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The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509550258
RRP: £14.99£13.58Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our... -
Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
RRP: £18.00£11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307477439Author Barbara Natterson-HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Sociology Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781509539222
RRP: £29.99£29.04Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to... -
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us Jean M. Twenge, PhD 9781501152016
RRP: £10.99£7.00As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from... -
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Crary
RRP: £36.00£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262531078Author Jonathan CraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 175mm * 8mm -
Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745609324
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed... -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
RRP: £16.49£12.58The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized... -
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices by Sean Nixon
RRP: £44.99£36.99Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This long-awaited second edition: * updates and refreshes the approaches to representation,... -
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk 9781526630155
RRP: £12.99£9.09* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * 'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM ---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our... -
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances... -
On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West Alison Hulme 9781472572851
RRP: £29.99£26.64Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society's simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating... -
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schull 9780691160887
RRP: £28.00£22.20Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780415253949
RRP: £11.99£11.11In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can... -
The Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Ali Meghji 9781509539956
RRP: £15.99£14.41Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly... -
The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak 9780241617663
RRP: £20.00£14.29A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEARIn this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This... -
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance by Sandra Muse Isaacs 9780806190129
RRP: £18.95£15.09"Throughout our Cherokee history," writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, "our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are." These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts... -
Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy Max van Manen 9781629584164
RRP: £37.99£33.38Bestselling author Max van Manen's Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in... -
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 9780195133141
RRP: £21.49£17.13Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th... -
The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom by James Laidlaw
RRP: £26.99£21.89The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account... -
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology by Maan Barua 9781517912567
RRP: £23.99£20.84A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
£25.18Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new... -
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
RRP: £11.99£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195583Author Malidoma Patrice SomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830837823Author E. Randolph RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 308g -
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483629Author Meredith SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: £12.99£8.56Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory by Francis Pryor
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric BritainFrancis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story... -
The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History by George Ewart Evans
RRP: £9.99£6.13George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen,... -
The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton 9781594771330
RRP: £15.99£14.12The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon's creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative... -
Surviving the Tsunami of Grief: For the Bereaved and Those Wanting to Support Them Katrina Taee 9781916288409
RRP: £17.99£12.95Are you grieving? Would you like to have a better understanding of grief? Are you wanting to support someone who is grieving but don't know how? This beautifully illustrated book written by two experienced Bereavement Practitioners is unlike any other... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond 9781780747484
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. If we share more than... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: £17.99£16.04This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of... -
The Handbook of Food and Anthropology by Jakob A. Klein 9781350083332
RRP: £33.99£30.49Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2017 This Handbook features 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline, which examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts -... -
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
RRP: £29.00£22.94The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric... -
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen 9781541647152
RRP: £18.99£12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647152Author Simon Baron-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family by Jean L. Briggs
RRP: £30.95£24.42In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River,... -
Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis by Margaret Wetherell
RRP: £42.99£35.42`A highly effective introduction which gives readers a clear sense of how to analyze discourse data and then employ the analytic approaches in their own research' - David Silverman, Goldsmith's College, University of London This workbook will be... -
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406
RRP: £14.99£9.80From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of... -
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub 9780717181001
RRP: £10.99£8.43Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first... -
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation by John McManus
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation' BEN...