. There he redescribed the Enlightenment idea of... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: £14.99£9.80Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English... -
Suq – Geertz on the Market by Clifford Geertz
RRP: £28.00£27.39A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz's essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and... -
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9781933550732
RRP: £10.75£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933550732Author Hans-Hermann HoppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
Management in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509502226
RRP: £14.99£13.58Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely... -
The Library: v. 2 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... -
Time of Transitions by Jurgen Habermas 9780745630113
RRP: £15.99£14.41We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question. In this new volume of... -
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: £23.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140144567Author Peter MatthiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 214mm... -
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction by Jurg Wassmann
RRP: £37.99£33.78The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner
RRP: £27.00£26.87In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as... -
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin 9780822361367
£20.01Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday... -
Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines by John R. Baldwin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is one of the most important factors we need to know when we interact as well as in our discussions of social problems and their solutions. This book picks up the dialogue where...