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Zig Zag ZEN: Buddhism and Psychedelics by Alex Grey 9780907791621
RRP: £19.99£13.96Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has substantially evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first serious inquiry into the... -
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... -
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... -
Fashion History: A Global View by Linda Welters
RRP: £26.99£22.00Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been... -
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... -
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.77'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' NatureOf all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of... -
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian
RRP: £20.99£17.13The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or... -
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia 9781503637511
RRP: £23.99£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... -
On Kings by Marshall Sahlins 9780986132506
RRP: £22.50£22.08In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished... -
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
RRP: £16.99£14.24" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " -Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing... -
Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy
RRP: £24.00£23.03When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose-that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat... -
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... -
Emergent Ecologies by Eben Kirksey 9780822360353
RRP: £24.99£20.41In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find... -
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)... -
Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice by Michalle Gal 9781032106182
RRP: £35.99£31.69Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course book and a source for research, this textbook methodically covers the central concepts of design theory,... -
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography by Susan Bright 9781597113618
RRP: £45.00£32.56From basic sustenance to savory repasts, food awakens the senses and touches both private and public life. It can be political, religious, aspirational, commercial, creative, symbolic, national, and regional. Food's complexity of form and meaning-and... -
Diversity Management and Discrimination: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the EU by John Wrench
RRP: £39.99£35.06What can diversity management offer those concerned with ethnic inequality, racial discrimination, and issues of social and economic inclusion and exclusion? In this book John Wrench traces the emergence of diversity management in the US in the late... -
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 Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they... -
The Idea of Australia by Julianne Schultz
RRP: £20.00£14.29***Longlisted for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award!***A searing analysis of the idea of Australia and the truth of the nation, its greatest strengths and most important challenges, and how Australia as a country can achieve its... -
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... -
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael J. Hathaway
RRP: £22.00£17.76How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China-and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries,... -
A Natural History of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
RRP: £19.95£16.12A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other... -
Plagues and People by William H. McNeill 9780385121224
RRP: £14.95£11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385121224Author William McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780802063489
RRP: £11.99£11.40Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human... -
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £33.00£26.61When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and... -
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... -
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings by David F. Lancy 9781108931991
RRP: £30.99£28.52How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging... -
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
RRP: £14.99£8.78Apologies 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 -
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... -
Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory by Professor Mary Douglas 9780415119993
RRP: £47.99£41.81Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights... -
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... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives by Patricia Stuart-Macadam
RRP: £45.99£40.53Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general,... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: £24.99£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... -
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... -
Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt by Jayaseelan Raj 9781800082281
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082281Author Jayaseelan RajFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g