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Knowledge & Human Interests by Jurgen Habermas 9780807015414
£28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015414Author Jurgen HabermasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? by Daniel Gordis
RRP: £32.99£18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063239449Author Gordis DFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are by Camilla Pang 9781984881656
RRP: £17.00£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881656Author Camilla PangFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories by Daniel Ruiz-Serna 9781478019503
RRP: £20.99£18.37Daniel Ruiz-Serna examines how the devastation caused by war impacts nonhuman inhabitants in the forests and rivers in the traditional lands of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples.About the AuthorDaniel Ruiz-Serna is Lecturer of Anthropology at Dawson... -
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein 9780691182612
RRP: £22.00£17.36A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries... -
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... -
Alarm by Dr. Alice Bennett
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us... -
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora by B Camminga 9780755638987
£70.20Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the movement of LGBTIQ+ persons, particularly those seeking protection in Europe and North America. While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals facing persecution, it... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have... -
Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures Geert Hofstede 9781877864902
RRP: £25.00£16.38Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten "pure" cultural types derived from the extremes of the five... -
Costa Rica - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jane Koutnik 9781857336658
RRP: £9.99£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... -
Ageing and Popular Culture by Andrew Blaikie 9780521645478
RRP: £34.99£30.33As the 'grey market' perpetuates the quest for eternal youth, the biological realities of deep old age are increasingly denied. Ageing and Popular Culture traces the historical emergence of stereotypes of retirement and documents their recent demise,... -
Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life Charles L. Briggs 9781032457741
RRP: £34.99£30.85This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease... -
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
RRP: £19.99£17.54Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just... -
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan 9780465022823
£13.09Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long... -
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben 9780804747387
RRP: £18.99£11.66The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming-or has come-to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he... -
Visual Culture: The Reader by Jessica Evans 9780761962489
RRP: £50.99£41.72`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign,... -
The Toad of Dawn: 5-Meo-Dmt and the Rise of Cosmic Consciousness by Dr. Octavio Rettig Hinojosa
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611250466Author Dr. Octavio Rettig HinojosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Divine ArtsPublisher Divine Arts -
Tales Of Times Square Josh Alan Friedman 9781932595284
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595284Author Josh Alan FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 431g -
Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism Jeremy Gilbert 9780745325316
RRP: £27.99£21.57Under neoliberalism the cult of individualism reigns supreme, forced upon us through culture, media and politics, it fatally limits our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. In Common Ground, Jeremy Gilbert asks us to reimagine... -
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... -
The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in US Politics by Caitríona Perry 9780717184828
RRP: £23.99£16.94In The Tribe, Caitriona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections, but generations of assimilation and rising... -
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz
RRP: £16.99£16.53This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the world's leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertz's claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good... -
St Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 9780684832968
£28.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution by James Ferguson 9780822358862
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as... -
The Material Culture Reader Victor Buchli 9781859735596
RRP: £29.99£26.64Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study... -
Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror by Matt Kennard
RRP: £20.99£20.94Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars-now the longest wars in American history-the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard's explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis,... -
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China by Margaret Hillenbrand 9780231212151
RRP: £30.00£23.29Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video... -
Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi by Anand Vivek Taneja 9781503603936
RRP: £24.99£21.67In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state... -
Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine Antonella Gambotto-Burke 9781780667409
RRP: £14.99£10.95Woman as comestible. Woman as kingmaker. Woman as oblivion. Why is our culture governed by the principle of separation? Beginning with a devastating exploration of the 1960s, understood up until now as the era of female liberation, free love and the... -
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges by Tim Lewens 9780198801191
£26.72Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working... -
The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition by Sir James George Frazer
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486836102Author Sir James George FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Deja Vu and the End of History by Paolo Virno
£15.10This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsche,... -
Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights: Global Trends and Issues Concerning Indigenous Peoples by Jide James-Eluyode 9781498566667
RRP: £30.00£26.68In Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights, Jide James-Eluyode provides a comprehensive analysis of critical human rights developments and topical issues and trends in corporate social responsibility practices. James-Eluyode examines how corporate... -
Work: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Fineman
RRP: £8.99£6.45The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us,... -
A Companion to Intellectual History Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) 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... -
Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall
RRP: £14.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385124744Author Edward T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
After The End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse by James Berger 9780816629336
RRP: £20.99£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629336Author James BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Creation, Power and Truth: The Gospel in a World of Cultural Confusion by Tom Wright
RRP: £10.99£8.25In Creation, Power and Truth, Tom Wright invites readers to consider the crucial ways in which the Christian gospel challenges and subverts the intellectual, moral and political values that pervade contemporary culture. In doing so, he asks searching... -
Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life by Joan Moriarity
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439545Author Joan MoriarityFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.