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Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari 9781911107408
RRP: £10.99£7.64Head Above Water is a professor's moving account of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at just eighteen in a conservative Kuwaiti society, drawing from her diary entries and fading memories as the disease advances. "Shahd Alshammari's sensuous... -
The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution by Juan Luis Arsuaga 9781405115339
RRP: £35.95£32.51This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World... -
The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast by Robert B. Edgerton 9780743236386
RRP: £13.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236386Author Robert B. EdgertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454g -
Israel - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jeffrey Geri 9781857338829
RRP: £8.99£6.84Providing information not found in standard guides about daily interactions, cultural dos and don'ts, etiquette, and the ways business is conducted Culture Smart! Israel marks the nation's 70th year of independence in a concise cultural guide that... -
Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea by Adrienne J Cohen 9780226781020
RRP: £31.00£30.19In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance... -
Inequality: A Genetic History by Carles Lalueza-Fox
RRP: £26.00£16.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046787Author Carles Lalueza-FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
RRP: £14.99£13.03A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Abena Dadze-Arthur
RRP: £6.50£6.11Clifford Geertz has been called 'the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation... -
The A to Z of Spanish Culture by Pilar Orti 9780244662813
RRP: £9.99£8.76The author Pilar Ort' was born and bred in Spain. She grew up in a society trying to figure out how to adapt to its new found freedom and how best to join the rest of Europe. Having lived in London now for over twenty years (time flies!), Pilar has... -
Rebel Rebel: How Mavericks Made Our Modern World by Chris Sullivan
RRP: £10.99£7.47Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates... -
Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam by Merav Shohet
RRP: £30.00£23.29How do families hold together when turbulent forces tear them apart? Silence and Sacrifice explores what happens to generations of kin who survived anti-imperial and civil wars in Vietnam, only to be confronted with postcolonial transitions to communism... -
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... -
Killer Visual Strategies: Engage Any Audience, Improve Comprehension, and Get Amazing Results Using Visual Communication by Amy Balliett
RRP: £24.00£16.17Discover the foundation, power, and necessity of visual communication with this essential guide Visual communication has changed. It's gone from being an optional medium for relaying information to an important method for building connections and... -
In a Very English Town by John Comino-James 9781904587729
RRP: £19.99£14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587729Author John Comino-JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 941g -
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops by Kregg Hetherington
RRP: £24.99£20.01The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was... -
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood 9780691153285
RRP: £22.00£17.36The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political... -
Energies in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
RRP: £45.00£32.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039383Author Douglas KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 30mm -
Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 by Alexandra Walsham 9780719052408
RRP: £25.00£22.19Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay... -
Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed by Richard McElreath 9780226558271
RRP: £30.00£29.65Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral... -
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment by Derek P. McCormack 9780822371236
RRP: £24.99£20.01In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons... -
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louis Levathes
RRP: £15.99£11.61A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the... -
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello
RRP: £20.95£16.52Winner of the William James Book AwardWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award"A landmark in our understanding of human development."-Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You're Told"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human... -
The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725
RRP: £60.00£53.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm -
Ojibway Heritage by Basil Johnston 9780803275720
RRP: £16.99£14.24"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."-Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately... -
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton 9780300001228
£31.81"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period... -
A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark 9780674015432
RRP: £21.95£17.62A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of... -
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198871194
RRP: £88.00£79.80Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: £9.99£8.22A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower... -
Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts by Andrew Edgar 9780415399395
RRP: £22.99£20.16Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This second edition includes new entries on: colonialismcybercultur globalisation... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner 9781138284562
RRP: £43.99£39.44Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An... -
Animal Locomotion by Andrew Biewener 9780198743163
RRP: £55.00£51.39Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of animal movement through a broad comparative and integrative approach, including... -
Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems by Professor Hilary McD. Beckles 9780521435444
£14.54Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Liberties Lost is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be of interest to general readers seeking information on the history of the... -
The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society by Judith Lynne Hanna
RRP: £24.99£20.01The Performer-Audience Connection is a pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance. It is the first attempt of its kind systematically to investigate what performers wish to convey and... -
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis
RRP: £12.99£12.83Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the... -
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse 9780805211740
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211740Author Ruth R. WisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books -
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent V. Flannery 9780674416772
RRP: £22.95£18.78Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £15.00£13.05Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Revised and Updated by Loic Wacquant
£19.32When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters,... -
Anthropology of Tobacco [Open Access]: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds by Andrew Russell
RRP: £38.99£34.22Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in...