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Key Sociological Thinkers by Rob Stones
RRP: $50.30$47.91The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised... -
In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms by Helga Nowotny 9781509548811
RRP: $25.80$17.74One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: $23.21$20.69This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
Reimagining Culture by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: $49.01$43.06Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book... -
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice by Wendy Gunn
RRP: $38.69$34.88Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: $14.18$10.02A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first... -
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study by Thomas Sowell 9780300107753
RRP: $20.63$17.83In 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... -
Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance by Sohini Kar
RRP: $33.53$28.43Microfinance 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... -
Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence by Diana Forsythe
RRP: $30.95$26.33Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in... -
Handbook of Ethnography by Paul Anthony Atkinson
RRP: $86.43$70.42"I wish the Handbook of Ethnography had been available to me as a fledgling ethnographer. I would recommend it for any graduate student who contemplates a career in the field. Likewise for experienced ethnographers who would like the equivalent of a... -
Guns and Rain - Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan
RRP: $32.24$26.96Lan shows that to understand the meaning that Zimbabwe's war of independence had for its people, the role of the spirit mediums must also be understood. Almost every anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century was led by an army of guerrillas, and no... -
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
RRP: $45.09$36.18Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the... -
The Stranger by Shaun Best
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $38.70$29.95Local 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... -
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
RRP: $12.89$8.77A 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... -
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place... -
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
RRP: $38.69$34.04Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned... -
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking by Ryszard Piotrowicz
RRP: $59.33$51.77Trafficking in human beings (THB) has been described as modern slavery. It is a serious criminal activity that has significant ramifications for the human rights of the victims. It poses major challenges to the state, society and individual victims. THB... -
The Body Wars: Why body dissatisfaction is at epidemic proportions and how we can fight back by Dr. Aric Sigman
RRP: $18.05$5.30Girls 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... -
In Sorcery's Shadow: Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger by Paul Stoller
RRP: $30.96$29.71The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world. Book InformationISBN... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
RRP: $29.67$28.55"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 - as well as its caption,... -
The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: $21.92$15.84There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... -
Modernity and Ambivalence by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745612423
RRP: $25.79$22.82Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is... -
Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously by Paddy Hillyard
RRP: $38.69$29.70Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions... -
Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$30.48From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a... -
Up from Eden: Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilber 9780835607315
RRP: $27.09$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607315Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S. -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781911709060
RRP: $21.92$16.82A 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... -
The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustin Fuentes
$33.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983942Author Agustin FuentesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall
RRP: $19.34$14.27Apologies 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 *... -
Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together by Ori Schwarz 9781509542970
RRP: $23.21$20.69The 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... -
Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia by Audrey Richards
RRP: $21.92$19.63Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time when the discipline was dominated by male... -
Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson
RRP: $30.95$26.33Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its... -
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity by Joshua Barker 9780824837419
RRP: $32.19$30.21We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of... -
Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries by Christopher Whitehead
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the... -
The Private Worlds of Dying Children by Myra Bluebond-Langner
RRP: $38.70$31.31"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die." In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic... -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: $23.21$17.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld
RRP: $61.92$47.61Michael 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: $37.40$30.03Apologies 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)... -
A Natural History of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
RRP: $25.74$20.34A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other... -
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
RRP: $19.34$11.46Apologies 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