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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
£19.04All That Is Solid Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of... -
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865687Author Gretchen BakkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 398g -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
£17.02The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized... -
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull 9780691160887
RRP: £25.00£19.58Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have... -
Office by Dr. Sheila Liming
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: £18.99£13.93'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £15.99£13.73There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new... -
1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £18.99£13.61'A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on today's political... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Derelict London: All New Edition by Paul Talling
RRP: £14.99£10.95______________________________The huge word-of-mouth bestseller - completely updated for 2019THE LONDON THAT TOURISTS DON'T SEELook beyond Big Ben and past the skyscrapers of the Square Mile, and you will find another London. This is the land of... -
In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 1/2 MILLION COPIES SOLD, NOW WITH NEW PREFACEAcross the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food.DON'T HURRY,... -
Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel by Alberto Villoldo 9780892815203
RRP: £14.99£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892815203Author Alberto VilloldoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Food Matters: Biopsychosocial Perspectives by Salman Akhtar 9781800132023
RRP: £28.99£27.59With contributions from Prachi Akhavi, Salman Akhtar, Cuneyt Iscan, Surreya Iscan, Alan Michael Karbelnig, Kelsey Leon, Clara Mucci, Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Asmita Sharma, Julian Stern, and Thomas Wolman. Food matters begin even before birth with the... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: £17.00£14.62In "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... -
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £13.99£9.20This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First... -
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry 9781784704889
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we are?What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to... -
On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West by Alison Hulme
RRP: £29.99£26.64Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society's simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: £22.00£16.63"One of history's greatest anthropologists-and a rip-roaring storyteller-recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited" (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).Napoleon... -
What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength by Scott Carney
RRP: £16.99£10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635652413Author Scott CarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rodale BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)... -
Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan 9781451659115
RRP: £8.99£5.82The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live-how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die-in this "engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and... -
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Antiblackness by Ella Myers
RRP: £21.99£18.75The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a "public and psychological wage,"... -
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780393307528
RRP: £22.50£19.87At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes... -
The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom by James Laidlaw
RRP: £26.99£21.89The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account... -
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter by Emily Martin
RRP: £25.00£19.18An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly,... -
The Body Wars: Why body dissatisfaction is at epidemic proportions and how we can fight back by Dr. Aric Sigman
RRP: £13.99£3.32Girls and women of all ages have never been more unhappy with their bodies. And research shows that slim women are often no more satisfied with their bodies than overweight ones. Forty years after the debut of body politics, fat is more of a feminist... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular by Derek Thompson
RRP: £10.99£8.34What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person looking to promote themselves and their work has asked. ... -
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: £22.99£19.56A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
Heritage and War: Ethical Issues by William Bülow
RRP: £60.00£54.13The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls for an international response to prevent such damage. At the same time, newspapers and screens were filled with images of... -
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have... -
Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World by Catherine M. Cameron
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact captives of warfare and raiding have had on small-scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new... -
Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory by Maureen Warner-Lewis 9780817355821
RRP: £29.95£24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsAn important and innovative contribution to several related fields of study ranging from social sciences to African and Creole linguistics.... Carefully researched and... -
Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy by Max van Manen
RRP: £37.99£33.38Bestselling author Max van Manen's Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in... -
The Gangs Of New York by Herbert Asbury
RRP: £10.99£9.37The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the... -
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £17.49£13.01The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: £19.99£16.07This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as... -
Almost Human by Lee Berger
RRP: £21.99£17.22In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough... -
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman 9780393337457
RRP: £13.99£11.74In this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his latest research on his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and the methods for uncovering lies. Ekman has figured out...