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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it...

In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to see that fascism was the principal political innovation of the twentieth...

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780710301345Author Miguel CovarrubiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Kegan PaulPublisher Kegan PaulWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731521326Author Peter BellwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Department of Anthropology (Australian National UnPublisher Department of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

This is one of the first systematic discussions of the nature of trust as a means of social cohesion, discussing the works of leading social theorists on the issue of social solidarity.About the AuthorBarbara A. Misztal is Professor of Sociology at...

In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire and its impact on the course of the 1917 Revolution. By focusing on the sections of the labour...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the...

A portable and pocket-sized guide to foundational bioscience and biomedical science laboratory skills The newly revised Second Edition of Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques: A Pocket Guide delivers a foundational and intuitive pocket reference text...

Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the...

The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough...

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths contribute to modern political ideologies. By examining the myths, legends, and scientific record concerning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007136Author Ruth BeharFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Muscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athleticism. We can mould our muscles with exercise and...

This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art as a passive recipient of the artist's intention and the audience's critique, the authors consider it in...

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial essay is returned to its original context, published...

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to...

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849027700Author Weston PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 611gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373898Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social...

Humanity 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...

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073360Author Yaba BlayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

"Both a fascinating historically informed account of flying saucers in military and popular imagination, from their arrival in the 1940s until the present, and a satisfying intellectual account of how categories and objects change simultaneously. Jenkins...

Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair and what it tells us about ourselves and society. When it's not attached...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419565Author Gustave Le BonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the...

Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambling suddenly expanded? How was it transformed from a criminal activity to a respectable business run by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436317Author Foxfire Fund IncFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521055Author Hans BlumenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1111gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition.In the normal...

In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027519Author Evgenia Semenova GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Continuing the theme of self-reflection, Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to Bearn, the region in which he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's...

This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Orion Book Award 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780375713699Author David AbramFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House...

Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural...