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Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity by Dennis Smith 9780745618999
$23.34In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.About the AuthorDennis Smith is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, and the author of many books,... -
Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa by William W. Bascom
RRP: $46.44$41.27"The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in... -
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena
RRP: $59.33$51.77In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie... -
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman
RRP: $18.05$14.16By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light on the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters... -
How Institutions Think by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: $49.01$43.06First published in 1986 Mary Douglas' theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions... -
A Companion to Intellectual History by Richard Whatmore 9781119125570
RRP: $45.09$40.29A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it... -
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton 9780719051708
RRP: $25.79$22.50The annual seaside holiday became a common experience in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and it has a central place in popular memory. Its recent decline has prompted nostalgia and gloom across the media, with a spate of newspaper features every summer... -
Suq – Geertz on the Market by Clifford Geertz
RRP: $36.12$35.33A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz's essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and... -
Bronze Age Worlds: A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland by Robert Johnston 9781138037885
RRP: $49.01$43.58Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.Britain and Ireland's diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations... -
Management in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509502226
RRP: $19.34$17.52Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely... -
Time of Transitions by Jurgen Habermas 9780745630113
RRP: $20.63$18.59We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question. In this new volume of... -
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: $67.08$57.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521642Author Susan Buck-MorssFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Understanding Education: A Sociological Perspective by Alan Cribb 9780745633459
RRP: $23.21$20.69Who should be educated, when, by whom and how? What purposes should education serve? Why does education matter? These fundamental questions of value are not always seen as central to the sociology of education. However, this book argues that they are... -
The Ends of the World by Deborah Danowski 9781509503988
RRP: $19.34$17.52The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic D at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them... -
Gender Theory in Troubled Times by Kathleen Lennon 9780745683027
RRP: $23.21$20.69Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed,... -
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian
RRP: $38.70$29.44Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian... -
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Zouwen Ho
RRP: $34.82$29.48Financial 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... -
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar 9780691150451
RRP: $36.12$27.55How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third... -
Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert 9780631174516
RRP: $43.86$38.73Behavioural Theory of the Firm has become a classic work in organizational theory, and is one of the most significant contributions to improving the theory of the firm. This second edition includes new material which puts the original text in a... -
Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation by Norman K. Denzin 9781557862914
RRP: $52.83$46.30Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter... -
A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
RRP: $16.76$15.40First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $24.50$19.08Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese 9780679752929
RRP: $24.51$15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Book Award 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679752929Author Abraham VergheseFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology by Soren Blau
RRP: $64.49$58.18With contributions from 70 experienced practitioners from around the world, this second edition of the authoritative Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology provides a solid foundation in both the practical and ethical components of forensic... -
What is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745399652
RRP: $21.92$17.80Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in... -
Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss
$27.34The structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals,kinship,... -
Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader by David Howes
RRP: $38.69$34.88With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural... -
The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds by Eduardo Viveiro De Castro
RRP: $34.19$32.65This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume,... -
Inequality: A Genetic History by Carles Lalueza-Fox
RRP: $33.54$22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046787Author Carles Lalueza-FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making by Cathrine Degnen 9781526116949
RRP: $32.25$28.11Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research... -
Research Design in Social Research by David De Vaus 9780761953470
RRP: $65.79$53.55`With this book David de Vaus has written one of the best general research methods textbooks around. The use of different types of research design as the point of departure is a different and very helpful approach to take, especially since many textbooks... -
The New Transnational Activism by Sidney Tarrow
RRP: $32.24$28.24The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be... -
Society Against the State - Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres
RRP: $25.80$19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299014Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $11.60$8.64Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: $28.38$21.27Apologies 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 -
Habitus and Field: General Sociology, Volume 2 (1982-1983) by Pierre Bourdieu 9781509526697
RRP: $83.85$72.95This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual... -
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood 9780691153285
RRP: $28.38$21.92The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political... -
The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution by Juan Luis Arsuaga 9781405115339
RRP: $46.38$41.94This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Abena Dadze-Arthur
RRP: $8.39$7.88Clifford Geertz has been called 'the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation... -
Killer Visual Strategies: Engage Any Audience, Improve Comprehension, and Get Amazing Results Using Visual Communication by Amy Balliett
RRP: $30.96$20.86Discover the foundation, power, and necessity of visual communication with this essential guide Visual communication has changed. It's gone from being an optional medium for relaying information to an important method for building connections and...