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An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives by Heather Montgomery 9781405125901
RRP: £31.95£28.29In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one... -
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study Thomas Sowell 9780300107753
RRP: £15.99£13.82In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell... -
Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ezra Vogel
RRP: £16.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619597Author Ruth BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Who Are You, Really? – A Philosopher`s Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons by Joshua Rasmussen
RRP: £24.99£22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003947Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1504gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm -
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Jared Diamond 9781780226880
RRP: £9.99£6.80A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or... -
Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance by Sohini Kar
RRP: £23.99£20.84Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker
RRP: £15.00£14.87One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis... -
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491016
RRP: £24.99£22.07A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. American Anthropologist A pioneering work of high quality, this collection of anthropological... -
Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings by Paul Drew 9780521376334
RRP: £69.99£59.03In the first collection of its kind, Paul Drew and John Heritage bring together the latest advances in the application of conversation analysis to the study of language and interaction in institutional settings. Leading American and European scholars... -
The Body Wars: Why body dissatisfaction is at epidemic proportions and how we can fight back by Dr. Aric Sigman
RRP: £13.99£4.11Girls 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... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £30.00£23.69Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and... -
Place and Placelessness by Edward Relph
RRP: £51.00£41.34First published forty years ago and still widely referenced, Edward Relph's Place and Placelessness has taken its place as a classic of the phenomenological approach to the study of place and has influenced a generation of scholars. For this reprint... -
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction by Paul Farmer 9780520271999
£35.47Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed... -
Museum Basics: The International Handbook Timothy Ambrose (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, UK and a Fellow of the Museums Association, UK) 9781138292475
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... -
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Dr Frans de Waal 9781594481963
RRP: £24.00£16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481963Author Frans de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: £16.99£13.32A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Questions of Cultural Identity by Stuart Hall 9780803978836
RRP: £48.99£39.74Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities... -
Ethnography in Education by David Mills 9781446203279
RRP: £34.99£28.71'Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate... -
Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together Ori Schwarz 9781509542970
RRP: £17.99£16.04The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life - it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£13.47Apologies 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 *... -
The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion - Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
RRP: £27.00£26.47In this work, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann examines public opinion as a form of social control in which individuals, almost instinctively sensing the opinions of those around them, shape their behaviour to prevailing attitudes about what is acceptable. For... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant 9780195305623
RRP: £22.49£17.82When 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,... -
People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon by John Hemming 9781787381957
RRP: £25.00£18.89In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of... -
Transformational Leadership: A Comprehensive Review of Theory and Research Ronald E. Riggio 9780805847628
£44.98Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research that can serve as a reference and starting point for additional research... -
A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld
RRP: £50.00£39.12Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian... -
Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt. by Michael Jackson
RRP: £28.99£23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763540360Author Michael JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Explorers: Thoughts on Mapping in Design Research by Megan Anderson
RRP: £20.00£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527271821Author Megan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint STBY LtdPublisher STBY Ltd -
Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society by Joel Robbins
RRP: £31.00£24.43In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in... -
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border by Andrew Ong 9781501770715
RRP: £25.99£22.49Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or... -
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
RRP: £14.99£8.58Apologies 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 -
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Zouwen Ho
RRP: £23.99£20.84Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the... -
"prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law
RRP: £16.99£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029527Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education by Nel Noddings 9780520275706
RRP: £25.00£19.59With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring - now updated with a new preface and... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: £15.99£11.61Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun... -
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language by Jean-Louis Dessalles 9780199563463
RRP: £42.49£33.84Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such... -
Make Prayers to the Raven: Koyukon View of the Northern Forest by Richard K. Nelson 9780226571638
RRP: £27.00£26.47"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of that visit represents a thorough and elegant account of the mystical connection between Native Americans and... -
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 by Daniel Roche
RRP: £25.99£21.67Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without... -
Applied Ethnography: Guidelines for Field Research Pertti J Pelto 9781611322088
RRP: £36.99£32.93This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative and... -
Basic Bioscience Laboratory Techniques: A Pocket Guide Philip L.R. Bonner (Nottingham Trent University) 9781119663355
RRP: £30.95£27.45A 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... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: £23.99£21.24A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have...