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Museum Basics: The International Handbook by Timothy Ambrose
RRP: £39.99£36.06This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in... -
Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Francis Phil Carspecken
RRP: £56.99£49.41Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. CriticalEthnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data... -
Tales Of Times Square by 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 -
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery 9780822370819
RRP: £23.99£20.84As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator... -
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank 9780226260129
RRP: £19.00£16.20An evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated... -
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... -
The Material Culture Reader by Victor Buchli
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 by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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... -
Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives by Anne McClintock 9780816626496
RRP: £21.99£20.19Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. Here contributors address the... -
The Secret World of Doing Nothing by Orvar Lofgren 9780520262638
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on 'doing nothing', Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn... -
Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation by A. Sivanandan 9780745328348
RRP: £26.99£17.59Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been... -
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... -
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley
RRP: £36.00£30.77An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often... -
Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield
RRP: £24.99£16.38*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012* Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a... -
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... -
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul by Melin Levent Yuna 9781032011349
RRP: £38.99£34.22Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdogan.In this book,... -
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)... -
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 -
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £52.95£43.71When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most... -
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Aries
RRP: £21.50£19.09Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.About the AuthorPhilippe Aries (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the... -
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn
RRP: £22.00£17.36A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a... -
History and Theory in Anthropology by Alan Barnard
RRP: £30.99£22.85In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on... -
Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience by Dianne M. Stewart 9780195175578
RRP: £33.99£22.85Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning... -
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £28.00£21.80Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply... -
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts 9781595588340
RRP: £14.99£9.88A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy... -
Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future by Riane Eisler
RRP: £34.99£30.49Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together... -
Writing Feminist Autoethnography: In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers by Elizabeth Mackinlay
RRP: £43.99£38.44Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice. Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of feminist thinkers and writers and considers the ways in... -
Critique Of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816615865
RRP: £23.99£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816615865Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives by Kate Crehan
RRP: £20.99£18.37Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate... -
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by John Spurling
RRP: £10.99£7.97The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world - earth, sea and sky, represented by... -
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani
RRP: £29.00£22.54"Contentious Traditions" analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who... -
Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism by Darren Langdridge 9781137338372
RRP: £49.99£44.97This book includes work on sadomasochism from across the social sciences including discussions of the history and culture of SM, medical and legal issues, along with theory and original research on the topic. With contributions from academics,... -
The Way Thais Lead: Face as Social Capital by Larry S. Persons 9786162151163
RRP: £29.99£24.14This fascinating study explores how face functions as social capital for leaders in Thai society. It examines the anatomy of Thai face, ways to gain, lose, and maintain face, patron-client dynamics, and the sources and paradigms of power. Ethnographic... -
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis by Andrea Ballestero 9781478011996
RRP: £22.99£20.01Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors-who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions-enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract,... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: £31.00£28.69From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: £22.00£17.36Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United...