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The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very 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... -
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: $14.18$9.03As 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: $46.44$45.98Apologies 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 -
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745610337
RRP: $29.66$26.01Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide-ranging work is available. This... -
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw
RRP: $19.34$17.61'Fabulous.' Dan Richards, author of Holloway 'Terrifically strange and thrilling.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the... -
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward Said 9780231114493
RRP: $36.12$30.47This book offers a searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at... -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
RRP: $21.27$16.23The 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: $58.04$47.72Since 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: $16.76$11.73* 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... -
On the Commodity Trail: The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West Alison Hulme 9781472572851
RRP: $38.69$34.37Following 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: $36.12$28.64Recent 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 Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory Ali Meghji 9781509539956
RRP: $20.63$18.59Far 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... -
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance by Sandra Muse Isaacs 9780806190129
RRP: $24.45$19.47"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: $49.01$43.06Bestselling 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: $27.72$22.10Books, 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: $34.82$28.24The 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... -
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up by Annette Lareau 9780226806433
RRP: $24.51$23.87A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one's researcher-self into the lives of others can be... -
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology by Maan Barua 9781517912567
RRP: $30.95$26.88A 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... -
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World by Michael Pollan 9780747563006
RRP: $19.34$14.13A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn and in the spring has a riotous patch of colour to admire. Two simple... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
$32.48Winner 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: $15.47$11.56Apologies 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. -
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition John Geiger 9780747577270
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "debility" aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: $16.76$11.04Our 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... -
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies 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)... -
The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton 9781594771330
RRP: $20.63$18.21The 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: $23.21$16.71Are 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: $16.76$11.73The 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... -
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku
RRP: $34.82$25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250207142Author Brian C. MurareskuFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm) 243mm... -
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen 9781541647152
RRP: $24.50$15.52Apologies 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 *... -
Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis by Margaret Wetherell
RRP: $55.46$45.69`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: $19.34$12.64From 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... -
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from the World's Richest Nation by John McManus
RRP: $14.18$9.44'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... -
Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries by Frank Furedi
RRP: $33.53$29.19Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely... -
The Silo Effect: Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive Gillian Tett 9781844087594
RRP: $12.89$8.77Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the... -
The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions by Didier Fassin 9781509558285
RRP: $23.21$21.21Public health erupted into the world's consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very... -
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
RRP: $21.92$15.84Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps,... -
Beneath the Moon: Fairytales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani
RRP: $18.05$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857224Author Yoshi YoshitaniFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter by Talal Asad 9781573925891
RRP: $32.25$29.53"We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie. But anthropology is also rooted in an unequal power encounter between the West... -
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things by George Kubler
$31.46When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for... -
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama 9780006863489
RRP: $45.15$31.24The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount - read 'Landscape and Memory' to have these explained... 'Landscape and Memory' is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our...