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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker 9781501192852
RRP: $58.80$35.81From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that "is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and... -
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Latino Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525580454Author Wade HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna
RRP: $58.80$45.78On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the... -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: $35.68$30.64A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton 9780719051708
RRP: $41.98$37.42The 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... -
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance by Heather Talley 9780814784105
RRP: $136.50$117.79Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face-the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think... -
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change by Gleb Raygorodetsky
RRP: $27.28$19.93One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples who,... -
Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard M. Cyert (Respectively, CaCarnegie Bosch Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University) 9780631174516
RRP: $71.40$63.04Behavioural 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... -
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander
RRP: $52.48$46.35M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact... -
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford 9780674779617
RRP: $67.10$53.70When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a... -
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology by John Heritage 9780745600611
RRP: $46.18$45.97The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired. It is the only... -
The Religion of Orange Politics: Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland by Joseph Webster 9781526113771
RRP: $42.00$37.46The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland's... -
Killer Visual Strategies: Engage Any Audience, Improve Comprehension, and Get Amazing Results Using Visual Communication Amy Balliett 9781119680222
RRP: $50.40$33.96Discover 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... -
The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds Eduardo Viveiros De Cas 9780990505037
RRP: $55.65$53.15This 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,... -
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by Mahmood Mamdani
RRP: $58.80$45.78In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities,... -
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Fay Bound Alberti 9780199599035
RRP: $48.28$35.89To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a... -
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
RRP: $58.78$51.53Forms 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... -
Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives by Jane K. Cowan 9780521797351
RRP: $92.38$78.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of West Africa Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9781032055947
RRP: $75.58$67.39This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day.Over the course of twenty seven short and engaging chapters, the book delves into the social,... -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691216430
RRP: $33.58$27.11Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has... -
Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: $33.58$30.26One of the world's leading social thinkers, Bourdieu's work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis of science and its legitimacy. Bourdieu argues that... -
Society Against the State - Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres
RRP: $42.00$31.52Apologies 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 -
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern 9780691197203
RRP: $31.48$25.52A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which... -
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
$27.78Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science,... -
Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Transborder Spiritualities by William A. Calvo-Quiros 9780197630235
RRP: $59.83$55.17This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Undocumented Saints... -
Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Michael T. Taussig
RRP: $69.30$68.15Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative... -
An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations Katherine Erdman 9781912127351
RRP: $13.65$12.83The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the... -
South Asian Women in the Diaspora Nirmal Puwar 9781859736029
RRP: $75.58$66.55South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful... -
A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
RRP: $27.28$25.07First 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... -
Quality of Life Research: A Critical Introduction by Mark Rapley 9780761954576
RRP: $90.28$79.32`Many books have been published on quality of life research in recent years, but few are as thought provoking or original as this one. It is essential reading for anyone who a serious and critical interest in this topic' - Nurse Researcher `This was a... -
Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic by Lisa Stevenson
RRP: $52.50$41.14In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: $31.48$23.00Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' ... -
The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture John Clarke (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University) 9781529227680
RRP: $52.48$40.72This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of... -
The Affluent Worker: Political attitudes and behaviour by John H. Goldthorpe 9780521095266
RRP: $46.18$43.34This 1968 volume, the second of The Affluent Worker monographs, reports on the voting and political attitudes of highly paid manual workers. As in the first book, the affluent workers studied are employed in Luton, a town which benefited faster and more... -
Disability: A Life Course Approach by Mark Priestley 9780745625133
$37.99Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disability... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: $65.10$60.25From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions by Henrietta L. Moore 9780745636467
RRP: $37.78$33.47How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather... -
Foucault, Health and Medicine by Robin Bunton
RRP: $111.28$96.66The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution... -
Caribbean Contours by Sidney Wilfred Mintz
RRP: $58.80$51.53In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and... -
COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective by Ritu Gill 9783030948276
RRP: $146.98$80.96The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and...